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Women, Demography, and Politics: How Lower Fertility Rates Lead to Democracy

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Udi Sommer
Demography (2018) 55 (2): 559–586.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0655-x
Published: 14 March 2018
... on politics, particularly on democracy, squarely within the scope of political and social sciences, and to focus on the effects of woman-related demographics—namely, fertility rate. I test the hypothesis that demographic variables—female-related predictors, in particular—have an independent effect...
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Fertility rate and democracy in Indonesia. Data are from Quality of Government Database (https://qog.pol.gu.se/) and UN Population Division (http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/)

Fertility rate and democracy in Indonesia. Data are from Quality of Governm...

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Published: 14 March 2018
Fig. 1 Fertility rate and democracy in Indonesia. Data are from Quality of Government Database ( https://qog.pol.gu.se/ ) and UN Population Division ( http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/ ) More
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Targeting, Universalism, and Single-Mother Poverty: A Multilevel Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies

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David Brady, Rebekah Burroway
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 719–746.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0094-z
Published: 09 March 2012
...David Brady; Rebekah Burroway Abstract We examine the influence of individual characteristics and targeted and universal social policy on single-mother poverty with a multilevel analysis across 18 affluent Western democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all countries...
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Fig. 1 Child poverty rates across 30 rich democracies (upper panel) and within the United States in 1979–2019 (lower panel). In the upper panel, the horizontal line represents the median child poverty rate, and vertical lines indicate the 95% confidence intervals. AUS = Australia. AUT = Austria. BEL = Belgium. CAN = Canada. CHE = Switzerland. CZE = Czech Republic. DEU = Germany. DNK = Denmark. ESP = Spain. EST = Estonia. FIN = Finland. FRA = France. GBR = Great Britain. GRC = Greece. HUN = Hungary. IRL = Ireland. ISL = Iceland. ISR = Israel. ITA = Italy. JPN = Japan. LTU = Lithuania. LUX = Luxembourg. NLD = The Netherlands. NOR = Norway. POL = Poland. SVK = Slovakia. SVN = Slovenia. SWE = Sweden. TWN = Taiwan. USA = United States of America.

Child poverty rates across 30 rich democracies (upper panel) and within the...

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Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 1 Child poverty rates across 30 rich democracies (upper panel) and within the United States in 1979–2019 (lower panel). In the upper panel, the horizontal line represents the median child poverty rate, and vertical lines indicate the 95% confidence intervals. AUS = Australia. AUT = Austria More
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Fig. 2 Distribution of prevalences across 30 rich democracies in recent LIS data. Vertical lines represent median prevalences, and horizontal lines represent 95% confidence intervals. See Figure 1 for country abbreviations.

Distribution of prevalences across 30 rich democracies in recent LIS data. ...

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Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 2 Distribution of prevalences across 30 rich democracies in recent LIS data. Vertical lines represent median prevalences, and horizontal lines represent 95% confidence intervals. See Figure 1 for country abbreviations. More
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Fig. 3 Distribution of penalties across 30 rich democracies in recent LIS data. Vertical lines represent median penalties, and horizontal lines represent 95% confidence intervals. See Figure 1 for country abbreviations.

Distribution of penalties across 30 rich democracies in recent LIS data. Ve...

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Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 3 Distribution of penalties across 30 rich democracies in recent LIS data. Vertical lines represent median penalties, and horizontal lines represent 95% confidence intervals. See Figure 1 for country abbreviations. More
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The Role of Single Motherhood in America's High Child Poverty

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David Brady, Regina S. Baker, Ryan Finnigan
Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1161–1185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11466590
Published: 01 August 2024
...Fig. 1 Child poverty rates across 30 rich democracies (upper panel) and within the United States in 1979–2019 (lower panel). In the upper panel, the horizontal line represents the median child poverty rate, and vertical lines indicate the 95% confidence intervals. AUS = Australia. AUT = Austria...
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The association between targeting ratio and single-mother poverty rate across 18 affluent Western democracies circa 2000 (r = .22)

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Published: 09 March 2012
Fig. 2 The association between targeting ratio and single-mother poverty rate across 18 affluent Western democracies circa 2000 ( r = .22) More
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Estimated marginal effects: Predicted mortality rate by female political representation, extent of democracy, and economic development with other covariates held at their means

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in Gender and the Politics of Death: Female Representation, Political and Developmental Context, and Population Health in a Cross-National Panel > Demography
Published: 20 August 2018
Fig. 2 Estimated marginal effects: Predicted mortality rate by female political representation, extent of democracy, and economic development with other covariates held at their means More
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The association between universal replacement rate and single-mother poverty rate across 18 affluent Western democracies circa 2000 (r = –.64)

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Published: 09 March 2012
Fig. 1 The association between universal replacement rate and single-mother poverty rate across 18 affluent Western democracies circa 2000 ( r = –.64) More
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Prenatal Care, Son Preference, and the Sex Ratio at Birth

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Rebeca Echavarri, Francisco Beltrán Tapia
Demography (2025) 62 (1): 211–236.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11798263
Published: 01 February 2025
... took better care of themselves when carrying a son. The spread of gender-egalitarian values brought about by the end of the dictatorship and the transition to democracy undermined son preference and returned the SRB to normal levels. With these two assumptions in mind, we argue that the evolution...
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Gender and the Politics of Death: Female Representation, Political and Developmental Context, and Population Health in a Cross-National Panel

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Ross Macmillan, Naila Shofia, Wendy Sigle
Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1905–1934.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0697-0
Published: 20 August 2018
...Fig. 2 Estimated marginal effects: Predicted mortality rate by female political representation, extent of democracy, and economic development with other covariates held at their means ...
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Ethnic Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Exposure to the 1992 Conflict in Kenya

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Fredah Guantai, Yoko Kijima
Demography (2020) 57 (2): 423–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00864-w
Published: 25 March 2020
... that resulted from the introduction of multiparty democracy in Kenya as an exogenous source of shock, using a difference-in-differences method and a mother fixed-effects model. We find that prenatal exposure to the violence increased the probabilities of low birth weight and a child being of very small size...
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Demography and the social contract

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Marta Tienda
Demography (2002) 39 (4): 587–616.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0041
Published: 01 November 2002
... Liberal Democracy Undocumented Immigrant Mass Migration References Apportionment Act of 1911 (37 Stat. 13). Apportionment Act of 1929 (46 Stat. 26). Apportionment Act of 1941 (54 Stat. 162). Arenson, K.W. 2001. “CUNY Raises Tuition Rates for Foreigners Here Illegally.” New York Times...
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Migration and Democratization in Brazil: The Case of Electoral Participation and Competition

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Alexandre Gori Maia, Yao Lu
Demography (2021) 58 (1): 191–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-8937033
Published: 01 February 2021
... simultaneously undergoing a democratic transition. After a 21-year military regime, the transition to democracy began in 1985 and was consolidated in 1988 with a new constitution and unrestricted direct elections at the national and subnational levels ( Cajado et al. 2014 ). In 1989, the proportion of eligible...
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How India is tackling her population problem

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S. Chandrasekhar
Demography (1968) 5 (2): 642–650.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060254
Published: 01 June 1968
... the framework of an open society with centuries-old customs and traditions. India today is the largest democracy in the world, but an over- whelming majority of the people are il- literate (more than 70 percent), are small- scale farmers (about 80 percent), and live in some 564,000 far-flung villages; some 14...
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Insight into ethnic flux: Marriage patterns among jews of mixed ancestry in Israel

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Barbara S. Okun
Demography (2004) 41 (1): 173–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2004.0008
Published: 01 February 2004
... – 25 . Smooha S. ( 1993 ). Class, Ethnic and National Cleavages and Democracy in Israel . In E. Sprinzak , &amp; L. Diamond (Eds.), Israeli Democracy Under Stress (pp. 309 – 42 ). Boulder : Lynne Rienner . Demographic Yearbook . ( 1994 ). New York : United Nations...
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Kinship networks that cross racial lines: The exception or the rule?

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Joshua R. Goldstein
Demography (1999) 36 (3): 399–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648062
Published: 01 August 1999
... Sociological Review , 47 , 45 – 62 . 10.2307/2095041 Davis , J.A. , &amp; Smith , T.W. ( 1994 ). General Social Surveys, 1972–1994: Cumulative Codebook . Storrs, CT : Roper . de Tocqueville , A. ( 1988 ). Democracy in America . New York : Harper and Row . Edmonston...
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The impact of war, famine, and economic decline on marital fertility in ethiopia

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David P. Lindstrom, Betemariam Berhanu
Demography (1999) 36 (2): 247–261.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648112
Published: 01 May 1999
... : Jossey-Bass . Baker , J. ( 1994 ). Small Urban Centres and Their Role in Rural Restructuring . In A. Zegeye , &amp; S. Pausewang (Eds.), Ethiopia in Change: Peasantry, Nationalism and Democracy (pp. 152 – 71 ). London : British Academic Press . Bariagaber...
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Interior Immigration Enforcement and Political Participation of U.S. Citizens in Mixed-Status Households

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Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Mary J. Lopez
Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2223–2247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0627-6
Published: 03 November 2017
..., such as participating in registration drives or voting rallies, the most important expression in a democratic society is through registering to vote and voting. Ensuring that such participation takes place is vital to the health of a democracy. Because U.S. citizen children with unauthorized parents represent one...
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