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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 255–267.
Published: 01 May 2006
... and Event-History Analysis . American Sociological Review , 60 , 272 – 98 . 10.2307/2096387 Sex Preferences and Childbearing in the Nordic Countries 255 S Demography, Volume 43-Number 2, May 2006: 255 267 255 GENDERING FAMILY COMPOSITION: SEX PREFERENCES FOR CHILDREN AND CHILDBEARING BEHAVIOR...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 731–760.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Paula Fomby; David S. Johnson Abstract We document changes in U.S. children's family household composition from 1968 to 2017 with regard to the number and types of kin that children lived with and the frequency of family members' household entrances and departures. Data are from the U.S. Panel...
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 195–209.
Published: 01 May 1970
...James A. Sweet Abstract This is a study of the employment patterns of American wives in relation to the composition of their families. The data are taken from the 1960 United States Census, both from published tabulations and the 1/1000 sample. The population studied is non-Negro, non-farm, married...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1423–1449.
Published: 15 July 2014
... ways in which family demographic composition and living arrangements affect and are affected by family members’ individual outcomes as well as conditions in the family’s social and economic environment. 7 In some of these cases, nonrandom selection into live birth is likely to be trivial to the main...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 29–36.
Published: 01 February 1982
.... ( 1978 ). The Changing Character of the Nonmetropolitan Population, 1950–75 . In T. R. Ford (Ed.), Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and Change . Ames : Iowa State University Press . DEMOGRAPHV© Volume 19, Number 1 February 1982 FAMILY SIZE COMPOSITION DIFFERENTIALS BETWEEN CEN- TRAL CITY-SUBURB...
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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 67–79.
Published: 01 February 1975
...William F. Stinner; Paul Douglas Mader Abstract An analysis of family sex composition preferences as well as the relationship between actual family sex composition and desire for no additional children among a national sample of Filipino women is presented. An emphasis on balance or son-daughter...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2375–2383.
Published: 02 October 2017
... “Family Structure and Child Health: Does the Sex Composition of Parents Matter?,” Reczek and colleagues presented a well-constructed analysis of health measures from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for children with parents in four union statuses: same-sex married, same-sex cohabiting...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1605–1630.
Published: 23 August 2016
... composition of the parental couple as a dimension of family structure. Only recently—with the spreading U.S. legalization of same-sex marriage culminating in nationwide recognition in 2015—have we been able to address the question of whether marriage has the same developmental advantages for same-sex couples...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 439–458.
Published: 01 May 2010
... starting wage, the steepness of the earning profile, attitudes toward gendered family roles, and gender composition. The results indicate that the postponement of motherhood is relatively limited among graduates from study disciplines in which stereotypical attitudes about family roles prevail and in which...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1875–1897.
Published: 16 August 2019
... for the effects of union status operating indirectly through time-varying characteristics, such as coresident family composition and economic circumstances. The analytic sample includes parents of a recent cohort of young adults (Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1983–2013, N = 2,754). Compared with parents who...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 271–294.
Published: 30 January 2018
... fertility is still uncertain, as increased female empowerment and increased difficulty in achieving a desired gender composition within a smaller family pull in potentially different directions. I study how being born at a parity or of a gender undesired by the mother relates to infant mortality in sub...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 299–314.
Published: 01 August 1999
... movements across quintiles, centers on four questions: How much movement is there across the family income distribution? How has this mobility changed over time? To what extent are the movements attributable to factors related to changes in family composition versus events in the labor markets? In light...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 419–447.
Published: 04 March 2016
... fluctuations in children’s monthly family incomes in the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Going beyond earlier research on income volatility, we examine income insecurity more directly by analyzing income gains and losses separately and by relating them to changes in family composition...
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 143–157.
Published: 01 February 1972
...- lation subgroups of the female-headed family. The living arrangements of mothers without husbands are investigated cross-sectionally using the 1/1000 sample of the 1960 census. Attention is focused on what characteristics (age, family composition, education, race, and income) are associated...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1085–1108.
Published: 06 July 2016
...John R. Logan; Hyoung-jin Shin Abstract This study examines the bases of residential segregation in a late nineteenth century American city, recognizing the strong tendency toward homophily within neighborhoods. Our primary question is how ethnicity, social class, nativity, and family composition...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 261–284.
Published: 05 December 2018
... youth, and these differences were not explained by a range of sociodemographic and family composition characteristics. Moreover, our findings indicate that CPS and foster care are unlikely to be causal agents in the risk of early motherhood: among foster youth, risk was lower during foster care compared...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., nationally representative sample of young children, we find that the probability of a child being left-handed is not significantly related to child health at birth, family composition, parental employment, or household income. We also find robust evidence that left-handed (and mixed-handed) children perform...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 37–51.
Published: 01 February 1982
...Suzanne M. Bianchi; Reynolds Farley; Daphne Spain Abstract Changes in racial differences in homeownership and objective indicators of housing quality are examined using 1960 Census data and 1977 Annual Housing Survey data. Blacks, net of differences in socioeconomic status, family composition...
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 683–689.
Published: 01 November 1974
...David P. Smith Abstract If at each conception couples have some control over the sex of their intended offspring, their chances of reaching a desired ultimate family composition will be influenced by the specific order in which they try for sons and daughters. This article introduces and discusses...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Shelley Clark Abstract Although the effect of son preference on sex composition of children ever born is undetectable in national-level estimates that aggregate across all families, this article provides empirical evidence from India that son preference has two pronounced and predictable family...
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