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Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Narayan Sastry; Anne R. Pebley Abstract We examined family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s reading and mathematics achievement using data from the 2000–2001 Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. To describe inequality in achievement scores, we used Gini...
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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
...Rasheda Khanam; Son Nghiem 6 3 2017 23 3 2017 © Population Association of America 2017 2017 Unobserved Heterogeneity Dynamic Panel Data Mathematical Score Child Cognitive Development Income Parameter The association between childhood outcomes and family income has...
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Premigration School Quality, Time Spent in the United States, and the Math Achievement of Immigrant High School Students
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1477–1498.
Published: 16 August 2016
... the quality of their education in the country of origin, we use country-specific average test scores from two international assessments: the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). We find that the average PISA or TIMSS...
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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
... IV estimator, Dahl and Lochner ( 2012 ) found that a $1,000 increase in household income was associated with a rise in mathematics and reading test scores by 2 % and 3.6 % of a standard deviation (SD), respectively. The developmental psychology literature focusing on the extent and depth...
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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
... entered the school system when the violent crime rate in their school districts was lower score higher in ELA by the end of eighth grade, relative to children attending schools in the same district but who entered the school system when the violent crime rate was higher. A 10% decline in the violent crime...
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Family Size, Cognitive Outcomes, and Familial Interaction in Stable, Two-Parent Families: United States, 1997–2002
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1895–1931.
Published: 27 September 2014
... is an artifact of cross-sectional research resulting from unobserved heterogeneity. Each hypothesis is tested using within-child estimates of change in cognitive scores over time with the addition of new children to families. 27 8 2014 27 9 2014 © Population Association of America 2014 2014...
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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
... on PPVT test scores, 0.06 for mathematics scores in the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT), and 0.14 for PIAT reading. Her “true” effects of family income were usually smaller and not statistically significant. 2 Analyzing mathematics achievement, Orr ( 2003 :291, 293) reported no effect...
View articletitled, Family Income Has Only Weak Effects on Cognitive <span class="search-highlight">Scores</span> in Australia: A Comment on Khanam and Nghiem
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Children of Migrants: The Cumulative Impact of Parental Migration on Children’s Education and Health Outcomes in China
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1677–1714.
Published: 21 September 2017
..., employment, migration experience, and anthropometry. The survey also asks parents or guardians to report their children’s anthropometry (if aged 0–15) and school test scores (if aged 7–15 years). In addition, the survey conducted a uniform mathematics test for most primary school children (grades 1 to 6...
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The academic trajectories of immigrant youths: Analysis within and across cohorts
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 759–783.
Published: 01 November 2003
... relied on the IRT mathematics and reading scores available in HSB for 1980 and 1982 and for NELS in 1990 and 1992. There is some variation in the availability of test data in the HSB and NELS surveys. The Appendix presents the pattern of missing test data in both the baseline year (1980 and 1990...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 987–1010.
Published: 01 June 2021
... participation, which is substantial. As expected, we find that students who scored better on the SSLC examination are more likely to study STEM/commerce at the higher secondary level. Students who in 2005 scored at the highest level of difficulty in mathematics (i.e., division) also have a higher probability...
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Ecological and demographic indices: A methodological analysis
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 194–211.
Published: 01 March 1964
... step in the evaluation and analysis of the 42 variables, a product- 9 For the mathematical formula used in the computation of factor scores, see Harman, op. cit., chapter xvi. Since the major concern in the pres- ent study was in factor analyzing variables in terms of common factors only, by inserting...
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Nature’s experiment? Handedness and early childhood development
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2009
...-handedness among mathematicians, they noted that this effect may be due to a spatial/mathematical de cit for strong right-handers rather than an advantage for left-handers. Benbow (1988), however, reported an unusually large percentage of left-handers among those scoring in the top 1% of 10,000 people...
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Low birth weight, social factors, and developmental outcomes among children in the United States
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 353–368.
Published: 01 May 2002
... . Demography , 27 , 413 – 30 . 10.2307/2061376 Ferguson , R.F. ( 2001 ). Test-Score Trends Along Racial Lines, 1971–1996: Popular Culture and Community Academic Standards . In N.J. Smelser , W.J. Wilson , & F. Mitchell (Eds.), America Becoming (pp. 348 – 90...
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Black/White Differences in Health Status and Mortality Among the Elderly
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 661–678.
Published: 01 November 1989
... is represented by a set of GOM scores, interpreted as degrees of similarity of his or her health record to each of the profiles. Four profiles emerge from GOM analyses: healthy elderly, elderly with cognitive impairment, elderly with impairment in mobility function and physical performance and with selected...
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Neighborhoods, Schools, and Academic Achievement: A Formal Mediation Analysis of Contextual Effects on Reading and Mathematics Abilities
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1653–1676.
Published: 28 July 2017
... on mathematics achievement during adolescence, estimates of natural direct and indirect effects provide no indication that the total effect is mediated by subsequent exposure to secondary school poverty. For example, the estimate of NDE 2 on applied problem scores indicates that if adolescents were exposed...
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Long-Term Exposure to Neighborhood Policing and the Racial/Ethnic Gap in High School Graduation
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1739–1761.
Published: 01 October 2022
...-grade ELA and mathematics test scores. Both free lunch status and English learner status are binary variables that indicate whether a student ever received free lunch or was designated as an English learner by the NYC Department of Education. Adjusting for cohort ensures that we control for all time...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 393–418.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and their families in the main analytical ( Cito test) sample Different-Sex-Parented Children Same-Sex-Parented Children Variable Mean SD Mean SD Child's Cito Test Scores (percentiles) Overall 51.54 29.02 55.23 28.96 Language 51.93 29.10 56.96 28.88 Mathematics...
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View articletitled, Academic Achievement of Children in Same- and Different-Sex-Parented Families: A Population-Level Analysis of Linked Administrative Data From the Netherlands
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Active life expectancy estimates for the U.S. elderly population: A multidimensional continuous-mixture model of functional change applied to completed Cohorts, 1982–1996
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 253–265.
Published: 01 August 2000
... types; see Woodbury and Clive 1974; Woodbury, Clive, and Garson 1978.) That is, Prob( . )y gijl ik kjl k K = = = 1 0 1 , where gik is a convex score estimated such that gik k K = 1 = 1.0 and 0.0 < gik < 1.0, and the kjl are the probability of the lth response for a person in the kth disability...
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Ability Gaps?
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2187–2208.
Published: 20 June 2013
... is consistent with the finding that around 10 % of the population is mainly left-handed. 3 A measure of overall cognitive ability is generated by averaging scores on the Peabody Individual Achievement Tests (PIAT) of mathematics and reading comprehension at each age. The PIAT of mathematics assesses...
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Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 447–469.
Published: 17 October 2012
... assignment of students into single-sex versus coeducational high schools—to assess causal effects of single-sex schools on college entrance exam scores and college attendance. Our validation of the random assignment shows comparable socioeconomic backgrounds and prior academic achievement of students...
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