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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 139–157.
Published: 01 May 1992
... . Population Research and Policy Review , 9 , 93 – 116 . 10.1007/BF02343244 Demography, Vol. 29, No.2, May 1992 Stemming The Tide? Assessing the Deterrent Effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act* Katharine M. Donato Department of Sociology Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803...
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Demography (1981) 18 (2): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 1981
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 201–226.
Published: 01 February 2023
... immigrants from countries with lower quality tertiary education, immigrants with lower English proficiency, and those with degrees in non-STEM fields and fields with demanding licensing requirements. These results point to skilled immigrants' limited human capital transferability, which stems from...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 761–784.
Published: 01 June 2023
... segregation among fields in which graduates tend to enter a limited set of occupations is particularly consequential for occupational segregation. Within-field occupational segregation is higher among heavily male-dominated fields than other fields, but it does not vary systematically by fields' STEM status...
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Demography (1970) 7 (1): 61–69.
Published: 01 February 1970
... as possible explanations for the apparent discrepancy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of demographic variables (viz., mortality, fertility, age at marriage) on average household size under different family systems—nuclear, extended and stem. The approach used has been applied...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 February 2024
... disparities and reach different conclusions regarding which groups were most impacted. We suggest that these variations stem from differences in the temporal scope of the mortality data used and difficulties inherent in measuring race and ethnicity. To circumvent these issues, we link Social Security...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 231–250.
Published: 01 April 2024
... composition. Instead, the hourly gain stems from such mothers’ tendency to reduce working hours more than other mothers without experiencing a commensurate decrease in total pay. Unlike the fatherhood premium, the premium for late mothers does not lead to a real boost in income. Copyright © 2024 The Authors...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 283–306.
Published: 01 April 2024
... the greatest challenge for accuracy. Using the American Community Survey, we show that increased Medicaid enrollments stemming from the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014 led to sizable changes in the share of immigrants imputed as legal over time and across space. We explore the implications...
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 851–872.
Published: 01 November 2009
... larger in this cohort: about 36% in females and 50% in males. Results are robust to confounding by preexisting diseases, multiple dimensions of socioeconomic status (SES), smoking, and other correlates. These findings challenge the viewpoint that obesity will stem the long-term secular decline in U.S...
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 727–746.
Published: 01 November 2006
... to short-term economic stress stemming from changes in prices. The fertility response, both to moderate and large changes in food prices, was the strongest within six months after prices changed in the fall, which means that the response was deliberate. People foresaw bad times and planned their fertility...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 247–249.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Bert Kestenbaum Abstract Authors of an article appearing recently in Demography propose a retrospective method to identify husband-wife pairs in administrative records. Although their premise is correct, they overstate the power of their methodology. The error stems from a misunderstanding of how...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 215–226.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Tim Miller Abstract Official Medicare projections forecast that the elderly population will be less healthy and more costly over the next century. This prediction stems from the use of age as an indicator of health status: increases in longevity are assumed to increase demand for health care...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 May 1999
..., with employers passing the costs and risks of unauthorized hiring on to the workers. Although available data do not permit us to eliminate competing explanations entirely, limited controls suggest that the post-IRCA wage penalty against undocumented migrants did not stem from an expansion of the immigrant labor...
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 115–132.
Published: 01 February 1994
... were less likely than married women to report their abortion, and that women who had borne three or more children were less likely to report their abortion than women who had borne fewer children. These differences probably stem from the extent to which pregnancy or abortion is considered stigmatizing...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 81–95.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Kevin E. McHugh; Patricia Gober; Neil Reid Abstract Confusion about the role of residential satisfaction vis-a-vis structural factors in the mobility process stems from the failure to examine the determinants of mobility over varying time frames and housing tenures. Using survey data for a random...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 501–517.
Published: 01 November 1984
... was greater for legal than for illegal migrants, a pattern that stemmed from social factors as well as physical separation. A logistic regression analysis showed that reductions in birth probabilities are greater the longer a couple is separated, and that these reductions are in the range expected from prior...
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Demography (1979) 16 (3): 377–388.
Published: 01 August 1979
...Gary H. McClelland Abstract The two methods commonly used to assess the effect of sex preferences on fertility are inadequate to the task. Parity progression ratio analyses suffer from logical problems stemming from the heterogeneity of sex preferences and the riskiness of fertility decisions...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 02 November 2018
... mortality rates prior to 1950 suffer from an upward bias stemming from a severe underregistration of births. At one extreme, African American births in southern states went unregistered at the rate of 15 % to 25 %. In this study, we construct improved estimates of births and infant mortality in the United...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 221–246.
Published: 01 February 2022
... and type of family migration—including marriage migration and family reunions—contribute to differences in first birth across migrant cohorts. Specifically, more rapid entry into first birth among recent migrants from Turkey stems from a greater representation of marriage migrants across arrival cohorts...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 925–936.
Published: 01 June 1967
... in the number of first births among young women largely accounts for the overall rise in the level of premarital conceptions. Compared to its suburbs, Copenhagen in 1965 had higher levels of premarital conceptions. The overall residential differential stems both from higher proportions of such births in all age...
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