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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 23–49.
Published: 01 February 2005
... with the widely used Lee-Carter procedure. 15 2 2011 © Population Association of America 2005 2005 Logistic Model Slope Parameter Adult Mortality Background Component Swedish Woman References Beard , R.E. ( 1971 ). Some Aspects of Theories of Mortality, Cause of Death...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 295–318.
Published: 18 December 2017
... for between 10 % and 25 % of the total familial influence on mortality. The larger part of the influence of the family on mortality is not explained by observed individual and parental socioeconomic position or demographic background and thus remains an unobserved component of the arm of childhood...
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View articletitled, Comparing Observed and Unobserved <span class="search-highlight">Components</span> of Childhood: Evidence From Finnish Register Data on Midlife Mortality From Siblings and Their Parents
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2089–2115.
Published: 01 December 2021
...–specific mortality make a notable contribution. Further examination reveals that this pattern is observed even among those from advantaged sociodemographic backgrounds and is driven by differences in mortality among VLBW neonates. Research using this type of two-component decomposition technique has...
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View articletitled, Cross-State Differences in the Processes Generating Black–White Disparities in Neonatal Mortality
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for article titled, Cross-State Differences in the Processes Generating Black–White Disparities in Neonatal Mortality
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 437–447.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., and an unambiguous component of the true neighborhood effect), (2) twice the covariance between fam- ily and neighborhood factors (identical to (c) above), and (3) the covariance in family backgrounds among neighboring children. In comparing sibling with neighbor covariances, one can see that shared neighborhood...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 391–412.
Published: 01 November 1998
... are irrelevant. At younger old ages, however, the tendency for increas- ing LARs due to the decline in senescent mortality may be offset, or even reversed, by the changing distribution of total mortality between background and senescent components. Because background mortality is a nonnegligible fraction...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 February 2022
... differences in the extent to which changing family structures have contributed to the college attainment gap between children from lower and higher socioeconomic backgrounds. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to estimate extended Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition...
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View articletitled, Gendered Diverging Destinies: Changing Family Structures and the Reproduction of Educational Inequalities Among Sons and Daughters in the United States
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
Published: 10 April 2017
... and Miner ( 1935 ) provided a classification of hazard and survival patterns across various nonhuman species, and Siler ( 1979 ) later drew on that work to extend the Gompertz-Makeham model via components that describe the exponentially declining mortality hazard during childhood and a flat background...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1575–1602.
Published: 01 August 2021
... background), and an environmental component unique to each twin (E) (for a brief discussion, see Diewald et al. 2015 ). Although sociologists have been mainly interested in quantifying the effects of social and family background (C), twin studies have also demonstrated that many components of family life...
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View articletitled, Genome-Wide Heritability Estimates for Family Life Course Complexity
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 199–216.
Published: 01 May 1986
... Population Association of America 1986 1986 Multilevel Model Multilevel Analysis Family Planning Program Rural Background Fertility Regulation References N. Baster ( 1972 ). Measuring Development . London : Frank Cass . Chidambaram V. C. , Cleland J. G...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 437–457.
Published: 01 August 1995
... Grossbard-Shiechtman S. ( 1993 ). On the Economics of Marriage: A Theory of Marriage, Labor, and Divorce . Boulder : Westview . Hogan D. P. ( 1978 ). The Effects of Demographic Factors, Family Background, and Early Job Achievement on Age at Marriage . Demography , 15 , 161 – 75...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1069–1090.
Published: 09 May 2018
... components as reflecting the probability that a certain type of household will select into a certain type of neighborhood : for instance, minority heads of household will demonstrate a preference for living in neighborhoods with those from a similar ethnic background. In the second step, we estimate...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 279–286.
Published: 01 May 1989
... document a large diversity in premarital births within both populations. Black women from high-risk backgrounds are three times more likely to have a premarital birth than black women from low-risk backgrounds. Racial differences in premarital births arise because (1) black women are more likely to come...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 535–551.
Published: 01 November 1999
... Cohabitors . Demography , 32 , 509 – 20 . 10.2307/2061671 Michael , R.T. , & Tuma , N.B. ( 1985 ). Entry Into Marriage and Parenthood by Young Men and Women: The Influence of Family Background . Demography , 22 , 515 – 44 . 10.2307/2061586 Mortensen , D.T. ( 1988...
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Demography (1979) 16 (3): 359–376.
Published: 01 August 1979
... of the component individual items. Analytic Methods We have used two analytic approaches in this analysis. Multiple classification analysis (see Andrews et al., 1973) will establish relationships to mean IN values and determine how these relationships are modified when the effects of background and demographic...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 489–508.
Published: 01 November 1986
... of education and occupation as components of the complete explanation of marriage timing. The background variables by themselves account for 17percent of the variation in marriage age and continue to account for over 12 percent of that variation even after adjustment for marriage-process variables. Turning...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1637–1666.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of inequality of opportunity views the shared genetic component as a nonmeritocratic factor—another (dis)advantage to being born in a particular family—and the individual-specific genetic component as part of what distinguishes an individual from their family background, and thus a basis for merit. A corollary...
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View articletitled, The Total Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment: Meta-analysis of Sibling Correlations From 18 Countries
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for article titled, The Total Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment: Meta-analysis of Sibling Correlations From 18 Countries
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 315–334.
Published: 01 May 2004
... the method and its added value by decomposing male-female differences in health expectancy for the Netherlands. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2004 2004 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Life Expectancy Mortality Effect Background Risk Health Expectancy...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 71–91.
Published: 09 January 2017
...Felix C. Tropf; Jornt J. Mandemakers Abstract A large body of literature has demonstrated a positive relationship between education and age at first birth. However, this relationship may be partly spurious because of family background factors that cannot be controlled for in most research designs...
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View articletitled, Is the Association Between Education and Fertility Postponement Causal? The Role of Family <span class="search-highlight">Background</span> Factors
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 159–170.
Published: 01 February 1997
... function because individuals in better health may be more able to translate other inputs into more productive health investments, Finally, family background or genetic endowments (G) also enter the health production function. If ignored, the existence of these often unobserved background factors may bias...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 127–152.
Published: 23 February 2011
... of their component racial backgrounds yields an alternative expectation stipulating that the health of multiracials of partial white ancestry will iterate toward their white counterparts. Recent theorizing on the changing nature of racial stratification purports that a new structure has emerged, differentiated along...
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