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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 401–424.
Published: 04 May 2011
... increase. We also find that the effect of violence on mobility increases as the distance of the move increases. When we consider the influence of violence on microlevel decision-making, we find that the effects of individual and household-level determinants were mostly consistent with hypotheses derived...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 90–97.
Published: 01 March 1967
... microdemografia de elaborar tendencias demoqrdficae a partir de las decisiones individuales. Eventos tan disimiles como el control de las enfermedades infecciosas, de la poluci6natmosferica, el control de la natalidad, losderechos civiles y loscambios en el sistema educa- cional y la estructura ocupacional, han...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1737–1764.
Published: 01 October 2021
... at the level of the individual decision-maker. We find that men are, on average, considerably more son-biased than women. We also show that regional differences in son bias exist and that they appear unrelated to the socioeconomic composition of the population. Finally, we estimate the degree of spousal...
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 443–454.
Published: 01 November 1997
... transitions share one or two causes, to ignore mortality decline as a precondition for fertility decline, to assume that pretransitional fertility is wholly governed by social constraints rather than by individual decision-making. and to test ideas on a decadal time scale. I end the essay by suggesting...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1641–1662.
Published: 03 August 2018
... of anonymous girls or boys at a nearby school. We examine whether there is any systematic bias among fathers and mothers and, if so, whether such bias differs when they make the decision individually or jointly. The results suggest (1) bias both for and against boys or girls but no systematic bias by either...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1829–1854.
Published: 21 September 2018
... regarding complementary insurance are not conclusive, but enrollment is not much a matter of individual decision in France. One-half the population is covered by employer-provided plans, and 6 % of the population is covered for free by plans for low-income people. 28 p t is the probability...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 243–266.
Published: 06 January 2020
... statistical data sets (SSD) of Statistics Netherlands, we identify two networks—the network of colleagues at the workplace and the network of siblings in the family—to examine the influence of network partners on individual fertility decisions. Discrete-time event-history models with random effects provide...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1317–1341.
Published: 07 June 2018
... decision but not correlated with cognition. It also needs to be exogenous in the sense that it is not a direct outcome of individual decision-making. Using data collected in the HRS, the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA) and the multicountry Survey of Health, Retirement and Ageing in Europe...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 439–460.
Published: 01 May 2008
... likely to become mothers. These ndings may have broader implications for both individual and societal well-being. lthough extensive, the literature on marriage and fertility decisions has paid little atten- tion to the effect of risk preferences and uncertainty on the timing of these decisions. Models...
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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 (2005) 42 (1): 153–167.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Michael A. Quinn; Stephen Rubb Abstract In this article, we present and test a model that incorporates education-occupation matching into the migration decision. The literature on education-occupation matching shows that earnings are affected by how individuals’ education matches that required...
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 299–311.
Published: 01 August 1983
... the decision-to-move process and determined destinations. The volume of constrained movement indicates that its impact upon individuals, population dynamics, and voluntaristic theories of mobility deserves greater consideration. Geographic mobility is most often studied using one of several decision- making...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 373–388.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Jason M. Fletcher Abstract In this article, I use a national sample of high school students to test for several types of social influences on the decision to have sexual intercourse. I find evidence of endogenous social interactions (social multipliers), where the propensity of an individual...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 3–22.
Published: 09 January 2017
... and survivorship and more generally to individual agency. Using event-history analysis, this study investigates how the propensity to have additional children was influenced by the number of surviving offspring when reproductive decisions were made. The results suggest that couples were continuously regulating...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1425–1449.
Published: 05 July 2017
.... The new economics of migration theory posits that decisions to migrate are made not only by individuals seeking to maximize economic gain but also collectively by households with the intention of spreading financial risk by diversifying economic activities across family members (Chen et al. 2003...
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 285–300.
Published: 01 August 1978
...Barrett A. Lee Abstract Individual-level models of residential mobility emphasize (a) the stabilizing effects of various social, demographic, and housing characteristics and (b) the important mediating role played by decision-making variables. Data from a sample of skid row residents are analyzed...
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 503–521.
Published: 01 November 1992
..., Vol. 29, No.4, November 1992 of organization framework, described below, connects macro-level social changes to individual-level fertility decisions and generates a consistent set of empirical predictions. To test these predictions, this paper uses data from a microdemographic study of a rural...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 927–951.
Published: 19 May 2020
... by the fertility decisions of the individuals currently residing in the same metropolitan city or province. These findings are robust against various alternative specifications and endogenous migration issues. The preference for sons in Korea is believed to have always been strong, but the sex ratio...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1305–1330.
Published: 11 July 2017
... and 34–38 in the first survey wave) of the German Family Panel ( pairfam ) and event history analysis. Bivariate analyses showed that coupled individuals relocated at a higher rate if they intended to have a(nother) child. We found substantial heterogeneity according to individuals’ age and parental...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 247–266.
Published: 01 February 2022
... making marital and fertility decisions. Challenging this assumption, we theorize policy awareness as an important mechanism for understanding the potential influence of family policies on individuals' marital intentions, an understudied yet crucial determinant of family formation behavior...
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