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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2053–2078.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., distance from the United States, and political repression—are powerful indicators of which segment of a country's population migrates ( Feliciano 2005 , 2018 ). Some individuals immigrate to the United States to attend college, while others come after they have completed their postsecondary education...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1031–1058.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Solveig Topstad Borgen; Are Skeie Hermansen Abstract Educational expansion has raised the influence of sorting across postsecondary educational fields on children's future life chances. Yet, little is known about horizontal ethnic stratification in the choice of field of study among children...
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in The Effect of Schooling on Women's Overweight and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in Nigeria
> Demography
Published: 01 April 2021
, 2 = secondary education, and 3 = postsecondary education. See Figure A1 in the online appendix for an additional figure showing changes to secondary and postsecondary education. Source: Demographic Health Surveys Nigeria (2003, 2008, and 2013).
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 1995
... to the postsecondary level of education but experience less reduction than whites by moving from the primary to the secondary level. Thus, the secular decline in mortality rates that generally accompanies historical improvements in education might actually be associated with an increase in the relative differences...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 931–956.
Published: 30 June 2011
... for exploring this topic. This article is organized as follows. The next section introduces the data. Benchmark cross-sectional results are reported in the third section. The fourth section presents a descriptive analysis of the time profile of postsecondary educational investment and its relationship...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 933–966.
Published: 01 June 2024
... in 2014 ( Snyder et al. 2019 ). Postsecondary institutions vary tremendously in their quality and composition. Greater differentiation within postsecondary educational contexts creates inequality within the educational attainment level of college completion, helping to maintain stratification systems...
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in Horizontal Advantage: Choice of Postsecondary Field of Study Among Children of Immigrants
> Demography
Published: 01 August 2023
Fig. 4 OLS regression estimates of the native–immigrant gap in the probability of enrollment in postsecondary fields for all children of immigrants and separately by origin country: (a) arts and humanities; (b) health, lower; (c) education; and (d) social sciences and other miscellaneous fields
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1875–1897.
Published: 16 August 2019
..., fluidity, and dynamic nature of family systems shape the financial support parents provide to their children for postsecondary education. We treat parents’ union status as the linchpin of the family system, focusing particularly on whether a parent is partnered (either married or cohabiting) with a child’s...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1641–1665.
Published: 04 October 2014
... estimates are adjusted for family size Table 4 examines high school dropout and postsecondary educational attainment using the percentage change measure of total volatility. A one-year increase in the number of 25 % or higher income shifts is associated with a less than 1 % increase...
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in Horizontal Advantage: Choice of Postsecondary Field of Study Among Children of Immigrants
> Demography
Published: 01 August 2023
enrolled in postsecondary education are included in the analysis sample. The vertical line refers to the reference group of children of natives, and coefficients for children of immigrants are the estimated gaps relative to natives in each model specification. The baseline model (circles) controls
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 493–512.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of 2003-04 Beginning Postsecondary Students: Three Years Later . Washington, DC. : National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education . Betts J.R. , & McFarland L.L. ( 1995 ). Safe Port in a Storm: The Impact of Labor Market...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 525–548.
Published: 16 January 2019
..., with one parent, and with no parents are all included in my sample.) In terms of outcomes, 86 % of white children graduated from high school, and 50 % enrolled in postsecondary education; corresponding figures for black children are 74 % and 29 %, respectively. Of the approximately 6,000 individuals...
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in Horizontal Advantage: Choice of Postsecondary Field of Study Among Children of Immigrants
> Demography
Published: 01 August 2023
Fig. 6 OLS regression estimates of the native–immigrant gap in the expected earnings percentile rank for all children of immigrants and separately by origin country. Only students enrolled in postsecondary education are included in the analysis sample. The vertical line refers to the reference
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 151–167.
Published: 20 November 2018
... that the fertility behavior of the college-educated within cohabitation is different from that of other educational groups. Completing postsecondary education is increasingly required to achieve financial independence in both Canada and the United States (Berlin et al. 2010 ; Boothby and Drewes 2006...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 451–468.
Published: 01 August 2009
... indicating 13 or more years (postsecondary education). The reference category is 9 to 12 years of education. The educational dummy variables should be representative of the educational history because almost all Israelis with postsecondary education would have started their postsecondary education before...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 685–710.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., 2 = secondary education, and 3 = postsecondary education. See Figure A1 in the online appendix for an additional figure showing changes to secondary and postsecondary education. Source: Demographic Health Surveys Nigeria (2003, 2008, and 2013). ...
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in The Effect of Schooling on Women's Overweight and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in Nigeria
> Demography
Published: 01 April 2021
education (1–6 years), secondary education (7–12), and postsecondary education (>12 years). The main models use a continuous schooling measure. Averages are calculated using DHS sample weights. Figure A1 in the online appendix shows obesity proportions only. Source: Demographic Health Surveys Nigeria
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1385–1405.
Published: 03 August 2012
... time and less educationally oriented time than comparable children at the 50th percentile. Among mothers with some postsecondary education, children at the 10th percentile of the birth-weight distribution receive more total time and more educational time than their counterparts at the 50th percentile...
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 279–290.
Published: 01 May 1987
... with no education were much more likely to provide nonnumerical desires. The differences by education are particularly striking, with 81.1 percent of those with no education reporting nonnumerical desires, compared with only 16.2 percent of those with postsecondary education. When we consider occupation, women most...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 291–296.
Published: 01 May 1993
... school; the effect on the probability of acquiring some postsecondary education is consistently negative, but not always statistically significant. (Small sample sizes for discrete choice fixed-effect models make statistical significance problematic.) In contrast, the NLSYW shows a statistically...
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