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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 February 1975
...Eui Hang Shin Abstract This paper examines the trends and variations in the black-white differentials in infant mortality in ten selected Southern states during the 1940–1970 period. The patterns observed from the Southern states are compared with those observed from seven selected Northern states...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 23–33.
Published: 01 March 1968
... in median years of school completed, by urban and rural areas of southern states. Whites, of course, have higher average levels of education, but the important point is the increasing differential between whites and nonwhites. The differences do not increase in all southern states, but they did increase...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 797–818.
Published: 18 May 2012
... the coefficients of one of these, the Preston/Glei/Wilmoth model, using recent data from U.S. states. We calculate smoking-attributable fractions for the 50 states and the United States as a whole in 2004, and estimate the contribution of smoking to the high adult mortality of the southern states. We estimate...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 2023
... in 2015–2019. Lifespan variability decreased in all states, but states differed in the level and pace with which these changes occurred . Southern states and the District of Columbia exhibited consistently higher (i.e., less equitable) levels of lifespan variability than the nation overall. Conversely...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">State</span>-Level Trends in Lifespan Variability in the United <span class="search-highlight">States</span>, 1960–2019: A Research Note
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 2009–2017.
Published: 01 October 2021
... or increasing racial inequality in the late twentieth century, disparities between Black/African American and White children began to decrease in the twenty-first century in nearly every state, closing entirely in several Southern states but remaining wide outside the South. In many Midwestern and Western...
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View articletitled, Long-Term Trends and Ethnoracial Inequality in U.S. Foster Care: A Research Note
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for article titled, Long-Term Trends and Ethnoracial Inequality in U.S. Foster Care: A Research Note
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1499–1509.
Published: 08 August 2016
... than for whites. African Americans faced the highest cumulative risks of imprisonment in the Midwest, Northeast, and two southern states. Latinos were most likely to serve time in state prison in the West, where their cumulative risk was comparable to that of African Americans. Latino children had...
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View articletitled, Geographic Variation in the Cumulative Risk of Imprisonment and Parental Imprisonment in the United <span class="search-highlight">States</span>
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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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View articletitled, Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United <span class="search-highlight">States</span>
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 1989–2012.
Published: 10 July 2013
...David Frisvold; Ezra Golberstein Abstract This study assesses the effect of black-white differences in school quality on black-white differences in health in later life resulting from the racial convergence in school quality for cohorts born between 1910 and 1950 in southern states with segregated...
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View articletitled, The Effect of School Quality on Black-White Health Differences: Evidence From Segregated <span class="search-highlight">Southern</span> Schools
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for article titled, The Effect of School Quality on Black-White Health Differences: Evidence From Segregated <span class="search-highlight">Southern</span> Schools
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Published: 02 November 2018
Fig. 8 Regional convergence of black IMR between southern and northern states. States are included in calculations as they enter the BRA. Published rates for the North are not shown because they are almost identical to the adjusted rates
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Published: 01 December 2021
Fig. 4 Bivariate associations between the percentage of the Black–White gap in neonatal mortality explained by birth weight–specific mortality and state-level variables ( n = 33 states). Orange markers indicate Southern states. r p = Pearson correlation coefficient; r s = Spearman
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 673–677.
Published: 01 November 1984
... in 1954 was a temporary decline in childbearing by white southerners. With data from the 11 former Confederate states, alternative Box-Jenkins/intervention models were estimated to identify/quantify such a decline, but no statistical evidence of a temporary shift in southern white fertility could be found...
View articletitled, Evaluating the demographic impact of societal events through intervention analysis: The brown vs. Board of Education decision
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Published: 30 July 2015
with 95 % confidence intervals (standard errors adjusted for spatial clustering). Southern states. Census data
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 711–735.
Published: 01 June 2024
... as it spread throughout the U.S. South. Consequently, we might anticipate more sophisticated systems of oppression that span institutions in states like Delaware, Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia, where recorded dates of institutionalized enslavement are the earliest among the Southern states...
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View articletitled, Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1253–1259.
Published: 15 June 2016
...Ryan K. Masters; Daniel A. Powers; Robert A. Hummer; Audrey Beck; Shih-Fan Lin; Brian Karl Finch References Arias , E. ( 2014 ). United States life tables , 2010 (National Vital Statistics Reports 63(7)). Hyattsville, MD : National Center for Health Statistics . Frost , W...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2047–2073.
Published: 18 November 2014
... Statistics Report No. 49(2)). Hyattsville, MD : National Center for Health Statistics . Arias , E. ( 2010 ). United States life tables , 2006 (National Vital Statistics Report No. 58(21)). Hyattsville, MD : National Center for Health Statistics . Arias , E. ( 2011 ). United States...
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View articletitled, Long-Term Trends in Adult Mortality for U.S. Blacks and Whites: An Examination of Period- and Cohort-Based Changes
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 291–305.
Published: 01 August 1996
... that temperature has quantitatively important effects on both seasonal and nonseasonal variation in births. Summer temperature extremes reduce conceptions in the southern United States, explaining a substantial part of the observed seasonal birth pattern. Extreme cold shows no evidence of affecting conceptions...
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 273–295.
Published: 01 March 1964
... progreso de la población negra. Southern State Negro Population United States Census Nonwhite Population Nonwhite Male References 2 Lee Everett ( 1957 ). Population Distribution and Economic Growth, United States , 1870–1950, Vol. I: Methodological Considerations and Reference...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 679–682.
Published: 01 November 1984
...Ronald R. Rindfuss; Michael K. Salemi; John Shelton Reed; Craig St. John 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1984 1984 Total Fertility Rate Southern State Supreme Court Decision Fertility Trend Formal Statistical Analysis References
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 75–109.
Published: 01 February 2021
... ) and the United States (Yahirun et al. 2020) in a number of important ways. First, we exploited the 1993 educational policy reforms in Mexico that raised compulsory schooling from grade 6 (completion of elementary school) to grade 9 (completion of lower secondary school). We used the exogenous policy changes...
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View articletitled, Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Cognition in Mexico
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1921–1942.
Published: 20 April 2013
... classification, white Americans began to seek stricter guarantees of racial purity. The dawn of the twentieth century saw Southern states adopt increasingly expansive descent-based definitions of blackness: from one-half, to one-quarter, to one-eighth, and finally to “any perceptible trace of black blood” (Davis...
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View articletitled, A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United <span class="search-highlight">States</span>? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era
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