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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 561–573.
Published: 01 November 1994
...J. Richard Udry Abstract I explain a biosocial model of women’s gendered behavior (behavior on which the sexes differ). This model integrates a macro sociological theory with a biological theory derived from primate behavior. The sociological model is designed to explain changes in the relationship...
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 185–206.
Published: 01 May 1990
... of the population that is composed of heterozygotes). As shown in Figure 2, the observed heterozygosity for most species, including humans, is reasonably close to the heterozygosity predicted under the neutral-allele theory, indicating that indeed most biological variation is nearly neutral with respect...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1295–1317.
Published: 03 June 2014
... the rate of demographic aging, the rate of biological aging is not affected by mortality selection earlier in the life course but rather by cross-cohort changes in young-age mortality, which cause lower rates of biological aging in old age among later cohorts. These findings enrich theories of cohort...
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 569–571.
Published: 01 November 2001
... of race. Before proceeding further, let us briefly examine the dif- ference between causal theory and causal effect. Causal theory offers a description of the various processes by which a treatment produces its effects. A causal theory can describe the relationship among biological, physical, chemical...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2021–2049.
Published: 02 November 2015
...Heidi A. Hanson; Ken R. Smith; Zachary Zimmer Abstract Reproductive lives of men and women may provide significant insight into later-life morbidity and mortality. Sociological, biological, and evolutionary theories predict a relationship between reproductive history and later-life health; however...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 483–508.
Published: 01 August 2004
... by their poverty. We find that orphans are less likely to be enrolled than are nonorphans with whom they live. Consistent with Hamilton’s rule, the theory that the closeness of biological ties governs altruistic behavior, outcomes for orphans depend on the relatedness of orphans to their household heads. The lower...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 597–621.
Published: 15 April 2016
..., parenting styles, child’s own health, and presence of both biological parents are the most important factors for children’s noncognitive development. For cognitive development, income as well as parents’ education, child’s birth weight, and number of books that children have at home are highly significant...
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2010
... by understanding the linkages between social, behavioral, psychological, and biological factors in health. It is furthermore vital that integration occur in all steps of the research process: in theory, design, data collection, and analysis. I use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, or Add Health...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1563–1591.
Published: 07 June 2013
... phenomena” (Olshansky and Carnes 1997 :11). The search for understanding involves developing biological theories to explain the patterns, which in turn provide explicit criteria for testing the theories. As a prominent example of the evolution of this relatively young field of population research...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1771–1800.
Published: 25 October 2016
... scant attention in the literature to date. A long-standing body of research stemming from social-biological theory has contended that the presence of stepfathers and nonbiologically related men in the household increases the risk for child abuse, potentially as a result of their decreased biological...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 161–170.
Published: 01 February 1989
...). The second is based on biological theories of aging (Burch, 1967; Siler, 1979). The third is based on the estimation of population by age (Bousfield, 1977; Irwin, 1980, 1984, 1985; Martin and Serow, 1978). The fourth type uses regression equations that exploit the relationship between life expectancy...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 633–650.
Published: 01 November 1994
...; Perks 1932). Although some researchers have attempted to connect biological theories on aging and mortality more directly to mathematical representations of the age pattern of mortality (Gage 1989; Gavrilov and Gavrilova 1991; Strehler and Mildvan 1960), these efforts have been largely mechanistic...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 1997
... , 917 – 40 . Deevey E.S. ( 1947 ). Life Tables for Natural Populations of Animals . Quarterly Review of Bioiogy , 22 , 283 – 314 . 10.1086/395888 Doubal S. ( 1982 ). Theory of Reliability, Biological Systems and Aging . Mechanisms of Ageing and Development , 18 , 339 – 53...
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1625–1646.
Published: 15 September 2020
... will not see the same consistency across sets in the father sample, thereby making full biological birth order effects more relevant. Based on the two theories, the question is whether the resource dilution and intellectual climate are mostly relevant only for full siblings in the father-based sample or both...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 2024
... theories of only children's distinctiveness or effects of sibship size on outcomes also tend to (1) include social siblings, at least implicitly, as in resource dilution theory ( Blake 1989 ; Downey 1995 ), or (2) focus on coresidence with siblings irrespective of biological or social relatedness...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 671–696.
Published: 01 November 2004
... substantially and is often statistically insignificant. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2004 2004 Family Structure Educational Outcome Stylize Fact Biological Parent Schooling Outcome References Becker G.S. ( 1991 ). A Treatise on the Family . Cambridge, MA...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 551–577.
Published: 01 November 1993
... and the Malthusian Debate. Oxford: Clarendon. Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 1985. Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Men and Women. New York: Basic Books. Folbre, Nancy. 1983. "Of Patriarchy Born: The Political Economy of Fertility Decisions." Feminist Studies 9:261-84. Forthcoming. "How Does She Know: Feminist...
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 13–26.
Published: 01 February 1971
... , Ian ( 1954 ). Population . London : Nisbet . Demeny , Paul ( 1965 ). Investment allocation and population growth . Demography , 2 , 203 – 232 10.2307/2060114 . Eversley , D. E. C. ( 1959 ). Social Theories of Fertility and the Malthusian Debate . Oxford : Clarendon...
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 85–101.
Published: 01 February 2009
..., for those adolescents who reported their family structure as a cohabiting stepfamily, just two-thirds of their mothers agreed. Levels of agreement between adolescents and mothers about residing in a two-biological-parent family, single-mother family, or married stepfamily were considerably higher. Estimates...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1815–1841.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... , & Dawson Cruz T. ( 2010 ). Do U.S. Black women experience stress-related accelerated biological aging? A novel theory and first population-based test of Black–White differences in telomere length . Human Nature , 21 , 19 – 38 . Goosby B. J. , Cheadle J. E. , & Mitchell C...
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