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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1493–1522.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Nelly Elmallakh Abstract This article examines fertility and labor supply responses to a 2014 French policy reform that consisted of conditioning the amount of child allowances on household income. Employing regression discontinuity design and French administrative income data, I find...
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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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Place and Child Health: The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries
Demography (2017) 54 (1): 337–360.
Published: 09 January 2017
... and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1,800 subnational regions. Second, we concentrate on internal validity by studying child height in Bangladeshi districts, using a new data set constructed with GIS techniques that allows us to control for fixed effects at a high level...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 729–752.
Published: 28 February 2019
... disadvantage is that it does not allow for flexible age disaggregation in nutrition and health indicators, nor does it allow us to restrict the data used to calculate subnational child mortality rates. 2 To test sensitivity to these variations, we therefore use survey weights to aggregate DHS microdata...
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 447–468.
Published: 01 August 2005
... time, which allowed us to control for unchanging unobserved characteris- tics of a child in estimating the time path of her or his response to the transition. We reasoned that if marital transitions have an important causal effect on a child's test scores, we should see it in the longitudinal variation...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1535–1557.
Published: 19 August 2011
...Hongbin Li; Junjian Yi; Junsen Zhang Abstract In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy applies only to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to identify the causal effect of the one-child policy...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 431–447.
Published: 01 November 2000
... poverty affects a child’s intellectual development. Using data from the NLSY and structural equation models, we have constructed five latent factors (cognitive stimulation, parenting style, physical environment, child’s ill health at birth, and ill health in childhood) and have allowed these factors...
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 747–770.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... For example, the provision of child immunization services increases the rate of contraceptive use to limit fertility independently of family planning services. Additionally, new Geographic Information System (GIS) based measures also allow us to test many alternative models of the spatial distribution...
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 267–285.
Published: 01 August 1981
..., while intentions for third, fourth, and fifth births declined, more women “didn’t know” if they intended to have another child or not. Among those not intending another child, more seemed uncertain of this intention in 1970 than did comparable women in 1965. In contrast, those intending another child...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 189–197.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of an event and the other of the timing of the event. We illustrate the application of the model through an analysis of the effects of women s characteristics and of the acceptance of a one-child certificate on the birth of second children in China. Both factors affect the probability of having a second child...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 783–811.
Published: 19 May 2011
... through initiatives that provide financial compensation to parents with daughters. Other scholars have advocated a relaxation of the one-child policy to allow more parents to have a son without engaging in sex selection. In this article, I present a model of fertility choice when parents have access...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 351–359.
Published: 01 March 1967
... at least one “parentless” child, houses 6.8 persons and has an annual income of $1,429. This allows less than $250 annually per person. Tuition for just one child eats up more than one person’s yearly allotment. These data showed that the law, in fact, did discriminate racially, since most of the persons...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2257–2282.
Published: 08 October 2018
... of children vary throughout the distribution. Among families at or below the median, children of all ages were associated with wealth declines, likely due to the costs of child-rearing. However, at the 75th percentile and above, wealth increased with the presence of younger children but decreased after those...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2337–2364.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., and other types of assistance from kin allow couples to space births closer together while maintaining or increasing child survival ( Hrdy 2009 ; Mace and Sear 2005 ; Sear and Coall 2011 ). Research on the impact of kin proximity on reproduction has focused on modern populations or historical...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1853–1882.
Published: 21 November 2016
... ecologies. Because it documents how numerous factors co-occur within children, this method allows an approximation of their lived environments. Findings illuminate powerful relationships between race/ethnicity, parental age, socioeconomic background, and nativity and a child’s developmental ecology, as well...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 435–443.
Published: 01 November 1998
...-term impact on their children's self-esteem. Children who were unintended by their mothers have significantly lower self-esteem 23 years later. Our findings indicate that giving birth to an unintended child can have a long-term negative impact on subjective aspects of the child's well-being, at least...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 493–516.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the sort of information allowing straightforward measurement of childbearing. Our measure of fertility is the count of children enumerated in the household. To make this measure more meaningful, we limit our sample to households in which the mother is aged 35–44 and in which the oldest child is 21...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 477–488.
Published: 01 August 1993
... estimating equations (GEE) to allow for higher-order correlation. A number of studies of the determinants of infant and child mortality have found that siblings' deaths tend to be associated, even after taking into account a variety of socioeconomic, behavioral, and biological factors (Bean, Mineau...
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Demography (1988) 25 (3): 387–403.
Published: 01 August 1988
... alone, living with other nuclear-family relatives, and living with others— are also recognized, providing a varied range of household-structure opportunities for older women. The approach allows us to identify individual child attributes associated with the propensity to coreside with the older...
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Demography (1981) 18 (1): 103–122.
Published: 01 February 1981
.... Procedures allowing the estimation of intersurvey levels of fertility, child mortality and adult mortality are illustrated using data from Thailand and Peru. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1981 1981 Average Parity Vital Rate Hypothetical Cohort Constant Fertility Model...
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