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Odds ratio of a subsequent female birth if there was a previous female birt...
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Fig. 1 Odds ratio of a subsequent female birth if there was a previous female birth in the family. Results are from unconditional logistic regression analyses; the plot shows point (diamonds) and 95 % confidence interval estimates (error bars)
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Looking at Population Health Beyond “Male” and “Female”: Implications of Transgender Identity and Gender Nonconformity for Population Health
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2097–2117.
Published: 25 September 2018
...Danya Lagos Abstract Looking beyond binary measurements of “male” or “female” can illuminate health inequality patterns that correspond to gender identity rather than biological sex. This study examines disparities in overall health among transgender men, transgender women, gender-nonconforming...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1905–1934.
Published: 20 August 2018
...Ross Macmillan; Naila Shofia; Wendy Sigle Abstract There is considerable speculation that female political empowerment could improve population health. Yet, evidence to date is limited, and explanations for why political empowerment would matter and the conditions under which this might be enhanced...
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View articletitled, Gender and the Politics of Death: <span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Representation, Political and Developmental Context, and Population Health in a Cross-National Panel
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Patrilocal Residence and Female Labor Supply: Evidence From Kyrgyzstan
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2181–2203.
Published: 22 October 2018
..., in particular for women. We study the effect of coresidence on female labor supply in Kyrgyzstan, a strongly patrilocal setting. We account for the endogeneity of coresidence by exploiting the tradition that youngest sons usually live with their parents. In both OLS and IV estimations, the effect of coresidence...
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Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
...Ridhi Kashyap; Julia Behrman Abstract Son preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literature has explored whether parents invest more resources in sons relative to daughters—which we refer to as explicit discrimination —leading to girls’ poorer...
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View articletitled, Gender Discrimination and Excess <span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins
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Education and Male-Female Differences in Later-Life Cognition: International Evidence From Latin America and the Caribbean
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 915–930.
Published: 06 July 2011
... functioning between men and women for six of the seven study sites, I assess the extent to which these differences can be explained by prevailing male-female differences in education. I decompose predicted male-female differences in cognitive functioning based on various statistical models for later-life...
View articletitled, Education and Male-<span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Differences in Later-Life Cognition: International Evidence From Latin America and the Caribbean
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The educational attainment of young women: Role model effects of female high school faculty
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 185–194.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Lucia A. Nixon; Michael D. Robinson Abstract To test for the presence of role model effects of female high school faculty and professional staff on young women in high school, we estimate several models of educational attainment for young women using data from the National Longitudinal Survey...
View articletitled, The educational attainment of young women: Role model effects of <span class="search-highlight">female</span> high school faculty
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Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap: A Decomposition Analysis of Proximal Causes
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1429–1450.
Published: 27 September 2011
...% are extremely obese (BMI ≥ 40); comparable figures for non-Hispanic white (hereafter, “white”) women are 30% and 6%, respectively (Ogden et al. 2006 ). Moreover, the female black-white “weight gap” has increased by around five percentage points since the late 1970s despite the considerable narrowing of other...
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View articletitled, Explaining the <span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Black-White Obesity Gap: A Decomposition Analysis of Proximal Causes
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“Having it all” no longer: Fertility, Female Labor supply, and the new life choices of Generation x
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 821–828.
Published: 01 November 2007
...James P. Vere Abstract This study uses data from the U.S. Current Population Surveys and Natality Detail Files to examine cohort-level changes in fertility and female labor supply. Although only at the start of their careers, college-educated women from more-recent cohorts are having more children...
View articletitled, “Having it all” no longer: Fertility, <span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Labor supply, and the new life choices of Generation x
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Less help for mother: The decline in coresidential female support for the mothers of young children, 1880–2000
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 617–629.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., we show a substantial decline in the presence and availability of other females in the household, as fewer are coresident and more of those who are coresident are employed or in school. Although all mothers experience this decline, it is most acute for mothers working for pay in nonagricultural...
View articletitled, Less help for mother: The decline in coresidential <span class="search-highlight">female</span> support for the mothers of young children, 1880–2000
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Welfare reform and female headship
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 May 2004
... and Program Participation, which span the period when many states began to adopt welfare waivers and to implement TANF, and estimated logit models of the incidence of female headship and state-stratified, Cox proportional hazard models of the rates of entry into and exit from headship. We found little...
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Altruistic and contractual remittances between male and female migrants and households in rural Thailand
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 739–756.
Published: 01 November 2004
.... On the basis of results with various levels of significance in regression models, male and female migrants from Nang Rong, Thailand, behave both altruistically and contractually. However, women and migrants from poorer households behave more altruistically, while men and migrants from richer households behave...
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Does female circumcision affect infertility and fertility? A study of the central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, and Tanzania
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 313–321.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Ulla Larsen; Sharon Yan Abstract This study explores the association between female circumcision and infertility and fertility, using information from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). In Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania, circumcised women had lower childlessness, lower infertility by age...
View articletitled, Does <span class="search-highlight">female</span> circumcision affect infertility and fertility? A study of the central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, and Tanzania
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Ethnic Variations in Immigrant Poverty Exit and Female Employment: The Missing Link
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 485–511.
Published: 26 February 2015
...Lisa Kaida Abstract Despite widespread interest in poverty among recent immigrants and female immigrant employment, research on the link between the two is limited. This study evaluates the effect of recently arrived immigrant women’s employment on the exit from family poverty and considers...
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View articletitled, Ethnic Variations in Immigrant Poverty Exit and <span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Employment: The Missing Link
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On the auspices of female migration from Mexico to the United States
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 187–200.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Marcela Cerrutti; Douglas S. Massey Abstract In this paper we examine the circumstances and determinants of female migration between Mexico and the United States. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project, we considered the relative timing of males’ and females’ moves northward. We...
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Educational Differences in Fertility Among Female Same-Sex Couples in Finland
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2053–2079.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Finnish register data on female same-sex couples who registered their partnership in 2002–2016, a period of important legal reforms regarding same-sex parenthood, we explore how education and the existence of prior children predict childbearing within the same-sex partnership. Female couples’ likelihood...
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View articletitled, Educational Differences in Fertility Among <span class="search-highlight">Female</span> Same-Sex Couples in Finland
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Female migration in Chile: Types of moves and socioeconomic characteristics
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Demography (1979) 16 (2): 257–277.
Published: 01 May 1979
...Joan M. Herold Abstract This paper examines inter-provincial female migration in Chile for the 1965–1970 period, with a view to describing socioeconomic characteristics of migrant women and to determining differences and similarities in age, educational level, occupation, and type of move (first...
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Female Professional Work Opportunities: A Cross-National Study
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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 107–120.
Published: 01 February 1975
...Rosemary Santana Cooney Abstract While economic development has been associated with increased participation of females in the labor force, it remains problematic whether sexual equality within the labor force has also increased. This study examines the differentiation of structural variables...
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Family structure and dependency: Early transitions to female household headship
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 1988
... a complete explanation of family structure effects. The analysis is based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and uses event-history analysis to estimate transitions into female headship and economic dependence. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1988 1988 Family...
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Biosocial foundations for adolescent female sexuality
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 217–230.
Published: 01 May 1986
...J. Richard Udry; Luther M. Talbert; Naomi M. Morris Abstract Despite the widespread assumption that hormones stimulate motivation for sexual behavior in adolescence, no published empirical studies have demonstrated this link. In a cross-sectional study of 78 females in the eighth, ninth, and tenth...
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