Recently added articles from Demography:
ERRATA
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formula omitted.) In response to a comment made by one of the anonymous reviewers of our article "Retrospective Information on Health Status and Its Application for Population Health Measures" (Molla and Lubitz, Demography, Vol 45, No. 1), we provided an ...
THE GEOGRAPHIC SCALE OF METROPOLITAN RACIAL SEGREGATION*
Aug 01, 2008; Reardon, Sean F; Matthews, Stephen A; O'Sullivan, David; Lee, Barrett A; Firebaugh, Glenn; Farrell, Chad R; Bischoff, Kendra ... This article addresses an aspect of racial residential segregation that has been largely ignored in prior work: the issue of geographic scale. In some metropolitan areas, racial groups are segregated over large regions, with predominately white regions, predominately black regions, and so on, ...
CHILD POVERTY AND CHANGES IN CHILD POVERTY*
Aug 01, 2008; Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles ... This article offers a cross-country overview of child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. Levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries during the 1990s are ...
MATE AVAILABILITY AND UNMARRIED PARENT RELATIONSHIPS*
Aug 01, 2008; Harknett, Kristen ... Theoretically, a shortage of males in a local marriage market may influence the formation, quality, and trajectory of unmarried parent relationships. To test these hypotheses, I combine city-level sex ratio data from the U.S. census with microdata on unmarried couples who recently had a child ...
GAY AND LESBIAN PARTNERSHIP: EVIDENCE FROM CALIFORNIA*
Aug 01, 2008; Carpenter, Christopher; Gates, Gary J ... Much recent research on sexual minorities has used couples-based samples, which-by construction-provide no information on nonpartnered individuals. We present the first systematic empirical analysis of partnership and cohabitation among self-identified gay men and lesbians using two independent, ...
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND MIGRATION: HOW DO SIMILAR RESOURCES LEAD TO DIVERGENT OUTCOMES?*
Aug 01, 2008; Garip, Filiz ... This article investigates how migrant social capital differentially influences individuals' migration and cumulatively generates divergent outcomes for communities. To combine the fragmented findings in the literature, the article proposes a framework that decomposes migrant social capital into ...
MIGRATION, FERTILITY, AND AGING IN STABLE POPULATIONS*
Aug 01, 2008; Alho, Juha M ... Fertility is below replacement level in all European countries, and population growth is expected to decline in the coming decades. Increasing life expectancy will accentuate concomitant aging of the population. Migration has been seen as a possible means to decelerate aging. In this article, I ...
DOES HUMAN CAPITAL RAISE EARNINGS FOR IMMIGRANTS IN THE LOW-SKILL LABOR MARKET?*
Aug 01, 2008; Hall, Matthew; Farkas, George ... We use monthly Survey of Income and Program Participation data from 1996-1999 and 2001-2003 to estimate the determinants of differentiation in intercepts and slopes for age/earnings profiles of low-skill immigrant and native male workers. Our findings provide further depth of understanding to ...
INTERGENERATIONAL FERTILITY AMONG HISPANIC WOMEN: NEW EVIDENCE OF IMMIGRANT ASSIMILATION*
Aug 01, 2008; Parrado, Emilio A; Morgan, S Philip ... In recent decades, rapid growth of the U.S. Hispanic population has raised concerns about immigrant adaptation, including fertility. Empirical research suggests that Hispanics, especially Mexicans, might not be following the historical European pattern of rapid intergenerational fertility ...
THE EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH LIFE EXPECTANCY OF COSTA RICAN NONAGENARIANS*
Aug 01, 2008; Rosero-Bixby, Luis ... Robust data from a voter registry show that Costa Rican nonagenarians have an exceptionally high live expectancy. Mortality at age 90 in Costa Rica is at least 14% lower than an average of 13 high-income countries. This advantage increases with age by 1% per year. Males have an additional 12% ...
THE CHANGING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY SIZE AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OVER THE COURSE OF SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIA*
Aug 01, 2008; Maralani, Vida ... Many studies from developed countries show a negative correlation between family size and children's schooling, while results from developing countries show this association ranging from positive to neutral to negative, depending on the context. The body of evidence suggests that this ...
HAVE WE PUT AN END TO SOCIAL PROMOTION? CHANGES IN SCHOOL PROGRESS AMONG CHILDREN AGED 6 TO 17 FROM 1972 TO 2005*
Aug 01, 2008; Frederick, Carl B; Hauser, Robert M ... We examine trends over time in the proportion of children below the modal grade for their age (BMG), a proxy for grade retention, and in the effects of its demographic and socioeconomic correlates. We estimate a logistic regression model with partial constraints predicting BMG using the annual ...
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND INEQUALITY IN HEALTH*
Aug 01, 2008; Glied, Sherry; Lleras-Muney, Adriana ... The effect of education on health has been increasing over the past several decades. We hypothesize that this increasing disparity is related to health-related technical progress: more-educated people are the first to take advantage of technological advances that improve health. We test this ...
REEXAMINING THE MOVING TO OPPORTUNITY STUDY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO CHANGING THE DISTRIBUTION OF POVERTY AND ETHNIC CONCENTRATION*
Aug 01, 2008; Clark, William A V ... For the past decade and a half, a concerted effort has been undertaken to determine whether policy interventions in residential location can solve the problems of inner-city poverty and racial concentration. Studies based on data from the Gautreaux litigation and the U.S. Department of Housing ...