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Readings on Gender

Drawing on content across the 2021 issues of Demography, we have compiled a selection of articles on the topic of gender. We hope you will find these useful for research and course preparation.

A Panel Study of Fertility Preferences and Contraceptive Dynamics in the Presence of Competing Pregnancy Risks in Uganda

Dana O. Sarnak; Amy Tsui; Fredrick Makumbi; Simon Peter Sebina Kibira; Saifuddin Ahmed
Demography 58:1, 2021

Choosing Plan B Over Plan A: Risk Compensation Theory and Contraceptive Choice in India

Pallavi Shukla; Hemant Kumar Pullabhotla; Mary Arends-Kuenning
Demography 58:1, 2021

Cross-Sectional Average Length of Life Childless

Ryohei Mogi; Jessica Nisén; Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Demography 58:1, 2021

Motherhood Penalties and Fatherhood Premiums: Effects of Parenthood on Earnings Growth Within and Across Firms

Wei-hsin Yu; Yuko Hara
Demography 58:1, 2021

The Opioid Epidemic and Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 2000–2016

Mónica L. Caudillo; Andrés Villarreal
Demography 58:1, 2021

Are States Created Equal? Moving to a State With More Expensive Childcare Reduces Mothers' Odds of Employment

Liana Christin Landivar; Leah Ruppanner; William J. Scarborough
Demography 58:2, 2021

Black-White Differences in Pregnancy Desire During the Transition to Adulthood

Jennifer S. Barber; Karen Benjamin Guzzo; Jamie Budnick; Yasamin Kusunoki; Sarah R. Hayford; Warren Miller
Demography 58:2, 2021

Evaluating the Use of a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure in the 2018 General Social Survey

Danya Lagos; D'Lane Compton
Demography 58:2, 2021

Fertility Drain or Fertility Gain? Emigration and Fertility During the Great Recession in Italy

Massimo Anelli; Nicoletta Balbo
Demography 58:2, 2021

Revealing the Concealed Effect of Top Earnings on the Gender Gap in the Economic Value of Higher Education in the United States, 1980–2017

Hadas Mandel; Assaf Rotman
Demography 58:2, 2021

The Effect of Schooling on Women's Overweight and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in Nigeria

Pepita Barlow
Demography 58:2, 2021

The Nonlinear Linkage Between Earnings Homogamy and Earnings Inequality Among Married Couples

Yifan Shen
Demography 58:2, 2021

Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Dyadic Perspective: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Julia Behrman; Margaret Frye
Demography 58:3, 2021

Changes in Couples' Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality

Pilar Gonalons-Pons; Christine R. Schwartz; Kelly Musick
Demography 58:3, 2021

DACA's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States

Erin R. Hamilton; Paola D. Langer; Caitlin Patler
Demography 58:3, 2021

Employment Instability and Fertility in Europe: A Meta-Analysis

Giammarco Alderotti; Daniele Vignoli; Michela Baccini; Anna Matysiak
Demography 58:3, 2021

Gender Segregation in Education: Evidence From Higher Secondary Stream Choice in India

Soham Sahoo; Stephan Klasen
Demography 58:3, 2021

How Nearby Homicides Affect Young Women's Pregnancy Desires: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment

Abigail Weitzman; Jennifer S. Barber; Justin Heinze; Marc Zimmerman
Demography 58:3, 2021

Stop! Go! What Can We Learn About Family Planning From Birth Timing in Settler South Africa, 1835–1950?

Jeanne Cilliers; Martine Mariotti
Demography 58:3, 2021

The Impact of Grandparental Death on the Fertility of Adult Children

Barbara S. Okun; Guy Stecklov
Demography 58:3, 2021

Trends in Mothers' Parenting Time by Education and Work From 2003 to 2017

Kate C. Prickett; Jennifer March Augustine
Demography 58:3, 2021

Does the Impact of Motherhood on Women's Employment and Wages Differ for Women Who Plan Their Transition Into Motherhood?

Jonathan Marc Bearak; Anna Popinchalk; Kristen Lagasse Burke; Selena Anjur-Dietrich
Demography 58:4, 2021

The Crucial Role of Mothers and Siblings in Child Survival: Evidence From 29 Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

Philippe Bocquier; Carren Ginsburg; Ashira Menashe-Oren; Yacouba Compaoré; Mark Collinson
Demography 58:5, 2021

The Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in the United States: A Research Note on Increased Deaths Due to Remaining Pregnant

Amanda Jean Stevenson
Demography 58:6, 2021

Readings on Gender

A Panel Study of Fertility Preferences and Contraceptive Dynamics in the Presence of Competing Pregnancy Risks in Uganda

Choosing Plan B Over Plan A: Risk Compensation Theory and Contraceptive Choice in India

Cross-Sectional Average Length of Life Childless

Motherhood Penalties and Fatherhood Premiums: Effects of Parenthood on Earnings Growth Within and Across Firms

The Opioid Epidemic and Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 2000–2016

Are States Created Equal? Moving to a State With More Expensive Childcare Reduces Mothers' Odds of Employment

Black-White Differences in Pregnancy Desire During the Transition to Adulthood

Evaluating the Use of a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure in the 2018 General Social Survey

Fertility Drain or Fertility Gain? Emigration and Fertility During the Great Recession in Italy

Revealing the Concealed Effect of Top Earnings on the Gender Gap in the Economic Value of Higher Education in the United States, 1980–2017

The Effect of Schooling on Women's Overweight and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in Nigeria

The Nonlinear Linkage Between Earnings Homogamy and Earnings Inequality Among Married Couples

Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Dyadic Perspective: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Changes in Couples' Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality

DACA's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States

Employment Instability and Fertility in Europe: A Meta-Analysis

Gender Segregation in Education: Evidence From Higher Secondary Stream Choice in India

How Nearby Homicides Affect Young Women's Pregnancy Desires: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment

Stop! Go! What Can We Learn About Family Planning From Birth Timing in Settler South Africa, 1835–1950?

The Impact of Grandparental Death on the Fertility of Adult Children

Trends in Mothers' Parenting Time by Education and Work From 2003 to 2017

Does the Impact of Motherhood on Women's Employment and Wages Differ for Women Who Plan Their Transition Into Motherhood?

Impact of Free/Subsidized Secondary School Education on the Likelihood of Teenage Motherhood

Mental Health Around the Transition to First Birth: Does Medically Assisted Reproduction Matter?

Not Just Later, but Fewer: Novel Trends in Cohort Fertility in the Nordic Countries

Occupational Inflexibility and Women's Employment During the Transition to Parenthood

Rising Inequality in Mothers' Employment Statuses: The Role of Intergenerational Transmission

The Motherhood Penalty in Context: Assessing Discrimination in a Polarized Labor Market

Women's Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception for Birth Timing and Birth Stopping

Fathers' Involvement in the Family, Fertility, and Maternal Employment: Evidence From Central and Eastern Europe

Gender, Generation, and Multiracial Identification in the United States

Husbands' Dominance in Decision-Making About Women's Health: A Spatial Diffusion Perspective in Sub-Saharan Africa

In the Name of the Father? Fertility, Religion, and Child Naming in the Demographic Transition

The Crucial Role of Mothers and Siblings in Child Survival: Evidence From 29 Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

Women's Experience of Child Death Over the Life Course: A Global Demographic Perspective

Access to the Emergency Contraceptive Pill and Women's Reproductive Health: Evidence From Public Reform in Chile

The Effect of EITC Exposure in Childhood on Marriage and Early Childbearing

The Fertility of Immigrants From Low-Fertility Settings: Adaptation in the Quantum and Tempo of Childbearing?

The Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in the United States: A Research Note on Increased Deaths Due to Remaining Pregnant

Readings on Gender

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