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Do conditional cash transfers influence migration? A study using experimental data from the Mexican progresa program
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 769–790.
Published: 01 November 2005
... 2005 2005 Cash Transfer Migration Decision Network Variable Family Network Neoclassical Model References Adato , M. , Cody , D. , & Ruel , M. ( 2000 ). An Operations Evaluation of PROGRESA From the Perspective of Bene ciaries, Promotoras, School Directors...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 383–391.
Published: 01 February 2021
... Theory of the Family: Preposterous Conclusions,” calling on feminists to reclaim the economics of the family and to revisit neoclassical, rational choice maximization models of human behavior. Robert Pollack (2003) went even further to suggest that the conclusions derived from Becker's analysis did...
View articletitled, Conditional Cash Transfers and Migration: Reconciling Feminist Theoretical Approaches With the New Economics of Labor Migration
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How Job Characteristics Affect International Migration: The Role of Informality in Mexico
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 751–775.
Published: 17 October 2012
... models using an observation period of three quarters instead of four (i.e., four survey waves instead of five). The results were consistent with those presented in the tables in this article. 1 Neoclassical theory of migration focuses primarily on the economically active population. Individuals...
View articletitled, How Job Characteristics Affect International Migration: The Role of Informality in Mexico
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The Leverage of Demographic Dynamics on Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Does Age Structure Matter?
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 371–399.
Published: 17 February 2011
.... , O’Neill B. C. , Prskawetz A. , Jiang L. , & Pitkin J. ( 2008 ). Population aging and future carbon emissions in the United States . Energy Economics , 30 , 642 – 675 . 10.1016/j.eneco.2006.07.002 Diamond P. A. ( 1965 ). National debt in a neoclassical growth model...
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Does Schooling Affect Women’s Desired Fertility? Evidence From Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 787–809.
Published: 08 May 2015
.... An alternative perspective is offered by neoclassical economic models of fertility, which argue that increases in women’s schooling lead to wage increases and, correspondingly, increases in the opportunity costs of having a large number of children (Becker 1981 ; Becker and Lewis 1973 ). This increase...
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Rethinking the Two-Body Problem: The Segregation of Women Into Geographically Dispersed Occupations
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1619–1639.
Published: 05 September 2014
... that relocation decisions tend to improve husbands’ but impair wives’ career development. Critics of neoclassical economic models of household mobility cite the prioritization of husbands’ careers in relocation decisions as evidence that mobility decisions are governed by normative gender roles (see, for example...
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Spousal Mobility and Earnings
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 829–849.
Published: 01 November 2008
... effects from return migration to a previous location, and therefore previously established social networks, than from migra- tion to a new location. A number of authors (e.g., Bielby and Bielby 1992; Shihadeh 1991) have argued that the symmetry of the neoclassical model of migration that the household...
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Aggregate Population and Economic Growth Correlations: The Role of the Components of Demographic Change
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 543–555.
Published: 01 November 1995
... for key omitted or difficult-to-measure factors of production. Insofar as there are diminishing returns to these factors, the sign on YIN, should be negative. Indeed, neoclassical models beginning with Solow (1956) imply that growth rates will converge across countries. This prediction has not gone...
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Explaining Changes in Married Mothers’ Employment over Time
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 365–378.
Published: 01 August 1995
... and then differentiate the resulting labor supply equation to identify sources of change. The standard neoclassical model assumes that households maximize a time-separable utility function: T U = I8tu [C t , i; a, ILL t=O (1) where U, lifetime utility, is the discounted sum of per-period utility, u, and 8 is the per...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2135–2159.
Published: 01 December 2022
... ( Adler 1997 ). Labor demand shifts, such as those due to exposure to trade shocks, likely influence fertility choices through changes in income and in the opportunity costs of having children. Neoclassical models of fertility suggest that because children are not easily substitutable, changes...
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View articletitled, Globalization, Fertility, and Marital Behavior in a Lowest-Low Fertility Setting
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Some macroeconomic aspects of global population aging
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S151–S172.
Published: 01 March 2010
... – 15 . 10.2307/2525720 Diamond P.A. ( 1965 ). National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model . American Economic Review , 55 , 1126 – 50 . Fogel R.W. ( 1997 ). New Findings on Secular Trends in Nutrition and Mortality: Some Implications for Population Theory . In
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Spatial Variation In Migration Processes And Development: A Costa Rican Example Of Conventional Modeling Augmented By The Expansion Method
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 327–352.
Published: 01 August 1985
...: A SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH Migration is most commonly studied under 'neoclassical', largely economic, conceptualizations that make no explicit reference to development setting or, as we prefer, 'development milieu'. One variant, the 'labor force adjustment' model, sees migration both as an individual...
View articletitled, Spatial Variation In Migration Processes And Development: A Costa Rican Example Of Conventional <span class="search-highlight">Modeling</span> Augmented By The Expansion Method
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1923–1948.
Published: 01 December 2024
... are the reference group in panel a, and native women are the reference group in panel b (indicated by the vertical dashed lines). Vertical mismatch is operationalized using information on the standardized ridit, with values above 0 indicating overeducation and values below 0 indicating undereducation. The model...
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View articletitled, Which Degree for Which Occupation? Vertical and Horizontal Mismatch Among Immigrants, Their Children, and Grandchildren in France
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If All We Knew About Women Was What We Read in Demography , What Would We Know?
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 551–577.
Published: 01 November 1993
... Yet another feminist insight, and one that I found particularly compelling, is that neoclassical models are inadequate because they are based on an assumption of "separative selves": that humans are autonomous and impervious to social influence (England forthcoming). My reading of Demography between...
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The effect of the sex composition of jobs on starting wages in an organization: Findings from the NLSY
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 511–521.
Published: 01 November 1996
... is the spell—the time in which a person worked for one organization. The dependent variable is the first wage in the spell. We use models with fixed-effects to control for unmeasured, unchanging individual characteristics; we also show results from OLS and weighted models for comparison. The negative effect...
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Who gets custody?
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 147–157.
Published: 01 May 1998
... one framework for examining parental preferences for custody. The standard neoclassical model of household production suggests that, within marriage, spouses gain from specialization (Becker 1981). If the father can earn a higher wage, it is in the family's interest for him to work in the labor market...
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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 433–454.
Published: 01 April 2015
... the estimation of the Cox proportional hazard models used to estimate noncare work and nonretirement survival, assuming that the individual is currently not providing care or not retired, respectively. All independent variables in both regressions are as of the preceding wave. That is, variables in wave t – 1...
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Self-care: Why do parents leave their children unsupervised?
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 285–301.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., quality, and preferences (Blau and Robins 1988; Connelly 1992; Folk and Yi 1994; Hofferth and Wissoker 1992). Many scholars have applied Becker s (1981) neoclassical economics models of household production to the study of employment and child care choices. According to Becker s theory, parents derive...
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On the auspices of female migration from Mexico to the United States
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 187–200.
Published: 01 May 2001
... to accumulate cash in the form of remit- tances and savings. Gender has not figured prominently in either of these theoretical models. Neoclassical theorists generally consider women to be passive actors in household decisions; these decisions are managed by an altruistic male head, who evalu- ates various...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1335–1357.
Published: 01 October 2023
... . https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2146 Wassink J. T. , & Hagan J. M. ( 2018 ). A dynamic model of self-employment and socioeconomic mobility among return migrants: The case of urban Mexico . Social Forces , 96 , 1069 – 1096 . Weil P. ( 2005 ). La France et ses étrangers...
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View articletitled, Return Migration Selection and Its Impact on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data
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