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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 595–620.
Published: 01 November 2005
... appears as one of the defining characteristics of twentieth-century America. Major waves of immigration create population diversity with new languages and cultures, but over time, while immigrants and their descendants become more “American,” the character of American society and culture is transformed...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 February 2000
... Significance of Race Wilson (1980) presents a historical analysis of black-white race relations. He refers to the industrial stage as the period from the latter part of the nineteenth century to about the time of World War II. During that stage, African Americans faced direct racial oppression. Applying...
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 281–297.
Published: 01 May 1995
... . In E. Grebenik , C. Hahn , & R. Mackensen (Eds.), Later Phases of the Family Cycle: Demographic Aspects (pp. 164 – 82 ). Oxford : Clarendon . Demography, Vol. 32, No.2, May 1995 Sharing a Home: The Experiences of American Women and Their Parents over the Twentieth Century...
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Demography (1985) 22 (1): 101–114.
Published: 01 February 1985
... Reports, 32:7 (Supplement of October 18). Westoff C.F. ( 1978 ). Some speculations on the future of marriage and fertility . Family Planning Perspectives , 10 , 79 – 83 . 10.2307/2134328 DEMOGRAPHY© Volume 22, Number 1 February 1985 MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 251–258.
Published: 01 May 1998
... TO MARRIAGE? EXPLAINING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY RACIAL CROSS-OVER IN MEN'S MARRIAGE TIMING- HEATHER KOBALL Prior to World War II, the median age at marriage for white men was later than that for African American men. Since World WarII, African American men have, on average, married later than white men...
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 154–173.
Published: 01 March 1966
... to Statistical Services, School of Public Health. IDEAL FAMILY SIZE AMONG WHITE AMERICANS: A QUARTER OF A CENTURY'S EVIDENCE* JUDITH BLAKE University of California, Berkeley RESUMEN Los datos sobre iomaiioidealdela familia recopilados de13 investigaciones durantelos pasados £5 anos,seiialam. paralas mujeresuna...
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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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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1029–1049.
Published: 02 May 2017
... young African Americans. We then study how marriage was affected by one of the most notorious disruptions to southern agriculture at the turn of the century: the boll weevil infestation of 1892–1922. Using historical Department of Agriculture maps, we show that the boll weevil’s arrival reduced...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 2009–2017.
Published: 01 October 2021
... or increasing racial inequality in the late twentieth century, disparities between Black/African American and White children began to decrease in the twenty-first century in nearly every state, closing entirely in several Southern states but remaining wide outside the South. In many Midwestern and Western...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 553–568.
Published: 01 November 1999
... built, including the “Great Migration” of African Americans during the first half of this century. Although a period of decreased migration, the Depression was marked by sizeable movement in which nearly 10% of the total African American population moved interregionally. Ethnogenic measures...
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 February 1986
...Bert Kestenbaum Abstract This note reports the reversal of the mortality-nativity relationship in the United States. In the first half of the twentieth century, mortality among foreign-born Americans was greater than among (white) native Americans. Data for 1980 show that now mortality among...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2249–2271.
Published: 08 November 2017
...J. Trent Alexander; Christine Leibbrand; Catherine Massey; Stewart Tolnay Abstract The mass migration of African Americans out of the South during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century represents one of the most significant internal migration flows in U.S. history. Those undertaking...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 849–878.
Published: 01 June 2024
... American Research Project, this study investigates the influence of premigration socioeconomic and cultural background of Japan-born grandparents and parents on the social mobility of second-generation Japanese Americans born in the continental United States in the early twentieth century. The analysis...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1797–1823.
Published: 28 October 2015
...Steven Ruggles Abstract This article proposes explanations for the transformation of American families over the past two centuries. I describe the impact on families of the rise of male wage labor beginning in the nineteenth century and the rise of female wage labor in the twentieth century. I...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 615–631.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Stewart E. Tolnay; Patricia J. Glynn Abstract Pockets of high fertility persisted in some areas of the American South through the Great Depression. Most other areas of the country adopted modem fertility patterns considerably earlier in the century; these “laggard” areas are clear exceptions...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 473–491.
Published: 01 November 1969
... based on 20th-century American patterns and our earlier study of Poona, but such was not the case for 1822. We suspect that in the case of the caste groups the findings for 1822 would have been in accordance with our expec- tations had we had residential data available for smaller areal units than wards...
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Demography (1969) 6 (3): 223–242.
Published: 01 August 1969
... . Demography , 4 , 98 – 107 . 10.2307/2060354 Arriaga, E. 1968. New Life Tables for Latin American Populations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Population Monograph Series No.3. Berkeley; Institute of International Studies, University of California. Case Coghill C. , Harley J...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1371–1388.
Published: 13 June 2019
... mortality decline in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: The role of market milk . Perspectives in Biology and Medicine , 50 , 585 – 602 . 10.1353/pbm.2007.0051 . Logan , T. D. , & Parman , J. M. ( 2014 ). The dynamics of African-American health: A historical perspective...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2005
...David Cutler; Grant Miller Abstract Mortality rates in the United States fell more rapidly during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries than in any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality “penalty...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1011–1025.
Published: 24 May 2016
... measures, and the replacement of the U.S. Census long form (CLF) with the American Community Survey (ACS) has made such updates difficult. Two commonly used alternative migration data sources—the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Statistics of Income (SOI) program of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS...
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