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The Welfare Effect of an Additional Child Cannot be Stated Simply and Unequivocally
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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 89–105.
Published: 01 February 1975
...Julian L. Simon Abstract There is no single calculable welfare effect of an additional person. Rather, there are many different judgments, which may be negative or positive. The welfare effect depends upon the particular economic situation the child will be born into, which point in his life-cycle...
View articletitled, The Welfare Effect of an <span class="search-highlight">Additional</span> <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> Cannot be Stated Simply and Unequivocally
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Measuring the impact of child mortality on fertility: A methodological note
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 581–590.
Published: 01 November 1977
... mortality rate) yields biased coefficients. An alternative model suggests a sequential, rather than a static, decision-making process to relate the decision to have an additional child to the reproductive experience to date. In this case, unbiased coefficients are obtained if the functional form...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1493–1522.
Published: 01 October 2023
... income, due to an increase in weekly working hours, is found to be comparable to the euro value reduction in benefits. Auxiliary regression analyses show that the fertility decline reflects a decrease in the probability of having an additional child for parents rather than in the probability of becoming...
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View articletitled, Fertility and Labor Supply Responses to <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> Allowances: The Introduction of Means-Tested Benefits in France
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The Effect of Childhood Family Size on Fertility in Adulthood: New Evidence From IV Estimation
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 23–44.
Published: 28 December 2016
... an additional child is born. We speculate that this scarcity in parents’ time makes girls aware of the strains of life in large families, leading them to limit their own number of children in adulthood. Previous research has suggested that a larger sibship may lead to a stronger family orientation and hence...
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Intention and Uncertainty at Later Stages of Childbearing: The United States 1965 and 1970
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 267–285.
Published: 01 August 1981
... Size Prefer Model Additional Child Fertility Intention Intended Parity References Blake J. ( 1974 ). Can We Believe Recent Data on Birth Expectations in the United States . Demography , 11 , 25 – 44 . 10.2307/2060697 Coombs L. C. ( 1974 ). The Measurement of Family...
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Mortality level, desired family size, and population increase: Comment
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 537–540.
Published: 01 November 1971
... of children will affect the desirability of another birth if the family's objective is to have a son surviving to the father's sixty-fifth birthday. The death rate affects both the expected costs of and benefits from an additional birth. An examination of the effects of a decline in child mortality indicates...
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Pervasive Muslim-Hindu fertility differences in India
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 529–545.
Published: 01 August 2004
... provides the context within which local studies should be enmeshed and begs for general (as opposed to place-specific) explanations for these pervasive differences. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2004 2004 Varia Bles Additional Child Intracluster Correlation Household...
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Parity-Specific and Two-Sex Utility Models of Reproductive Intentions
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Demography (1980) 17 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 February 1980
... but not enough better to justify the additional cost. 7 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1980 1980 Census Tract Reproductive Behavior Married Couple Utility Model Additional Child References Arnold Fred , & Fawcett James T. ( 1975 ). The Value of Children...
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Factors related to the intention to have additional children in the United States: A reanalysis of data from the 1965 and 1970 national fertility studies
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 337–344.
Published: 01 August 1978
... and age of the youngest child were found to have a much more important effect on the intent to have additional children than were such socioeconomic variables as wife’s employment and husband’s education. Parity and the interval since the latest birth (or the age of the youngest child) were found to have...
View articletitled, Factors related to the intention to have <span class="search-highlight">additional</span> children in the United States: A reanalysis of data from the 1965 and 1970 national fertility studies
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Agency in Fertility Decisions in Western Europe During the Demographic Transition: A Comparative Perspective
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 3–22.
Published: 09 January 2017
... their fertility to achieve reproductive goals. Families experiencing child fatalities show significant increases in the hazard of additional births. In addition, the sex composition of the surviving sibset also appears to have influenced reproductive decisions in a significant but changing way. The findings offer...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 857–880.
Published: 12 April 2014
... that exogenous income increases (as a result of receiving all child support that was paid) are associated with significantly lower cohabitation rates between mothers and men who are not the fathers of their child(ren). Overall, these results support the hypothesis that additional income increases disadvantaged...
View articletitled, Testing the Economic Independence Hypothesis: The Effect of an Exogenous Increase in <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> Support on Subsequent Marriage and Cohabitation
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Child care arrangements and fertility: An analysis of two-earner households
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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 499–513.
Published: 01 November 1985
...). In addition, parental education, family size, child’s age, race, religion, and place of residence have important influences on the choice of child care mode. When other factors are held constant, reliance on a relative for child care is positively associated with intentions to have further children among...
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Biodemographic modeling of the links between fertility motivation and fertility outcomes in the NLSY79
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 393–414.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the SEM to represent our phenotypic models, we use Mx to conduct both univariate and multivariate behavioral genetic analyses with the selected variables. Our results indicate that one or more genes acting within a gene network have additive effects that operate through child-number desires to affect both...
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Enforcing Divorce Settlements: Evidence from Child Support Compliance and Award Modifications
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 719–735.
Published: 01 November 1993
...H. Elizabeth Peters; Laura M. Argys; Eleanor E. Maccoby; Robert H. Mnookin Abstract This paper uses an implicit contracting framework to understand the dynamic nature of divorce settlements and to analyze the determinants of noncompliance with child support awards. In addition to the standard...
View articletitled, Enforcing Divorce Settlements: Evidence from <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> Support Compliance and Award Modifications
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Familial Influences on Poverty Among Young Children in Black Immigrant, U.S.-born Black, and Nonblack Immigrant Families
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 437–460.
Published: 14 April 2011
..., accounting for differences in family structure reveals that child poverty risks among blacks are highest in single-parent black immigrant families. In addition, within two-parent immigrant families, child poverty declines associated with increasing assimilation are greater than the respective declines...
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Desired Fertility and Number of Children Born Across Time and Space
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 55–83.
Published: 19 January 2016
..., the average number of unwanted children (number of children born – number of children wanted), or number of children born not explained by variations in fertility desire, is about 1 to –1.5 across countries, and each additional child born is explained by a mother’s actual desire to have another child...
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Preference for Sons, Family Size, and Sex Ratio: An Empirical Study in Korea
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 August 1983
..., deviates significantly from the Bernoulli sequence. The observed frequency of all-girl families is especially small in comparison with the expected value. The sex of the last child strongly influences couples’ decision making regarding additional births in all steps of family building except for bearing...
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Relationship Transitions and the Risk for Child Maltreatment
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1771–1800.
Published: 25 October 2016
... literature. Results indicate that transitions to being single are associated with increased risk for maternal child abuse and neglect. In addition, the frequency and severity of paternal harsh parenting may be closely linked with the nature of fathers’ relationship transitions. Last, results largely do...
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Patterns of nonresident father contact
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 205–225.
Published: 01 February 2010
... approximately 23% of fathers, exhibited a clear pattern of declining contact. In addition, a small group of fathers (8%) displayed a pattern of increasing contact. A variety of variables differenti- ated between these groups, including the child s age at father-child separation, whether the child was born...
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Education Gains Attributable to Fertility Decline: Patterns by Gender, Period, and Country in Latin America and Asia
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1353–1373.
Published: 05 July 2017
... or social context where son preference is prevalent, parents are more likely to sacrifice children’s education when faced with possible resource constraints arising from having an additional child. Further, when this occurs, girls in such families will be harmed more than boys because the parents...
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