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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 421–444.
Published: 14 November 2012
... have found that numerous preconception or prenatal environmental factors affect the probability of a baby being conceived male or female. I propose that these environmental factors also explain sex differences in mortality. I contribute a new methodology of distinguishing between child biology...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 February 1990
... and Caries of the Deciduous Teeth . Child Development , 13 , 113 – 129 . Enwonwu , C. O. ( 1973 ). Influence of Socio-economic Conditions on Dental Development in Nigerian Children . Archives of Oral Biology , 18 , 95 – 107 . 10.1016/0003-9969(73)90024-1 Ewbank , D. C. ( 1981...
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Demography (1993) 30 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 February 1993
... Genetics 42:401-13. Reddy, P. Govinda. 1987. "Effects of Consanguineous Marriages on Fertility among Three Endogamous Groups of Andhra Pradesh." Social Biology 34:68-77. Ridder, Geert and Insan Tunali. 1989. "Analysis of Related Durations: A Semi-Parametric Approach with an Application to a Study of Child...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 53–63.
Published: 01 February 1982
... in Hawaii . Annals of Human Biology , 7 , 29 – 33 . 10.1080/03014468000004021 Hirschman Charles , & Rindfuss Ronald R. ( 1980 ). Social, Cultural and Economic Determinants of Age at Birth of First Child in Peninsular Malaysia . Population Studies , 34 , 507 – 518 . 10.2307...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 405–423.
Published: 01 August 1993
..., "It was a major source of loss of life through the [18th] century and a disease relatively easily identified. In rural parishes and small towns it appeared every four years or so, usually in summer and sent up child mortality sharply" (Flinn 1977, p. 290). What were the interepidemic periods? Did the epidemics...
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Demography (1979) 16 (1): 121–129.
Published: 01 February 1979
... the first and the last child, and between the last child and the time of the woman’s death are shown to be calculable. Expressions for the probability of at least one child outliving the mother and for the expected number of children outliving the mother are also developed and are evaluated for three...
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 August 1983
..., deviates significantly from the Bernoulli sequence. The observed frequency of all-girl families is especially small in comparison with the expected value. The sex of the last child strongly influences couples’ decision making regarding additional births in all steps of family building except for bearing...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 263–271.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Linda Eberst Dorsten; Lawrence Hotchkiss; Terri M. King Abstract An unresolved issue in research on child survival is the extent to which familial mortality risk in infancy is due to biological influences net of sociodemographic and economic factors. We examine the effect of consanguinity on early...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Rebecca Sear; Fiona Steele; Ian A. McGregor; Ruth Mace Abstract We analyzed data that were collected continuously between 1950 and 1974 from a rural area of the Gambia to determine the effects of kin on child mortality. Multilevel event-history models were used to demonstrate that having a living...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1423–1449.
Published: 15 July 2014
... that have a firstborn daughter. We will discuss evidence from epidemiology, biology, and medicine implying that the difference between these two averages may not be zero; the fact that a couple even has a firstborn child may contain different information about their circumstances, depending on that child’s...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 375–401.
Published: 01 August 1994
... provides an answer to this question. We focus on one particular behavioral outcome: whether individuals or families who are at risk of having a child in fact do so. By deriving a range of propositions and considering evidence about this one outcome, we seek to account for variations in parenthood...
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 507–518.
Published: 01 November 1983
...Elizabeth Thomson Abstract Models specifying the utility of another child as either a couple or an individual experience and incorporating variations in the measurement properties of responses about child utility and expectations are estimated with data from the U.S. Value of Children survey. Full...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
Published: 10 April 2017
... ), and reducing infant and child mortality has long been a key public health concern (Bengtsson 2004 ; Black et al. 2010 ; Livi-Bacci 2012 ). However, the shape of the mortality trajectory between childhood and midlife is seldom the focus of analysis. Nonetheless, an increasingly long and well-defined phase...
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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 633–634.
Published: 01 November 1985
...S. Krishnamoorthy; P. M. Kulkarni 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1985 1985 Mathematical Logic Living Child Accurate Predictor Mortality Level Wrong Formulation References Krishnamoorthy S. ( 1979 ). Mortality level, desire for surviving son...
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 February 2006
... 48%. Younger father s age and a smaller proportion of the child s life spent with the father (94%) are among the few signi cant differences between stepmother biologi- cal father families and married-biological-parent families. Finally, children in biological father stepmother families were more...
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 517–530.
Published: 01 November 1987
...Narayan Das 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Family Size Living Child Previous Child Marriage Cohort Subsequent Fertility References Andrews , F. , Morgan , J. , & Sonquist , J. ( 1967 ). Multiple Classification Analysis...
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 131–142.
Published: 01 February 1974
...Gerald E. Markle Abstract This paper examines the values, variance and some possible determinants of sex ratios for the first child and for all children in expected and desired families. For adults in Tallahassee, Florida, it was found that a large majority of respondents within sixty demographic...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 393–414.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... Pasta. 1994. The Psychology of Child Timing: A Measurement Instrument and a Model. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 24:221 50. 1995a. How Does Childbearing Affect Fertility Motivations and Desires? Social Biology 42:185 98. 1995b. Behavioral Intentions: Which Ones Predict Fertility Behavior...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 483–508.
Published: 01 August 2004
... of Social Biology. Journal of Theoretical Biology 7: 17 52. Isiugo-Abanihe, U.C. 1985. Child Fosterage in West Africa. Population and Development Re- view 11(1):53 73. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). 2003. Follow-up to the 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 February 2001
... modern be- havior genetic modeling to fertility outcomes. A few articles have treated genetic influences on human reproduction from a distance. For example, Perusse et al. (1994) considered the heritability of child-rearing practice and parental bonding. The treatment by Dunne et al. (1997) and Rodgers...