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The study of urbanization
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 937–941.
Published: 01 June 1967
... of urbanization. While three papers come close to defining urbanization as substance and process and are an orderly account of at least the salient features of urbanization through early, transitional, and late phases, urbanization as a process in different areas and cultures is a subject which is treated...
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Sources of geographic mobility among professional workers: A multivariate analysis
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 293–309.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Jack Ladinsky Summary Using the 1960 Census of Population one-in-a-thousand sample, this study investigates determinants of geographic mobility among professional, technical, and kindred workers. Multiple regression analysis reveals that age accounts for most of the explained variance in mobility...
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Occupational mobility as a probability process
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 19–34.
Published: 01 March 1966
...- ance seems as foreign as the idea of a career to the Markovian .assumption. The idea of status inheritance as such provides, of course, no systematic account of the behavior patterns of the great ma- jority of individuals who inherit neither their father's occupational role nor even his broad...
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The Young Adult Years: Diversity, Structural Change, and Fertility: Population Association of America 1991 Presidential Address
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Demography (1991) 28 (4): 493–512.
Published: 01 November 1991
... to account for the bulk of all births and sets the stage for the later years of childbearing. Hence, this paper emphasizes the young adult years. In contrast to other periods of the life course, the young adult years represent a period of multiple transitions; stated differently, they are demographically...
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A Gompertz fit that fits: Applications to canadian fertility patterns
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 35–50.
Published: 01 February 1972
... in such a procedure. In discussing the use of the Gompertz function and the re- lated Makeham function in mortality analysis, Miller (1946) notes: . . . it is not advisable to determine the nu- merical values of the constants by the use of isolated points for, on account of the irregu- larity of the observed series...
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Job, Family, and Gender: Determinants of Nonstandard Work Schedules Among Employed Americans in 1991
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 577–598.
Published: 01 November 1995
..., women may be more responsive than men to preference considerations. The literature suggests that women, more than men, take family obligations into account when making labor force decisions (Bielby and Bielby 1989; Duncan and Perucci 1976). Yet the extent to which such obligations constrain or encourage...
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Does Marriage Matter?
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 483–507.
Published: 01 November 1995
... in remarriage account for the rise in the proportion currently unmarried that we saw in Figure I for this group. Taken together, Figures I and 2 suggest that black men and women have led the retreat from marriage, becoming much more likely to avoid any contact whatever with the institution, whereas 50 45 Black...
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The demographic significance of organized population transfers in communist China
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 220–226.
Published: 01 March 1964
...- employed, graduates of the primary and secondary schools were also mobilized to go to the countryside, and were to be assigned to cultural, educational, account- ing and statistical jobs." In order to curb further out-flow from the villages, the following measures were put into effect: a continuous...
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Social networks and changes in contraceptive use over time: Evidence from a longitudinal study in rural Kenya
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 713–738.
Published: 01 November 2002
... . Weinreb A. ( 2001 ). First Politics, Then Culture: Accounting for Ethnic Differences in Demographic Behavior in Kenya . Population and Development Review , 27 , 437 – 68 . 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2001.00437.x White K. , & Watkins S.C. ( 2000 ). Accuracy, Stability...
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Educational reversals and first-birth timing in sub-Saharan Africa: A dynamic multilevel approach
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 59–77.
Published: 01 February 2007
... Africa thus offers a potential opportunity to assess the total fertility response to education declines. In this article, we attempt to estimate this total response by using a xed-effects multilevel approach that also takes into account the various other factors that may be related to both education...
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Double Jeopardy: Interaction Effects of Marital and Poverty Status on the Risk of Mortality
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 487–507.
Published: 01 August 1994
... or marital dissolution is to generate significant mortality effects beyond the effects of being neither poor nor married, the absolute increase must be quite large in order to reveal a small relative effect. Possibly the use of a single poverty threshold accounts for some of the weaker mortality effects...
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Within family planning—Korea
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 679–689.
Published: 01 June 1968
... sanctions are attached to accomplish- ment of the goals. On one hand are the re- ferral fees. On the other, the fieldworkers and each official in the entire administra- tive chain, is held accountable for the accomplishment of targets, and the failure to achieve them may result in at least a reprimand...
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Review Symposium
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 695–708.
Published: 01 November 1974
... popula- tion growth. To leave both developments and the associated official statements out of an account of population policy in China is an incredible and inexcusable omission. Besides the arbitrariness with which Tien has chosen the topics and evidence to be included in his book, other deficien- cies...
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Improving Accuracy in Multiple Regression Estimates of Population Using Principles from Causal Modelling
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Demography (1980) 17 (4): 413–427.
Published: 01 November 1980
... estimation. The modification is intended to take into account temporal changes in the structure of variable relationships, a major element in determining the accuracy of post-censal estimates. The modification of coefficients is conservative in that it uses rank-ordering as a basis of change. Empirical...
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The Impact of Forced Migration on Mortality: Evidence From German Pension Insurance Records
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 25–47.
Published: 29 November 2018
... ceded to the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II. However, this seems highly plausible when taking into account that postwar displacement in Finland was rather well organized and generous in terms of compensations (see, e.g., Haukka et al. 2017 ), whereas the displacement from Eastern Europe...
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Demographic Transition: A Forcing Model
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Demography (1974) 11 (2): 215–225.
Published: 01 May 1974
..., mutatis mutandis, to any they term an economic version of the view which can be encompassed by either Transition. To be sure Becker does im- an economic or a social-psychological plicitly, at least, take into account such version. Our proofs should apply di- things as income levels, the state...
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Mortality and Macroeconomic Conditions: What Can We Learn From France?
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1747–1764.
Published: 26 August 2019
... on information gathered from two documents: the medical certificate and the bulletin of civil status of death. Total deaths are available by département , year, gender, and age (in five-year groups). We also use an extensive set of demographic controls to account for any shifts in the age distribution...
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Women's Experience of Child Death Over the Life Course: A Global Demographic Perspective
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1715–1735.
Published: 01 October 2021
... than for women born in 1955. Accounting for compositional effects, we anticipate the largest improvements in regions of the Global South, where offspring mortality continues to be a common life event. This study quantifies an unprecedented shift in the timing of parental bereavement from reproductive...
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The living arrangements of separated, widowed, and divorced mothers
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 143–157.
Published: 01 February 1972
... of the marital likely to be rejected as family members status itself, or to the unique character- by relatives than would widowed and istics of the incumbents of the status. MSA-O women. This might account for Widows are much more likely than the higher rate of headship of separated women in the other marital...
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Occupational status scores: Changes introduced by the inclusion of women
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Demography (1978) 15 (2): 183–204.
Published: 01 May 1978
... into account in constructing measures of oc- cupational status. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors wish to express their warm thanks to Ann Lencyk for her patient as- sistance in the preparation of the data ta- bles used in this research. We also wish to thank two anonymous reviewers for De- mography...
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