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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1477–1498.
Published: 16 August 2016
...Robert Bozick; Alessandro Malchiodi; Trey Miller Abstract Using a nationally representative sample of 1,189 immigrant youth in American high schools, we examine whether the quality of education in their country of origin is related to post-migration math achievement in the 9th grade. To measure...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 123–145.
Published: 27 January 2020
...Gerard Torrats-Espinosa Abstract This study investigates the effect of violent crime on school district–level achievement in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. The research design exploits variation in achievement and violent crime across 813 school districts in the United States...
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in Premigration School Quality, Time Spent in the United States, and the Math Achievement of Immigrant High School Students
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Published: 16 August 2016
Fig. 1 Predicted 9th grade math achievement scores by grades of school in the United States for select countries
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1653–1676.
Published: 28 July 2017
... is estimated to substantially reduce subsequent exposure to school poverty and improve academic achievement, school poverty does not play an important mediating role because even the large differences in school composition linked to differences in neighborhood context appear to have no appreciable effect...
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Published: 20 October 2015
Fig. 1 Probability of son achieving different stages of schooling conditional on father’s education. The shaded area represents the 95 % confidence interval
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2229–2255.
Published: 01 November 2018
... birth and the value of the additional years between her first birth and the birth of the child whose achievements and behaviors at ages 10–13 are under study. We find that each year the mother delays a first birth is associated with a 0.02 to 0.04 standard deviation increase in school achievement...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 281–313.
Published: 18 December 2014
... into account the simultaneity of fertility and schooling decisions. In contrast to most prior studies on sub-Saharan Africa, we find a net negative effect of sibship size on the level of schooling achieved by children—one that grows stronger as they progress through the educational system. 19 11 2014...
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in Neighborhoods, Schools, and Academic Achievement: A Formal Mediation Analysis of Contextual Effects on Reading and Mathematics Abilities
> Demography
Published: 28 July 2017
Fig. 1 Directed acyclic graph depicting the hypothesized causal relationships between neighborhood context, school poverty, and academic achievement. A t = neighborhood advantage, M t = school poverty, Y t = academic achievement, and C t = covariates
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1625–1646.
Published: 15 September 2020
... holds across both samples and all combinations, as shown in panels b and d of Fig. 1 . 4 However, the association between overall birth order and school achievement differs between the two samples. Fig. 1 The association between school point average and the two types of birth order...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1917–1927.
Published: 05 October 2015
... poor populations face in accessing social protection programs in order to improve program targeting. Finally, the analysis demonstrates that stipend programs can improve absolute schooling for populations while failing to reduce relative achievement gaps between children of different socioeconomic...
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in Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States
> Demography
Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 2 Cross-sectional relationship between crime and achievement. Achievement data are from the district-level estimates from the SEDA data (Reardon et al. 2016a ), and crime data are from the FBI’s UCR Program. Each dot represents a school district ( N = 813), and it measures the log mean
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 759–783.
Published: 01 November 2003
... Schools and Social Injustice: The Influence of De Facto Segregation on Academic Achievement . Social Forces , 75 , 535 – 55 . 10.2307/2580412 Bankston C.L. , Caldas S.J. , & Zhou M. ( 1997 ). The Academic Achievement of Vietnamese American Students: Ethnicity as Social Capital...
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in Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States
> Demography
Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 1 Eighth-grade achievement, by race, cohorts 1996–2002. Achievement data are from the district-level estimates from the SEDA data (Reardon et al. 2016a ). Each bar shows the average eighth grade achievement across all school districts in the sample ( N = 813) for a given birth cohort
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1603–1626.
Published: 01 August 2017
... biological married parents (Kalil et al. 2014 ). Other studies of family structure have focused on growing up with a single parent, finding that these children experience lower school achievement and aspirations, increased psychological distress, earlier initiation of substance use and sexual activity...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 575–584.
Published: 01 November 1994
... policy, with potentially remedial effects for vulnerable children. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1994 1994 Family Structure School Dropout Residential Mobility School Achievement Intact Family References Astone N.M. , & McLanahan S.S. ( 1991...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 447–469.
Published: 17 October 2012
... assignment of students into single-sex versus coeducational high schools—to assess causal effects of single-sex schools on college entrance exam scores and college attendance. Our validation of the random assignment shows comparable socioeconomic backgrounds and prior academic achievement of students...
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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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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 521–534.
Published: 01 November 1999
... social relationships that are important to academic achievement. But the association between moving and school performance may be spurious; the negative correlation may be a function of other characteristics of people who move often. We offer several conceptual and analytical refinements to these ideas...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 75–109.
Published: 01 February 2021
... in the educational achievements of recent birth cohorts. Harnessing a change in compulsory school laws and applying an instrumental variables approach, we found that each year of offspring schooling was associated with higher overall cognition among parents but was less predictive across different cognitive...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 477–501.
Published: 23 January 2019
... Institute . Retrieved from https://www.adoptioninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Lesbian-Gay-Adoption-Report.pdf Caemmerer , J. M. , & Keith , T. Z. ( 2015 ). Longitudinal, reciprocal effects of social skills and achievement from kindergarten to eighth grade . Journal of School...
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