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Demography (1982) 19 (2): 241–260.
Published: 01 May 1982
... analysis within the structure of the life-table perspective. The results show substantial differences in patterns between Korea and the Philippines, indicate clearly the effect of each intermediate variable, and illustrate how educational differentials in fertility are affected by contraception and infant...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 March 1968
... institutional mechanisms in society and the “intermediate variables” that link these mechanisms to fertility. Second, Hill, Stycos, and Back use the nuclear family as a planning and decision-making association to develop the interactional frame of reference in studying family planning in Puerto Rico. And, third...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 721–743.
Published: 09 March 2017
... is the mechanism-based approach recently proposed and based on Pearl’s front-door criterion; this approach ensures consistent APC effect estimators in the presence of a complete set of intermediate variables between one of age, period, cohort, and the outcome of interest, as long as the assumed parametric models...
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 113–122.
Published: 01 February 1987
.... A. Palmore. In press. Determinants of Korean birth intervals: The confrontation of theory and data. Population Studies . Bumpass , L. L. , Rindfuss , R. R. , Palmore , J. A. , Concepcion , M. , & Choi , B. M. ( 1982 ). Intermediate variables and educational differentials...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 701–725.
Published: 01 November 2003
... of these background variables between Models 3 and 4 shows that a substantial portion of the largely social variables is accounted for by the intermedi- ate variables. For instance, births to married women were 121 grams heavier than those to unmarried women when other background characteristics but no intermediate...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 577–595.
Published: 01 November 1981
... the average duration of breastfeeding of contraception. The overall correlation among women with no education is coefficient can be decomposed in terms equivalent to a difference of about 2.2 of the relationship between education children (11.93 - 9.75) in the Total Natu- and intermediate variables...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 85–98.
Published: 01 February 1989
...; they may all be operating simultaneously. They can, however, initially be sorted into two familiar categories: the social structural and cultural factors and the "intermediate variables" of exposure to sexual intercourse, conception, and birth through which broader social factors mustoperate (Davis...
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Demography (1969) 6 (2): 141–149.
Published: 01 May 1969
... to the father’s 65th birthday, and that all women were biologically capable of having the same number of children were reported earlier. A model identical to one presented earlier but assuming women to be of variable fecundity is presented here; the results are quite similar. Also, the results of models assuming...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 53–70.
Published: 01 February 1988
... of the fertility differences they purport to explain. It is noteworthy that the theoretical explanations, as weil as empirical research on the subject, have tended to neglect the role that differences in intermediate or proximate variables might play in generating racial fertility differences. This is all the more...
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 413–430.
Published: 01 August 1990
... and intermediate variables form an interactive chain of influences on the risks of infant death from particular medical causes. We attempt to build on past studies by extendingthe conceptual framework and employingstate-of-the-art methodologyto estimate direct and indirect as well as main and interaction effects...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 659–673.
Published: 01 November 2003
..., MD : Macro International . Encuesta Nacional Sobre Prevencion y Uso de Drogas— Informe Final . ( 1999 ). Peru : Fondo Editorial Contradrogas . Gaslonde S. , & Carrasco E. ( 1982 ). The Impact of Some Intermediate Variables on Fertility: Evidence From the Venezuela National...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 579–594.
Published: 01 November 1986
... Bongaarts , J. ( 1982 ). The fertility-inhibiting effects of the intermediate fertility variables . Studies in Family Planning , 13 , 179 – 189 . 10.2307/1965445 Brackbill , Y. ( 1974 ). Test-retest reliability in population research . Studies in Family Planning , 5 , 261 – 266...
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 475–481.
Published: 01 August 1990
... did so less frequently. Mosher and Goldscheider (1984) and Goldscheider and Mosher (1988) cast further doubt on the likelihood of the disappearance of the indirect effect of religion on fertility. They showed that religion continues to be associated with variations in the intermediate variable...
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 623–637.
Published: 01 November 1987
... between unmarried cohabitation and certain intermediate variables affecting fertility, notably sexual activity and contraceptive practice, as well as expectations for the number and timing of future births. It is intended as a first step toward understanding the 623 624 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 24, number 4...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1139–1161.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... In terms of potential mechanisms, analyses of the effects of schooling on intermediate variables show that remaining in school until age 16 causally impacts occupation. The findings provide new evidence that basic education causally improves working memory—an important component of cognitive function...
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 207–218.
Published: 01 May 1990
... from wife and mother, but it does not exclude the possible incorporation of these roles later in life. The analytic framework in which facets of family background are perceived to affect premarital pregnancy decision making is presented in Figure 1. Although none of the intermediate variables...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1717–1742.
Published: 04 November 2016
... consistent effects despite broad consensus that the consequences of divorce vary among the individuals involved (Amato and Anthony 2014 ). Of all potential moderator variables, one of the most intriguing is whether couples have children before divorce. Although having children at home is generally...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 379–399.
Published: 21 March 2015
... separately (in each case, using the near–far dichotomy). Then we repeat the analysis using the joint distribution of distance to both sets of parents (i.e., X 1 , . . . , X 4 in Fig. 1 ) as the dependent variable. With empirical support from many countries, Rainer and Siedler ( 2009 , 2012...
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 329–339.
Published: 01 August 1970
... en- vironment, the intermediate variables of Davis and Blake (1956) and fertility itself. The present study in which the focus is on the prediction of favorability toward birth control is consistent with this suggestion. With more focused re- search on specific links in the casual chain, we...
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Demography (1985) 22 (1): 35–59.
Published: 01 February 1985
... of short birth intervals. The pattern is the same for either coding of the dependent variable. The three Indonesian linguistic groups-Javanese, Sundanese, and Madurese-typically have the longest interval from marriage to first birth. The other populations have intermediate values. Of all the interven- ing...
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