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Population change and farm dependence: Temporal and spatial variation in the U.S. great plains, 1900–2000
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 363–386.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Katherine J. Curtis White Abstract I investigate the relationship between county population change and farm dependence in the Great Plains region during the twentieth century, using spatial data analysis techniques. This research is rooted in a long-standing sociological and demographic interest...
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Temporal and spatial variation in age-specific net migration in the United States
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 791–812.
Published: 01 November 2005
... (in particular, Florida and the Southwest) and geographically contiguous regions of net out-migration (the Great Plains, in particular) that persisted over time. Yet the patterns of spatial concentration and fragmentation over time in these migration data demonstrate the relevance of this “neighborhood” approach...
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Population trends of nonmetropolitan cities and villages in subregions of the united states
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Demography (1978) 15 (4): 605–620.
Published: 01 November 1978
..., present in half of the subregions in the 1950s and indicative of population centralization, was found only in the Corn Belt, Great Plains, and Rocky Mountain subregions in the 1960s. There were regionally distinctive differences in all variables considered; most notably, the percent of places growing...
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Nonmetropolitan growth in the late 1970s: The end of the turnaround?
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Demography (1985) 22 (2): 245–263.
Published: 01 May 1985
... areas, all of which were agri- cultural (the Central Corn Belt, Missis- sippi Delta and Northern Great Plains). Other agricultural areas tended to have below average net inmigration, such as the Dairy Belt, Southern Corn Belt, Coastal Plain Tobacco and Peanut Belt, the Old Coastal Plain and the Southern...
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Rural depopulation in the united states: Some demographic consequences of agricultural adjustments
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 264–272.
Published: 01 March 1964
... the interior coastal plain of the Lower South from Georgia through Texas. This was also true of contiguous areas of the Great Plains, especially from Texas to Nebraska. Other prominent zones of heavy loss were sections of the Allegheny Plateau (particularly the coalfields), much of the Ozark and other upland...
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Dust to Feed, Dust to Gray: The Effect of in Utero Exposure to the Dust Bowl on Old-Age Longevity
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 87–113.
Published: 01 February 2024
... as Dust Bowl counties ( Atherwood 2022 ), we examine all U.S. counties and show heterogeneity across regions. We do not limit the geographic coverage of our sample because although erosion was more severe in the Great Plains than elsewhere, the effects were detectable in many areas as far away...
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Migration Patterns During Italian Urbanization, 1865-1921
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 309–325.
Published: 01 August 1985
... and which involve the crossing of municipal borders.? CASALECCHIO DI RENO The commune of Casalecchio di Reno lay at the point where the hills meet the Migration Patternsduring Italian Urbanization 311 plain, just beyond the rural fringes of the city of Bologna. For many centuries it had been a rural outpost...
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Metropolitan Reclassification and the Urbanization of Rural America
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1929–1950.
Published: 31 August 2020
... ). There was considerably less reclassification in the Great Plains. Reclassification was most pronounced on the periphery of existing metropolitan areas, although some entirely new metropolitan areas formed, often in regions of the country that originally had few metropolitan counties. Our analyses proceed...
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The Intergenerational Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1871–1895.
Published: 01 December 2024
... history of governance (Dippel 2014 ), fractionation on reservations (Leonard et al. 2020 ; Russ and Stratmann 2014 ), and the decimation of bison on the Great Plains (Feir et al. 2024 ). 11 Studies on the intergenerational impacts of residential schools on educational outcomes in Canada have...
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Changing Identification among American Indians and Alaska Natives
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 635–652.
Published: 01 November 1993
... in U.S. Bureau of the Census (l983a, 1984, 1992). a Statesincludedin regions: Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico; Northern Plains: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota; Great Lakes: Minnesota, Wisconsin; Basin and Mountain: Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming; Northwest: Oregon, Washington; South: Alabama...
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An assessment of the accuracy of a regional economic-demographic projection model
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Demography (1984) 21 (3): 383–404.
Published: 01 August 1984
... ). Washington, D. C. : U.S. Government Printing Office .
Wieland J. S. , Leistritz F. L. , & Murdock S. H. ( 1979 ). Characteristics and Residential Patterns of Energy-Related Work Forces in the Northern Great Plains . Western Journal of Agricultural Economics , 4 , 57 – 68...
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Review Symposium
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Demography (1974) 11 (3): 537–545.
Published: 01 August 1974
...? And how do we ex- plain them? Sociologists and economists of fertility manage at the same time to be both muddled and simple-minded about these issues, the more clear- headed, like Ryder, almost despairing of a solution. But I think it reasonable to expect some illumination from psy- chologists...
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Natural Hazards, Disasters, and Demographic Change: The Case of Severe Tornadoes in the United States, 1980–2010
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 653–674.
Published: 13 March 2020
... Mountains in the west to the Atlantic coast to the east. It includes areas in the Great Plains, the Midwest, the Sunbelt, the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, the Black Belt, and the Rust Belt. Within this tornado-prone area, I calculate that 1 in every 50 people will experience a severe tornado...
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Environmental Influences on Human Migration in Rural Ecuador
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1217–1241.
Published: 15 January 2013
...: Determinants of return migration and changes in affected areas . Demography , 47 , 821 – 844 . 10.1007/BF03214587 Gutmann , M. , Deane , G. , Lauster , N. , & Peri , A. ( 2005 ). Two population-environment regimes in the Great Plains of the United States, 1930–1990...
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The Household Structure Transition in China: 1982–2015
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1369–1391.
Published: 10 June 2020
... that technological development has altered the social production and economic foundation of society, causing great changes in family functions and personal value systems and thus leading to household structure change (Goode 1963 ; Nimkoff 1961 ; Parsons 1949 ). The influence of modernization on household...
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A new method for estimating the level of natural fertility in populations practicing birth control
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 525–536.
Published: 01 November 1971
... Order Amish population of Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania. The Amish are a conservative religious sect noted primarily for their agrarian way of life, their plain dress, and their horse and buggy mode of trans- portation. Like their cultural counter- parts, the Hutterites, the Amish trace their origins...
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Factors related to school retention
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 456–462.
Published: 01 March 1965
... of the importance of cultural factors in account- ing for unequal school-beginning rates. Differential enrollment rates by ethnic status were not, however, as great in large urban areas as in other parts of the coun- try, and what meager data are available suggest that socio-economic factors ex- plain a great part...
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Husbands’ versus wives’ fertility goals and use of contraception: The influence of gender context in five Asian countries
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 299–311.
Published: 01 August 2000
... in this paper tends to compound the usual problems of intersubjective va- lidity posed by all closed-ended survey questions. Although in collecting the data we made a great effort to use identical questions in all five countries, neither the questions nor the response categories are always equivalent; also, we...
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Models
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 571–580.
Published: 01 November 1971
... to this generation." Rather we attempt a miracle, and the miracle fails miserably. But instead of being compromised thereby, we are strengthened. This strange and seem- ingly contradictory condition needs ex- plaining. The work of P. K. Whelpton, described in his own words (1963), will lead to the explanation...
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Changes in the propensity to live alone: Evidence from consecutive cross-sectional surveys, 1960–1976
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 433–447.
Published: 01 November 1983
... will be reduced to zero. In the second model, both b, and b, are significant and together explain the rise in living alone. In the third model, compositional changes in income and the other variables do not completely ex- plain the rise in living alone. The b, coefficients will be different from zero along with b...
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