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Shifting family definitions: The effect of cohabitation and other nonfamily household relationships on measures of poverty

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Kurt J. Bauman
Demography (1999) 36 (3): 315–325.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648055
Published: 01 August 1999
...Kurt J. Bauman Abstract The current official poverty measure compares income to needs within a family. Some have suggested including cohabiting couples as part of this family. Others have suggested that the household be used as the unit of analysis for poverty measurement. I explore issues involved...
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Family life course transitions and rural Household economy during China’s market reform

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Feinian Chen, Kim Korinek
Demography (2010) 47 (4): 963–987.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03213735
Published: 01 November 2010
...Feinian Chen; Kim Korinek Abstract This article investigates the effect of family life course transitions on labor allocation strategies in rural Chinese households. We highlight three types of economic activity that involve reallocation of household labor oriented toward a more diversified...
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Family structure and dependency: Early transitions to female household headship

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Sara S. McLanahan
Demography (1988) 25 (1): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061474
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...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> structure and dependency: Early transitions to female <span class="search-highlight">household</span> headship View PDF for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> structure and dependency: Early transitions to female <span class="search-highlight">household</span> headship
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Family growth, household density, and moving

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Albert Chevan
Demography (1971) 8 (4): 451–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060682
Published: 01 November 1971
... densities, would have had substantially higher densities had they not moved, but have similar terminal (after move) densities. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1971 1971 DEMOGRAPHY Volume 8, Number 4 November 1971 FAMILY GROWTH, HOUSEHOLD DENSITY, AND MOVING Albert Chevan...
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Beyond the Nuclear Family: Trends in Children Living in Shared Households

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Natasha V. Pilkauskas, Christina Cross
Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2283–2297.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0719-y
Published: 08 October 2018
.../parent’s partner/sibling) family). We find that although the share of children who lived in a shared household increased over this period, the rise was nearly entirely driven by an increase in three-generation/multigenerational households (coresident grandparent(s), parent(s), and child). In 1996, 5.7...
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Interpolating Demography with Families and Households

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Frances K. Goldscheider
Demography (1995) 32 (3): 471–480.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061692
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...
View articletitled, Interpolating Demography with <span class="search-highlight">Families</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Households</span> View PDF for article titled, Interpolating Demography with <span class="search-highlight">Families</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Households</span>
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A new technique for measuring household changes

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Marshall L. Turner, Jr.
Demography (1967) 4 (1): 341–350.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060373
Published: 01 March 1967
...Marshall L. Turner, Jr. Summary Because many recent policy decisions have been aimed at effecting changes in the socioeconomic characteristics of families or households, it has become necessary to isolate policy-induced changes from demographic changes in households over time. To obtain...
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Continuity and Change in U.S. Children's Family Composition, 1968–2017

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Paula Fomby, David S. Johnson
Demography (2022) 59 (2): 731–760.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9783507
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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Changing families and changing mobility: Their impact on the central city

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William H. Frey, Frances E. Kobrin
Demography (1982) 19 (3): 261–277.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060970
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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Household structure and labor force participation of black, hispanic, and white mothers

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Marta Tienda, Jennifer Glass
Demography (1985) 22 (3): 381–394.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061067
Published: 01 August 1985
... the labor market entry of married mothers, but not of single mothers. Interactions between extended structure, ethnicity, and poverty, however, suggest a complex relationship. For extended family households, the gender and employment characteristics of nonnuclear adults affected the labor force...
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Union patterns and children’s living arrangements in Latin America

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Kerry Richter
Demography (1988) 25 (4): 553–566.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061321
Published: 01 November 1988
... children spend some time with an unmarried mother by the age of 15. In addition, those who experience a disruption or are born outside of a union spend a considerable length of time in the single-parent state. Most children of an unmarried mother live in an extended-family household, often...
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Public assistance receipt among immigrants and natives: How the unit of analysis affects research findings

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Jennifer Van Hook, Jennifer E. Glick, Frank D. Bean
Demography (1999) 36 (1): 111–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648137
Published: 01 February 1999
...-, family-, or individual-level units of analysis or presentation. The findings show that nativity differences are statistically significant only at the level of larger units. The results also indicate that if immigrants and natives had identical living arrangements, immigrants’ household-level receipt...
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Immigration and living arrangements: Moving beyond economic need versus acculturation

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Jennifer Van Hook, Jennifer E. Glick
Demography (2007) 44 (2): 225–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2007.0019
Published: 01 May 2007
... patterns in the composition and stability of their households relative to nonimmigrants in both Mexico and the United States. Recent immigrants are more likely to reside in an extended family or non-kin household, and among those living with relatives, recent immigrants are more likely to live...
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Under Whose Roof? Understanding the Living Arrangements of Children in Doubled-Up Households

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Hope Harvey, Rachel Dunifon, Natasha Pilkauskas
Demography (2021) 58 (3): 821–846.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9101102
Published: 01 June 2021
...Hope Harvey; Rachel Dunifon; Natasha Pilkauskas Abstract A growing literature in family demography examines children's residence in doubled-up (shared) households with extended family members and nonkin. This research has largely overlooked the role of doubling up as a housing strategy, with “hosts...
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The racial crossover in family complexity in the United States

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Frances K. Goldscheider, Regina M. Bures
Demography (2003) 40 (3): 569–587.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0022
Published: 01 August 2003
...Frances K. Goldscheider; Regina M. Bures Abstract This article examines the evolution of the black extended family by documenting a black-white crossover in the proportions of unmarried adults living in complex households after the middle of the twentieth century. We demonstrate significant racial...
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Changes in Household Composition and Children’s Educational Attainment

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Kristin L. Perkins
Demography (2019) 56 (2): 525–548.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0757-5
Published: 16 January 2019
...Kristin L. Perkins Abstract Changes in parental romantic relationships are an important component of family instability, but children are exposed to many other changes in the composition of their households that bear on child well-being. Prior research that focused on parental transitions has thus...
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Household Instability and Girls’ Teen Childbearing

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Kristin L. Perkins
Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1767–1789.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11033086
Published: 01 December 2023
...Kristin L. Perkins Abstract More than one third of U.S. children spend part of their childhood living with extended family members. By age 18, nearly 40% of U.S. children experience a household change involving a nonparent. Research has found that having extended family or nonrelatives join...
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Postmarital Living Arrangements in Historically Patrilocal Settings: Integrating Household Fission and Migration Perspectives

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Jessica Pearlman, Lisa D. Pearce, Dirgha J. Ghimire, Prem Bhandari, Taylor Hargrove
Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1425–1449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0588-9
Published: 05 July 2017
..., travel, and marital behavior, influence the decision to make the departure from the natal home permanent. Our findings explain why previous results regarding household fission and those focused on migration have provided such mixed results, and we establish a new framework for thinking about how families...
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Household and Living Arrangement Projections at the Subnational Level: An Extended Cohort-Component Approach

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Yi Zeng, Kenneth C. Land, Zhenglian Wang, Danan Gu
Demography (2013) 50 (3): 827–852.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0171-3
Published: 04 December 2012
... while the extended cohort-component approach projects detailed household sizes. We also present illustrative household and living arrangement projections for the five decades from 2000 to 2050, with medium-, small-, and large-family scenarios for each of the 50 states; Washington, DC; six counties...
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Cumulative Effects of Doubling Up in Childhood on Young Adult Outcomes

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Hope Harvey
Demography (2020) 57 (2): 501–528.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00860-0
Published: 23 March 2020
... on young adult health and educational attainment of childhood years spent in three doubled-up household types: (1) those formed with children’s grandparent(s), (2) those formed with children’s adult sibling(s), and (3) those formed with other extended family or non-kin adults. Using marginal structural...
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