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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
... focus of this study, I examine the effects of student-teacher gender match on math achievement in high schools and fail to find any significant effect of gender match on either female or male students’ achievement. 27 Following McCrary and Royer ( 2011 ), power calculations for a two-sided test...
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Sibling, peer, neighbor, and schoolmate correlations as indicators of the importance of context for adolescent development
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 437–447.
Published: 01 August 2001
... but not larger than most sibling correlations. The data suggest that family-based factors are several times more powerful than neighborhood and school contexts in affecting adolescents’ achievement and behavior. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2001 2001 Adolescent Development...
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Offspring Socioeconomic Status and Parent Mortality Within a Historical Population
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1583–1603.
Published: 23 September 2016
... is operationalized using Nam-Powers occupational status scores divided into quartiles and a category for farmers. Models assess mortality risk after age 40. Included is a test for whether effects are proportional across parents who died younger and older. Estimated life expectancies across categories of offspring...
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Measuring Residential Segregation With the ACS: How the Margin of Error Affects the Dissimilarity Index
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 285–309.
Published: 19 January 2017
... that the precision and accuracy of D from the ACS is influenced by a number of factors, including the number of tracts and minority population size. For smaller areas, point estimates systematically overstate actual levels of segregation, and large confidence intervals lead to limited statistical power. 13 12...
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The population projection as a matrix operator
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 56–73.
Published: 01 March 1964
... of 1p) is near enough to a straight line that this differs from the true p by unity in the fifth decimal place, a further trial showing that p = .00337. Since the unit of time in our matrix calculation was not the year but a 15- year period, we must calculate the 15th power in order to make...
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Black-White Disparities in Life Expectancy: How Much Can the Standard SES Variables Explain?
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 553–574.
Published: 28 January 2012
... be accounted for by differences in socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. For females, 70% percent of the gap is accounted for. Labor force participation, occupation, and (among women only) marital status have almost no additional power to explain the black-white disparity in life expectancy after...
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Estimating 1 a 0 and 4 a 1 in a Life Table: A Model Approach Based on Newly Collected Data
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 643–664.
Published: 01 June 2024
... conventional metric to evaluate the overall predictive power of mortality models: RMSE = μ 2 + 1 / φ . (10) Following a Bayesian framework, measures of accuracy, precision, and predictive power are estimated for each sex, for both sexes combined, and for different combinations...
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An elementary approach to the population projection-matrix, to the population reproductive value, and to related topics in the mathematical theory of population growth
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 382–409.
Published: 01 March 1968
... n R ep or ts , P op ul at io n E st im at es , S er ie s P_ 25 , N o. 32 1, N ov em be r 30 , 19 65 , T ab le 2, p. 15 . 388 DEMOGRAPHY (15) We calculate Nt directly by taking the tth power of the reverse projection-matrix N, but, as t increases, this calculation will eventually lead...
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Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1953–1979.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and baseline mortality ratios for each city. Full details on these models (including regression equations) are reported in section II of the online appendix; power calculations for all models are reported in section IIE. Models are generally well-powered, with the exception of the analysis of the herald wave...
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Age distribution and the stable equivalent
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Demography (1969) 6 (3): 261–269.
Published: 01 August 1969
... 1969 ear - m U+1l/m (Il - ii ii' so that r is obtained as r = Uln (m.,u+ll/m./ I , (3) which is to say one fifth of the natural logarithm of the ratio of any element of the (t + l)th power of the matrix to the corresponding term in the tth power. The stable vector {K l } is any column of M', say...
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Methods for measuring school performance through cohort analysis
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 617–624.
Published: 01 November 1972
... the future labor force by educational attain- ment, they have to scrutinize how the educational system could afford the in- herent expansion. That expansion could be achieved in two ways: by increasing the school intake ratio, which is a quan- titative process, and/or by improving the retention power...
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Wives who outearn their husbands: A transitory or persistent phenomenon for couples?
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 523–535.
Published: 01 August 2005
... Blumberg , R. , & Coleman , M. Tolbert ( 1989 ). A Theoretical Look at the Gender Balance of Power in the American Couple . Journal of Family Issues , 10 , 225 – 50 . 10.1177/019251389010002005 Brennan , R.T. , Barnett , R. Chait , & Gareis , K.C. ( 2001 ). When...
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The DYNAMO-HIA Model: An Efficient Implementation of a Risk Factor/Chronic Disease Markov Model for Use in Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1259–1283.
Published: 10 October 2012
... left matrix, further referred to as T , is needed, as the remaining entries can be derived using . Given the definition of the matrix exponential, it is clear that Π(Δ t ) will be of the form with , as the last row of Q 2 (and thus also other powers of Q ), will contain only zeros...
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Spousal Mobility and Earnings
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 829–849.
Published: 01 November 2008
... – 45 . 10.1068/a34216 Compton J. , & Pollak R.A. ( 2007 ). Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas? . Journal of Labor Economics , 25 , 475 – 512 . 10.1086/512706 Cooke T.J. ( 2001 ). ‘Trailing Wife’ or ‘Trailing Mother...
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Some demographic determinants of average household size: An analytic approach
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Demography (1970) 7 (1): 61–69.
Published: 01 February 1970
..., the average house- hold size would be mueh larger than observed. Seeond, in populations with high fertility and extended family ideals, the deeline in mortality ereates powerful pressures at the household level for departures from or modifieations of the extended family system or for the eontrol of fertility...
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Interstate Migration and Employer-to-Employer Transitions in the United States: New Evidence From Administrative Records Data
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2161–2180.
Published: 08 October 2018
... gains of migrants and find that changes in these returns to migration also have limited explanatory power. The United States has long been considered to be a highly mobile society. However, migration within the United States as measured by the CPS has been declining for decades, reaching historic...
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Impact of Road Traffic Deaths on Expected Years of Life Lost and Reduction in Life Expectancy in Brazil
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 229–236.
Published: 18 August 2012
.... Demonstration of the potential to reduce the road traffic mortality burden by utilizing statistics from lower-burden areas or populations and extrapolating those to higher burden areas or populations can be a powerful message to policy makers that improved road traffic safety statistics are achievable. We...
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A note on the measurement of accuracy for subnational demographic estimates
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 193–201.
Published: 01 May 2000
.... , & Zeller , R. ( 1979 ). Reliability and Validity Assessment . Beverly Hills : Sage . D’Agostino , R. , Belanger , A. , & D’Agostino , R. ( 1990 ). A Suggestion for Using Powerful and Informative Tests of Normality . The American Statistician , 44 , 316 – 21 . 10.2307...
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Dynamic Multistate Models With Constant Cross-Product Ratios: Applications to Poverty Status
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 779–797.
Published: 24 March 2020
..., NP, and AP) model from matched cross-sections of March CPS data. Their transition matrix, raised to the power 2.5 to convert the two-year interval to a five-year interval, was used as the base matrix from which the cross-product ratios were calculated. The same base matrix was used at every age...
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The Demographic Transition in Southern Africa: Reviewing the Evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 217–227.
Published: 01 May 1994
... lacks power when differences in the distributions are in the tails (Conover 1980). This is precisely the case in these data. Rather than rely solely on a Kolmogorov-Smimov test, it seems to us to be important to carefully examine each component of the distributions to determine where the differences lie...
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