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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 429–443.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Cheryl Elman; George C. Myers Abstract We use a national cross-sectional database, the 1880 Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample, to examine aggregate patterns and individual-level estimates of chronic-disease morbidity and long-term disability in the United States in the late nineteenth century...
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Demography (1979) 16 (2): 289–312.
Published: 01 May 1979
...Michael R. Haines Abstract This paper seeks to extend our knowledge about mortality in the late nineteenth century United States by using census mortality data for older children and teenagers to fit model tables. The same method can also be used with partially underregistered death data. The most...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 1013–1034.
Published: 01 November 2010
... to adulthood. However, late family formation and singlehood, tcommon pathways within the preindustrial western European marriage pattern, remained widespread among cohorts born in the late nineteenth century. Laboring class youths, farmers’ daughters, young people of mixed religious background, and urban-born...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1295–1317.
Published: 03 June 2014
... and late ages. This causes later cohorts to have higher rates of demographic aging than earlier cohorts. The rate of biological aging, approximating the rate of the senescence process, significantly declined between the mid- and late-nineteenth century birth cohorts and stabilized afterward. Unlike...
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1871–1895.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Maggie E. C. Jones Abstract From the late nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century, the Canadian government collaborated with Christian churches to operate a network of boarding schools for Indigenous children to culturally and economically assimilate them. These children were...
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 9–18.
Published: 01 February 1984
...Stewart E. Tolnay; Avery M. Guest Abstract Contemporary populations frequently space the births of children, and also attempt to stop childbearing after achieving a desired family size. While stopping behavior was evident in European populations in the late nineteenth century, little is known about...
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 321–336.
Published: 01 August 1978
..., suggesting an experience parallel to the decline in U.S. rural fertility in the late nineteenth century, which Easterlin and others have attributed to increased scarcity of land for starting new farm households. Multivariate analysis of the Brazilian data shows parallels between the two situations but also...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1085–1108.
Published: 06 July 2016
...John R. Logan; Hyoung-jin Shin Abstract This study examines the bases of residential segregation in a late nineteenth century American city, recognizing the strong tendency toward homophily within neighborhoods. Our primary question is how ethnicity, social class, nativity, and family composition...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2005
...David Cutler; Grant Miller Abstract Mortality rates in the United States fell more rapidly during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries than in any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality “penalty...
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Demography (1982) 19 (1): 97–123.
Published: 01 February 1982
...Gretchen A. Condran; Rose A. Cheney Abstract This article examines the decline in mortality which occurred in Philadelphia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Age- and cause-specific mortality rates accounting for the decline are isolated and the relative importance of several...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 945–966.
Published: 12 May 2015
... implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current nutritional conditions is body weight. After controlling for height, I find that African American and white weights decreased throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Farmers had greater average weights than workers...
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Demography (1979) 16 (4): 493–521.
Published: 01 November 1979
... to be characterized predominantly by natural fertility, the emergence of family limitation began as early as the turn of the nineteenth century in some places and as late as the end of the nineteenth century in others. Occupational differentials with respect to family limitation were also examined. There is little...
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Demography (1969) 6 (3): 223–242.
Published: 01 August 1969
.... For the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the new tables yield a substantially lower life-expectancy than that shown by previously published life tables; for recent decades the difference is smaller, though in the same direction. As a consequence, the new tables show a speed of mortality decline...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 657–672.
Published: 01 June 1967
... legislación más liberal, actualmente en marcha, para hacer propaganda sobre control de la natalidad y planeamiento familiar. Summary The secular decline of Italian fertility, started in the last decade of the nineteenth century, came to an end in the early 1950’sand has recovered slightly in the last fifteen...
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 557–575.
Published: 01 November 1995
... in the Immigrant Generation . Ithaca : Cornell University Press . Goldin C. , & Hershberg T. ( 1981 ). Family Strategies and the Family Economy in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Role of Secondary Workers Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family, and Group Experience in the 19th Century (pp. 277...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 137–148.
Published: 01 February 1989
... for the United States in the late nineteenth century . Demography , 16 , 289 – 312 . 10.2307/2061144 Keyfitz , N. , & Flieger , W. ( 1968 ). World Population: An Analysis of Vital Data . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Meeker , E. ( 1977 ). Freedom, economic...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2337–2364.
Published: 01 December 2021
... populations with natural fertility patterns. There have been fewer studies of how kin influenced demographic outcomes during the fertility transition, which commenced in Europe and parts of North America in the late nineteenth century. In this article, we examine the impact of kin availability on reproductive...
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Ready, Willing, and Able? Impediments to the Onset of Marital Fertility Decline in the United States
Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1657–1692.
Published: 18 October 2016
..., however, Jones and Tertilt ( 2008 ) found a consistent negative relationship between fertility and “occupational income” from the earliest observable birth cohort in 1826. Other researchers have highlighted large and increasing occupational differences in fertility in the late nineteenth century...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 465–486.
Published: 01 November 1981
... Development . Demography , 11 , 457 – 472 . 10.2307/2060438 Haines Michael ( 1979 ). Fertility and Occupation . New York : Academic . Haines Michael ( 1979 ). The Use of Model Life Tables to Estimate Mortality for the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century . Demography...
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Demography (1988) 25 (4): 597–609.
Published: 01 November 1988
... Condran , G. , & Crimmins-Gardner , E. ( 1978 ). Public health measures and mortality in U.S. cities in the late nineteenth century . Human Ecology , 6 , 27 – 54 . 10.1007/BF00888565 DaVanzo , J. , & Habicht , J. P. ( 1986 ). Infant mortality decline in Malaysia...
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