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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 367–390.
Published: 28 November 2018
...Bruce Bradbury; Jane Waldfogel; Elizabeth Washbrook Abstract Previous research has documented significantly larger income-related gaps in children’s early cognitive development in the United States than in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In this study, we investigate the extent to which...
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 613–626.
Published: 01 November 1992
.... Significant differences emerge according to country of origin, age, and state of intended residence. A method of producing current estimates of long-term immigration is illustrated. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1992 1992 United Nations International Migration Undocumented...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1897–1919.
Published: 03 August 2017
...Ezra Fishman Abstract Dementia is increasingly recognized as a major source of disease burden in the United States, yet little research has evaluated the lifecycle implications of dementia. To address this research gap, this article uses the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS) to provide...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 655–684.
Published: 01 April 2021
...John Iceland Abstract This study examines the prevalence of several types of hardship (e.g., bill paying and housing hardships) among immigrants by race and ethnicity in the United States using data from the 2008 and 2014 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation and logistic...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 1–14.
Published: 31 December 2014
... health status levels? . Demography , 43 , 337 – 360 . 10.1353/dem.2006.0011 Arias , E. ( 2010 ). United States life tables by Hispanic origin (Vital and Health Statistics, 2(152)). Hyattsville, MD : National Center for Health Statistics . Blue , L. , & Fenelon...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2333–2336.
Published: 31 October 2014
... of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States,” Guo et al. ( 2014 :142) aimed to “seek fresh insights into the understanding of racial classification in the contemporary United States by combining a social science perspective with recent advances in human molecular genetics...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1895–1931.
Published: 27 September 2014
.... , & Hofferth , S. L. ( 2001 ). Changes in children’s time with parents: United States, 1981–1997 . Demography , 38 , 423 – 436 . 10.1353/dem.2001.0031 Sayer , L. C. , Bianchi , S. M. , & Robinson , J. P. ( 2004 ). Are parents investing less in children? Trends in mothers...
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Fig. 4 Trends in the proportion extremely poor in the United States by household type, 1993–2016
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1753–1786.
Published: 10 September 2020
...Deirdre Bloome; Shannon Ang Abstract Family formation in the United States has changed dramatically: marriage has become less common, nonmarital cohabitation has become more common, and racial and economic inequalities in these experiences have increased. We provide insights into recent U.S. trends...
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1787–1808.
Published: 08 September 2020
...Christopher S. Carpenter Abstract I provide evidence on the direct effects of legal same-sex marriage in the United States by studying Massachusetts, the first state to legalize it in 2004 by court order. Using confidential Massachusetts data from 2001–2013, I show that the ruling significantly...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 485–508.
Published: 08 January 2014
...Elizabeth Thomson; Trude Lappegård; Marcia Carlson; Ann Evans; Edith Gray Abstract This article compares mothers’ experience of having children with more than one partner in two liberal welfare regimes (the United States and Australia) and two social democratic regimes (Sweden and Norway). We use...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 587–598.
Published: 08 January 2014
...Sheela Kennedy; Steven Ruggles Abstract This article critically evaluates the available data on trends in divorce in the United States. We find that both vital statistics and retrospective survey data on divorce after 1990 underestimate recent marital instability. These flawed data have led some...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 563–585.
Published: 31 January 2014
... marriage rates in the United States. Using a difference-in-differences strategy that compares how marriage rates change after legal recognition in U.S. states that alter legal recognition versus states that do not, I find no evidence that allowing same-sex couples to marry reduces the opposite-sex marriage...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 777–809.
Published: 30 April 2014
... or policy perspectives, complicating simple understandings that residential exposures alone explain the association between place and health. Psychosocial stressors related to contingencies of social identity associated with being black, urban, or poor in the United States may also have adverse health...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2025–2045.
Published: 13 November 2014
...Glenn Firebaugh; Francesco Acciai; Aggie J. Noah; Christopher Prather; Claudia Nau Abstract Lifespans are both shorter and more variable for blacks than for whites in the United States. Because their lifespans are more variable, there is greater inequality in length of life—and thus greater...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1597–1618.
Published: 23 August 2014
...Hadas Mandel; Moshe Semyonov Abstract Using data from the IPUMS-USA, the present research focuses on trends in the gender earnings gap in the United States between 1970 and 2010. The major goal of this article is to understand the sources of the convergence in men’s and women’s earnings...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1893–1915.
Published: 08 October 2015
...Daniel Schneider; Orestes P. Hastings Abstract The United States has become increasingly characterized by stark class divides in family structure. Poor women are less likely to marry than their more affluent counterparts but are far more likely to have a birth outside of marriage. Recent...
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