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Differential Peer Effects, Student Achievement, and Student Absenteeism: Evidence From a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 745–773.
Published: 16 February 2017
...Ozkan Eren Abstract Using data from a well-executed randomized experiment, I examine the effects of gender composition and peer achievement on high school students’ outcomes in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Results show that having a higher proportion of female peers in the classroom improves girls...
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Foreign-born Peers and Academic Performance
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 569–592.
Published: 05 February 2015
... shares on immigrant and native-born students’ academic performance. The identification strategy pays careful attention to the selection problem by estimating the effect of foreign-born peers from deviations in the share foreign-born across cohorts of students attending the same school in different years...
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The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 311–336.
Published: 07 December 2016
...Charles L. Baum, II Abstract This study examines the effects of college on weight over much of the life cycle. I compare weights for college students with their weights before and after college and with the weights of noncollege peers using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY...
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Advanced School Progression Relative to Age and Early Family Formation in Mexico
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 863–890.
Published: 06 May 2019
... Peer effects Past research has found a strong negative relationship between educational attainment and the occurrence of transitions such as sexual onset, childbearing, and marriage or cohabitation formation around the world (Basu 2002 ; Clark and Mathur 2012 ; Dincer et al. 2014 ; Monstad...
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The effect of sexual abstinence on females' educational attainment
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 695–715.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., pinning down the existence and magnitude of peer effects has proved, in general, to be a dif cult task and is beyond the scope of this article.29 Future work might also address whether other sexual behaviors are related to ab- stinence and educational attainment. There is evidence that an early sexual...
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Social multipliers in sexual initiation decisions among U.S. high school students
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 373–388.
Published: 01 May 2007
... behavior. Information sharing among students may change the perceived costs of having sex. A social norm may develop so that in order to t in with one s peers, a student might feel compelled to have sex. Regardless of the mechanism, the presence of social effects has been offered as a potential justi...
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Neighborhood Context and the Transition to Sexual Activity among Young Black Women
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 603–614.
Published: 01 November 1994
... fertility. In this study I examine the effects of neighborhood characteristics on the risk of nonmarital first intercourse and on contraceptive use among black female adolescents. The results suggest that neighborhood socioeconomic status, female employment and marital dissolution rates, and peers...
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The earnings of men and remarriage
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Demography (1979) 16 (3): 389–399.
Published: 01 August 1979
... respondents’ Social Security earnings history are analyzed. The results indicate that absolute earnings, earnings instability, and earnings relative to peers have minimal effects on a man’s probability of remarriage, but that permanent income positively affects remarriage. However, studies of marital...
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Birth month, school graduation, and the timing of births and marriages
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 547–568.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., these effects point to a potentially important influence of social age, defined by an individual’s school cohort, instead of biological age. The relevance of social age is likely due to social interactions and peer-group influences exerted by individuals who are in the same school cohort but are not necessarily...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 247–272.
Published: 01 February 2021
... earnings between parents and their otherwise similar peers face the problem that other unobserved factors that contribute to the two groups' childbearing decisions, such as devotion to employment careers, may also account for differences in pay. Fixed-effects models, by contrast, enable us to take...
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Epigenetic Aging Helps Explain Differential Resilience in Older Adults
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1023–1041.
Published: 01 August 2024
... is concentrated in older cohorts ( Levine and Crimmins 2014 ). One explanation for this effect is that less resilient individuals tend to age faster than their peers when exposed to health risks. These less resilient individuals then die earlier, leaving behind a pool of increasingly resilient individuals...
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Same-Sex Parents and Children’s School Progress: An Association That Disappeared Over Time
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 477–501.
Published: 23 January 2019
... marriage were more likely to be behind in school than their peers living with different-sex couples. These differences across areas in the effect of parental union type, however, are not statistically significant (see Table E1 in the online appendix). Figure 3 documents changes in this interaction...
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Migration and relationship power among mexican women
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 347–372.
Published: 01 May 2005
... and the usefulness of the Relationship Control Scale (RCS) for capturing these effects. We found support for perspectives that emphasize that migration may simultaneously mitigate and reinforce gender inequities. Relative to their nonmigrant peers, Mexican women in the United States average higher emotional...
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Family Systems and Parents’ Financial Support for Education in Early Adulthood
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1875–1897.
Published: 16 August 2019
...Paula Fomby; Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz Abstract Young adults raised outside of two-parent families receive less financial support from their families for education compared with peers who always lived with both parents. We consider how parents’ union status over time shapes contributions for young adult...
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Socioeconomic Segregation, Campus Social Context, and Disparities in Bachelor's Degree Attainment
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1039–1064.
Published: 01 June 2021
... differences in degree attainment . Social Forces , 96 , 1785 – 1824 . Goethals G. , Winston G. , & Zimmerman D. ( 1999 ). Students educating students: The emerging role of peer effects in higher education (Discussion Paper No. 50). Williamstown, MA : Williams Project...
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A Note on the Effect of Religiosity on Fertility
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 991–998.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of the Catholic Church is pronatalist, whereas in Protestant religions, fertility is generally considered a matter of individual choice (e.g., Lehrer 1996 ). 1 The existence of such peer effects implies that nonreligious people in more religious societies may have more children than nonreligious people...
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The Segregation of Opportunity: Social and Financial Resources in the Educational Contexts of Lower- and Higher-Income Children, 1990–2014
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1635–1664.
Published: 10 September 2019
... in an educational context may influence student outcomes. Peer effects theories posit that outcomes for one student depend on the attributes and behaviors of other students. Inherent in this perspective is that each student has a set of resources that he/she can share with the school community...
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View articletitled, The Segregation of Opportunity: Social and Financial Resources in the Educational Contexts of Lower- and Higher-Income Children, 1990–2014
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Paternal Incarceration and Adolescent Social Network Disadvantage
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1477–1501.
Published: 12 July 2017
... set of controls and school fixed effects. Compared with in-school peers, adolescents who experienced paternal incarceration in the last three years have a higher proportion of friends who have also experienced parental incarceration (4 percentage points higher than in-school peers, or 38 % higher than...
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Family, Firms, and Fertility: A Study of Social Interaction Effects
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 243–266.
Published: 06 January 2020
... al. ( 2014 ) included random effects at the firm level, whereas Asphjell et al. ( 2013 ) used placebo peer groups to test whether the positive correlations in fertility decisions found among colleagues also existed for unrelated groups. In studies of sibling effects on fertility, Kuziemko ( 2006...
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Son Preference and Fertility Decisions: Evidence From Spatiotemporal Variation in Korea
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 927–951.
Published: 19 May 2020
... behavior of earlier generations and current peers. Given that the sex composition of the first two children in Korea is close to random, a quasi-experiment design can be applied to identify the causal effects of son preference on fertility decisions. We also show that the derived empirical specification...
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