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On the efficiency of the estimates of life table functions
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 421–426.
Published: 01 August 1973
... where such tables are usually obtained by comparing age distributions of successive censuses. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1973 1973 Life Expectancy Life Table Differential Allocation Estimate Life Table Undetermined Multiplier References Chiang , C. L...
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Parental Spending on School-Age Children: Structural Stratification and Parental Expectation
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 835–860.
Published: 02 May 2015
... a profound impact on parental investment in children; yet, parental education and occupation—the other two aspects of SES—are seldom considered in the household consumption literature. In this study, we stress the differential effects of the three aspects of SES in determining resource allocation behavior...
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Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
..., breastfeeding) that are relevant for survival (Arnold et al. 1998 , Das Gupta 1987 ; Miller 1981 ; Mishra et al. 2004 ; Pande 2003 ). Nonetheless, the empirical evidence for sex-differential allocation of resources has often been mixed or inconclusive. Whereas several studies have found that girls were...
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Son Preference, Fertility Decline, and the Nonmissing Girls of Turkey
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 541–566.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and causing differences in sibling sex composition, DSB might also give rise to health disparities between boys and girls. Rosenblum ( 2013 ) developed an economic model in which sibling sex composition leads to a differential allocation of family resources among boys and girls. In this framework, sons...
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Residence background, socioeconomic status, and fertility
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 369–377.
Published: 01 August 1971
...- entials in fertility are the result of the differential allocation of rural migrants in the class structure. The basic hypo- thesis of this study was that urban mi- grants in rural areas would be found disproportionately in the higher social levels, and would have low fertility; thus, when the population...
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Mortality by nativity
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 February 1986
..., Nativity, and Country of Origin on the Death Certificate and Matching Census Record . Washington, D.C. : National Center for Health Statistics . Kitagawa E. M. , & Hauser P. M. ( 1973 ). Differential Mortality in the United States: A Study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology . Cambridge...
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Hispanic-White Differences in Lifespan Variability in the United States
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 215–239.
Published: 18 December 2015
... into cause-specific spread, allocation, and timing effects. In addition to their higher life expectancy relative to whites, Hispanics also exhibit 7 % lower lifespan variability, with a larger gap among women than men. Differences in cause-specific incidence (allocation effects) explain nearly two-thirds...
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Is Child Schooling A Poor Proxy for Child Quality?
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
... to allocate sufficiently different physical and financial assets among their children to compensate for endowment differentials, at least for recent generations in the U.S. See Menchik (1980, 1982) and Behrman and Taubman (l986b). 14 Schooling prices that are directly (inversely) related to endowments oppose...
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A New Method for Determining Why Length of Life is More Unequal in Some Populations Than in Others
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1207–1230.
Published: 26 September 2012
... in the extension of the length of life (Nau and Beemer 2004 ). We extend that strategy to isolate S-A-T effects with respect to differential variance in the ages at death of two populations. 4 Small joint effects could mask large but offsetting allocation-spread and allocation-timing interactions, so...
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Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight and Differential Parental Treatment
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1385–1405.
Published: 03 August 2012
... investments Child health Differential treatment Birth weight Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented [a] robe for him. (Genesis 37:3–4) Competing theories exist regarding how parents allocate...
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Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1641–1662.
Published: 03 August 2018
...-stakes allocation task (subjects allocate the equivalent of one day’s wages between male and female school-aged students) in rural Bangladesh to examine parental attitudes toward male and female children. Parents, either jointly or individually, allocated freely or restricted endowments for the benefit...
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Comparison of Information on Death Certificates and Matching 1960 Census Records: Age, Marital Status, Race, Nativity and Country of Origin
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 413–423.
Published: 01 November 1969
... Kitagawa, Evelyn M., and Philip M. Hauser. 1962. Methods used in a current study of social and economic differentials in mortality. In Emerging Techniques in Population Research, Proceedings of the 1962 Annual Conference of the Milbank Memorial Fund. Kitagawa, Evelyn M. 1967. Education and income...
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Ability Gaps?
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2187–2208.
Published: 20 June 2013
... parental motive for within-family resource allocation decisions. Some studies have found evidence of compensatory behavior, while others have found evidence of reinforcing behavior. For example, Rosenzweig and Schultz ( 1982 ) analyzed parental allocations in response to differential boy-girl survival data...
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Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United States
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 02 November 2018
... who died outside their state of birth. Bias enters our estimate when states had differential net migration rates or differential mortality rates. In all cases, infant deaths are allocated to the state of occurrence regardless of the child’s birth state because we have no information on state of birth...
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Gender Pay Gap and Employment Sector: Sources of Earnings Disparities in the United States, 1970–2010
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1597–1618.
Published: 23 August 2014
... distribution . Industrial & Labor Relations Review , 60 , 163 – 186 . Asher , M. , & Popkin , J. ( 1984 ). The effect of gender and race differentials on public-private wage comparisons: A study of postal workers . Industrial & Labor Relations Review , 38 , 16 – 25 . 10.2307...
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Children and marital disruption: A replication and update
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 71–82.
Published: 01 February 1984
... diversity will be introduced through varying ages at the time this disruption occurs, varying durations before remar- riage occurs, and varying conditions and stability in second families if remarriage occurs. This analysis considers trends and differentials in the proportion of chil- dren of each age...
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Measuring change and continuity in parity distributions
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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 485–498.
Published: 01 August 1989
...Thomas W. Pullum; Lucky M. Tedrow; Jerald R. Herting Abstract Procedures are developed to allocate the change in mean fertility to the change in specific parities or groups of parities. One procedure uses the proportion at each parity and another uses parity progression ratios. Both are based...
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Marital Status and Mothers’ Time Use: Childcare, Housework, Leisure, and Sleep
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 107–133.
Published: 08 February 2018
... (ATUS). We found marital status differentiated housework, leisure, and sleep time, but did not influence the amount of time that mothers provided childcare. Net of the number of employment hours, married mothers did more housework and slept less than never-married and divorced mothers, counter...
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Investment allocation and population growth
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 203–232.
Published: 01 March 1965
... consistent with fer- tility trends and differentials recently observed in the most developed countries-where, once again, positive correlation is found between income and family size-than the standard Neo-Malthusian theory. Investment Allocation and Population Growth 209 tempt to defend this assumption...
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Historical changes in the household division of labor
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Demography (1988) 25 (4): 537–552.
Published: 01 November 1988
... a substantial and influential economic literature on timeallocation (Becker, 1965; Cronau, 1977; Kooreman and Kapteyn, 1987) thatemphasizes the male/female wage-rate differentials in the explanation ofgender differences in time allocation patterns. Kooreman and Kapteyn used the 1975 U.S. datato explain...
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