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Trends in age at marriage in postwar Ireland
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 187–202.
Published: 01 May 1972
... marriage has also meant greater uniformity in age at marriage, but the phenomenon of first marriage at a fairly advanced age persists. There has been a marked trend towards greater equality between husbands' and wives' ages over the postwar period: the proportion of marriages in which there was less than...
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The decline in mortality in British Guiana, 1911-1960
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 301–315.
Published: 01 August 1970
... of information with respect to pre- and post-natal care. In the postwar period British Guiana’s famous D.D.T. experiment was the most important reason death rates continued to fall. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1970 1970 Tuberculosis Malaria Kidney Disease Infant Mortality...
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Fertility and development in Brazil
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 143–157.
Published: 01 March 1967
..., the question is raised whether Brazil’s rate of economic development during the postwar period up to 1960 can be maintained, let alone increased, in the face of a population growth rate which will probably average 3.2–3.5 percent for the period 1960–70 and which, in the absence of a decline in fertility...
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Changes in women’s postmarital employment in Japan and Taiwan
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 693–717.
Published: 01 November 2005
... the divergence in women’s patterns of labor-force exit in these two countries during the postwar period. The findings reveal that the effects of family demands, occupation, firm size, and employment sector on women’s exit rates differed substantially between Japan and Taiwan. Taken together, these factors...
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Bust after boom: First marriage trends in Australia
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 May 1987
... of forces: those peculiar to wartime, those emerging in the early postwar period and creating a climate favorable to marriage, and those surfacing in the 1960s with the advent of oral contraception. Its reversal is attributed largely to less frequent resort to marriage when premaritally pregnant, the rise...
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Trend and variation in the seasonality of U.S. fertility, 1947–1976
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Demography (1985) 22 (1): 89–100.
Published: 01 February 1985
... questions for future research. 10 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1985 1985 Seasonal Pattern Postwar Period Census Division Milbank Memorial Fund Circannual Rhythm References Chaudhury R. H. ( 1972 ). Socioeconomic and seasonal variations in births...
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Beyond the Demographic Transition
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 549–561.
Published: 01 November 1974
...Arthur A. Campbell 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1974 1974 Total Fertility Rate Demographic Transition Marital Fertility Postwar Period World Fertility Survey Presidential address presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America...
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Postwar Trends in Family Size
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 321–334.
Published: 01 August 1981
...). This source pro- vides annual estimates of mean family size, mean family members less than 18, and mean family members 18 and older for selected demographic groups over much of the postwar period. Because these estimates have been scattered through disparate Current Population Re- ports, they have not been...
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Cohort, age, and period effects upon the employment of white females: Evidence for 1957–1968
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Demography (1977) 14 (1): 33–42.
Published: 01 February 1977
..., business-cycle effects are irregular, whereas the inter- cohort differences were essentially unidi- rectional, so that we are led to conclude that long-run (cohort) effects dominated short-run demand effects in the postwar period. However, more can be learned from in- tercohort change than is measured...
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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
... migrants in Germany that were drawn from censuses of the postwar period. 7 A small share of displaced persons who were initially located in the Soviet occupation zone eventually arrived in West Germany. This type of east-west sorting amounted to a total of approximately 500,000 individuals who...
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Mover Destination Selectivity and the Changing Suburbanization of Metropolitan Whites and Blacks
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Demography (1985) 22 (2): 223–243.
Published: 01 May 1985
.... It is my intent here to shed light on such specula- tions by examining trends in the intrame- tropolitan destination selectivity of mov- ers over three postwar periods and by estimating their effects on the evolving suburbanization process. Trends in mover destination selectiv- ity, as indicated by changes...
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Changing patterns of first marriage in the United States
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Demography (1985) 22 (2): 265–279.
Published: 01 May 1985
... a reflection of the proportion of the marriage cycle that each cohort lived during the pre- and postwar periods, with their markedly dif- ferent age-specific marriage probabili- ties. Projected Proportion of Later Cohorts Ever Marrying It is not possible to evaluate the per- centage married by age 44...
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On the relation of economic factors to recent and projected fertility changes
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 131–153.
Published: 01 March 1966
... cohorts are reaching childbearing age with desired con- 15 The figures comprise largely homes and con- sumer durables, whether owned or rented. Par- ticularly prior to the postwar period the former dominates the total, so that the series might be viewed as a crude index of housing conditions...
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Macroeconomic fluctuations and mortality in postwar Japan
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 323–343.
Published: 01 May 2008
... in life expectancy (78.6 years for males and 85.6 for females in 2004), and the Japanese economy in the postwar period has seen high and sustained rates of economic growth and very low levels of unemployment (Figure 2). For these reasons, it seems particularly interesting to ascertain whether, like...
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Household Headship Among Unmarried Persons in the United States, 1970–1985
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 219–232.
Published: 01 May 1990
... of period, sex, and color persist even after the independent variables are taken into account. . In The entire postwar period in the United States has been one of significant change in the living arrangements ,of unmarried persons. Increasingly, unmarried adults have come to live in their own independent...
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Socioeconomic background and war mortality during Vietnam’s wars
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2000
... episode, though certainly the major one, in a period of about 40 years of war in Vietnam, starting with the war of independence from France in 1946 1954 and con- tinuing until the postwar unification period following the vic- tory of the North Vietnamese forces in 1975. This period set the scene...
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Modernization and Tradition in the Recent History of Italian Fertility
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 657–672.
Published: 01 June 1967
... stability, as in marital fertility after 1950, meaning, the two sets of measures closely "period" and "generation" measures tend agree in both levels and trends. Completed to coincide. family size in the postwar period ranges, In Table 4 we have attempted to recon- on the average, between 2.35 and 2.50 cile...
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Family and sociodemographic influences on patterns of leaving home in Postwar Britain
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 293–305.
Published: 01 August 1998
... and cultural effects that have promoted earlier departure among young people in the postwar period (except perhaps for the very recent past), whereas the rela- tively poor economic prospects of young people in recent decades have inhibited home-leaving. These results are also related to changes in the age...
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An analysis of variations in U. S. fertility and female labor force participation trends
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Demography (1983) 20 (2): 147–161.
Published: 01 May 1983
... and fe- male earnings, Butz and Ward conclude that the postwar upswing in fertility can be explained by rising male income dur- ing this period, while the decline in fertil- ity during the 1960s and 1970s can be attributed to increases in female wages and female employment ratios. Butz and Ward's...
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Some longitudinal data on internal migration
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 579–592.
Published: 01 March 1965
... consistently the peak age of interstate migration in postwar cross- sectional data from annual surveys. In this respect, then, generational migration data confirm "period" migration data. Eldridge has also used these net inter- censal estimates, as well as age-specific 1940 Census statistics on residence...
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