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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1139–1161.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Emma Gorman Abstract This study assesses whether an additional year of secondary schooling has lasting causal effects on cognitive function. I use data from Understanding Society, the largest longitudinal household study in the United Kingdom, and exploit quasi-experimental variation in schooling...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 513–534.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Kevin J.A. Thomas Abstract In this study, I examine disparities in schooling progress among children born to immigrant and U.S.-born blacks. I find that in one- and two-parent families, children born to black immigrants are less likely to fall behind in school than those born to U.S.-born blacks...
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
... . Quarterly Journal of Economics , 85 , 409 – 415 . 10.2307/1885930 Barechello, R. R. 1979. The Schooling of Farm Youth in Canada. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, Dept. of Economics. Becker , G. S. ( 1981 ). A Treatise on the Family . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard...
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 235–257.
Published: 01 May 1984
...Clifford C. Clogg; James W. Shockey Abstract This paper deals with the mismatch between occupation and schooling attainment, the imbalance between occupation-specific demand for labor and schooling-level-specific labor supply. A framework for measuring the prevalence of mismatch is given...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 25–52.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue; Lindy B. Williams Abstract Contrary to theory and evidence from many other regions, previous studies in sub-Saharan Africa have found surprisingly weak associations between family size and schooling. It is unclear, however, whether these weak results reflect (spurious...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2181–2200.
Published: 02 October 2017
...Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll; Zoë Kuehn Abstract Educational attainment is a key factor for understanding why some individuals migrate and others do not. Compulsory schooling laws, which determine an individual’s minimum level of education, can potentially affect migration. We test whether and how...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2371–2394.
Published: 17 October 2018
... attainments of her age-mates. Using data from 30 countries and 246 birth cohorts across sub-Saharan Africa, we investigate the impact of educational context (the percentage of women in a country cohort who ever attended school) on the relationship between a woman’s educational attainment and her marital...
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Published: 01 April 2022
Fig. 2 Adult children's years of schooling by age at CEL implementation. The left red rule indicates age 15 at CEL implementation, and the right red rule indicates age 6 at CEL implementation.
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 835–863.
Published: 06 May 2016
..., and having a low body mass index. Among sub-Saharan African cohorts, the estimated changes are larger, particularly for years of schooling. The pseudo-cohort approach can enable longitudinal testing of life course hypotheses using large-scale, standardized, repeated cross-sectional data and with considerable...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1135–1168.
Published: 08 July 2016
...Petter Lundborg; Carl Hampus Lyttkens; Paul Nystedt Abstract By using historical data on about 50,000 twins born in Sweden during 1886–1958, we demonstrate a positive and statistically significant relationship between years of schooling and longevity. This relation remains almost unchanged when...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1743–1770.
Published: 07 November 2016
...Sophia Chae Abstract A growing body of literature has examined the impact of different types of family structures on children’s schooling in sub-Saharan Africa. These studies have investigated how living arrangements, gender of the household head, parental death, and paternal migration are related...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1147–1173.
Published: 11 April 2017
...Patrick Denice Abstract Trends and gaps in educational attainment by race and gender have received much attention in recent years, but reports of these trends have generally focused on traditional-age college students. Little is known about whether and how enrollment in formal schooling among older...
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in Does Schooling Have Lasting Effects on Cognitive Function? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws
> Demography
Published: 01 August 2023
Fig. 1 Years of schooling by month-of-birth cohort, centered relative to the reform threshold of September 1, 1957. A quadratic trend in birth cohort was fitted to underlying data to show the global trends in the data (dashed red lines), as well as a local linear fit within 50 months
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Published: 07 November 2016
Fig. 1 Schooling outcomes by parents’ marriage status, with 95 % confidence intervals shown: MLSFH, 2008
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in Back to School: Racial and Gender Differences in Adults’ Participation in Formal Schooling, 1978–2013
> Demography
Published: 11 April 2017
Fig. 1 Adult enrollment in formal schooling by gender and race, over survey year (1978–2013). Author’s calculations using the CPS October supplement data. Sample includes adults between the ages of 29 and 61. Percentages are weighted by the appropriate weights. Shading in gray indicates
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in Back to School: Racial and Gender Differences in Adults’ Participation in Formal Schooling, 1978–2013
> Demography
Published: 11 April 2017
Fig. 2 Adult enrollment in formal schooling by gender and race, over birth year (1917–1984). Author’s calculations using the CPS October supplement data. Sample includes adults between the ages of 29 and 61. Percentages are weighted by the appropriate weights
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in Back to School: Racial and Gender Differences in Adults’ Participation in Formal Schooling, 1978–2013
> Demography
Published: 11 April 2017
Fig. 3 Adult enrollment in formal schooling by age and period . Author’s calculations using the CPS October supplement data. Percentages are weighted by the appropriate weights
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in Reply to Trends in Education-Specific Life Expectancy, Data Quality, and Shifting Education Distributions: A Note on Recent Research
> Demography
Published: 28 April 2017
Fig. 1 Life expectancy at age 25 by years of schooling, United States 1990-2010. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) results are adapted from Sasson ( 2016a ). National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) estimates are based on five-year periods (1988–1992, 1998–2002, 2007–2011) and adjusted
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in Reply to Trends in Education-Specific Life Expectancy, Data Quality, and Shifting Education Distributions: A Note on Recent Research
> Demography
Published: 28 April 2017
Fig. 2 Standard deviation of age at death (S 25 ) by years of schooling, United States 1990–2010. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) results are adapted from Sasson ( 2016a ). National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) estimates are based on five-year periods (1988–1992, 1998–2002, 2007–2011
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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
Fig. 3 Years of schooling across birth cohorts. The figure displays coefficients of the interactions of year of birth × new schools per capita in an individual's state of residence.
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