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Married-Couple Families With Step, Adopted, and Biological Children

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Jeanne E. Moorman, Donald J. Hernandez
Demography (1989) 26 (2): 267–277.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061524
Published: 01 May 1989
...Jeanne E. Moorman; Donald J. Hernandez Abstract National estimates of the numbers of families with step, adopted, and biological children have not previously been developed. In this work, parent types for children in married-couple families were indirectly identified by using marriage and birth...
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Proximity of Couples to Parents: Influences of Gender, Labor Market, and Family

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Tak Wing Chan, John Ermisch
Demography (2015) 52 (2): 379–399.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0379-0
Published: 21 March 2015
... mobility over longer distances (i.e., to places outside the local area), which are mainly associated with the labor market, as opposed to gender or family circumstances. Three studies have directly addressed the proximity of couples to the two sets of parents. Here, we focus on the nature...
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Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Couples and Family Formation

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Mircea Trandafir
Demography (2015) 52 (1): 113–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0361-2
Published: 09 January 2015
...Mircea Trandafir Abstract It has long been debated how legalizing same-sex marriage would affect (different-sex) family formation. In this article, I use data on OECD member countries for the period 1980–2009 to examine the effects of the legal recognition of same-sex couples (through marriage...
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Negotiating Work and Family Spheres: The Dyadic Effects of Flexible Work Arrangements on Fertility Among Dual-Earner Heterosexual Couples

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Senhu Wang, Jolene Tan
Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1241–1265.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11466849
Published: 01 August 2024
... approach to negotiating work–family spheres, are related to fertility among dual-earner heterosexual couples is limited. Drawing on the linked-lives perspective, we theorize the relationship between FWAs and fertility among couples and potential variation depending on the interplay of both spouses’ work...
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Changes in Couples' Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality

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Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Christine R. Schwartz, Kelly Musick
Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1093–1117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9160055
Published: 01 June 2021
... to analyze changes in couples' earnings homogamy between 1968 and 2015 and to estimate their contribution to family income inequality among married couples in which the wife is age 45 or younger with an oldest child age 0–10. We conduct three analyses: (1) a decomposition of economic homogamy into parts due...
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Interaction and family planning in the French Urban Family

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Andrée Michel
Demography (1967) 4 (2): 615–625.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060303
Published: 01 June 1967
... in the couple has been conducted among 550 urban families in France by the National Center for Scientific Research, with the assistance of the United States Public Health Service. The data given here are relative to the importance of the couple’s interaction in the realization of family planning goals...
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Life course transitions of American children: Parental cohabitation, marriage, and single motherhood

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Deborah Roempke Graefe, Daniel T. Lichter
Demography (1999) 36 (2): 205–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648109
Published: 01 May 1999
...Deborah Roempke Graefe; Daniel T. Lichter Abstract We examine the life course transitions into and from families headed by unmarried cohabiting couples for a recent cohort of American children. Life table estimates, based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth mother-child files...
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The Nonlinear Linkage Between Earnings Homogamy and Earnings Inequality Among Married Couples

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Yifan Shen
Demography (2021) 58 (2): 527–550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-8996374
Published: 01 April 2021
...Yifan Shen Abstract More married couples today consist of two high-earning or two low-earning partners (i.e., earnings homogamy), which leads to greater earnings inequality in married-couple families. Surprisingly few studies have examined this relationship by earnings level, leaving open...
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Family economies of U.S. couples aged 18–64: United States, 1800–2010. Source: Ruggles (forthcoming)

Family economies of U.S. couples aged 18–64: United States, 1800–2010. Sou...

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Published: 28 October 2015
Fig. 4 Family economies of U.S. couples aged 18–64: United States, 1800–2010. Source: Ruggles ( forthcoming ) More
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Same-Sex Parents and Children’s School Progress: An Association That Disappeared Over Time

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Diederik Boertien, Fabrizio Bernardi
Demography (2019) 56 (2): 477–501.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0759-3
Published: 23 January 2019
... toward same-sex couples might have played an important role in equalizing school progress across groups. 18 12 2018 23 1 2019 © Population Association of America 2019 2019 Child outcomes Same-sex couples Family Social stratification Adoption The aim of this article...
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Reply to Allen et al.

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Michael J. Rosenfeld
Demography (2013) 50 (3): 963–969.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0170-4
Published: 18 November 2012
... are less likely to make good progress in school than children from stable families. Children raised by stable same-sex couples do remarkably well in school. 11 10 2012 18 11 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 Family structure Children Grade retention Same-sex...
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The impact of wives’ earnings on income inequality: Issues and estimates

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Maria Cancian, Deborah Reed
Demography (1999) 36 (2): 173–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648106
Published: 01 May 1999
...Maria Cancian; Deborah Reed Abstract We estimate the extent to which rising family income inequality can be explained by changes in the earnings of married women. We develop a decomposition equation that separates single persons from married couples (decomposition by population group...
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Patterns of family location

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Avery M. Guest
Demography (1972) 9 (1): 159–171.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060552
Published: 01 February 1972
...Avery M. Guest Abstract Theoretical propositions from human ecology are used to develop a model that explains the centralization or decentralization of various types of families, such as married couples with children, in the Cleveland, Ohio, Metropolitan Area. The model shows how proximity...
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The relationship of family planning to savings and consumption in Taiwan

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Deborah S. Freedman
Demography (1972) 9 (3): 499–505.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060869
Published: 01 August 1972
... a couple to successfully plan their family size also enables them to manage their economic affairs so that they can save and enjoy more modern consumption goods. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1972 1972 Family Planning Consumer Durable Successful Planner Desire Family...
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Can spouses be trusted? A look at husband/wife proxy reports

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Richard Williams, Elizabeth Thomson
Demography (1985) 22 (1): 115–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060990
Published: 01 February 1985
...Richard Williams; Elizabeth Thomson Abstract This paper examines biases that may occur when models of couple behavior are estimated using one partner’s report of own and of spouse’s desired family size rather than independent reports obtained from both partners. When estimates of random measurement...
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Same-Sex and Different-Sex Cohabiting Couple Relationship Stability

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Wendy D. Manning, Susan L. Brown, J. Bart Stykes
Demography (2016) 53 (4): 937–953.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0490-x
Published: 06 July 2016
...- and different-sex cohabiting couples. The level of stability in both same-sex and different-sex cohabiting couples is not on par with that of different-sex married couples. The findings contribute to a growing literature on health and well-being of same-sex couples and provide a broader understanding of family...
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The effect of stepchildren on childbearing intentions and births

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Susan D. Stewart
Demography (2002) 39 (1): 181–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0011
Published: 01 February 2002
... Children.” Journal of Family Issues . Miller , W.B. , &amp; Pasta , D.J. ( 1995 ). Behavioral Intentions: Which Ones Predict Fertility Behavior in Married Couples? . Journal of Applied Social Psychology , 25 , 530 – 55 . 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1995.tb01766.x Moorman , J.E...
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Welfare reform and interstate migration of poor families

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Gordon F. De Jong, Deborah Roempke Graefe, Tanja St. Pierre
Demography (2005) 42 (3): 469–496.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03214592
Published: 01 August 2005
... Families (TANF), and thus may have created new welfare incentives for poor couples with children. Also, it is not clear whether poor father-headed families respond differently than do poor mother-headed families to welfare constraints and opportunities. Little is known about how poor single fathers respond...
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Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status

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Claudia Geist, Patricia A. McManus
Demography (2012) 49 (1): 197–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0074-8
Published: 23 November 2011
... the Current Population Survey, this article uses stated reasons for geographic mobility to compare earnings outcomes among job migrants, family migrants, and quality-of-life migrants by gender and family status. We further assess the impact of migration on couples’ internal household economy. The effects...
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“His” and “Hers”: Meeting the Economic Bar to Marriage

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Christina Gibson-Davis, Anna Gassman-Pines, Rebecca Lehrman
Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2321–2343.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0726-z
Published: 23 October 2018
... whether couples feel ready to wed. Using the Building Strong Families data set of low-income parents ( n = 4,444), we operationalized this qualitative concept into a seven-item index and examined whether couples who met the economic bar by achieving the majority of the items were more likely to marry than...
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