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Is Child Schooling A Poor Proxy for Child Quality?
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
...Jere R. Behrman 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Inequality Aversion Parental Preference Child Quality Parental Welfare Poor Proxy References Arrow , K. J. ( 1971 ). A utilitarian approach to the concept of equality in public expenditure...
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Mother’s home time and the production of child quality
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Demography (1977) 14 (2): 197–212.
Published: 01 May 1977
...Belton M. Fleisher Abstract This paper deals with the effect of mother’s time spent out of the labor force, and presumably in the home, on the “production” of child quality, where child quality is measured by intelligence ( IQ ), level of schooling attained, and market earning power. The results...
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Fertility and income, consumption aspirations, and child quality standards
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Demography (1979) 16 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 May 1979
...Arland Thornton Abstract Data from a 1975 national survey of the American population were used to investigate the relationships between childbearing and aspirations for consumption goods, child quality standards, and income. The data were consistent with the hypothesis that preferences for child...
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Family Size and the Quality of Children
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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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Economic Determinants of Family Size in West Africa
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 613–627.
Published: 01 November 1974
... is used as a proxy for income; the “price” of a child is accounted for by wife’s education and wife’s wage rate. Other important variables are wife’s age, a measure of child “quality,” wife’s age at first birth, and child mortality. The findings of the study tend to lend support to the economic theory...
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The quantity-Quality trade-Off of children In a developing country: Identification using chinese twins
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 223–243.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Hongbin Li; Junsen Zhang; Yi Zhu Abstract Testing the trade-off between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, we examine the effect of family size on child educational attainment in China. We find...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 835–859.
Published: 08 May 2017
... growth. At the household level, family size and human capital are also negatively correlated: a larger family has fewer resources to devote to each child’s education. That is, in making child rearing decisions, resource-constrained households may face a quantity-quality (Q-Q) trade-off, a concept...
View articletitled, Preference for Boys, Family Size, and Educational Attainment in India
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Mother–Child Relations and Adolescent Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 563–577.
Published: 01 November 1989
... has posited a direct association between the closeness of the mother-child relation and the child's attitudes and behavior, we found that the quality of the relation interacted with the mother's attitudes in its effects on the child's attitudes and behavior. Children with close relations...
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Education Gains Attributable to Fertility Decline: Patterns by Gender, Period, and Country in Latin America and Asia
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1353–1373.
Published: 05 July 2017
... , E. A. ( 1992 ). The trade-off between child quantity and quality . Journal of Political Economy , 100 , 84 – 117 . 10.1086/261808 . Jensen , R. ( 2005 ). Equal treatment, unequal outcomes? Generating sex inequality through fertility behavior . Unpublished manuscript, John F...
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View articletitled, Education Gains Attributable to Fertility Decline: Patterns by Gender, Period, and Country in Latin America and Asia
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Coparenting and nonresident fathers’ involvement with young children after a nonmarital birth
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 461–488.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Marcia J. Carlson; Sara S. McLanahan; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Abstract We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to investigate the association between coparenting quality and nonresident fathers’ involvement with children over the first five years after a nonmarital birth. We find...
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Mate availability and unmarried parent relationships
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 555–571.
Published: 01 August 2008
... recently had a child from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. A shortage of men in a marriage market is associated with lower relationship quality for unmarried parents. Male shortages are associated with lower rates of marriage following a nonmarital birth, in part because of the mediating...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 419–450.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Lawrence M. Berger; Lidia Panico; Anne Solaz Abstract Proponents of early childhood education and care programs cite evidence that high-quality center-based childcare has positive impacts on child development, particularly for disadvantaged children. However, much of this evidence stems from...
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View articletitled, The Impact of Center-Based Childcare Attendance on Early <span class="search-highlight">Child</span> Development: Evidence From the French Elfe Cohort
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Availability of child care in the United States: A description and analysis of data sources
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 299–316.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Rachel A. Gordon; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Abstract Lack of high-quality, affordable, and accessible child care is an often-cited impediment to a manageable balance between work and family. Researchers, however, have been restricted by a scarcity of data on the availability of child care across...
View articletitled, Availability of <span class="search-highlight">child</span> care in the United States: A description and analysis of data sources
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Divorced Fathers’ Proximity and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence From Norwegian Registry Data
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1005–1027.
Published: 21 June 2011
... distinct parts: father’s accessibility to, engagement with, and responsibility for his child (Lamb et al. 1987 ). Accessibility reflects a father’s contact with and availability to the child, irrespective of the quality of their interactions. Engagement is defined by a father’s interactions with his...
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When Does Time Matter? Maternal Employment, Children’s Time With Parents, and Child Development
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1867–1894.
Published: 04 October 2014
... with parents affects child outcomes. We analyze children’s time-diary data from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and use child fixed-effects and IV estimations to account for unobserved heterogeneity. We find that working mothers trade quantity of time for better “quality...
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Happiness: Before and After the Kids
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1843–1866.
Published: 21 August 2014
... and then decreases to before-child levels. Moreover, happiness increases before birth, suggesting that the trajectories may capture not only the effect of the birth but also the broader process of childbearing, which may include partnership formation and quality. Sociodemographic factors strongly modify this pattern...
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Consequences of family disruption on children’s educational outcomes in Norway
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 553–574.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and, using a simultaneous equation model, pay particular attention to selection bias in the effect of divorce. We also allow for the possibility that disruption may have different effects at different stages of a child’s educational career. Our results suggest that selection on time-invariant maternal...
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Historical Patterns in the Intergenerational Transmission of Lifespan and Longevity: A Research Note on U.S. Cohorts Born Between 1700 and 1900
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 979–994.
Published: 01 August 2024
... by expanding the estimates of the familial component beyond parent–child associations to include multigenerational and horizontal classes of relatives of different sexes. We also examine how lifespan inequality and the role of the family in lifespan and longevity changed over time. We address the challenge...
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View articletitled, Historical Patterns in the Intergenerational Transmission of Lifespan and Longevity: A Research Note on U.S. Cohorts Born Between 1700 and 1900
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Parenting as a “package deal”: Relationships, fertility, and nonresident father involvement among unmarried parents
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 181–204.
Published: 01 February 2010
..., and ¿ nancial contributions (Hawkins, Amato, and King 2007) we focus on the amount of contact between father and child here because the level of involvement, rather than ¿ nancial support (which is often adjudicated by law and collected and disbursed by the state) or the quality and content of involvement...
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Child care availability and first-birth timing in Norway
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 345–372.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Ronald R. Rindfuss; David Guilkey; S. Philip Morgan; Øystein Kravdal; Karen Benjamin Guzzo Abstract Both sociological and economic theories posit that widely available, high-quality, and affordable child care should have pronatalist effects. Yet to date, the empirical evidence has not consistently...
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