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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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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 371–382.
Published: 01 August 1972
...Larry H. Long Abstract Married couples without children are more geographically mobile than those with children, at least through age 45. Among husband-wife couples with children, ages of children exercises a consistent mobility differential; when age of family head is controlled for, families...
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Life course transitions of American children: Parental cohabitation, marriage, and single motherhood
Demography (1999) 36 (2): 205–217.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Deborah Roempke Graefe; Daniel T. Lichter Abstract We examine the life course transitions into and from families headed by unmarried cohabiting couples for a recent cohort of American children. Life table estimates, based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth mother-child files...
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 385–393.
Published: 01 August 1996
... grew at more than double the rate of mother-only families during the 1980s. Decomposition analyses show that the largest factor associated with the increase is that fathers now head a greater proportion of all formerly married single-parent families with children. Although the share of single-parent...
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 299–314.
Published: 01 August 1999
... of major socioeconomic changes occurring in the quarter-century under study, have the determinants of mobility changed over time? Our findings indicate that mobility rates in the 1980s differed little from those in the 1970s. However, individuals in families headed by a young person or a person without...
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 169–173.
Published: 01 May 1970
...James N. Morgan; Ismail Sirageldin Abstract Two different ways of categorizing people’s geographical location are compared as to their relation to earned incomes of family heads, after adjustment for education, age, sex and race. One, the traditional code, uses the size of the city in which...
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 379–388.
Published: 01 August 1971
...C. Russell Hill Abstract The effect of head’s and wife’s educational attainment, health and the number of the head’s dependents under 18 on the amount of time spent in the labor force by white and black male heads of both poor and nonpoor families is investigated in this paper. The technique...
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 143–157.
Published: 01 February 1972
... else’s household influences the differential incidence among population 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...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Lynn A. Karoly; Gary Burtless Abstract This paper uses new methods to determine the sources of the sharp fall and then the steep rise in personal income inequality between 1959 and 1989. The increase in the proportion of single-head families tended to boost inequality over the entire period. Forty...
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 61–86.
Published: 01 February 2004
... of poverty, in general, were tempered by rising wage inequality, simulations indicated that female-headed families and families that were headed by black persons experienced substantial reductions in poverty in the 1990s largely because of the growth in median wages. An auxiliary time-series analysis...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 1988
... point during adolescence are more likely to be come household heads and to go on welfare than offspring of two-parent families. Differences in the incomes of one- and two-parent families can account for up to 25 percent of the difference in offspring behaviors. None of the hypotheses, however, provides...
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 321–334.
Published: 01 August 1981
..., by family type, and by age of head. Group differences in the course and source of changes in family size are evident as anticipated on the basis of group differences in family structure, economic resources and life cycle stage. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1981 1981...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 877–899.
Published: 24 April 2018
... of family behaviors—including female labor force participation and family structure—characteristics of household heads, and men’s earnings. The results showed that the change in men’s earnings was a dominant factor in accounting for the increasing income inequality and poverty. The change in age...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 11–22.
Published: 01 March 1968
... reveal pronounced contrasts. The majority of Negro men, regardless of their social origins, found themselves in lower manual jobs (operatives, service workers, or laborers) in 1962. For them, it was only a slight advantage to have grown up in a family whose head was a higher white-collar (professional...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 437–460.
Published: 14 April 2011
... in single-parent families. The heads of black immigrant households have more schooling than those of native-black households. However, increased schooling has a weaker negative association with child poverty among the former than among the latter. In terms of racial disparities among the children...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1119–1145.
Published: 08 May 2017
... behavior, family formation, health, and education—are positively related to female headship, resulting in a growing share of female-headed households. This shift has been happening alongside declining aggregate poverty incidence. However, rather than being left behind, female-headed households have...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 111–120.
Published: 01 February 1999
... (Simon 1984). Families are defined as coresidential units containing the family head, spouse (if present), and dependent children. Multiple-family units may reside within the same household. Welfare eligibility is based on the resources of one family regardless of the potential re- cipients' access...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1559–1579.
Published: 09 August 2011
... their spouses were more likely to have parents living with them in child-headed coresident households. We conclude that traditional multigenerational coresidence has become a commodity negotiated within families based on relative resources and needs within and across generations. Two dichotomous variables...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1235–1256.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to a different county by the next decennial census relative to their same-race neighbors. We also find that surviving family members had a 12-percentage-point increase in the probability of county out-migration compared with their neighbors when the household head was a lynch victim. The out-migration response...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 275–291.
Published: 01 May 1991
... this heading in other nations. Because of China’s strict control of permanent migration to large cities, temporary migration has become an important strategy for adjusting to economic changes and to effecting family reunification. The Shanghai Temporary Migration Survey of 1984 focused on one segment...
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