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Individual Decisions to Migrate During Civil Conflict
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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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New frontiers in demography and social psychology
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 90–97.
Published: 01 March 1967
... eventos, tanto mas solidas son las posibilidades de la 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...
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Explaining fertility transitions
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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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Investigating the Structure of Son Bias in Armenia With Novel Measures of Individual Preferences
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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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Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach
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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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Individual Uncertainty About Longevity
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1829–1854.
Published: 21 September 2018
..., retirement decisions, and demand for long-term care insurance, these results have important implications for public policy concerning health care and retirement. Most studies have focused on average expectations by subgroup. Few studies have addressed the between-individual dispersion of expectations. 1...
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Family, Firms, and Fertility: A Study of Social Interaction Effects
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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
... of differences in the exogenous variation used in the statistical models. Basically, this variation is caused by policy changes that should affect retirement decisions. However, it assumes that individuals are rational and fully understand these changes. Considerable evidence shows that this is not the case (see...
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View articletitled, Effect of Retirement on Cognition: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar
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Risk preferences and the timing of marriage and childbearing
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 439–460.
Published: 01 May 2008
... in individuals attitudes toward risk and the effect that these attitudes have on decision making and behavior. This interest has led to the inclusion of experimental questions in surveys that are designed to provide information about individuals risk preferences. Such questions generally create measures...
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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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The importance of education-occupation matching in migration decisions
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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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Analyzing migration decisions: the first step—whose decisions?
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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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Social multipliers in sexual initiation decisions among U.S. high school students
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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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Residential mobility on skid row: Disaffiliation, powerlessness, and decision making
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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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Agency in Fertility Decisions in Western Europe During the Demographic Transition: A Comparative Perspective
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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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Postmarital Living Arrangements in Historically Patrilocal Settings: Integrating Household Fission and Migration Perspectives
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1425–1449.
Published: 05 July 2017
... factors and living arrangements following marriage has been overlooked as well. This study addresses the limitations of prior research by investigating how community context, household factors, individual experiences, and marital processes collectively affect the decision to leave the natal household...
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Family organization and fertility limitation in Nepal
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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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Son Preference and Fertility Decisions: Evidence From Spatiotemporal Variation in Korea
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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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Fertility Intentions and Residential Relocations
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1305–1330.
Published: 11 July 2017
... approach, supplemented with a fertility decision-making model (Huinink and Kohli 2014 ). From a life course perspective, individual life paths can be perceived as a sequence of individual actions and biographical transitions in different yet interdependent life domains. Aiming to generate or maintain...
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The use of public transportation in urban areas: Toward a causal model
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Demography (1977) 14 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 February 1977
.... Building on the work of Schnore, we develop a model in which both structural and individual variables are interrelated and show that the structural contexts within which individuals make decisions about their choice are crucial. We also show that, while status differentials are largely accounted...
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