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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1127–1149.
Published: 25 June 2011
.... Using the National Survey of Family Growth Cycle 6, we illustrate how responsive survey design can shape both demographic estimates and models of demographic behaviors based on survey data. By juxtaposing measures from regular and responsive data collection phases, we document how special efforts...
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 37–48.
Published: 01 February 1971
... . Whiteley , C. H. , & Whiteley , Winifred ( 1967 ). Sex and Morals . New York : Basic Books, Inc. . DEMOGRAPHY Volume 8, Number 1 February 1971 MODERN AND TRADITIONAL VALUE ORIENTATIONS AND FERTILITY BEHAVIOR: A SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY WilliamB. Clifford, " Department of Sociology...
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 397–411.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Douglas L. Anderton; Richard E. Barrett Abstract Nearly all developed countries have experienced dramatic declines in the seasonality of demographic behavior over the last century. This article examines seasonal behavior in the population of Taiwan between 1906 and 1942, during Japanese colonial...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1575–1602.
Published: 01 August 2021
... role of genetic factors in explaining variation in family transitions and events across the life course. We estimate the genetic contribution to sequence complexity and a wide range of family demographic behaviors using genomic relatedness–based, restricted maximum likelihood models with data from...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Tzy-Mey Kuo; C. M. Suchindran; Helen P. Koo Abstract In many demographic behaviors (e.g., those relating to marriage, contraception, migration, and health), people change among multiple statuses through time, sometimes leaving and then returning to the same status. Data on such behaviors are often...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 615–631.
Published: 01 November 1994
... behavior. Not only should we examine a variety of causal mechanisms for demographic phenomena; we also should consider the varying utility of those mechanisms across different social groups. Demography, Vol. 31, No.4, November 1994 The Persistence of High Fertility in the American South on the Eve...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 173–191.
Published: 01 February 2008
... that the distributional effect of demographic behavior contributes little to the U.S. poverty gap with other nations (and none with respect to the United Kingdom). Overall differences in labor markets and welfare schemes best explain the U.S. child poverty gap, although for some countries, the gap is accentuated...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1373–1399.
Published: 01 August 2021
... as forerunners in demographic behavior. Furthermore, Nordic fertility trends have strongly influenced fertility theories. However, the period fertility decline that started around 2010 in many countries with relatively high fertility is particularly pronounced in the Nordic countries, raising the question...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1797–1819.
Published: 19 September 2014
...Joshua R. Goldstein; Thomas Cassidy Abstract We introduce a new formal model in which demographic behavior such as fertility is postponed by differing amounts depending only on cohort membership. The cohort-based model shows the effects of cohort shifts on period fertility measures and provides...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 145–173.
Published: 05 January 2017
..., we approach this issue from both a short-term and a long-term perspective. For the short term, grandparents’ educational attainments have a direct association with grandchildren’s education as well as an indirect association that is mediated by parents’ education and demographic behaviors...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1011–1037.
Published: 01 June 2021
... socioeconomic differences in sibling similarity, some studies have analyzed the underlying parental behaviors, which are theorized to bring about differences in sibling similarity directly. A small number of studies in the United States have tested whether parents' reinforcing or compensatory responses...
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 369–377.
Published: 01 August 1971
... Research and Training Center, Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia, Athens 30601 Abstract-Previous research has demonstrated that socioeconomic differentials in fertility are heavily influenced by couples with rural background. These studies show an inverse relationship between...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 189–204.
Published: 01 May 1988
..., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 Sandra L. Hofferth Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 In this article, we examine the reliability with which teenage...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 237–245.
Published: 01 May 2000
...). For the past few decades, many cohabitation studies have referred to increases in the prevalence of cohabitation R *Lynne M. Casper, Fertility and Family Statistics Branch, U.S. Census Bureau, and Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2247–2269.
Published: 01 December 2022
... that of other high-income countries . Health Affairs , 32 , 459 – 467 . Homan P. , Brown T. H. , & King B . ( 2021 ). Structural intersectionality as a new direction for health disparities research . Journal of Health and Social Behavior , 62 , 350 – 370 . Hummer R...
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 119–128.
Published: 01 February 1972
... to have a demographic system marked by young ages at marriage, young ages at beginning of childbearing, high rates of reproduction, and high rates of marital instability. Japanese-Americans display just the opposite pattern of behavior on each of these variables. Using existing research on determinants...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 127–142.
Published: 01 May 1993
... : University of California Press . Bongaarts John , & Potter Robert G. ( 1983 ). Fertility, Biology, and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants . New York : Academic Press . Coale Ansley J. ( 1973 ). The Demographic Transition . Proceedings of International...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 443–457.
Published: 01 August 1993
... of fertility using these and other demographic characteristics as independent variables. The conclusions emphasize the importance of the overall trend toward fertility decline in the United States, as well as the role of religion and of occupational differences, in determining changes in fertility behavior...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 March 1968
... ). The Sociology of Demographic Behavior . In Robert , Merton , Leonard , Broom , & Leonard S. , Cottrell (Eds.), Sociology Today (pp. 309 – 33 ). New York : Basic Books . 10 William J. , Goode ( 1964 ). Readings on the Family and Society (pp. 90 – 95 ). Englewood Cliffs...
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 559–574.
Published: 01 August 2005
... Generalizations With an Application to Demographic Data . Sociological Methods and Research , 24 , 158 – 86 . 10.1177/0049124195024002002 Burch , T.K. ( 1993 ). Theory, Computers and the Parameterization of Demographic Behavior Proceedings of the International Population Conference, Montreal...
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