Demography Vol. 46, No. 3, august 2009

Albert Chevan and Michael Sutherland
Revisting das gupta: refinement and extension of standardization and decomposition

Jona Schelleken
Family allowances and fertility: socioeconomics differences

Becky Pettit and Sthepanie Ewert
Employement gains and wage declines: the erosion of black women's relative wages since 1980

Robert Bozick
Job opportunities, economic resources, and the postsecondary destinations of American youth

Kevin J. A. Thomas
Parental characteristics and the schooling progress of the children of immigrant and U.S.-born blacks

Pia M. Orrentius and Madelina Zavodny
Do Immigrants work in riskier jobs?

Fiona Steele, Wendy Sigle-Rushhton and Oystein Kravdal
Consequences of family disruption on children's educational outcomes in Norway

Jan Saarela and Fjalar Finnäs
Forced migration and mortality in the very Long term: Did Perestroika
affect death rates also in Finland?

Michael Davern, Steven Ruggles, Tami Swenson, J. Trent Alexander, and J. Michael Oakes
Drawing statistical inferences from historical census data, 1850-1950

Lei Jin and Nicholas A. Christakis
Investigating the Mechanism of marital mortality reduction: the transition to widowhood and quality of heatl care

Eilee M. Crimmins, Mark D. Hayward, Aaron Hagedorn, Yasuhiko Saito, and Nicholas Broward
Change in disability-free life expectancy for American 70 years old and older