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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 471–498.
Published: 01 April 2021
... choice in the form of charter schools using data from the census and the Common Core of Data on a national sample of more than 1,500 metropolitan districts. We find that Black-White school segregation increased and residential segregation declined in response to increases in the charter enrollment share...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1665–1692.
Published: 21 August 2019
... costs or minimum school quality. Although empirical studies of residential mobility have rarely captured multiple decision stages, social researchers have accumulated substantial insights into the factors affecting choices at each stage. The initial stage of the residential mobility decision...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 689–718.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of marriage and schooling choices? To better understand the true personal and societal consequences, in this article, I use an instrumental variables (IV) approach that takes advantage of variation in state laws regulating the age at which individuals are allowed to marry, drop out of school, and begin work...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1225–1249.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Vincenzo Atella; Joanna Kopinska Abstract In this article, we empirically study the role of education attainment on individual body mass index (BMI), eating patterns, and physical activity. We allow for endogeneity of schooling choices for females and males in a mean and quantile instrumental...
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 655–674.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Robert W. Fairlie Abstract Several recent studies provided evidence that white students’ choice between private and public schools is influenced by the racial composition of the local student population. None of these studies, however, examined whether Latinos are also fleeing to private schools...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 987–1010.
Published: 01 June 2021
... rise in women's participation in tertiary education ( Goldin et al. 2006 ). We extend this literature by investigating gender disparity in the choice of the commerce stream at the higher secondary school level in India. We use a nationally representative household-level panel data set that tracks...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 675–703.
Published: 26 March 2020
... and public school test scores. Moreover, our discrete-choice framework captures heterogeneity in subgroups’ residential patterns and disentangles sorting on multiple neighborhood features simultaneously. In contrast to many similar studies, we model both movers and stayers in our discrete-choice analyses...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 61–98.
Published: 15 January 2020
... test scores, noncognitive skill measures, and school track choice in a unified framework. Children who start universal childcare four months earlier around age 3 do not perform differently in terms of standardized cognitive test scores, measures of noncognitive skills, school track choice, or school...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1139–1161.
Published: 01 August 2023
... on the type of occupation entered immediately after leaving school and at older ages. These patterns are consistent with basic education improving cognitive outcomes through occupation choice. The findings are robust to sensitivity analyses. Copyright © 2023 The Author 2023 This is an open access article...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 303–322.
Published: 01 May 2008
... with no schooling. Education is positively related to certain risk factors for HIV, including the likelihood of having premarital sex. Estimates of the wealth gradient in HIV, by contrast, vary substantially across countries and are sensitive to the choice of measure of wealth. onsiderable research documents...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 205–220.
Published: 01 May 1988
...-school arrangements may differ substantially from the type of care needed for children not enrolled in school. 7 Dependent Variables: Mother's Labor Supply and Child Care Choice of Employed Mothers The first set of analyses examines the determinants of the mother's work in the labor market; mothers who...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 511–528.
Published: 01 November 1981
... that current religious choice is more important in explaining fertility than is religion of orientation or denomination of secondary school. The effects of current and background religion are additive, and the effect of current religion is the same for men as for women at each parity progression. Catholic...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1487–1506.
Published: 25 June 2018
... students to make binary choices between attending school full-time and dropping out of school to work. At community colleges, undocumented students have the flexibility to reduce course work to accommodate increased work hours. Overall, the results suggest that the precarious and temporary nature of DACA...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 621–644.
Published: 03 January 2019
... by state: in the early twenty-first century, the greater risk of death associated with lacking a high school credential, compared with having completed at least one year of college, ranged from 40 % in Arizona to 104 % in Maryland. The size of the disparities varies across states primarily because...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 571–602.
Published: 17 March 2017
... educated (and U.S.-trained) immigrants. Second, by capitalizing on the information about college major choices collected in the most recent waves of the ACS, we identify that college-educated childhood immigrants from English-distant countries who arrived in the United States after the primary school years...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1031–1058.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of academic achievement at earlier stages of schooling ( Bol and van de Werfhorst 2013 ; Jackson et al. 2012 ). Overall, this institutional landscape should expand the role of other determinants of educational choices, such as student ambitions and parental premigration status, throughout children...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 33–58.
Published: 21 November 2017
... of school choice, which may increase segregation, and changes in immigration, which alter population composition and could affect racial and ethnic relations within cohorts over time (Van Hook and Snyder 2007 ). Like cohort effects, period effects may depend on organizational features of school systems. We...
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in Does Schooling Have Lasting Effects on Cognitive Function? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws
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Published: 01 August 2023
Fig. 3 Sensitivity analyses. The bold black line plots coefficients from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design assessing the effect of years of schooling on each cognitive outcome (word recall, verbal fluency, numeric ability, and serial subtraction) across a range of bandwidth choices (12
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in Does Schooling Have Lasting Effects on Cognitive Function? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws
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Published: 01 August 2023
Fig. 4 Sensitivity analyses (quadratic). The bold black line plots coefficients from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design assessing the effect of years of schooling on each cognitive outcome (word recall, verbal fluency, numeric ability, and serial subtraction) across a range of bandwidth
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 185–194.
Published: 01 May 1999
..., Parental Practices and High School Completion . American Sociological Review , 56 , 309 – 20 . 10.2307/2096106 Behrman , J.R , Kletzer , L.G. , McPherson , M.S. , & Shapiro , M.O. ( 1992 ). The College Investment Decision: Direct and Indirect of Family Background on Choice...
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