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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 377–385.
Published: 01 August 1999
... African American men, but African American men spend more years as biological parents not residing with any children. Implications of these descriptive findings are discussed. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1999 1999 Parenthood Status African American Woman Dependent...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 177–185.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Population Association of America 2001 2001 African American Woman Black Immigrant Caribbean Black International Migration Review Exogamy Rate References Alba , R. , & Nee , V. ( 1997 ). Rethinking Assimilation for a New Era of Immigration . International Migration Review...
View articletitled, Black-White Unions: West Indians and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> <span class="search-highlight">Americans</span> compared
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 105–126.
Published: 01 February 2003
... marriage. However, the simulations show that large changes in these economic variables do not necessarily translate into large changes in nonmarital childbearing. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2003 2003 African American Woman Marriage Market Welfare Benefit Exit Rate...
View articletitled, The impact of economic resources on premarital childbearing and subsequent marriage among young <span class="search-highlight">American</span> women
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 765–783.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of change in expected family size. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2009 2009 Family Size African American Woman Hispanic Woman Trajectory Group Fertility Behavior References Abma J.C. , & Martinez G.M. ( 2006 ). Childlessness Among Older Women...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 185–201.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of America 2006 2006 Preterm Birth African American Woman Birth Outcome Fetal Growth Restriction Hate Crime References American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute. 2003. “Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arab Americans: September 11, 2001 to October 11...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 February 2001
... to be about 10% too high around 1940 but only about 1.5% too high in the late 1980s. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2001 2001 Life Table African American Woman Government Printing Mortality Decline Social Security Administration References Anderson , R.N...
View articletitled, New <span class="search-highlight">African</span> <span class="search-highlight">American</span> life tables from 1935–1940 to 1985–1990
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for article titled, New <span class="search-highlight">African</span> <span class="search-highlight">American</span> life tables from 1935–1940 to 1985–1990
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 May 2001
... to Preston, Lim, and Morgan (1992), both partners survived to the end of the woman s reproductive years in only about 38% of African American marriages. In addition, around the turn of the twentieth century, African Americans were about twice as likely as Euro-Americans to be divorced and separated (Ruggles...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 467–475.
Published: 01 November 2000
.... CHILDHOOD MORTALITY ESTIMATES: UNITED STATES, 1900 AND 1910 1900 1910 q(5) Implied e(0) q(5) Implied e(0) United States Total 0.193 48.3 0.180 49.8 Woman s race White 0.180 49.8 0.166 51.3 African American 0.280 39.4 0.267 40.7 Residence Rural 0.176 50.1 0.169 50.9 Urban 0.215 45.9 0.191 48.5 Cities 25,000...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1949–1972.
Published: 01 September 2017
... ( 1994 ) found strong evidence of multiple causes in the fertility patterns of African American and white women as late as 1940; the county-level child-woman ratios of African American and white women in the southern states reflected both voluntary practices (indicated by development variables...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 371–388.
Published: 01 February 2022
... declined little relative to the decline in woman-based unwanted fertility rates, indeed, across birth cohorts, unwanted fertility has increased in almost all sub-Saharan African countries (albeit starting from very low levels). The triumph of vastly improved fertility control evident in the sharp decline...
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View articletitled, Multiple Perspectives on Recent Trends in Unwanted Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 59–75.
Published: 01 February 1999
... (Smith et al. 1996). After the dramatically different age pat- terns of first birth are controlled (see Chen and Morgan 1991), to what extent are African Americans more likely to bear their first child outside of marriage? In addition, are there changes in these racial differences in nonmarital...
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 1992
... except at younger ages, where the proportions currently widowed 6 Demography, Vol. 29, No.1, February 1992 Table 2. Features of the Marital Status of the African-American Female Population in the 1910 Public Use Sample Percent Ages of All Women Who Were: Age of Woman Ever-Married Remarried Divorced...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">African</span>-<span class="search-highlight">American</span> marriage in 1910: Beneath the surface of census data
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 891–913.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-Saharan African marriage and fertility . Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , 510 , 115 – 125 . Bledsoe C. H . ( 2002 ). Contingent lives: Fertility, time, and aging in West Africa. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press . Bongaarts J . ( 2017...
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View articletitled, Childbearing Trajectories in a West <span class="search-highlight">African</span> Setting: A Sequence Analysis Approach
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 59–77.
Published: 01 February 2007
... approach. We focus on the initiation of childbearing. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from 16 sub-Saharan African countries with multiple surveys, we estimate a fixed-effects multilevel model for first births that includes the woman’s own education, community education, and community education...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 927–950.
Published: 01 June 2021
...), it is the third leading cause of death ( Kochanek et al. 2019 ). Notably, homicides disproportionately occur in poor, predominantly Black and Hispanic urban communities ( Sharkey 2018 ; Sharkey and Friedson 2019 ; Zimmerman and Messner 2013 ). African American and Hispanic women and women from socially...
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View articletitled, How Nearby Homicides Affect Young Women's Pregnancy Desires: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 603–630.
Published: 01 April 2021
... into discussions about specific plans . In the baseline survey, all respondents were asked, “Which of the following groups describe your racial background? Please select one or more groups: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Black or African American...
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View articletitled, Black-White Differences in Pregnancy Desire During the Transition to Adulthood
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 523–543.
Published: 01 November 1992
... relatives in the woman's home or nearby. Women with such caregivers available should be less likely than other women to attribute their labor force status or fertility to child care problems because they should be less likely to find the supply of child care problematic. Insofar as African-American women...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 267–296.
Published: 22 January 2020
... fertility fell to fewer than 4.5 children per woman were Bangladesh and Tajikistan. In contrast, in every sub-Saharan African country in which total fertility dropped below 4.5 except Comoros, the median closed interval exceeded three years at that time. A few countries saw no increase in the median...
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View articletitled, Pathways to Low Fertility: 50 Years of Limitation, Curtailment, and Postponement of Childbearing
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1409–1430.
Published: 30 July 2015
...Deirdre Bloome; Christopher Muller Abstract The pervasiveness of tenancy in the postbellum South had countervailing effects on marriage between African Americans. Tenancy placed severe constraints on African American women’s ability to find independent agricultural work. Freedwomen confronted...
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View articletitled, Tenancy and <span class="search-highlight">African</span> <span class="search-highlight">American</span> Marriage in the Postbellum South
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1043–1067.
Published: 01 August 2024
... = West Africa. Turning to the right panel of Figure 4 , the prevalence of women with bereaved mothers is also high, especially in Latin American (31%), Central African (33%), East African (33%), and West African (30%) countries. By comparison, fewer women have bereaved mothers in South...
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View articletitled, Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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