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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 203–221.
Published: 01 May 2006
... that the impact of cohabitation on union stability depends on how far cohabitation has diffused within a society. We test this hypothesis with data from 16 European countries. The results support our hypothesis: former cohabitors run a higher risk of union dissolution than people who married without prior...
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 411–425.
Published: 01 August 1971
...James A. Palmore; Paul M. Hirsch; Ariffin bin Marzuki Abstract Using data from a 1966–1967 probability sample of West Malaysian married women 15–44 years of age, this paper analyzes the characteristics of women who were active in diffusing information about family planning. The woman’s age and her...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 873–898.
Published: 19 May 2020
... was conceived, the hope was that any positive momentum in the cities would diffuse to surrounding areas. Using a variety of statistical methods, we study three aspects of diffusion and their effects on modern contraceptive use: spread through mass communications, social learning, and social influence. Using...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1261–1281.
Published: 16 September 2016
...) distortions from the bottom up and attempts to quantify plausible levels, trends, and interactions of son preference, technology diffusion, and fertility decline that underpin SRB trajectories at the macro level. Calibrating our model for South Korea, we show how even as the proportion with a preference...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 601–614.
Published: 01 June 1967
.... El proceso dela comunicación envuelve tantoa esposos cuantoa esposas, pero ambos tienendistintos patrones de comunicación. Ambos participan en el proceso final de la toma de decisiones para una adopción. Summary In this study the diffusion and adoption framework is used to investigate a family...
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Published: 18 August 2015
Fig. 1 Mexican immigrant diffusion and border enforcement. CA and TX exclude only the border sectors that are wholly outside those states. Source: CPS and DHS More
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 711–735.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of institutionalized racism first in places with the longest-standing overt systems of slavery. Results provide guidance for further identifying intervening mechanisms—most centrally, the maturity of racial hierarchies and the associated diffusion of racial oppression across institutions, and how they affect...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 355–377.
Published: 26 March 2015
...Agnese Vitali; Arnstein Aassve; Trude Lappegård Abstract The article analyzes the diffusion of childbearing within cohabitation in Norway, using municipality data over a 24-year period (1988–2011). Research has found substantial spatial heterogeneity in this phenomenon but also substantial spatial...
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 237–260.
Published: 27 October 2012
...Mikko Myrskylä; Joshua R. Goldstein Abstract In this article, we show how stochastic diffusion models can be used to forecast demographic cohort processes using the Hernes, Gompertz, and logistic models. Such models have been used deterministically in the past, but both behavioral theory...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1955–1975.
Published: 01 October 2021
.... These findings support a diffusion explanation for declines in husbands' decision-making dominance over time. Our analyses also indicate that schooling and urbanization may be important channels through which diffusion occurs, which we speculate is because these are places where people are exposed to new ideas...
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Published: 19 May 2020
Fig. 2 Summary of the estimation methods for the cross-sectional models in rural and other urban areas of Kaduna and Oyo States. Individual exposure model: Diffusion-related variables are the individual’s recall of program variables with no correction for recall or acquiescent bias. Community More
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 653–674.
Published: 14 April 2011
... to economic cost and diffusion posit that rising educational disparities in tobacco use—and associated disparities in health and premature mortality—are associated with higher national income and more advanced stages of cigarette diffusion, particularly among younger persons and males. To test these arguments...
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 45–65.
Published: 01 February 2003
... by women. An alternative explanation suggests that the convergence in mortality from lung cancer among men and women is the byproduct of a lag in the adoption, diffusion, and abatement of smoking by women. Using mortality data on 21 nations from 1955 to 1996, an analysis of logged rates of men’s...
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Demography (1973) 10 (1): 53–69.
Published: 01 February 1973
... of development patterns based on the time of their early development: (1) before the development of the automobile, (2) during the early period of the auto’s diffusion to the population, and (3) during the period of the mass diffusion of the auto. Patterns of population concentration and congestion across...
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 February 1994
.... This finding has been cited widely as evidence for an innovation/diffusion view of fertility transitions. We demonstrate that the demographic methods used to date the fertility transition in Europe—primarily I g , and (to a lesser extent) the Coale-Trussell M&m indices—may fail to detect the initial stages...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 615–631.
Published: 01 November 1994
... to the national demographic revolution in family building. In this paper we attempt to identify the factors that account for the persistently high fertility in some southern regions. We use county-level data for 1940 to assess the utility of three theoretical models of fertility: structural, diffusion-innovation...
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 679–690.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Stewart E. Tolnay Abstract The effect of venereal disease on black fertility is estimated for six Deep South states around 1940. Several relevant control variables are introduced, including characteristics of the socioeconomic environment and measures of possible diffusion processes that might have...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 637–657.
Published: 01 November 2003
... ratio and the incidence of female feti-cide that suggest the intensification of gender bias. We argue that the anomaly is the result of a diffusion of prenatal sex-diagnostic techniques in regions where there is a large unmet demand for such methods. Using the NFHS data, we estimate that in northern...
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 531–548.
Published: 01 November 1972
... diffusion of the pill and IUD and increases in legal abortion, the net demographic effect of increasing sterilization is regarded as low, though sterilization is an important component of an effective fertility control regime. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1972 1972 Risk...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1343–1361.
Published: 20 June 2018
... mortality scenarios that allows for the detection of both pure and mixed scenarios. Our framework determines whether changes of the deaths curve over time show elements of extension or contraction; compression or decompression; left- or right-shifting mortality; and concentration or diffusion. The framework...
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