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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 877–899.
Published: 24 April 2018
... if changes were made. Income distribution Inequality and poverty Counterfactual decomposition Rank-preserving exchange Conditional reweighting Rising income inequality has become a worldwide concern and is now at the center of public discussion. The topic started to draw the attention...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1117–1142.
Published: 01 August 2024
..., Romania, and Russia). Second, using S&L's ( 2020 ) counterfactual decomposition approach, we explicitly evaluate the relative importance of differential fertility and attainment rates in intergenerational educational mobility. Our approach is an advance over the S&L ( 2020 ) approach in two...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 173–184.
Published: 01 May 1999
... this decomposition, we measure the impact of wives' earnings for married-couple families and for all fami- lies with each of the counterfactuals. Family Size Adjustments Previous analyses have taken various approaches to adjust- ments to income for family size. Some authors have used unadjusted income, whereas...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 553–574.
Published: 28 January 2012
..., this article is the first to measure how much of the life expectancy gap remains after differences in mortality are purged of the compositional differences in socioeconomic characteristics between blacks and whites. The decomposition is facilitated by a reweighting technique that creates counterfactual...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 761–786.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and 54% of the global population. We also compare observed trends to sex-indifferent counterfactuals, quantify contributions of fertility declines with decompositions, and investigate subnational trends in China and India. Increases in sons-only families were universal where numbers of children fell...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 February 2021
... that is due to the structural change in the hazard functions. This decomposition is achieved by employing the random survival forest, allowing me to predict the counterfactual infant survival probability that infants in the 2010s would have under the circumstantial environments of the 1990s. The results show...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 571–602.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of the general openness hypothesis . The inequality analysis conducted through a combination of variance decomposition and counterfactual approaches reveals that mating accounts for a nonnegligible share (3% to 12%) of the cohort-specific inequality in household wealth, yet changes in mating over time hardly...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1429–1450.
Published: 27 September 2011
... of America 2011 2011 Obesity Decomposition Note that our framework, which partitions BMI determinants into n = 3 components, allows a total of 2 n – 1 = 7 counterfactual distributions and weights for black women to be computed. The counterfactual distributions f A ( b ), f B ( b...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1119–1141.
Published: 01 June 2021
... ). Second, a decomposition analysis suggests that only 22% of the decline of TANF allocations can be explained by changes in the composition of the population, confirming that the vast majority of the decline is due to reduced access and benefit levels rather than reduced need. Finally, adding...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1093–1117.
Published: 01 June 2021
... 1968–1990 1990–2015 Pre-birth: Year before parenthood Post-birth: Years 0–10 after parenthood Decomposition of trends in economic homogamy into changes before and after parenthood Contribution of women's employment to changes in economic homogamy before and after parenthood Contribution...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 985–1005.
Published: 28 April 2017
... as follows: 2 r ci ′ = r 1970 , 1 + r ci − r c 1 i = 1 – 30 and c > 1970 else r ci ′ = r ci , where c is marriage cohort (year of marriage), and r ci ′ is the counterfactual correlation for marriage cohort c...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 537–553.
Published: 01 August 2008
...) countries during the 1990s are documented using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and a decomposition analysis is used to uncover the relative role of demographic factors, labor markets, and income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of the changes. Child poverty...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2075–2104.
Published: 26 September 2013
... pregnancy. Our decompositions are intended to distinguish between these two possibilities and thus to determine the extent to which either of these two types of retreat from marriage contributed to observed trends in premarital first births. Finally, increases in premarital sex would, all else being equal...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2045–2070.
Published: 15 October 2018
... inequalities. Group-specific life expectancies seem to have played a minor role in this process. 7 These conclusions hold when we use the inequality decomposition technique suggested by Mookherjee and Shorrocks ( 1982 ) (see the online appendix). Table 4 Counterfactual lifespan inequality...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 513–540.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Iñaki Permanyer; Serena Vigezzi Abstract We propose a novel decomposition approach that breaks down the levels and trends of lifespan inequality as the sum of cause-of-death contributions. The suggested method shows whether the levels and changes in lifespan inequality are attributable...
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1853–1879.
Published: 25 August 2020
... hand. We use WD ̂ to assess the match quality of a DI system and compare this across countries. Finally, we exploit our regression results to perform counterfactual simulations that set some of the explanatory variables to the average across countries. This helps us understand whether...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1241–1270.
Published: 17 August 2020
... introduce a model of educational reproduction that allows studying trends over time while accounting for population-level and family-level effects of fertility on educational reproduction. Moreover, we introduce a decomposition technique that separates education gaps in reproduction rates into fertility...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1427–1452.
Published: 15 July 2019
... parts. First, we conduct a reweighting decomposition of average child height, constructing counterfactual average child height among three disadvantaged population groups: Scheduled Tribes (STs), Scheduled Castes (SCs), and Other Backward Classes (OBCs). 3 , 4 We ask what the mean height for age...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 99–121.
Published: 29 January 2020
... 12 g if rates of obstetric interventions had remained at the 1990 levels. Thus, the observed mean birth weight among U.S. first-birth singletons in 2013 was 79.1 g less than the simulated mean birth weight in the counterfactual 2013. Decomposition results suggest that about 34% of the difference...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 173–191.
Published: 01 February 2008
... children in family structures with different poverty risks relative to other factors such as differential market opportunities and governmental benefits for adults caring for children in various living arrangements. Applying a classic demographic decomposition technique to the overall poverty gap, we find...
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