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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 439–458.
Published: 01 May 2010
... starting wage, the steepness of the earning profile, attitudes toward gendered family roles, and gender composition. The results indicate that the postponement of motherhood is relatively limited among graduates from study disciplines in which stereotypical attitudes about family roles prevail and in which...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1791–1825.
Published: 19 September 2019
... of marriage among bisexuals, one of the most disadvantaged but understudied sexual minority groups, although a few have shown mixed results for gays and lesbians. Similarly, no research has examined how the gender composition of a couple may shape bisexuals’ health outcomes above and beyond the effects...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1415–1435.
Published: 14 August 2020
... obtain direct measures of parental time investments and use within-child variation to estimate differential changes in investments by gender around changes in household composition. The emphasis is on testing whether parental time investments differ by household type for boys and girls, while abstracting...
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 255–267.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Pollard , M.S. , & Morgan , S.P. ( 2002 ). Emerging Parental Gender Indifference? Sex Composition of Children and the Third Birth . American Sociological Review , 67 , 600 – 13 . 10.2307/3088947 SCB. 2003. “Access to Microdata in the Nordic Countries.” Report. Statistics Sweden...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 271–294.
Published: 30 January 2018
... fertility is still uncertain, as increased female empowerment and increased difficulty in achieving a desired gender composition within a smaller family pull in potentially different directions. I study how being born at a parity or of a gender undesired by the mother relates to infant mortality in sub...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 459–484.
Published: 15 February 2018
... these couples reside. This finding highlights that the racial hierarchy within the United States affects the residential mobility and attainment of black-white couples, but its influence is conditioned by the race and gender composition of these couples. The aforementioned theories of residential...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 745–773.
Published: 16 February 2017
...Ozkan Eren Abstract Using data from a well-executed randomized experiment, I examine the effects of gender composition and peer achievement on high school students’ outcomes in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Results show that having a higher proportion of female peers in the classroom improves girls...
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Demography (1983) 20 (2): 163–176.
Published: 01 May 1983
..., is argued to be a spurious consequence of the gender-composition of the work force. Specifically, the development of tertiary industries generates greater demand for female labor. Intensive recruitment of women to the labor force in turn increases occupational differentiation because females, in sex-typed...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 935–961.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Guy Stecklov; Calogero Carletto; Carlo Azzarri; Benjamin Davis Abstract This article examines the dynamics and causes of the shift in the gender composition of migration, and more particularly, in women’s access to migration opportunities and decision-making. Our analysis focuses on Albania...
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 289–307.
Published: 01 May 2003
... suggest that distinguishing the gender composition and destination content of migrant networks deepens our understanding of how cumulative causation affects patterns of Mexican migration. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2003 2003 International Migration Gender Composition...
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Demography (1990) 27 (4): 537–557.
Published: 01 November 1990
... about differences by gender composition of the pair are tested, using a framework derived from social comparison theory and a two-stage failure-time model. Results provide evidence of a direct but modest-sized older sibling effect for white but not black youth. This effect is approximately equal...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 229–255.
Published: 26 September 2013
... have sought causal evidence of the quantity-quality trade-off. The primary contribution of this work is to estimate the effects of cohort size and gender composition on investment in club goods for children in sub-Saharan Africa. The central challenge in estimating such effects...
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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 411–423.
Published: 01 August 1989
... at any point in time and thus less likely to have disrupted fertility careers. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1989 1989 Black Woman Birth Interval Gender Composition Unmarried Woman Gender Preference References Allison , P. ( 1982 ). Discrete-time...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 315–332.
Published: 01 August 1993
... preference for daughters. Son preference is strong in both the early and later stages of family formation, but women also want to have at least one daughter after having several sons. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1993 1993 Family Planning Treatment Area Gender Composition...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 669–690.
Published: 22 March 2018
... (Charles and Grusky 2004 ; Cotter et al. 2004 ; England 2006 , 2010 ; Jacobs 1989 ; Mandel 2012 , 2013 ; Weeden 2004 ). Curiously, despite the scholarly attention devoted to the decline in sex segregation, the question of how the changing gender composition of occupations affects the relative pay...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 541–566.
Published: 01 March 2016
... older sibling sex compositions: two males, one male and one female, and two females. Again, female infant mortality rates are similar independent of the sex composition of the previous siblings. Male infant mortality, however, gradually improves with the number of older female siblings. The gender...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 761–784.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-dominated occupation. As we discuss later, fields can either contribute to or suppress overall levels of occupational segregation, depending on the gender composition of the occupations that the fields' graduates enter. We assess the relationship between field segregation and occupational segregation...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 471–492.
Published: 02 October 2012
... coefficient itself, which is with reference to an arbitrarily selected reference category. The calculations are explained in more detail in the notes to the table. As a result, when we compare worker distributions across quintiles in 1970 and 2009 using the 2009 gender composition, the share of men...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 489–496.
Published: 01 November 1998
... index with the multiplicative modeling of gender segregation and the associated log index. 25 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1998 1998 Occupational Group Composition Effect Gender Segregation Occupational Segregation Occupational Structure References Albelda...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1737–1764.
Published: 01 October 2021
... boys for every 100 girls. When we condition on families without daughters, the sex ratio of third-borns remains indistinguishable from the natural ratio, suggesting that it is indeed the absence of a son rather than the desire for a more balanced gender composition that induces parents in Armenia...
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