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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1727–1751.
Published: 31 August 2020
... cohabitation is a more marriage-like union than same-race cohabitation. Because marriage has traditionally served as the normative setting for childbearing, fertility behavior in cohabitation and union transitions following a cohabiting pregnancy is frequently used as tools to infer differences among racial...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 521–536.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Deepankar Basu; Robert De Jong Abstract This article draws out some implications of son targeting fertility behavior and studies its determinants. We demonstrate that such behavior has two notable implications at the aggregate level: (a) girls have a larger number of siblings (sibling effect...
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Demography (1975) 12 (3): 417–430.
Published: 01 August 1975
...Dudley L. Poston, Jr.; Joachim Singelmann Abstract This paper examines the role assumed by value orientations in the explanation of fertility behavior. Specifically the concern is with the extent to which value orientations intervene between, or mediate, the relationship between socioeconomic...
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 517–530.
Published: 01 November 1987
... . 10.1086/222842 Freedman , R. , & Coombs , L. C. ( 1974 ). Cross Cultural Comparisons: Data on Two Factors in Fertility Behaviour . New York : Population Council . Gandotra , M. M. , Das , N. , & Dey , D. ( 1982 ). Infant Mortality and Its Causes in Gujarat...
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 37–48.
Published: 01 February 1971
... and the fertility behavior variables. Interviews with a probability sample of women in Lexington, Kentucky, provide the data for testing the hypothesized relationships. The results indicate that both value orientations and socioeconomic status are related to fertility behavior. The inference can be made that value...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 30–70.
Published: 01 March 1967
.... Family Size Child Mortality Social Mobility Achievement Motivation Fertility Behavior References 1 Becker G. S. ( 1957 ). Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research An Economic Analysis of Fertility Demographic and Economic Change in Developed Countries...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 437–458.
Published: 08 February 2017
... between variations in the husband-wife emotional bond and their subsequent fertility-limiting behavior. This panel study is ideal because it was designed to measure community, family, and individual influences on fertility behavior; and it features a multilevel, comprehensive baseline measurement combined...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 579–594.
Published: 01 November 1986
..., 1965 . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . DEMOGRAPHY© Volume 23, Number 4 November 1986 PROCEPTION: AN IMPORTANT FERTILITY BEHAVIOR Warren B. Miller Transnational Family Research Institute, 669 Georgia Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94306 Social and behavioral scientists have...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 45–70.
Published: 11 January 2017
... of stepfamily status, but it also implies that births—especially in stepfamilies—are the result of deliberate behavior (Thomson 2003 ). This notion, however, has not been empirically tested. Instead, most work on fertility intentions in stepfamilies has looked at prospective intentions for future childbearing...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2135–2159.
Published: 01 December 2022
... on fertility and marital behavior in Germany, which was a lowest-low fertility setting until recently. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Joseph Lee Rodgers; Hans-Peter Kohler; Kirsten Ohm Kyvik; Kaare Christensen Abstract Behavior genetic designs and analyses can be used to address issues of central importance to demography. We use this methodology to document genetic influence on human fertility. Our data come from Danish twin...
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 241–253.
Published: 01 May 2006
... a model that attributes the rise to changes in marriage behavior, with no necessary changes in fertility. A variety of empirical tests strongly support this conclusion and invites focused attention to issues related to marriage behavior as well as to the interactions between marriage and fertility. 14...
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Demography (1978) 15 (4): 459–476.
Published: 01 November 1978
...Josefina Jayme Card Abstract The malleability of fertility-related attitudes and behavior was studied by analyzing data collected from cross-sectional groups of Filipino migrants who had lived in the United States for varying lengths of time, in conjunction with data from a comparison group...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1399–1420.
Published: 24 January 2013
... in the cohort experiencing fertility decline (Rodgers et al. 2008 ; but see Neiss et al. 2002 ). Unique environmental factors were the most important, however. Given that partnership formation is closely associated with fertility behavior, it is noteworthy that certain twin studies have reported relevant...
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 13–30.
Published: 01 February 1986
..., 1541-1871: A Reconstruction (pp. 356 – 401 ). Cambridge : Harvard University Press . Levy V. ( 1985 ). Cropping pattern, mechanization, child labor and fertility behavior in a farming economy . Economic Development and Cultural Change , 4 , 777 – 792 . 10.1086/451494 McDonald...
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Demography (1985) 22 (2): 169–183.
Published: 01 May 1985
... the relative significance of spacing and stopping behavior during this fertil- ity decline. First, within both natural fertility birth cohorts and cohorts follow- ing the onset of fertility limitation, we hypothesize that substantial groups of women with long interbirth intervals across the entire childbearing...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 927–951.
Published: 19 May 2020
...Seik Kim; Sam-Ho Lee Abstract Using Korean data, this study investigates whether son-favoring ideas or the preference for sons affect fertility decisions. Son-favoring fertility behavior in Korea is of interest because the sex ratio at birth has recovered to a natural level after having been very...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 607–630.
Published: 01 April 2023
... on the coverage of the economy in the evening newscast of Italian TV's most-viewed channel (Rai 1). Our findings reveal that both the incidence and tone of news reports on the state of the economy are associated with fertility behavior. An increase in the number of negative economic news items is negatively...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 17–33.
Published: 01 February 1988
... aspects of linguistic variables have the greater salience for fertility behavior, fertility patterns of bilingual women are compared with those of monolingual women speaking English or Spanish. Using the 1980 U.S. Census 5 percent Public Use Micro data Sample for ever-married Mexican-origin women aged 15...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 385–398.
Published: 01 August 1997
... and the temporal ordering of variables, by considering a wider range of community influences on fertility behavior, and by employing an econometric procedure allowing for a multilevel error structure. The results suggest that there are significant effects on fertility behavior of community-level family planning...