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Childbearing Postponement and Child Well-being: A Complex and Varied Relationship?
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1821–1841.
Published: 15 October 2014
... fertility schedules between white and African American mothers in the United States mean that efforts to find compelling evidence in support of weathering rely on a potentially problematic counterfactual: namely, the rare and presumably select group of older African American mothers. In this article, we...
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The influence of remarriage on the racial difference in motheronly families in 1910
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Andrew S. London; Cheryl Elman Abstract Historical demography documents that mother-only families were more common among African Americans than among Euro-Americans early in the twentieth century. We find direct evidence that African American males in both first and higher-order marriages were more...
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Mate availability and unmarried parent relationships
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 555–571.
Published: 01 August 2008
... 1.3 0.4 Father has at least as much education as mother 73.3 Relationship supportiveness scale (1 3) 2.6 0.3 Relationship confl ict scale (0 6) 0.7 0.9 Father visited mother in hospital 83.2 Father has no children with a previous partner 58.4 Mother s age (years) 23.7 5.5 Mother is African American...
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Birth outcomes for Arabic-named women in California before and after September 11
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 185–201.
Published: 01 February 2006
... – 38 . 10.2105/AJPH.94.12.2132 Collins , J.W. , David , R.J. , Symons , R. , Handler , A. , Wall , S.N. , & Dwyer , L. ( 2000 ). Low-Income African-American Mothers’ Perception of Exposure to Racial Discrimination and Infant Birth Weight . Epidemiology , 11...
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Medicaid Expansions and Fertility in the United States
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 725–747.
Published: 16 April 2011
... school graduate, some college, and at least a college education. Finally, for mothers with at least a high school education, we stratify by marital status. This procedure yields 22 cells for white mothers and 22 cells for African American mothers. 4 Our key policy measure, an index of Medicaid...
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Explaining Changes in Married Mothers’ Employment over Time
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 365–378.
Published: 01 August 1995
... that teenage mothers and African-American mothers are more likely to be working. He hypothesizes that "women who depend primarily on their own income to support their new family are most likely to return quickly to work" (1990:25). Thus changes in the demographic characteristics of new mothers also could have...
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Parental imprisonment, the prison boom, and the concentration of childhood disadvantage
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 265–280.
Published: 01 May 2009
...’ Incarceration on African American Mothers’ Psychological Distress . Journal of Marriage and Family , 68 , 430 – 41 . 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00262.x Grinstead O. , Faigeles B. , Bancroft C. , & Zack B. ( 2001 ). The Financial Cost of Maintaining Relationships...
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Birth weight densities by maternal education: European American males, 2001...
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for Mexican Americans are smaller compared with European American and African American births. Panel d is a Q-Q plot indicating the goodness of fit of the mixture model to the birth weight density. The example given is European American male births to mothers with high educational levels. The results
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The living arrangements of new unmarried mothers
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 415–433.
Published: 01 August 2002
... and the Family 46:791 806. Hogan, D.P., L-x. Hao, and W.L. Parish. 1990. Race, Kin Networks, and Assistance to Mother- Only Families. Social Forces 68:797 812. Jayakody, R., L.M. Chatters, and R.J. Taylor. 1993. Family Support to Single and Married African American Mothers: The Provision of Financial...
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Maternal Wealth Implications of Child Incarceration: Examining the Upstream Consequences of Children's Incarceration for Women's Assets, Homeownership, and Home Equity
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1845–1870.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... A. , & Juon H.-S . ( 2006 ). Impact of adult sons’ incarceration on African American mothers’ psychological distress . Journal of Marriage and Family , 68 , 430 – 441 . Grinstead O. , Faigeles B. , Bancroft C. , & Zack B . ( 2001 ). The financial cost of maintaining...
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U.S. Mothers’ Long-Term Employment Patterns
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 285–320.
Published: 14 January 2019
... disruption (Hynes and Clarkberg 2005 ; Wenk and Garrett 1992 ). Prior research has generally found that after other factors are controlled, African American and Hispanic mothers are less likely than white mothers to exit employment or reduce work hours (Landivar 2013 ; Lu et al. 2017...
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Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1693–1715.
Published: 01 November 2016
... % for Hispanics (Martin et al. 2015 ). Moreover, conditional on having a child, African American mothers are less likely to marry and are less likely to move from cohabitation to marriage (Kennedy and Bumpass 2008 ; Lichter 2012 ). Less-educated women, relative to those with more education, also have much...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 857–880.
Published: 12 April 2014
... violated. † p < .10; * p < .05; ** p < .01 The coefficients on the control variables are typically in the expected directions. African American mothers are significantly less likely to be married or to be in either of the cohabiting groups; thus, they are most likely to be unpartnered...
View articletitled, Testing the Economic Independence Hypothesis: The Effect of an Exogenous Increase in Child Support on Subsequent Marriage and Cohabitation
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The Effect of Maternal Stress on Birth Outcomes: Exploiting a Natural Experiment
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1473–1491.
Published: 26 August 2011
... birthweight in Sweden . Journal of Health and Social Behavior , 42 , 333 – 341 . 10.2307/3090182 Collins , J. , David , R. , Symons , R. , Handler , A. , Wall , S. , & Dwyer , L. ( 2000 ). Low-income African-American mothers’ perception of exposure to racial...
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Increasing Inequality in Parent Incomes and Children’s Schooling
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1603–1626.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of African American mothers . Journal of Black Psychology , 25 , 490 – 503 . 10.1177/0095798499025004002 Hoffman S. D. ( 2008 ). Updating the teen miscarriage experiment: Are the effects of a teen birth becoming more negative? (Working Paper No. 2008–08). Newark, DE : Alfred Lerner...
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View articletitled, Increasing Inequality in Parent Incomes and Children’s Schooling
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Does race matter? Children’s height in Brazil and South Africa
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 763–790.
Published: 01 November 2002
... sample by categories of mother s race, mother s and father s education, and place of residence. Overall, South African chil- dren are about 1.2 standard deviations below the international reference population height Table 1. Means and Standard Deviations of Height-for-Age z Scores and Prevalence...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1143–1171.
Published: 01 June 2022
... mothers. Hypothesis 1b : Female-biased sex ratios among births to African American and American Indian mothers. Education plays important and complex roles in gender inequality ( Mickelson 1989 ). Gender inequality manifests in school achievement, participation, course taking...
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View articletitled, Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United States, 1969–2018
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The impact of economic resources on premarital childbearing and subsequent marriage among young American women
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 105–126.
Published: 01 February 2003
..., but no strong effect among African American women. Third, An, Haveman, and Wolfe (1993), using PSID data from 1987, found that the mother s education, which was positively associated with the offspring s educational level and future earnings, was negatively associated with premarital childbearing. However...
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Family structure and income inequality in families with children, 1976 to 2000
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 421–445.
Published: 01 August 2006
... attainment and ethnicity. African Americans and less-educated individuals are less likely to marry (Oppenheimer, Kalmijn, and Lim 1997) but more likely to have a nonmarital birth (Martin 2004), to divorce (Raley and Bumpass 2003), and to cohabit (Bumpass and Lu 2000). Relative to African Americans, whites...
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Reexamining the link of early childbearing to Marriage and to subsequent fertillty
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 February 1999
.... , McDaniel , A. , Miller , A. , & Preston , S. ( 1993 ). Racial Differences in Family Structure at the Tum of the Century . American Journal of Sociology , 98 , 798 – 828 . 10.1086/230090 Mott , F.L. ( 1986 ). The Pace of Repeated Childbearing Among Young American Mothers...
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