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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 901–925.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Jeanne Cilliers; Martine Mariotti Abstract We revisit the discussion on family limitation through stopping and spacing behavior before and during the fertility transition with a sample of 12,800 settler women's birth histories in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Using cure models...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1509–1533.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... Censuses. Using reconstructed birth histories for more than 7 million women in the IPUMS full-count 1900 and 1910 datasets and event-history methods (Kaplan–Meier curves, cure models), we find clear evidence of family limitation following a multiple birth. Couples who had twins or triplets were more likely...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1259–1283.
Published: 10 October 2012
... process was initially introduced for modeling cardiovascular diseases. A disease with a cured fraction is basically split up at time of diagnosis into two diseases: a “cured disease” and a “not-cured disease.” Individuals with the latter have an increased mortality rate attributable to the disease...
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 411–418.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Nathan Keyfitz Abstract The immediate effect of discovering a way to cure cancer would be a reduction in the number of deaths in the United States by the number of people now dying from that cause. Within a short time, however, deaths from other causes would increase, and the net long-term effect...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 189–197.
Published: 01 May 1997
.... ( 1982 ). Discrete-Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories . In S. Leinhardt (Ed.), Sociological Methodology (pp. 61 – 98 ). San Francisco : Jossey-Bass . Boag J.N. ( 1949 ). Maximum Likelihood Estimates of the Proportion of Patients Cured by Cancer Therapy . Journal...
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 67–78.
Published: 01 February 2010
... more strongly than in the past for instance, because he/she believed that a cure for cancer was near then he/she would regard these forecasts as unduly pessimistic. Conversely, a user who expected longevity improvements to slow down or reverse would regard these fore- casts as unduly optimistic...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 90–97.
Published: 01 March 1967
... organizes his life, what stresses he undergoes, how safely he drives, the risks he takes, and so forth. Even cure and prevention are no longer the province of an outside agent, such as a physician or sanitary engineer, alone. The agent has to talk to the person, and this interaction is important...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 911–931.
Published: 21 April 2017
.... 1995 ). European women in the Middle Ages attempted cures in the form of pagan-derived rituals, such as drinking from sacred fountains or sucking on eggs that had been buried near a chapel (Morice et al. 1995 ). Despite millennia of clinical interest, modern techniques by the beginning...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 533–549.
Published: 01 November 1993
... spread over a single decade with no cure or preventive in sight is one of a number of items that has helped remove some of the thoughtlessly arrogant assessment of science. It happens that AIDS is not easily passed from one person to another, but no one can guarantee that a disease will not appear...
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Demography (1979) 16 (1): 37–47.
Published: 01 February 1979
.... , & Weininger A. ( 1973 ). Economic Determinants of Fertility: Results from Crosssectional Aggregate Data . Demography , 10 , 205 – 223 . 10.2307/2060814 Cutright P. ( 1971 ). Illegitimacy: Myths, Causes, and Cures . Family Planning Perspectives , 3 , 26 – 48 . Cutright P...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 97–123.
Published: 01 February 1982
... or those who had contact with its vic- tims. Unlike smallpox or diphtheria, nei- ther prevention of nor cure for scarlet fever developed during the period of its decline, leading to the almost universal attribution of its decline to a spontane- ous change in the bacterium causing the disease. The annual...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 231–247.
Published: 01 May 1996
... Press . Wilk R.R. ( 1991 ). Household Ecology: Economic Change and Domestic Life among the Kekchi Maya in Belize . Tucson : University of Arizona Press . Woods C.M. ( 1977 ). Alternative Curing Strategies in a Changing Medical Situation . Medical Anthropology , 3 , 25 – 54...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 891–913.
Published: 01 June 2023
... event-history analysis ( Tsuya et al. 2010 ; Van Bavel 2004 ; Van Bavel and Kok 2004 ), were an improvement. Despite this more flexible method, it remained difficult to disentangle spacing and stopping. Subsequently, Alter (2007 , 2016 ) and Cilliers and Mariotti (2021) applied the cure model...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 493–512.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of Sociology , 96 , 1505 – 29 . 10.1086/229695 Tinto V. ( 1993 ). Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press . U.S. Census Bureau. 2006. Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplements...
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 571–590.
Published: 01 November 1973
... to rear them, is not the answer." Black survival and progress were not contingent upon the number of babies born but on the num- ber who lived to become strong, healthy adults. Frazier, though a vociferous champion of planned parenthood for many years, did not view it as a cure-all for the assorted ills...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 417–438.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Georges Reniers Abstract In a setting where the transmission of HIV occurs primarily through heterosexual contact and where no cure or vaccine is available, behavioral change is imperative for containing the epidemic. Abstinence, faithfulness, and condom use most often receive attention...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 85–98.
Published: 01 February 1989
... 25–27. Baldwin , W. H. ( 1980 ). Adolescent pregnancy and childbearing—Growing concerns for Americans . Population Bulletin , 31 , 3 – 36 . Cutright , P. ( 1971 ). Illegitimacy: Myths, causes and cures . Family Planning Perspectives , 3 , 25 – 48 . 10.2307/2133953...
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 575–585.
Published: 01 November 1987
... have omitted couples who were surgically sterilized for either contraceptive or noncontraceptive reasons. Though these couples are infertile, the surgical nature of their condition obviates the need for infertility services for diagnosis or cure. We have, however, included couples who classify...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2047–2073.
Published: 18 November 2014
..., and considerable public health campaigns raising women’s awareness of breast cancer (e.g., Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which began in 1982). Such factors likely spurred the rapid period-based reductions in white women’s breast cancer mortality rates since 1985 (Menashe et al. 2009 ). Conversely, we see...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 1105–1129.
Published: 30 April 2019
... of a nonmonetary nature. This finding applies to people who experienced unemployment for the first time as well as for those with previous unemployment experience. As a result, our prior finding that retirement seems to cure the nonpecuniary well-being loss of unemployment (Hetschko et al. 2014 ) needs...
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