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Demography (1988) 25 (3): 387–403.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Douglas A. Wolf; Beth J. Soldo Abstract This article extends previous research on the household composition of older unmarried women, using a statistical model that treats each of a woman’s surviving children as a distinct potential provider of a shared household. Additional possibilities— living...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 525–548.
Published: 16 January 2019
...Kristin L. Perkins Abstract Changes in parental romantic relationships are an important component of family instability, but children are exposed to many other changes in the composition of their households that bear on child well-being. Prior research that focused on parental transitions has thus...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 699–718.
Published: 20 January 2012
...Sangeetha Madhavan; Enid Schatz; Samuel Clark; Mark Collinson Abstract This article examines the influence of maternal status, socioeconomic status of the household, and household composition on the mobility of children aged 0–14 in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, from 1999 to 2008. Using data...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2155–2178.
Published: 25 November 2014
... uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to provide evidence on the relationship between household composition and unemployment across working ages, focusing on differences in behavior by educational attainment. Using the SIPP panels, I find that individuals who become...
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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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in Parental Investment After the Birth of a Sibling: The Effect of Family Size in Low-Fertility China
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Published: 29 October 2020
Fig. 1 Composition of analytic sample for household expenditure per capita, by treatment status (never had a sibling vs. had a sibling; had a younger brother vs. had a younger sister)
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in Parental Investment After the Birth of a Sibling: The Effect of Family Size in Low-Fertility China
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Published: 29 October 2020
Fig. 5 Composition of analytic sample for household expenditure per capita, by treatment status (never had a sibling vs. had a sibling) and timing of the treatment. In November 2013, couples in which at least one of the partners was an only-child were allowed to have two children. In October
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 571–602.
Published: 01 April 2021
...' access to resources and their distribution across families ( Schwartz 2013 ). Assortative mating with regard to couples' socioeconomic characteristics is vital to understanding a whole set of dynamics in the demographic makeup of households, such as family formation, composition, and dissolution...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 731–760.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Paula Fomby; David S. Johnson Abstract We document changes in U.S. children's family household composition from 1968 to 2017 with regard to the number and types of kin that children lived with and the frequency of family members' household entrances and departures. Data are from the U.S. Panel...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 821–846.
Published: 01 June 2021
... doubling up as hosts and guests in different household compositions (multigenerational, extended family, nonkin), show how this varies by demographic characteristics, and examine children's patterns of residence across these household types. We find large variation by demographic characteristics. More...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1957–1973.
Published: 12 August 2019
...R. Kelly Raley; Inbar Weiss; Robert Reynolds; Shannon E. Cavanagh Abstract Previous descriptions of the composition and stability of children’s households have focused on the presence of parents and the stability of mothers’ marital and cohabiting relationships. We use data available in the 2008...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1767–1789.
Published: 01 December 2023
... as a teenager than experiencing no changes. In addition, the association between changes involving parents and teen childbearing is statistically indistinguishable from the association between changes involving nonparents and teen childbearing, suggesting that household composition shifts involving nonparents...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 501–528.
Published: 23 March 2020
... models and inverse probability of treatment weighting—methods that account for the fact that household composition is both a cause and consequence of other family characteristics—I find that doubling up shapes children’s life chances, but the effects vary depending on children’s relationships...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 827–852.
Published: 04 December 2012
...Yi Zeng; Kenneth C. Land; Zhenglian Wang; Danan Gu Abstract This article presents the core methodological ideas and empirical assessments of an extended cohort-component approach (known as the “ProFamy model”), and applications to simultaneously project household composition, living arrangements...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 759–772.
Published: 01 June 1967
... and 36 percent for deaths. There is a net error of overenumeration of 3 percent for births (1.4 per1,000population) and 9 percent for deaths (2.3 per1,000population).Second, if two rounds were available to permit a combination of household composition follow-up and a retrospective mortality questionnaire...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 135–146.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Judith A. Seltzer Abstract Family membership and household composition do not always coincide. Joint legal custody after divorce formalizes the relationship between fathers and children who live apart. Policymakers hope that explicit acknowledgment of nonresident fathers’ rights...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 225–249.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., these households will not only vary compositionally from those in Mexico or among natives in the United States but will likely be less stable as well. Until the 1990s, migration from Mexico to the United States had been dominated by circular labor migration, a highly dynamic migration pattern in which one or two...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1345–1368.
Published: 19 May 2020
... whether a supplemental income program in Mexico for adults aged 70 and older influenced household size and composition. We compare outcomes at baseline and at six-month follow-up for elderly adults in the treatment group with those in the control group that did not participate in the program. We find...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 31–57.
Published: 01 February 2024
...-Demographic Surveillance System (2003–2015). Using latent transition models, we derived six distinct household types by examining conditional interdependency between household heads’ characteristics, members’ age composition, and migration status. More than half of households were characterized...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 229–255.
Published: 26 September 2013
... methods are of a club good nature. 19 7 2013 26 9 2013 © Population Association of America 2013 2013 Family size Household composition Siblings Human capital Club goods Evidence suggests that human capital investments beginning at the earliest stages of childhood...
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