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The relation of psychological, social, and economic variables to fertility-related decisions
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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 329–338.
Published: 01 August 1976
....1540-4560.1967.tb00983.x DEMOGRAPHV© Volume 13, Number 3 August 1976 THE RELATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC VARIABLES TO FERTILITY-RELATED DECISIONS James J. Jaccard Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Andrew R. Davidson Battelle...
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Age at marriage as a variable in socio-economic differentials in fertility
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Demography (1969) 6 (1): 45–54.
Published: 01 February 1969
... relation for Catholics. Likewise, a negative differential for American couples with farm background has been observed in contrast to no differential for twogeneration urbanites. Age at marriage is a third such interaction variable: the strong negative socio-economic differential observed when wife’s age...
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The impact of economic resources on premarital childbearing and subsequent marriage among young American women
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 105–126.
Published: 01 February 2003
... and then of subsequent marriage. Using a multiple-destination, multiple-spell hazard regression model and a microsimulation analysis, I analyze the accumulating effects of various economic variables. The results show that the economic resources are indeed important both for premarital childbearing and for subsequent...
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Demographic and Economic Correlates of Development as Measured by Energy Consumption
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 773–779.
Published: 01 June 1967
... de funciones exponenciales uno puede determinar valores para la distribucion de estas variables y la tasa cruda de mortalidad para cualquier nivel de consumo de energía que se desee. Summary Per capita consumption of energy in 112 world areas was related to a series of economic and demographic...
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Economic determinants of fertility: Results from cross-sectional aggregate data
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Demography (1973) 10 (2): 205–223.
Published: 01 May 1973
... a small but positive effect on fertility. The implication of these results is that changes in economic variables, for example, improvements in the employment opportunities and wages for wives or the establishment of a children’s allowance program, may be expected to affect fertility. 26 1 2011...
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Length of residence, social ties, and economic opportunities
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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 297–309.
Published: 01 August 1976
... is found to be longer where previous familial and personal contacts existed. Overall, the results provide additional evidence of the importance of social, as opposed to strictly economic, variables in the migration process. 15 2 2011 © Population Association of America 1976 1976 Economic...
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The demographic viewpoint in the vital and health statistics monographs of The American Public Health Association
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 574–577.
Published: 01 June 1966
... of age and sex, and frequently in terms of such social-economic variables as education, income, work status, and occupational class. A large part of the content of the monograph on social and economic factors in mortality will come out of available results of the 1960 census-death certificate matching...
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Enforcing Divorce Settlements: Evidence from Child Support Compliance and Award Modifications
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 719–735.
Published: 01 November 1993
... economic variables that affect the noncustodial parent’s (NCP’s) ability to pay child support, our approach focuses on factors that may affect the NCP’s desire to pay, such as the ongoing relationship between the two parents and between the NCP and the children. We also examine the “state-contingent...
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The determinants of marital fertility in the united states, 1968–1970: Inferences from a dynamic model
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Demography (1978) 15 (2): 139–159.
Published: 01 May 1978
... of equilibrium family size made by those who employ the static perspective. The equilibrium family size assumption implies that the parameters relating social and economic variables to fertility will be similar for all births, regardless of order. To test this assumption of constancy, a two-equation model...
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Heterogeneity and the implied dynamics of regional growth rates: Was the nonmetropolitan turnaround an artifact of aggregation?
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 99–113.
Published: 01 February 1988
...George Kephart Abstract The spatial units of analysis employed in urban and regional research display considerable internal heterogeneity in terms of the social, demographic, and economic variables used to describe them. One implication of this has been overlooked in the literature, namely...
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Determinants of male labor mobility
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 257–261.
Published: 01 May 1972
... + E1965)j2 ; WI. represents the rate of withdrawals from the labor market i 1960-1965, i.e., 258 It is possible, however, that changes in employment, a variable used in sev- eral studies to measure employment opportunities, may measure only one seg- ment of the economic variables influenc- ing migration...
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Economic Determinants of Family Size in West Africa
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 613–627.
Published: 01 November 1974
... is used as a proxy for income; the “price” of a child is accounted for by wife’s education and wife’s wage rate. Other important variables are wife’s age, a measure of child “quality,” wife’s age at first birth, and child mortality. The findings of the study tend to lend support to the economic theory...
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Cross-Section Studies As Predictors of Trends in Birth Rates: A Note on Ekanem’s Results
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 479–481.
Published: 01 August 1973
... Association of America 1973 1973 Capita Income Wrong Sign Economic Variable Socioeconomic Variable Socioeconomic Development References Ekanem , Ita I. ( 1972 ). A Further Note on the Relation Between Economic Development and Fertility . Demography , 9 , 383 – 398 . 10.2307...
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Southern Negro Migration: Social and Economic Components of an Ecological Model
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 455–471.
Published: 01 November 1969
...) nonwhite poverty; and (5) nonwhite home ownership. Eleven indi- cator variables are employed within the framework of these conceptual compon- ents, as is shown in the display below. (These eleven variables, including one 458 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 6, number 4, November 1969 I. Economic Activity...
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Women, Demography, and Politics: How Lower Fertility Rates Lead to Democracy
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 559–586.
Published: 14 March 2018
... theory and empirical evidence strongly suggest that demographic variables are not just affected by, but also affect, politics. Further, those effects are independent of variables traditionally studied as accounting for democracy, such as colonial legacies, economic growth, schooling, and globalization...
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Explaining Changes in Married Mothers’ Employment over Time
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 365–378.
Published: 01 August 1995
... component, E. The standard labor economics result is that the wife will work whenever her market wage exceeds her reservation wage. The assumption that E is normally distributed yields a probit model. Let d be a dummy variable equal to 1 if the woman works in a given month and equal to 0 if she does...
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Weather, nutrition, and the economy: Short-run fluctuations in births, deaths, and marriages, France 1740–1909
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Demography (1983) 20 (2): 197–212.
Published: 01 May 1983
..., the demographic variables are endogenous. Economic and meteorological conditions are exogenous. Our indicator of economic conditions is the price of wheat, the principal food crop. Biometric models of fertility and empirical research on the biologically-based interrelations of fertility and mortality provide...
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Child care demand and labor supply of young mothers over time
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 333–351.
Published: 01 August 1991
... of these studies is to estimate the effects of economic variables such as child care costs, wage rates, and family income on women's fertility, labor supply, and child care decisions. Evidence about the responsiveness of family behavior to changes in these economic variables is important because such responses...
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A quantitative study of the determinants of fertility behavior
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 30–70.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Stanley Friedlander; Morris Silver Summary Recent literature shows great interest in the quantitative study of the determinants of fertility. In a similar way, this study takes an across-country approach to specify independent variables, to separate economic from social and political variables...
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The relationship of family planning to savings and consumption in Taiwan
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 499–505.
Published: 01 August 1972
... variables tion and have no more additional chil- to a single query about family income. dren. It is puzzling that many others go This paper presents a modest empirical on to have more children than they want, analysis of the relationship of economic either failing to use contraception or us- behavior...
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