America’s big industrial cities are shrinking as people move to the South and West and to the suburbs, according to new Census estimates released today (AP via Centre Daily Times). Phoenix is now the country’s fifth-largest city, surpassing Philadelphia.

Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria by Una Okonkwo Osili and Bridget Terry Long (NBER Working Paper No. 13070)

The Effect of Labor Migration and Remittances on Children’s Education Among Blacks in South Africa by Yao Lu and Donald J. Treiman (California Center for Population Research [UCLA] working paper CCPR-001-07)

Work-related migration and poverty reduction in Nepal by Elena Glinskaya, Mikhail Bontch-Osmolovski, and Michael Lokshin (World Bank Policy Research working paper no. WPS 4231)

Poverty, social divisions, and conflict in Nepal by Lakshmi Iyer and Quy-Toan Do (World Bank Policy Research working paper no. WPS 4228)

An article in the May 7 Wall Street Journal looks at the link between baby boomers and new immigrants. As boomers retire, immigrants and their children will fill their economic role, so better education for Latinos will benefit the nation, according to Dowell Myers, a demographer at the University of Southern California and author of Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America.

The WSJ article is available to the Penn State community online; others should check their local library.

According to new Census Bureau estimates released today, the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas are in the South and West. See the press release for details, including tables and maps.

Without an influx of immigrants, many metropolitan areas would be shrinking as native-born Americans move farther out (AP via Centre Daily Times).

Outside of areas directly affected by Hurricane Katrina, Pittsburgh had the steepest population decline from 2000 to 2006 (AP via Centre Daily Times).

In The Feminization of Migration: Limits of the Data, a new article available from the Population Reference Bureau, Nancy Yinger describes gaps in data on female migrants, who account for about half of all immigrants worldwide.

New reports from the Urban Institute:

• The Characteristics of Unauthorized Immigrants in California, Los Angeles County, and the United States
• Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Labor Force, 2000-2005
• Immigrants and the Low-Wage Economy (panel discussion audio files)

One Out of Five U.S. Children is Living in an Immigrant Family is a new Data Snapshot from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT project.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has released a new report with selected findings from the 2004-05 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) along with data tables and methodological information.

Click here to download, view and print the publication as a PDF file.

An article in today’s Centre Daily Times looks at the lure of the United States for Latin American scientists.