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How much do we count? interpretation and error-making in the decennial census
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 121–134.
Published: 01 February 1999
.... Interpretations about the purpose and meaning of the census, about commitment to the task, and about connection to government, singly and together with literacy skills (e.g., reading and general literacy competence), were associated with errors that are not detectable by evaluative methodologies used regularly...
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The Effects of Adolescent Childbearing on Literacy and Numeracy in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Zambia
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1899–1929.
Published: 09 September 2019
... of adolescent childbearing on literacy and numeracy. We hypothesize that becoming a mother soon after leaving school may cause the deterioration of skills gained in school. Using longitudinal data from Bangladesh, Malawi, and Zambia, we test our hypothesis by estimating fixed-effects linear regression models...
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View articletitled, The Effects of Adolescent Childbearing on <span class="search-highlight">Literacy</span> and Numeracy in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Zambia
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Published: 09 September 2019
Fig. 1 English oral reading skills by baseline school enrollment status. The figure presents the measurement of literacy skills that occurred most closely to the time of school leaving, stratified by school enrollment status at the first round of data collection. That is, for girls who were out
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Maternal Reading Skills and Child Mortality in Nigeria: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1551–1561.
Published: 17 April 2013
... mother’s formal schooling and child mortality, and that mother’s reading skills are highly associated with child mortality. The study highlights the need for more data on literacy and for more research on whether and how mother’s reading skills lower child mortality in other contexts. 5 3 2013 17...
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View articletitled, Maternal Reading <span class="search-highlight">Skills</span> and Child Mortality in Nigeria: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters
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Gender differences in economic well-being among the elderly of java
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 209–226.
Published: 01 May 1993
... are due primarily to differences in household structure and in levels of skills. Gender differences in individual receipts (from all sources) are more complicated, but can be understood more clearly with reference to gender differences in skills levels (literacy, language, job skills), current work status...
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Diverging Destinies: Maternal Education and the Developmental Gradient in Time With Children
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1361–1383.
Published: 11 August 2012
... situation . Hillsdale, NJ : Erlbaum . Becker G. S. ( 1965 ). A theory of the allocation of time . The Economic Journal , 75 , 493 – 517 . 10.2307/2228949 Bergen D. , & Mauer D. ( 2000 ). Symbolic play, phonological awareness, and literacy skills at three age levels...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 367–390.
Published: 28 November 2018
... included questions designed to measure receptive vocabulary but also two domains not covered explicitly by the assessments in the other three countries: basic literacy skills (print familiarity, letter recognition, beginning and ending sounds, rhyming sounds, and word recognition) and comprehension...
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View articletitled, Income-Related Gaps in Early Child Cognitive Development: Why Are They Larger in the United States Than in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada?
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Hormonal Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Because of Dissatisfaction: Differences by Race and Education
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1433–1452.
Published: 04 August 2012
... management and of health promoting behaviors, report poorer health status, and are less likely to use preventive services” (Institute of Medicine 2004 :8). Patients need health literacy skills not only to read and understand health information but also to have conversations with doctors, to understand...
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The Impact of Educational Homogamy on Isolated Illiteracy Levels
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2209–2225.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and empirical grounds, that literacy-related skills are necessary for escaping poverty. At the macro level, education contributes to economic growth (Barro and Sala-i-Martin 2004 ; Lucas 1988 ; Lutz et al. 2008 ) and to the reduction of poverty (Dollar and Kraay 2004 ). Several empirical studies have shown...
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View articletitled, The Impact of Educational Homogamy on Isolated Illiteracy Levels
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1377–1402.
Published: 01 October 2024
... differences, we find that immigrants could translate literacy skills, education, and social capital into better labor market outcomes after settlement. We also find that being perceived as having a light skin tone is associated with greater subsequent economic attainment. These patterns, however, vary...
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View articletitled, Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and <span class="search-highlight">Skill</span> Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration
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Long-Run convergence of ethnic skill differentials, revisited
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 357–361.
Published: 01 August 2001
... be the mean of these two groups literacy rates. Second, ALV show that the correlation between the skills of the first and the third generations becomes much weaker if some ethnic groups are excluded from the regression. In particular, much of the intergenerational linkage reported in my paper is generated...
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Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 123–145.
Published: 27 January 2020
... . Education Finance and Policy , 13 , 513 – 544 . 10.1162/edfp_a_00234 Griffin E. A. , & Morrison F. J. ( 1997 ). The unique contribution of home literacy environment to differences in early literacy skills . Early Child Development and Care , 127 , 233 – 243 . 10.1080...
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View articletitled, Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States
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Family Income and Child Cognitive and Noncognitive Development in Australia: Does Money Matter?
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 597–621.
Published: 15 April 2016
... that best represents the meaning of a stimuli word spoken by the examiner (Dunn and Dunn 1997 ). Both parents and teachers assessed these skills. We use the teacher assessments because we assume that teachers had more detailed knowledge of the child’s academic performance. The literacy variable...
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How enduring were the inequalities among European immigrant groups in the United States?
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 349–356.
Published: 01 August 2001
... capital are problem- atic as measures of the qualifications and skills possessed by immigrants when they entered United States. The literacy rates are affected by the U.S. education of foreign-born indi- viduals who arrived as children.3 This fact implies some in- flation of the apparent immigrant...
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Family Income and Child Cognitive Development: A Response to Marks
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 809–812.
Published: 23 March 2017
... that income is associated with brain surface area; especially for low-income children, small changes in income were associated with larger differences in surface areas. These associations are dominant in areas that are responsible for language, reading, executive functions, and spatial skills. In an attempt...
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Family Income Has Only Weak Effects on Cognitive Scores in Australia: A Comment on Khanam and Nghiem
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 801–807.
Published: 06 March 2017
... SES indicators are commonly used in analyses of cognitive skills and student achievement. The final models in the analyses of PPVT and MR scores include the respective prior cognitive skill measure. The analyses of student achievement include a measure of cognitive ability from combining PPVT and MR...
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The Social Ecology of Madrid: Stratification in Comparative Perspective
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Demography (1974) 11 (3): 521–532.
Published: 01 August 1974
... children -.59 Extended families .57 Percent professional. managerial .54 Women's literacy -.53 Skilled workers -.51 Unskilled and manual servants -.48 Many children desired -.46 Population growth in zone -.44 Eigenvalue = 3.83 Percent of variance = 15.9 Unrotated Factor 2, Socioeconomic and Family Status...
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Employment Patterns of Less-Skilled Workers: Links to Children’s Behavior and Academic Progress
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 747–772.
Published: 14 January 2012
... not occurring in prior periods. All models include controls for gender; changes in child’s age, maternal education, home literacy environment scale, family structure, and father involvement in child rearing; whether mother experienced a change in reading/writing/computer skills used on the job between Waves 1...
View articletitled, Employment Patterns of Less-<span class="search-highlight">Skilled</span> Workers: Links to Children’s Behavior and Academic Progress
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A study in family planning communication—Direct mailing
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 343–351.
Published: 01 June 1966
... carried out by two skilled interviewers from the Central Family Planning Institute so that com- plete standardization of responses was possible. Efforts were made to include respondents from all caste groups in the village, although no particular effort was made to achieve percentage caste repre...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1827–1854.
Published: 16 August 2019
... mobility and opportunities for personal advancement increased during the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century because of increased demand for skilled and educated workers (van Zanden and van Riel 2004 ). As a result of modernization, educational expansion, and the structural...
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View articletitled, The Impact of Parental Death in Childhood on Sons’ and Daughters’ Status Attainment in Young Adulthood in the Netherlands, 1850–1952
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