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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 857–880.
Published: 12 April 2014
... independence hypothesis and its relevance in the new demographic context. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that additional economic resources (in this case, increased child support) increase a mother’s economic independence and reduce her need to partner in order to make ends meet: mothers...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1103–1125.
Published: 02 May 2012
... are entirely due to housing assets. Results suggest that Oppenheimer’s theory of marriage timing may be more applicable to later-life union formation than Becker’s independence hypothesis. Further, economic disadvantage does not appear to characterize later-life cohabitation, unlike cohabitation during young...
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Demography (1973) 10 (2): 259–275.
Published: 01 May 1973
... variables. The three independent variables in Zipf’s hypothesis accounted for 57 percent of the variation in interstate migration streams in 1935–1940, 61 percent in 1949–1950, and 68 percent in 1955–1960. The addition of per capita personal income of the states of origin and of destination increased...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1245–1267.
Published: 05 July 2018
... for earlier age at first birth tend to be higher in young women raised in homes with absent fathers. Nevertheless, father absence and the polygenic scores independently and additively predict reproductive timing. We find no evidence in support of the rGE hypothesis for accelerated menarche and only limited...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 739–762.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in an independent living arrangement. In contrast, extremely old (nonagenarian and centenarian) females and extremely old disabled individuals are least likely to have experienced dramatic changes in proportion of life residing independently. The findings imply some support for the hypothesis that given...
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 217–230.
Published: 01 May 1972
...P. Neal Ritchey; C. Shannon Stokes Abstract This paper attempts to clarify confusion concerning residence background and migration, and to demonstrate that each of these factors exerts an independent effect on fertility. Basic premises underlying the direction of the effect of these variables...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 491–499.
Published: 01 June 1966
...Leo F. Schnore; James R. Pinkerton Summary This paper is a preliminary report on an ecological analysis of recent changes in the spatial distribution of socioeconomic strata within 363 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (or substituted units) in the United States. The central hypothesis...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 1–26.
Published: 25 November 2015
... and that in about only one-quarter of these arrangements were children also residing with a married or cohabiting stepparent (Manning et al. 2014 ). Beyond underestimating prevalence, a focus on sibling relationships only in stepparent families constrains opportunities for hypothesis testing about the independent...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 487–507.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Ken R. Smith; Norman J. Waitzman Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the hypothesis that marital and poverty status interact in their effects on mortality risks beyond their main effects. This study examines the epidemiological bases for applying an additive rather than...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 459–473.
Published: 01 November 1984
... levels. This research tests a threshold hypothesis which holds that fertility will decline from traditional high levels if threshold levels of life expectancy and literacy are surpassed. Using a pooled regression analysis of 1950, 1960, 1970 and 1980 crude births rates (CBRs) in 20 less developed Latin...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 559–586.
Published: 14 March 2018
... on politics, particularly on democracy, squarely within the scope of political and social sciences, and to focus on the effects of woman-related demographics—namely, fertility rate. I test the hypothesis that demographic variables—female-related predictors, in particular—have an independent effect...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 607–630.
Published: 01 April 2023
... into an actionable imagined future and make decisions that may be relatively independent from their actual economic situation. We test this hypothesis for Italy by combining individual-level data from the 2009 and 2016 releases of the nationally representative Family and Social Subjects Survey with Media Tenor data...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 475–479.
Published: 01 November 1997
... of ex- change theory or some other perspective such as feminism, has had wide appeal since it can easily be incorporated into extremely diverse theoretical and ideological posi- tions. Even where scholars do not espouse a particular po- sition themselves, the independence hypothesis plays a prominent...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 467–472.
Published: 01 November 1997
... to remain divorced or separated" (p. 456). While this argu- ment is consistent with the independence hypothesis, it di- rectly contradicts Ruggles's position at the end of the pa- per-namely, that because he found no evidence that women's employment has a negative effect on marriage for- mation, "marriage...
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 351–367.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., Is women s increasing employment responsible for the trend toward later and less marriage? This explanation of changes in marital behavior, commonly referred to as the eco- nomic-independence hypothesis, is based on the assumption of gender role specializa- tion within the family (see Oppenheimer 1997...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 965–988.
Published: 20 June 2012
... because parents become less dependent on children as secondary workers. According to the “economic independence hypothesis,” adolescents and young adults living at home were able to renegotiate their contribution to the parental household as alternatives to living with parents became more affordable...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1571–1593.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of industrialization are likely to promote marital openness: first, the increase in the share of the urban population (urbanization hypothesis); and second, increased residential independence of young adults and the consequential decline in parental control (independence hypothesis). The probability...
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Demography (2003) 40 (1): 171–189.
Published: 01 February 2003
... (mothers ) economic independence. Women s earn- ings increased dramatically during the 1970s and 1980s, while the earnings of men with less than a college education declined. According to the independence hypothesis (Robins 1992), judges responded to the relative improvement in women s economic position...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 209–222.
Published: 01 February 2008
.... OTHER FACTORS INFLUENCING UNION DISSOLUTION Various factors are known to be associated with union dissolution (see Boyle et al. 2006). The independence hypothesis suggests that women with higher wages have less to gain from marriage and, as a result, may have higher divorce rates (Becker, Landes...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 535–557.
Published: 22 February 2018
... the economic independence hypothesis: The effect of an exogenous increase in child support on subsequent marriage and cohabitation . Demography , 51 , 857 – 880 . 10.1007/s13524-014-0295-8 Carlson M. , McLanahan S. , & England P. ( 2004 ). Union formation in fragile families...
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