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Gaps in exposure to married-parent families between lower- and higher-incom...
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in The Segregation of Opportunity: Social and Financial Resources in the Educational Contexts of Lower- and Higher-Income Children, 1990–2014
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Published: 10 September 2019
Fig. 6 Gaps in exposure to married-parent families between lower- and higher-income students’ school districts by state income segregation quintile, 1990–2014
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 811–833.
Published: 27 May 2015
... characteristics on children’s characteristics is modified by the type of parent. In this article, I compare the transmission of traits from parents to children across married parents, divorced parents, and stepparents. One reason to make this comparison is that it allows me to test alternative theories about...
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View articletitled, Family Disruption and Intergenerational Reproduction: Comparing the Influences of <span class="search-highlight">Married</span> <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span>, Divorced <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span>, and Stepparents
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for article titled, Family Disruption and Intergenerational Reproduction: Comparing the Influences of <span class="search-highlight">Married</span> <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span>, Divorced <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span>, and Stepparents
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2375–2383.
Published: 02 October 2017
... married parents. Including biological parentage as a control variable suppresses same-sex/different-sex differences, thus obscuring the data error. Parentage is not appropriate as a control because it correlates nearly perfectly (+.97, gamma) with the same-sex/different-sex distinction and is invariant...
View articletitled, Sample Errors Call Into Question Conclusions Regarding Same-Sex <span class="search-highlight">Married</span> <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span>: A Comment on “Family Structure and Child Health: Does the Sex Composition of <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span> Matter?”
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for article titled, Sample Errors Call Into Question Conclusions Regarding Same-Sex <span class="search-highlight">Married</span> <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span>: A Comment on “Family Structure and Child Health: Does the Sex Composition of <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span> Matter?”
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Predicted probability of parent-headed coresidence, by married children’s g...
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Fig. 2 Predicted probability of parent-headed coresidence, by married children’s gender and education
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The Compositional and Institutional Sources of Union Dissolution for Married and Unmarried Parents in the United States
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1789–1818.
Published: 10 May 2013
...Laura Tach; Kathryn Edin Abstract Unmarried parents have less stable unions than married parents, but there is considerable debate over the sources of this instability. Unmarried parents may be more likely than married parents to end their unions because of compositional differences, such as more...
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View articletitled, The Compositional and Institutional Sources of Union Dissolution for <span class="search-highlight">Married</span> and Unmarried <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span> in the United States
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Published: 10 May 2013
Fig. 2 Predicted probability of union dissolution for married parents with characteristics of the average married, cohabiting, and dating parents. Predicted probabilities are calculated from Model 5 of Table 3 . All controls are set to mean characteristics from Table 1 for married, cohabiting
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Purchasing Piety? Coresidence of Married Children With Their Older Parents in Japan
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1559–1579.
Published: 09 August 2011
...Fig. 2 Predicted probability of parent-headed coresidence, by married children’s gender and education ...
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View articletitled, Purchasing Piety? Coresidence of <span class="search-highlight">Married</span> Children With Their Older <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span> in Japan
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2063–2082.
Published: 11 November 2019
... were uncommon, increases in parents’ separation were driven primarily by increases in divorce among married parents. When cohabiting parenthood became more visible, it also became a larger component, but continued increases in parents’ divorce also contributed to increasing parental separation. When...
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View articletitled, Contribution of the Rise in Cohabiting Parenthood to Family Instability: Cohort Change in Italy, Great Britain, and Scandinavia
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Cross-National Comparisons of Union Stability in Cohabiting and Married Families With Children
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1389–1421.
Published: 07 June 2018
... and married parents in education, prior family experiences, and age at first birth. Second, we estimate differences in the stability of cohabiting and married parents, paying attention to transitions into marriage among those cohabiting at birth. Finally, we explore the implications of differences in parents...
View articletitled, Cross-National Comparisons of Union Stability in Cohabiting and <span class="search-highlight">Married</span> Families With Children
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Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
... with children whose parents were married, children born to never-married single mothers were significantly more likely to die before age 5 in six countries (odds ratios range from 1.36 in Nigeria to 2.61 in Zimbabwe). In addition, up to 50 % of women will become single mothers as a consequence of divorce...
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Does Parents’ Union Instability Disrupt Intergenerational Advantage? An Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 445–473.
Published: 07 February 2020
... of parents’ education for future generations. Following divorce, children benefit from their biological parents’ education to the same degree as children with married parents—a finding that is consistent across lineage contexts. Moreover, stepfathers’ education corresponds with pronounced health benefits...
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View articletitled, Does <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span>’ Union Instability Disrupt Intergenerational Advantage? An Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa
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for article titled, Does <span class="search-highlight">Parents</span>’ Union Instability Disrupt Intergenerational Advantage? An Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Family Structure Experiences and Child Socioemotional Development During the First Nine Years of Life: Examining Heterogeneity by Family Structure at Birth
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 513–540.
Published: 15 March 2017
... at birth. For children born to cohabiting or noncoresident parents, we find little evidence that subsequent family structure experiences are associated with socioemotional development. For children born to married parents, we find associations between family instability and poorer socioemotional...
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Living Arrangements of Older Malaysians: Who Coresides with Their Adult Children?
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 95–113.
Published: 01 February 1994
... the husband or wife is in poor health. This finding suggests that married parents and children live together to economize on living costs or to receive help with household services. Unmarried seniors who are better off economically are less likely to live with adult children, presumably because they use...
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The Deserving Poor, the Family, and the U.S. Welfare System
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 729–749.
Published: 06 June 2015
..., there have been redistributions away from non-elderly and nondisabled families to families with older adults and to families with recipients of disability programs; from non-elderly, nondisabled single-parent families to married-parent families; and from the poorest families to those with higher incomes...
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Family Structure and Child Health: Does the Sex Composition of Parents Matter?
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1605–1630.
Published: 23 August 2016
... poorer health outcomes than children in married households regardless of the sex composition of their parents. Children in same-sex and different-sex married households are relatively similar to each other on health outcomes, as are children in same-sex and different-sex cohabiting households...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1711–1720.
Published: 01 December 2023
... at never-married and ever-married parents, and we document a key limitation of the dominant current empirical approach, which examines the stock of all cases. Flow measures, which categorize cases by when they entered the system, more closely track responses to policy changes than do static stock measures...
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View articletitled, A Research Note on Trends in the Stock and Flow of Child Support Agreements
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Reconsidering the increase in father-only families
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 385–393.
Published: 01 August 1996
... grew at more than double the rate of mother-only families during the 1980s. Decomposition analyses show that the largest factor associated with the increase is that fathers now head a greater proportion of all formerly married single-parent families with children. Although the share of single-parent...
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School Progress Among Children of Same-Sex Couples
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 799–821.
Published: 10 May 2018
... married couples, but these differences are sensitive to sample exclusions and do not indicate causal benefits to same-sex parenting. The data used in this study offer some advantages over the 2000 U.S. Census data that Rosenfeld ( 2010 ) and Allen et al. ( 2013 , 2014 ) used. Previously, children could...
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Child gender and father involvement in fragile families
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 79–92.
Published: 01 February 2007
... is related to parents’ living arrangements or the amount of time or money fathers invest in their children. In contrast, and consistent with previous research, fathers who are married when their child is born are more likely to live with a son than with a daughter one year after birth. This pattern supports...
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Family transitions in Young Adulthood
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 807–820.
Published: 01 November 2007
... is not preceded by a first birth. Category 3 has those who become single parents. Category 4 has the women who cohabit at least once, but who do not marry or have a birth by age 24. The strictly ordered transitions of the 1950s are long gone and have been replaced by a variety of paths to adulthood. 13 1...
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