...) have been investigated in the United States, there is little research about the impact of obesity on mortality in Latin American countries, where very the rapid rate of growth of prevalence of obesity and overweight occur jointly with poor socioeconomic conditions. The aim of this article is to assess...

...Thomas J. Cooke; Paul Boyle; Kenneth Couch; Peteke Feijten Abstract This article uses longitudinal data for the United States and Great Britain to examine the impact of residential mobility and childbirth on the earnings of women, their family earnings, and the related division of earnings...

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... of Education and the Emerging Gender Gap in College Completion . Demography , 43 , 1 – 24 . 10.1353/dem.2006.0003 Drobnic S. , Blossfeld H.-P. , & Rohwer G. ( 1999 ). Dynamics of Women’s Employment Patterns Over the Family Life Course: A Comparison of the United States and Germany...

...Robert A. Hummer; Daniel A. Powers; Starling G. Pullum; Ginger L. Gossman; W. Parker Frisbie Abstract Recent research suggests that the favorable mortality outcomes for the Mexican immigrant population in the United States may largely be attributable to selective out-migration among Mexican...

...Yinon Cohen; Yitchak Haberfeld Abstract Drawing on U.S. decennial census data and on Israeli census and longitudinal data, we compare the educational levels and earnings assimilation of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU) in the United States and Israel during 1968–2000. Because...

...Neil K. Mehta; Virginia W. Chang Abstract Obesity is considered a major cause of premature mortality and a potential threat to the longstanding secular decline in mortality in the United States. We measure relative and attributable risks associated with obesity among middle-aged adults using data...

... the Burden of Acting White and Other Dilemmas of High Achievement . American Sociological Review , 70 , 582 – 605 . 10.1177/000312240507000403 Race and Hispanic Origin of the Population by Nativity and Parentage: 2000 Profile of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States, 2000. Detailed...

...David W. Smith; Benjamin S. Bradshaw Abstract The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports life expectancy at birth (LE) for each year in the United States. Censal year estimates of LE use complete life tables. From 1900 through 1947, LEs for intercensal years were interpolated from...

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.... Will the same thing happen in the United States? To investigate this question, I examine increases in the proportion of births occurring in cohabiting unions, using data from the 1987–1988 National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and the1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The standardization...

...Marcela Cerrutti; Douglas S. Massey Abstract In this paper we examine the circumstances and determinants of female migration between Mexico and the United States. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project, we considered the relative timing of males’ and females’ moves northward. We...

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...Deborah Reed Abstract In this paper I investigate the impact of recent immigration on males’ earnings distributions in the major regions of the United States. I use six counterfactual scenarios to describe alternative regional skill distributions and wage structures for the population of natives...