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Demography (1992) 29 (3): 357–374.
Published: 01 August 1992
..., August 1992 The Relationship Between Cohabitation and Divorce: Selectivity or Causal Influence?* William G. Axinn Department of Sociology and Population Research Center The University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637-2799 Arland Thornton Institute For Social Research, Department of Sociology, and Population...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 75–109.
Published: 01 February 2021
... research. Our findings contribute to growing research stressing the causal influence of familial educational attainment on population health. Copyright © 2021 The Authors 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Cognition...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2005
...” associated with living in urban areas. There is little empirical evidence and much unresolved debate about what caused these improvements, however. In this article, we report the causal influence of clean water technologies— filtration and chlorination—on mortality in major cities during the early twentieth...
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 February 2007
... investigate whether social interactions—and especially the extent to which social network partners perceive themselves to be at risk—exert causal influences on respondents’ risk perceptions and on one approach to prevention, spousal communication about the threat of AIDS to the couple and their children...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 677–698.
Published: 09 March 2012
... provided the foundation for a cultural model or schema—labeled developmental idealism —that guides and motivates behavior. This schema identifies goals, a standard for evaluating human organizations, an explanatory framework identifying the causal influences between family and social and economic life...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 685–710.
Published: 01 April 2021
... influence adult body weight and its determinants independent of years of schooling via their influence on individuals' preferences and resources for engaging in healthy dietary behaviors and physical activity ( Benton 2004 ). Robust evaluations of the causal effect of schooling have frequently attempted...
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 57–73.
Published: 01 February 1974
...Steven McLaughlin Abstract Recent research and the increased visibility of the women’s liberation movement have raised questions concerning the influence of changing attitudes of women on their family size intentions. A sample of 238 high school senior women was drawn to test a causal model...
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in Is the Association Between Education and Fertility Postponement Causal? The Role of Family Background Factors
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Published: 09 January 2017
Fig. 3 Correlated factor model depicting standardized estimate of genetic ( A ) and shared environmental (C) influences on education and age at first birth, the correlation of these influences across traits, and a causal effect of education on the age at first birth. Source : TwinsUK, own
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 71–91.
Published: 09 January 2017
...Fig. 3 Correlated factor model depicting standardized estimate of genetic ( A ) and shared environmental (C) influences on education and age at first birth, the correlation of these influences across traits, and a causal effect of education on the age at first birth. Source : TwinsUK, own...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 201–229.
Published: 04 January 2017
... that is robust to the inclusion of sibling fixed effects. These within-family relationships provide evidence that age at arrival exhibits a causal influence on the adult socioeconomic assimilation of childhood immigrants. This study provides new evidence on the causal relationship between childhood...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 873–898.
Published: 19 May 2020
... a dynamic causal model, we find strong evidence of social multiplier effects through social learning. The results for social influence and spread through mass communications are promising, but we are unable to identify definitive causal impacts. These indirect pathways are rarely measured in family...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1453–1477.
Published: 19 July 2012
... education have also cast doubt on the homogeneity of the negative role of family size on children’s education. The goal of this study is to examine the causal effect of family size on children’s education in Brazil over a 30-year period marked by important social and demographic change, and across extremely...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1399–1420.
Published: 24 January 2013
... and have lower completed fertility in general. Behavioral genetics analysis suggests that the association between education and having any children in both sexes is influenced by factors shared by co-twins and that these factors are genetic rather than common environmental. No evidence of a causal pathway...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 769–790.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., to evaluate the effects of conditional cash transfers on migration both domestically and to the United States. Our study complements a growing body of literature aimed at overcoming longstanding hurdles to the establishment of causal validity in empirical studies of migration. Analysis based on the data...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 975–994.
Published: 01 June 2022
... is associated with late-life cognition, but whether the relationship is causal remains unclear. We use an instrumental variable approach and data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe to examine whether having three or more versus two children affects late-life cognition. Parents often...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1765–1792.
Published: 01 October 2021
... characteristics related to parental migration, which supports a causal interpretation of our main findings. Thus, our analysis suggests that, on average, and particularly among more-disadvantaged households, the long-term educational benefits associated with parental migration outweigh short-term disruptions...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 513–542.
Published: 07 March 2015
... that the language skills of immigrants in the United States have a significant influence on their wages, residential location, marriage, fertility, and children’s education. In this article, we estimate the causal effects of English language proficiency on a range of economic and social outcomes using...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 559–586.
Published: 14 March 2018
... in support of the opposite causal link from demography to politics. Population growth influences a range of political variables (Goldstone et al. 2012 ), such as political transitions (Organski et al. 1984 ), revolutions (Goldstone 1991 ), and participation in international conflicts (Cranmer and Siverson...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 847–870.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of grandparents—their own parent(s) or their spouse's parent(s). We develop a novel conceptual framework that presents the pathways of influence and considers the overall impact of grandparental death on childbearing of adult children. We then estimate fixed-effects models to identify causal relationships between...
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 65–79.
Published: 01 February 1994
... of family size preferences (range 1-16) * P < .05; ** P < .01; P < .001; one-tailed test .35* (2.04) .02 (.35) .65** (2.52) .27* (1.75) .24 (.59) .25 (.49) .22 (1.58) .16 (1.62) .10 250 of causal factors that influence the stable aspects of those preferences but do not alter preferences as young people...
