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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 65–79.
Published: 01 February 1994
...William G. Axinn; Marin E. Clarkberg; Arland Thornton Abstract Several studies have demonstrated important effects of parents’ childbearing behavior on their children’s childbearing preferences and behavior. The study described here advances our understanding of these family influences by expanding...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 437–460.
Published: 14 April 2011
... of familial contexts on poverty among U.S.-born blacks are now well established (e.g., Eggebeen and Lichter 1991 ; Jarrett and Burton 1999 ), little is known about the operation of similar influences in black immigrant families. Likewise, the question of whether familial influences affect child poverty...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 811–833.
Published: 27 May 2015
.... In a classic study, Biblarz and Raftery ( 1993 ) analyzed data from the well-known 1962 and 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation (OCG) surveys, and showed that the influence of the socioeconomic status (SES) of the family of origin on son’s SES was stronger for families that were intact when the child...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 127–142.
Published: 01 May 1993
... and Demographic Determinants of Human Reproduction, Baltimore, MD. van de Walle Etienne ( 1992 ). Fertility Transition, Conscious Choice, and Numeracy . Demography , 29 , 487 – 502 . 10.2307/2061848 Demography, Vol. 30, No.2, May 1993 New Zodiacal Influences on Chinese Family Formation...
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 293–305.
Published: 01 August 1998
... home- leaving, the increased tension that young unemployed people experience in the family may raise the emotional costs to the extent that they leave home earlier than those who are em- ployed (Murphy and Sullivan 1986). Thus, leaving home is influenced by economic, cultural, institutional, and demo...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 379–399.
Published: 21 March 2015
... of the less-educated partner. Some circumstances other than the partners’ education and relative resources, such as the presence of children, may also influence relative proximity to parents. For example, daughters’ stronger family ties may encourage couples with children to live closer to her parents. We...
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 323–340.
Published: 01 August 1987
... on the fertility of black adolescents . American Journal of Sociology , 90 , 825 – 855 . 10.1086/228146 Inazu , J. K. , & Fox , G. L. ( 1980 ). Maternal influence on the sexual behavior of teenage daughters . Journal of Family Issues , 1 , 81 – 102 . Jöreskog , K. G...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 May 2001
... . THE RACIAL DIFFERENCE IN MOTHER-ONLY FAMILIES 283 Demography, Volume 38-Number 2, May 2001: 283 297 283 THE INFLUENCE OF REMARRIAGE ON THE RACIAL DIFFERENCE IN MOTHER- ONLY FAMILIES IN 1910* ANDREW S. LONDON AND CHERYL ELMAN proportionately or otherwise to promote differentiation from normative Euro-American...
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 66–81.
Published: 01 February 1996
...William G. Axinn; Arland Thornton Abstract We investigate the influence of parents’ marital dissolutions on their children’s attitudes toward several dimensions of family formation. Hypotheses focus on the role of parents’ attitudes as a mechanism linking parents’ behavior to their children’s...
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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 1985
...Robert T. Michael; Nancy Brandon Tuma Abstract We investigate the influence of family background on early entry into marriage and parenthood among white, Hispanic, and black men and women ages 14 to 22 in the first (1979) wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Family background...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 737–756.
Published: 01 November 2005
...John Sandberg Abstract This article investigates the effects of sociometric network members’ self-reported experiences with infant mortality on nonnumeric responses regarding expected family size among women in a small Nepalese community. The hypotheses tested include (1) that uncertainty about...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 201–216.
Published: 01 May 1998
... INVOLVEMENT WITH ADOLESCENTS IN INTACT FAMILIES: THE INFLUENCE OF FATHERS OVER THE LIFE COURSE· KATHLEEN MULLAN HARRIS, FRANK F. FURSTENBERG, JR., AND JEREMY K. MARMER We measure the quality and quantity offathers' involvement with adolescent children in intact families over time using longitu- dinal data...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 295–318.
Published: 18 December 2017
... uses a sample of Finnish siblings born between 1936 and 1950 obtained from Finnish census data. Individuals are followed from ages 35 to 72. To explain familial influence on mortality, we use demographic background factors, the socioeconomic position of the parents, and the individuals’ own...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 1–23.
Published: 27 January 2011
... appropriate for some populations in some periods, this perspective may omit important sources of intergenerational continuity of family-based social inequality. Social institutions, which transcend individual lives, help support multigenerational influence, particularly at the extreme top and bottom...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1219–1244.
Published: 05 July 2016
... of the extended family considerably misrepresents the influence of the family on status attainment. 6 6 2016 5 7 2016 © The Author(s) 2016 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 595–619.
Published: 13 March 2019
... in intergenerational transmission is observed across birth cohorts regardless of whether socioeconomic factors are controlled, supporting the idea that the family of origin has lost implicit and explicit influence on fertility choices. As parents were adopting the two-child family norm, the number of siblings lost its...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 71–91.
Published: 09 January 2017
... analyses reveal that it is mainly influences of the family environment—not genetic factors—that cause spurious associations between education and age at first birth. Last, using data from the Office for National Statistics, we demonstrate that only 1.9 months of the 2.74 years of fertility postponement...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 923–934.
Published: 01 November 2010
... factors, such as individual and family background variables. We measure social interaction through the cross-sibling influences on fertility. Continuous-time hazard models are estimated separately for women’s first and second births. In addition to individual socioeconomic variables, demographic variables...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 243–266.
Published: 06 January 2020
... statistical data sets (SSD) of Statistics Netherlands, we identify two networks—the network of colleagues at the workplace and the network of siblings in the family—to examine the influence of network partners on individual fertility decisions. Discrete-time event-history models with random effects provide...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1399–1420.
Published: 24 January 2013
... between education and having any children independent of these shared influences is found. These findings suggest that familial factors may play a role in the process through which educational differences in completed fertility are formed. Second, our measure of education captures educational...
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