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Changes in Household Composition and Children’s Educational Attainment
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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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Household Composition and Gender Differences in Parental Time Investments
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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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Child Mobility, Maternal Status, and Household Composition in Rural South Africa
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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...
View articletitled, Child Mobility, Maternal Status, and <span class="search-highlight">Household</span> <span class="search-highlight">Composition</span> in Rural South Africa
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The Effect of Unemployment on Household Composition and Doubling Up
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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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Household composition choices of older unmarried women
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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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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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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
..., this study is the first to document changing patterns of educational assortative mating by marriage cohort, subregion, and household location of residence and relate them to prevailing sociological theories on mating and development. Results show that net of shifts in educational distributions, mating has...
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View articletitled, Educational Assortative Mating in Sub-Saharan Africa: <span class="search-highlight">Compositional</span> Changes and Implications for <span class="search-highlight">Household</span> Wealth Inequality
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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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View articletitled, Continuity and Change in U.S. Children's Family <span class="search-highlight">Composition</span>, 1968–2017
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Under Whose Roof? Understanding the Living Arrangements of Children in Doubled-Up Households
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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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Estimating Children’s Household Instability Between Birth and Age 18 Using Longitudinal Household Roster Data
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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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View articletitled, Estimating Children’s <span class="search-highlight">Household</span> Instability Between Birth and Age 18 Using Longitudinal <span class="search-highlight">Household</span> Roster Data
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Cumulative Effects of Doubling Up in Childhood on Young Adult Outcomes
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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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Household and Living Arrangement Projections at the Subnational Level: An Extended Cohort-Component Approach
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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 (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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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Household</span> Instability and Girls’ Teen Childbearing
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A comparison of different survey techniques for obtaining vital data in A developing country
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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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Father by law: Effects of joint legal custody on nonresident fathers’ involvement with children
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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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Immigration and living arrangements: Moving beyond economic need versus acculturation
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 225–249.
Published: 01 May 2007
... patterns in the composition and stability of their households relative to nonimmigrants in both Mexico and the United States. Recent immigrants are more likely to reside in an extended family or non-kin household, and among those living with relatives, recent immigrants are more likely to live...
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Living Arrangements and Supplemental Income Programs for Older Adults in Mexico
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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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Understanding Household Dynamics From the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study From a Rural South African Setting
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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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Growing Up Together: Cohort Composition and Child Investment
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 229–255.
Published: 26 September 2013
... with the aggregated estimates. However, the impact of gender composition is not statistically significant when only the 2005 data are used. 12 Evidence also suggests that diseases transmitted within the household can be more severe than the same disease contracted from a casual contact (Aaby et al. 1984...
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