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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 719–740.
Published: 01 August 2008
... constraints predicting BMG using the annual October school enrollment supplements of the Current Population Survey. This model identifies systematic variation in the effects of social background across age and time from 1972 to 2005. While the effects of socioeconomic background variables on progress through...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 421–442.
Published: 01 November 1981
..., the more children the lower the quality of each child) and indicates that only children do not suffer from lack of siblings, and that other last-borns are not handicapped by a “teaching deficit.” Number of siblings (relative to other background variables) is found to have an important detrimental impact...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 923–934.
Published: 01 November 2010
... factors, such as individual and family background variables. We measure social interaction through the cross-sibling influences on fertility. Continuous-time hazard models are estimated separately for women’s first and second births. In addition to individual socioeconomic variables, demographic variables...
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 447–468.
Published: 01 August 2005
... did children from nonintact families. However, much of the difference disappeared when we controlled for background variables. Furthermore, when we controlled for child fixed effects, we did not find significant longitudinal variation in these scores over long periods that encompass the marital...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 49–72.
Published: 03 February 2011
... for union formation, to live independently, and to share with others. Migrant youth, and particularly Turkish and Moroccan youth, leave home at a significantly younger age than Dutch youth, given the relevant background variables. This is remarkable, given the older ages at which young people in the origin...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 525–552.
Published: 28 February 2012
... rare in Finland in 1966 (Finnäs 1995 ). 2 The data distributed to us did not include socioeconomic background variables measured at a later time point. 1 Interestingly, their findings also suggested that cognitive performance is not the main pathway. Table 7 Effects...
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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 1985
... and parenthood and about half the difference in early parenthood between black and white women but do not explain the observed variations among other race-gender groups. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1985 1985 Background Variable White Male Family Background Black Male White...
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Demography (1974) 11 (2): 173–188.
Published: 01 May 1974
.... Individual and residence characteristics such as age of head duration of residence, home ownership, and room crowding are shown to affect mobility through their effect on residential satisfaction. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1974 1974 Background Variable Home Ownership...
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 591–597.
Published: 01 November 1973
... to be the most difficult to assess because their mea- surement in cross-sectional studies is usually contaminated by several sources of bias. The life-cycle and social-background variables are employed exclusively as control variables. The life-cycle variables of age, marital duration, and parity set the stage...
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 313–331.
Published: 01 August 1983
... presents the results of a multi- ple classification analysis of children ever born. Initially, MCAs were run with only the seven background variables in- cluded. Then the five employment char- acteristics were added one at a time to MCAs containing the seven background characteristics. This procedure...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 65–78.
Published: 01 February 1982
..., a multivariate analysis ex- amined the net effect of these income measures on both E1 and Pc, controlling the husband's and wife's education and the wife's age and religion. Also included was a multivariate analysis of P; which controlled E1 in addition to the above background variables. In step three, tests...
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Demography (1969) 6 (1): 45–54.
Published: 01 February 1969
... relation for Catholics. Likewise, a negative differential for American couples with farm background has been observed in contrast to no differential for twogeneration urbanites. Age at marriage is a third such interaction variable: the strong negative socio-economic differential observed when wife’s age...
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Negativism, Equivocation, and Wobbly Assent: Public “Support” for the Prochoice Platform on Abortion
Demography (1981) 18 (3): 309–320.
Published: 01 August 1981
...- vocators," and the "positives." Previous research has shown that there are large compositional differences between re- spondents who are at negative and posi- tive poles in their abortion attitudes." In other words, these background variables have shown significant discriminatory power regarding...
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 217–230.
Published: 01 May 1972
...P. Neal Ritchey; C. Shannon Stokes Abstract This paper attempts to clarify confusion concerning residence background and migration, and to demonstrate that each of these factors exerts an independent effect on fertility. Basic premises underlying the direction of the effect of these variables...
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 131–142.
Published: 01 February 1974
.... But there is no evidence that peo- ple expect a slight excess of males at birth; more likely, respondents believe that the probability of male and female births are equal. When the data were subclassified by demographic-background variables, all first-child sex ratios exceeded unity (the lowest ratio was 4.50 for those...
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Demography (1981) 18 (1): 39–54.
Published: 01 February 1981
..., farm ori- gins, region of origin, educational attain- ment, region of current residence, wife's occupation, and husband's occupation. For second births, we add an additional variable, the length of breast feeding of first birth. It seems likely that part of the effects of social background on second...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 65–79.
Published: 01 February 1990
... of family cycle, background/action state, and location/housing variables are shown to affect adjusting significantly. Residential satisfaction strongly affectsmobility preferences; and all theoretically relevant blocks of explanatory variables predict mobility. Alternatives to mobility should be included...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 489–508.
Published: 01 November 1986
... with husband were available for 198 of these women; among the 198, 25 were under age 21 and have therefore been excluded. b At time of woman's birth. strategic behavior in marriage. Additional variables that we include are education and father's occupation, as indicators of class background and achievement. We...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 185–194.
Published: 01 May 1999
... is positively correlated with parents' education. These studies consistently include parental education and other family background variables as determinants of educational attainment, and most include some variables that measure neighborhood characteristics. Only Rothstein (1995) considers the impact...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 575–584.
Published: 01 November 1994
..., was similar in both models. Other background variables are race (white, black, Mexican/Puerto Rican region (northeast, north central, south, west), residence (urban, suburban, rural), number of 578 Demography, Vol. 31, No.4, November 1994 Table 1. Univariate Statistics for All Variables, High School...
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