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Marriage and Union Formation in the United States: Recent Trends Across Racial Groups and Economic Backgrounds

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Deirdre Bloome, Shannon Ang
Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1753–1786.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00910-7
Published: 10 September 2020
... by measuring parental income, wealth, education, and occupational prestige. Marriage declines are particularly steep among people from low-income backgrounds. Black people are overrepresented in this low-income group because of discrimination and opportunity denial. However, marriage declines are larger among...
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Comment on C. Gibson’s “Urbanization in New Zealand: A Comparative Analysis”

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John Collette
Demography (1974) 11 (1): 149–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060706
Published: 01 February 1974
...John Collette 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1974 1974 Occupational Prestige Insightful Analysis Judicial Process Contemporary Perspective Civilian Worker References Archer Dane , & Archer Mary ( 1970 ). Race, Identity and the Maori...
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Social Patterning in Body Mass Index (BMI) Among Contemporary Immigrant Groups: The Emergence of a Gradient

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Reanne Frank, Ilana Redstone Akresh
Demography (2013) 50 (3): 993–1012.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0174-0
Published: 04 December 2012
..., the pattern in the United States is generally inverse and particularly strong for women and non-Hispanic whites (Ogden et al. 2010 ). 1 An opposite pattern is observed in the developing world, where either flat or positive gradients prevail—that is, higher income, education, and occupational prestige...
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Migrant-Native Socioeconomic Differentials in Thailand

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Theodore D. Fuller
Demography (1981) 18 (1): 55–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061049
Published: 01 February 1981
... for this pattern are discussed. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1981 1981 Economic Success Urban Migrant Occupational Prestige Urban Place Urban Native References Andrews Frank M. , Morgan James N. , Sonquist John A. , & Klem Laura ( 1973...
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Skin Tone and the Health Returns to Higher Status

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Reed T. DeAngelis, Taylor W. Hargrove, Robert A. Hummer
Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1791–1819.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10191675
Published: 01 October 2022
... sample consists of Black respondents with varied skin tones and White respondents with only white skin tone, all of whom participated in Waves I, III, IV, and V of the study ( N  = 7,371). We measure SES with multiple indicators of education, personal earnings, and occupational prestige...
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Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor, and Spatial Aptitudes

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Michael Baker, Kirsten Cornelson
Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1749–1775.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0706-3
Published: 14 September 2018
... after we control for other explanations of gender occupational segregation, including measures of cognitive demands, physical strength, people/things orientation, occupational risk (death, competition, and prestige), and time flexibility. The estimated relationships are quantitatively important. We...
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More Evidence for Trends in the Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce: A Completed Cohort Approach Using Data From the General Social Survey

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Nicholas H. Wolfinger
Demography (2011) 48 (2): 581–592.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0025-4
Published: 21 April 2011
... 1940.364 10.754 1901 1964 Birth Cohort 1918.358 11.213 1884 1948 Non-urban at Age 16 .711 .453 0 1 Only Child .049 .217 0 1 Male .376 .484 0 1 Black .082 .274 0 1 Catholic .214 .410 0 1 Occupational Prestige 39.413 12.106 12 82 Occupational Prestige...
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Family dissolution, family reconstitution, and children’s educational careers: Recent evidence for Sweden

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Jan O. Jonsson, Michael Gähler
Demography (1997) 34 (2): 277–293.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061705
Published: 01 May 1997
... Occupational Prestige References Amato P.R. ( 1993 ). Children’s Adjustment to Divorce: Theories, Hypotheses, and Empirical Support. . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 55 , 23 – 41 . 10.2307/352954 Amato P.R. , &amp; Keith B. ( 1991 ). Parental Divorce and Adult...
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Trends in the intergenerational transmission of divorce

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Nicholas H. Wolfinger
Demography (1999) 36 (3): 415–420.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648064
Published: 01 August 1999
... of diminished socioeco- nomic well-being, I use two measures of respondent's socio- economic status: education and occupational prestige." Researchers have shown that various other characteris- tics of respondents may affect the relationship between pa- rental divorce and respondents' divorce. I ascertain...
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Does Internal Migration Contribute to the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Inequalities? The Role of Childhood Migration

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Aude Bernard
Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1059–1088.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10826486
Published: 01 August 2023
... ( International Labor Organization 2007 ), which is used to calculate the Standard International Occupational Prestige Score ( Treiman 1977 ). SIOPS is a hierarchical scale ranging from 0 to 100, with higher values indicating higher occupational prestige. This index is stable across cohorts ( Lersch et al. 2020...
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Race, Remarital Status, and Infertility in 1910: More Evidence of Multiple Causes

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Andrew S. London, Cheryl Elman
Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1949–1972.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0607-x
Published: 01 September 2017
... in the household (yes = 1). Literacy, occupational prestige, and tenancy variables indirectly index women’s differential access to nutrition, housing, and medical care resources. The 1910 IPUMS does not provide information about an individual’s level of educational attainment or income. However, Literacy...
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No trend in the intergenerational transmission of divorce

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Jui-Chung Allen Li, Lawrence L. Wu
Demography (2008) 45 (4): 875–883.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0030
Published: 01 November 2008
... Transmission Parental Divorce Occupational Prestige References Allison P.D. ( 1982 ). “Discrete-Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories. . In S. Leinhardt (Ed.), Sociological Methodology 1982 (pp. 61 – 98 ). San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass Publishers . Amato P.R...
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Return to Being Black, Living in the Red : A Race Gap in Wealth That Goes Beyond Social Origins

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Alexandra Killewald
Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1177–1195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0190-0
Published: 09 May 2013
... parents, on average, which may disadvantage their asset accumulation (Conley 1999 , 2001b ; Keister 2003 ; Yamokoski and Keister 2006 ). In order to control for these differences, I measure parental class with educational attainment, occupational prestige, household income, and wealth. Family...
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Occupational status scores: Changes introduced by the inclusion of women

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Mary G. Powers, Joan J. Holmberg
Demography (1978) 15 (2): 183–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060522
Published: 01 May 1978
... ). Jobs and Gender: Sex and Occupational Prestige . Baltimore : Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research, Johns Hopkins University . De Cesare , B. ( 1975 ). Changes in the Occupational Structure of U.S. Jobs . Monthly Labor Review , 98 , 23 – 34 . Dejong , P. , Brawer , M...
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Expected Family Size and Perceived Status Deprivation among High School Senior Women

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Steven McLaughlin
Demography (1974) 11 (1): 57–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060699
Published: 01 February 1974
... a career, her educational aspi- coded and ranked with the North-Hatt rations, and her priorities regarding her scale of occupational prestige. The career and her marriage. If she feels North-Hatt scores ranged from 40 to 93. that an extra-familial role is essential, Religious preference was trichotomized...
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Early origins of the gradient: the relationship between socioeconomic status and infant mortality in the United States

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Brian Karl Finch
Demography (2003) 40 (4): 675–699.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0033
Published: 01 November 2003
...) occupational prestige score (NTOP). Rather than being an imputed value (i.e., from the educational and income level of occupational incumbents), this measure uses actual assessments of occupational prestige (OP) for over 500 occupa- tions using data from respondents to the 1989 General Social Survey. Because...
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Variations in interstate migration of men across the early stages of the life cycle

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Gary D. Sandefur
Demography (1985) 22 (3): 353–366.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061065
Published: 01 August 1985
... rewards are wage and occupational prestige. Wage, measured in dollars per hour, is a direct measure of the economic benefits of work. Prestige is a measure of the' 'status" of a job as well as an indirect measure of economic factors such as fringe benefits. These variables do not, of course, measure all...
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Attitudes toward abortion among catholic Mexican-American women: The effects of religiosity and education

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Sandra Rosenhouse-Persson, Georges Sabagh
Demography (1983) 20 (1): 87–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060903
Published: 01 February 1983
... of attitudes toward abortion. The respondent's age, family size," years of education completed, husband's educa- tion and occupational prestige (based on the Duncan Occupational Prestige Scale), and a measure of religiosity were included. The measure of religiosity em- ployed is a summary offour questions...
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Recent trends in the process of stratification

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David B. Grusky, Thomas A. DiPrete
Demography (1990) 27 (4): 617–637.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061574
Published: 01 November 1990
... Press . Bose , C. E. ( 1985 ). Jobs and Gender: A Study of Occupational Prestige . New York : Pracger . Burstein , P. ( 1985 ). Discrimination, Jobs and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States Since the New Deal . Chicago : University...
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Multigenerational Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks

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C. Justin Cook, Jason M. Fletcher, Angela Forgues
Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1855–1874.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00804-3
Published: 29 July 2019
... not the primary focus of the WLS data collection, several parental (first-generation) outcomes are available, including years of schooling, occupational prestige, and family SES in 1957. 7 Table 1 Summary statistics Variable N Mean SD First Generation   Flu indicators...
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