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“Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration From a Gendered Lens”: Comment
Demography (2021) 58 (1): 379–381.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of household members Household's optimization In a recent article, “Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens,” Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women: CCT impose a curb on an engagement...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 605–625.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of informal care, coordination between formal and informal care, and the ability to advocate and communicate in formal medical settings. These findings illustrate women’s centrality in the household production of health and identify important points of intervention in optimizing men’s adjustment to widowhood...
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Demography (1979) 16 (3): 425–438.
Published: 01 August 1979
... that mortality differentials comparable to those presently encountered among nations are consistent with very large differentials in steady-state optimal ratios of wealth-to-income. Specific application to Peru of the model estimated by Tobin for the United States indicates that high levels of mortality, current...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 383–391.
Published: 01 February 2021
... perspective understands migration decisions as cost-benefit, optimization, and diversification calculations collectively made by members in any given household. The significant contribution of the NELM to demographic inquiries into migration lies in its prioritization of the household as a decision-making...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 187–192.
Published: 01 May 2000
... Likelihood British Household Panel Survey Childless Woman Asymptotic Standard Error Birth Probability References Agresti , A. ( 1990 ). Categorical Data Analysis . New York : Wiley . Bongaarts , J. , & Feeney , G. ( 1998 ). On the Quantum and Tempo of Fertility...
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 497–512.
Published: 01 November 2001
... HYPOTHESIS The model described here explains how couples make deci- sions about breast-feeding and contraception to space their children optimally and to maximize the expected present value of lifetime utility. The model generates decision rules under which households make choices about breast-feeding...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 August 2001
... teenagers. This finding of relative educational success in many immigrant groups is consistent with the immigrant optimism hypothesis. Most immigrants are determined to be successful in their country of destination, and their sense of purpose and optimism is directed toward children in the household...
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 701–703.
Published: 01 November 1972
...Emilio Casetti 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1972 1972 Dual Variable Linear Programming Model Neighborhood Character Migration Cost Migrant Household References Brown , L. A. , Horton , F. E. , & Wittick , R. L. ( 1970 ). On place...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 1013–1034.
Published: 01 November 2010
... to construct a typology of a small set of relatively homogeneous household trajectories. Similarity and distance. The best-known technique of comparing the level of s imilarity of sequences is optimal matching (OM), which was introduced into the social sciences by Abbott and Forrest (1986). In OM, the distance...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2345–2370.
Published: 27 November 2018
... and production of the domestic good. Accordingly, for a married couple with the wife working in the labor market, the household production is 3 Z = x α t f 1 − α , where x = v m + v f + w m + w f [1 − t f ]. The optimal solution is 4 Z ∗ = α α 1...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1361–1383.
Published: 11 August 2012
... these and other investments efficiently, given time and budget constraints. All households are not equally efficient, however. We posit that efficiency in parenting can be seen, from a developmental psychological perspective, in parents’ tendency to tailor time with children in ways that optimize child...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1139–1161.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Emma Gorman Abstract This study assesses whether an additional year of secondary schooling has lasting causal effects on cognitive function. I use data from Understanding Society, the largest longitudinal household study in the United Kingdom, and exploit quasi-experimental variation in schooling...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 857–875.
Published: 01 June 2022
... (at least one bookcase); and (4) the number of household amenities (a fixed bath, a cold/hot running water supply, an inside toilet, and central heating). Given that some of these variables are related to institutional factors specific to individual countries, such as running water or central heating...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1737–1764.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the children in the household, and the community in which the respondent resides. Fig. 4 Binned scatter plot showing the individual-level association of our measures of implicit son bias ( D scores) and explicit son bias (index). To decide on the optimal number of bins, we follow Cattaneo et al...
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 705–707.
Published: 01 November 1972
...Lawrence A. Brown; Frank E. Horton; Robert I. Wittick 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1972 1972 Dual Variable Migrant Household Destination Zone Social Science Knowledge Site Selection Process References Brown , L. A. , & Longbrake , D. B...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 315–336.
Published: 13 January 2012
...Jennifer Karas Montez; Robert A. Hummer; Mark D. Hayward Abstract A vast literature has documented the inverse association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality risk but given little attention to identifying the optimal functional form of the association. A theoretical explanation...
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 293–305.
Published: 01 August 1998
... ). Estimating Optimal Transformations for Multiple Regression and Correlation . Journal of American Statistical Association , 80 , 580 – 619 . 10.2307/2288473 Buck , N. , Gershuny , J. , Rose , D. , & Scott , J. ( 1994 ). Changing Households: The British Household Panel Survey...
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
... of the evidence . In P. Taubman (Ed.), Kinometrics: Determinants of Socioeconomic Success Within and Between Families (pp. 9 – 34 ). Amsterdam : North-Holland . Makhya,I. 1978. Adult and Child Labor Within the Household and the Quantity and Quality of Children: Rural India. Mimeo, University...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1279–1301.
Published: 13 February 2013
... with the social capital perspective. The model predicts remittance receipt well. However, its pseudo- R 2 of .380 falls to .066 if we remove the absent-migrant dummy variable. Table 4 Optimal probit regression for receiving remittances: all households Coeff. SE P > z Other Urban...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1029–1048.
Published: 21 June 2011
... by boosting both women’s economic confidence and their marital optimism. On the contrary, migration failure, by weakening the households economically, may undermine women’s commitment to marriage and their willingness to invest in it through continuing childbearing. Therefore, for this part of the analysis...
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