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Naming the Precious Child: New Evidence of Intentional Family Planning in Historical Populations
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 493–516.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Joshua R. Goldstein; Guy Stecklov Abstract Can the names parents gave their children give us insights into how parents in historical times planned their families? In this study, we explore whether the names given to the firstborn child can be used as indicators of family-size preferences and, if so...
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In the Name of the Father? Fertility, Religion, and Child Naming in the Demographic Transition
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1793–1815.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Dylan Shane Connor Abstract This article shows that parents reveal information about their fertility behavior through how they name their children. I arrive at this finding from a detailed examination of the net fertility of 130,000 married couples in Ireland, a country known for its historically...
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Published: 01 April 2023
Fig. 2 Causal diagram of fertility determinants. We observe status, naming, and fertility, but do not observe preferences. Without controls for status, the predictive power of names for fertility may reflect the joint influence of status on naming and fertility. With effective controls
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in In the Name of the Father? Fertility, Religion, and Child Naming in the Demographic Transition
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Published: 01 October 2021
Fig. 1 Geography of naming behaviors and net fertility in Ireland circa 1911. Three maps of the (a) Catholic Index of children's names, (b) Traditional Name Score for children's names, and (c) net fertility circa 1911. A fourth map is provided for reference to Ireland's major coastal urban areas
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Birth outcomes for Arabic-named women in California before and after September 11
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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 185–201.
Published: 01 February 2006
... who gave birth in the six months following September 2001, compared with the same six calendar months one year earlier. The relative risk of poor birth outcomes was significantly elevated for Arabic-named women and not for any of the other groups. 14 1 2011 © Population Association...
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Stop, in the Name of COVID! Using Social Media Data to Estimate the Effects of COVID-19-Related Travel Restrictions on Migration
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 493–511.
Published: 01 April 2024
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Writing the names: Marriage style, living arrangements, and first birth interval in a Nepali society
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 175–188.
Published: 01 May 1993
... Review of Anthropology , 19 , 211 – 42 . Demography, Vol. 30, No.2, May 1993 Writing the Names: Marriage Style, Living Arrangements, and First Birth Interval In a Nepali Society* Tom Fricke Institute for Social Research, Department of Anthropology, and Population Studies Center University...
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Private own-name coverage regression coefficients by education. Low educati...
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Fig. 5 Private own-name coverage regression coefficients by education. Low education includes those with a high school diploma or less. High education includes those with some college or more. For children, this refers to the educational attainment of the mother. Source: 1996, 2001, and 2004
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Published: 01 April 2023
Fig. 1 Family size based on common names of the oldest child, by sex for native-born White individuals in the 1900 100% census count. “Name pyramids” show the average number of children in the household by name of the oldest child and the frequency of that name on a logarithmic scale. The dashed
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Marital Disruption and Health Insurance
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1397–1421.
Published: 11 July 2014
...Fig. 5 Private own-name coverage regression coefficients by education. Low education includes those with a high school diploma or less. High education includes those with some college or more. For children, this refers to the educational attainment of the mother. Source: 1996, 2001, and 2004...
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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 27–53.
Published: 10 December 2015
... of having a baby, and responses are strongest among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions—namely, married women and women with a graduate degree. Given that native women also respond to immigrant inflows by working long hours, this article concludes...
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Large-Scale Urban Riots and Residential Segregation: A Case Study of the 1960s U.S. Riots
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 567–595.
Published: 03 March 2016
... riot activity in seven major U.S. cities. I use a novel approach—namely, synthetic control matching—to select a group of cities against which segregation trends can be compared. I find that levels of black segregation rose in 1970 for four of the seven cities, but these increases disappeared in 1980...
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Maternal Risk Exposure and Adult Daughters’ Health, Schooling, and Employment: A Constructed Cohort Analysis of 50 Developing Countries
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 835–863.
Published: 06 May 2016
...Qingfeng Li; Amy O. Tsui Abstract This study analyzes the relationships between maternal risk factors present at the time of daughters’ births—namely, young mother, high parity, and short preceding birth interval—and their subsequent adult developmental, reproductive, and socioeconomic outcomes...
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Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1693–1715.
Published: 01 November 2016
... at risk of divorce—namely, black women with lower levels of education and who were younger—midpregnancy marriages had the same or lower likelihood of divorce as preconception marriages. Our results suggest an overlooked resiliency in a type of marriage that has only increased in salience. Third, couples...
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Young Children’s Developmental Ecologies and Kindergarten Readiness
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1853–1882.
Published: 21 November 2016
..., and genetic factors. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), this study conducts latent class analyses to identify how 41 factors from three domains—namely, household resources, health risks, and ecological changes—cluster within children as four overarching developmental...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 721–743.
Published: 09 March 2017
... for all the relevant causal pathways are correct. Through a simulation study mimicking APC data on cardiovascular mortality, we demonstrate possible pitfalls that users of the mechanism-based approach may encounter under realistic conditions: namely, when (1) the set of available intermediate variables...
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View articletitled, An Assessment and Extension of the Mechanism-Based Approach to the Identification of Age-Period-Cohort Models
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Women, Demography, and Politics: How Lower Fertility Rates Lead to Democracy
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 559–586.
Published: 14 March 2018
... on politics, particularly on democracy, squarely within the scope of political and social sciences, and to focus on the effects of woman-related demographics—namely, fertility rate. I test the hypothesis that demographic variables—female-related predictors, in particular—have an independent effect...
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Twins Support the Absence of Parity-Dependent Fertility Control in Pretransition Populations
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1571–1595.
Published: 17 July 2020
... empirical results and has also been widely rejected by theorists of long-run economic growth, where pre-industrial fertility control is integral to most models. In this study, we use the accident of twin births to show that for three Western European–derived pre-industrial populations—namely, England (1730...
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Living Arrangements and the Elderly: An Analysis of Old-Age Mortality by Household Structure in Casalguidi, 1819–1859
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1593–1613.
Published: 18 May 2013
... system of day laborers. Our findings demonstrate that within complex households, the complexity of relationships, gender inequalities, and possible competition for care and resources among the most vulnerable household members—namely, the elderly and the young—weakens the assumption that the elderly...
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Economic Incentives and Foster Child Adoption
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 933–954.
Published: 06 November 2012
... are eventually adopted by their foster parents. The decision by foster parents to adopt their foster child carries significant economic consequences, including forfeiting foster care payments while also assuming responsibility for medical, legal, and educational expenses, to name a few. Since 1980, U.S. states...
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