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Migration, Gender, and Families: The Effects of Spousal Migration on Women's Empowerment
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 769–795.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Heidi West; Angubeen Khan; Abdur Razzaque; Randall Kuhn Abstract Labor migration has a profound effect on families, but evidence documenting the impact of migration on women left behind is still lacking. Utilizing the Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Surveys, we examined the roles of migration...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1069–1096.
Published: 01 August 2024
... expansion to the Child Tax Credit (CTC) on housing affordability and the living arrangements of families with low incomes. We employ a parameterized difference-in-differences method and leverage national data from a sample of parents who are receiving or recently received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
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View articletitled, The Effects of the 2021 Child Tax Credit on Housing Affordability and the Living Arrangements of <span class="search-highlight">Families</span> With Low Incomes
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Characteristics of “other” families
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 242–246.
Published: 01 March 1964
... rapido durante los años cincuenta, sobre todo las que no son blancas en las areas urbanas. La fuerza económicade este grupo de familias en comparación con otras familias, a disminuido mucho desde 1950. Female Head Median Income Normal Family Male Head Cumulative Fertility CHARACTERISTICS...
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Married-Couple Families With Step, Adopted, and Biological Children
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 267–277.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Jeanne E. Moorman; Donald J. Hernandez Abstract National estimates of the numbers of families with step, adopted, and biological children have not previously been developed. In this work, parent types for children in married-couple families were indirectly identified by using marriage and birth...
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The growth of families headed by women: 1950–1980
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 19–30.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Roger A. Wojtkiewicz; Sara S. McLanahan; Irwin Garfinkel Abstract In recent decades, the number of families headed by women has increased dramatically. In this article, we use U.S. census data from 1950 to 1980 to consider the extent to which population growth, fertility change, decreased marriage...
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Educational attainment of children from single-parent families: Differences by exposure, gender, and race
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 221–234.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Sheila Fitzgerald Krein; Andrea H. Beller Abstract This article examines the effect of living in a single-parent family on educational attainment by gender and race. According to household production theory, the reduction in parental resources for human capital investment in children living...
View articletitled, Educational attainment of children from single-parent <span class="search-highlight">families</span>: Differences by exposure, gender, and race
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Families, social life, and well-being at older ages
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S87–S109.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Linda Waite; Aniruddha Das Abstract As people age, many aspects of their lives tend to change, including the constellation of people with whom they are connected, their social context, their families, and their health—changes that are often interrelated. Wave I of the National Social Life, Health...
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Changing families and changing mobility: Their impact on the central city
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Demography (1982) 19 (3): 261–277.
Published: 01 August 1982
... gains in the numbers of small, nontraditional households have occurred since the 1950s, it has not been demonstrated that: (a) these households are more likely to relocate in the city than traditional family households (husband-wife with children under 18); or (b) their cityward relocation patterns...
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The growth of American families studies an assessment of significance
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 388–396.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Clyde V. Kiser Summary This is a review focused mainly upon the book Fertility and Family Planning in the United States , by Pascal K. Whelpton, Arthur A. Campbell, and John E. Patterson, published by Princeton University Press in 1966, and representing the results of the second GAF survey (1960...
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Redefining Single-Parent Families: Cohabitation and Changing Family Reality
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 97–109.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Larry L. Bumpass; R. Kelly Raley Abstract This paper explores the implications, for the measured prevalence and duration of mother-only families, of marked changes in nonmarital fertility, unmarried cohabitation, and homeleaving and re-entry. Throughout, estimates are compared on the basis...
View articletitled, Redefining Single-Parent <span class="search-highlight">Families</span>: Cohabitation and Changing <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> Reality
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Interpolating Demography with Families and Households
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 471–480.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Frances K. Goldscheider Abstract This paper argues that the field of household and family demography serves a critical role in the development of our understanding of the determinants and consequences of population trends. Like the community, families and households are situated between the two...
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Paternal involvement with adolescents in intact families: The influence of fathers over the life course
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 201–216.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Kathleen Mullan Harris; Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.; Jeremy K. Marmer Abstract We measure the quality and quantity of fathers’ involvement with adolescent children in intact families over time using longitudinal data from The National Survey of Children. We examine differentials in fathers...
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Reconsidering the increase in father-only families
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 385–393.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Steven Garasky; Daniel R. Meyer Abstract Previously reported estimates of rapid growth rates among father-only families did not account for cohabitation. An explicit treatment of cohabitation removes about half of the presumed growth. Nevertheless, we find that the number of father-only families...
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Introduction to the Special Issue: “Men in Families”
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 133.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Suzanne M. Bianchi, Guest Editor 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1998 1998 Child Support Absent Father Married Father Legal Custody Physical Custody INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE: "MEN IN FAMILIES" SUZANNE M. BIANCHI, GUEST EDITOR When Robert Mare first...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1821–1842.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Robert F. Schoeni; Vicki A. Freedman; Jennifer C. Cornman; Judith A. Seltzer Abstract We examine older partnered parents' time spent with adult children in biological and step families, treating time together as an indication of relationship strength. Using a unique national sample of U.S. time...
View articletitled, The Strength of Parent–Adult Child Ties in Biological <span class="search-highlight">Families</span> and Stepfamilies: Evidence From Time Diaries From Older Adults
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 761–786.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Roshan K. Pandian; Keera Allendorf Abstract A neglected consequence of declining fertility is the likely rise of families with children of one sex—only sons or only daughters. Increases in such families present important demographic shifts that may weaken patrilineal family systems. We assess...
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View articletitled, The Rise of Sonless <span class="search-highlight">Families</span> in Asia and North Africa
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Monthly benefits received in 1983 and 2004 by families by age and disabilit...
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Fig. 4 Monthly benefits received in 1983 and 2004 by families by age and disability status. All values are in 2009 CPI-U-RS dollars
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Gaps in exposure to married-parent families between lower- and higher-incom...
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in The Segregation of Opportunity: Social and Financial Resources in the Educational Contexts of Lower- and Higher-Income Children, 1990–2014
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Published: 10 September 2019
Fig. 6 Gaps in exposure to married-parent families between lower- and higher-income students’ school districts by state income segregation quintile, 1990–2014
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Agricultural employment and multigenerational families: United States, 1800...
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Fig. 6 Agricultural employment and multigenerational families: United States, 1800–2010. Sources: Ruggles et al. ( 2015 ) and Weiss ( 1992 )
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1235–1256.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Ryan Gabriel; Adrian Haws; Amy Kate Bailey; Joseph Price Abstract We examine the relationship between the lynching of African Americans in the southern United States and subsequent county out-migration of the victims' surviving family members. Using U.S. census records and machine learning methods...
View articletitled, The Migration of Lynch Victims' <span class="search-highlight">Families</span>, 1880–1930
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