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Is Child Schooling A Poor Proxy for Child Quality?
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
...Jere R. Behrman 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Inequality Aversion Parental Preference Child Quality Parental Welfare Poor Proxy References Arrow , K. J. ( 1971 ). A utilitarian approach to the concept of equality in public expenditure...
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Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in developing countries: The case of child Survival in São Paulo, Brazil*
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
... Bank . Wagstaff A. ( 2002 ). Inequality Aversion, Health Inequalities, and Health Achievement . Journal of Health Economics , 21 , 627 – 41 . 10.1016/S0167-6296(02)00006-1 Wagstaff A. , Paci P. , & van Doorslaer E. ( 1991 ). On the Measurement of Inequalities...
View articletitled, Trends in socioeconomic <span class="search-highlight">inequalities</span> in mortality in developing countries: The case of child Survival in São Paulo, Brazil*
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Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
.../S1355617707070841 Wagstaff A. ( 2002 ). Inequality Aversion, Health Inequalities, and Health Achievement . Journal of Health Economics , 21 , 627 – 41 . 10.1016/S0167-6296(02)00006-1 Wagstaff A. , Paci P. , & van Doorslaer E. ( 1991 ). On the Measurement of Inequalities...
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Compensation or Reinforcement? The Stratification of Parental Responses to Children’s Early Ability
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1883–1904.
Published: 14 November 2016
.... An alternative view was introduced by Griliches ( 1979 ) and Behrman et al. ( 1982 ), who argued that inequality aversion may trump efficiency concerns such that parents may try to equalize outcomes between their children by providing more support to the less-able child. To test parental responses to child...
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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
... be partly explained by labor market discrimination toward females. If market returns are higher for males, investing more in boys represents an efficient allocation of intrahousehold resources (Becker 1991 ; Rosenzweig and Schultz 1982 ). Alternatively, parents with a strong aversion to inequality among...
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The Nonlinear Linkage Between Earnings Homogamy and Earnings Inequality Among Married Couples
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 527–550.
Published: 01 April 2021
... two components, is the inequality-aversion parameter α. A larger value of α makes the earnings advantage of high earners less tolerable to the inequality index. It represents the researcher's moral preference about the nature of inequality. Clearly, the first component is the cornerstone of this type...
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How Does Deprivation Affect Early-Age Mortality? Patterns of Socioeconomic Determinants of Neonatal and Postneonatal Mortality in Bolivia
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1681–1704.
Published: 08 September 2020
...-urban gap in infant mortality: Household or community characteristics? . Demography , 46 , 827 – 850 . Wagstaff , A. ( 2002 ). Inequality aversion, health inequalities and health achievement . Journal of Health Economics , 21 , 627 – 641 . Weich , S. , Lewis , G...
View articletitled, How Does Deprivation Affect Early-Age Mortality? Patterns of Socioeconomic Determinants of Neonatal and Postneonatal Mortality in Bolivia
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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
... risk-averse counterparts and are therefore less likely to become mothers. These findings may have broader implications for both individual and societal well-being. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2008 2008 Risk Preference Risk Tolerance Unmarried Woman Duration...
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Divorce as risky behavior
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 895–921.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Audrey Light; Taehyun Ahn Abstract Given that divorce often represents a high-stakes income gamble, we ask how individual levels of risk tolerance affect the decision to divorce. We extend the orthodox divorce model by assuming that individuals are risk averse, that marriage is risky...
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Explaining the Gender Wealth Gap
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1155–1176.
Published: 21 December 2012
... of occupational standing: How useful are composite measures in analyses of gender inequality in occupational attainment? . Sociological Methods & Research , 27 , 3 – 76 . 10.1177/0049124198027001001 Watson , J. , & McNaughton , M. ( 2007 ). Gender differences in risk aversion...
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Later-borns Don’t Give Up: The Temporary Effects of Birth Order on European Earnings
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 449–470.
Published: 16 February 2016
... to better-paying jobs. We argue that a key factor driving our findings is that later-borns have lower risk aversion than firstborns. 15 1 2016 16 2 2016 © Population Association of America 2016 2016 Birth order Earnings Risk aversion Europe Firstborns typically earn higher...
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The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest: Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and the Age at Leaving Home
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 857–875.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the utility gain associated with nest leaving (rather than staying) when income takes values of 0.5 in Period 1, 1 in Period 2, and 1.5 in Period 3. The interest rate and the time preference parameter are 2% (hence, R = 1.02 , β = 1 1.02 ) . The absolute risk aversion parameter, θ...
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The spatial dynamics of stratification: Metropolitan context, population redistribution, and black and Hispanic homeownership
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 845–868.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Chenoa A. Flippen Abstract Racial and ethnic inequality in homeownership remains stubbornly wide, even net of differences across groups in household-level sociodemographic characteristics. This article investigates the role of contextual forces in structuring disparate access to homeownership among...
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Poverty and macroeconomic performance across space, race, and family structure
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 61–86.
Published: 01 February 2004
... of poverty, in general, were tempered by rising wage inequality, simulations indicated that female-headed families and families that were headed by black persons experienced substantial reductions in poverty in the 1990s largely because of the growth in median wages. An auxiliary time-series analysis...
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Policy-Induced Fertility Suppression and Marital Satisfaction: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in China
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2027–2051.
Published: 01 December 2024
... planning policy that aims to suppress fertility can de facto exempt women from excessive reproductive responsibilities and reduce the blame they would face for not meeting their families’ desires for multiple children. Therefore, gender inequality embedded in Confucian ideology might lead to differential...
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Childhood Income Volatility and Adult Outcomes
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1641–1665.
Published: 04 October 2014
... that such measures have when interpreting changes in income inequality in the United States (Burkhauser and Couch 2009 ). Although the literature relating income to long-term outcomes and mobility mainly focuses on measured levels—not volatility—these studies help explain income’s socioeconomic correlates. Studies...
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An interactive contextual model of migration in Ilocos Norte, the Philippines
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 May 1987
... Blau , P. M. ( 1977 ). Inequality and Heterogeneity: A Primitive Theory of Social Structure . New York : Free Press . Bowles , S. ( 1970 ). Migration as investment: Empirical tests of the human investment approach to geographic mobility . Review of Economics and Statistics , 52...
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Losses of Expected Lifetime in the United States and Other Developed Countries: Methods and Empirical Analyses
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 211–239.
Published: 26 February 2011
... of their aversion to inequality (Anand 1983 ; Anand et al. 2001 ; Shkolnikov et al. 2003 ). In this article, we use e † , a measure highlighted by Vaupel and Canudas Romo ( 2003 ). Unlike S 10 , it covers the entire range of ages and has an important public health interpretation. The value of e...
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A Multigenerational View of Inequality
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 1–23.
Published: 27 January 2011
... appropriate for some populations in some periods, this perspective may omit important sources of intergenerational continuity of family-based social inequality. Social institutions, which transcend individual lives, help support multigenerational influence, particularly at the extreme top and bottom...
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Whites who say they’d flee: Who are they, and why would they leave?
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 675–696.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Maria Krysan Abstract Questions have been raised about whether white flight—one factor contributing to U.S. residential segregation—is driven by racial, race-associated, or neutral ethnocentric concerns. I use closed- and open-ended survey data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality...
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