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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1797–1823.
Published: 28 October 2015
... then examine the effects of decline in wage labor opportunities for young men and women during the past four decades. I present new estimates of a precipitous decline in the relative income of young men and assess its implications for the decline for marriage. Finally, I discuss explanations...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1009–1032.
Published: 07 May 2018
..., whereas many of the least-wealthy child households saw precipitous declines. Our findings suggest that many child households may lack sufficient assets to promote the successful flourishing of the next generation. 6 4 2018 7 5 2018 © Population Association of America 2018 2018...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2203–2228.
Published: 19 November 2014
...Andrés Villarreal Abstract The rate of Mexico-U.S. migration has declined precipitously in recent years. From 25 migrants per thousand in 2005, the annual international migration rate for Mexican men dropped to 7 per thousand by 2012. If sustained, this low migration rate is likely to have...
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View articletitled, Explaining the <span class="search-highlight">Decline</span> in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Effect of the Great Recession
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1371–1388.
Published: 13 June 2019
...James J. Feigenbaum; Christopher Muller; Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Abstract In the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of death from infectious disease in the United States fell precipitously. Although this decline is well-known and well-documented, there is surprisingly little evidence...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 104–121.
Published: 01 March 1968
... with the gross reproduction rate, which declines regularly with decreasing mortality, the net reproduction rate is seen to rise as one progresses from very high to moderately high mortality. It then remains fairly constant for a wide span of mortality conditions, but declines precipitously as the expectation...
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Demography (1988) 25 (4): 641–645.
Published: 01 November 1988
...Saul D. Hoffman; Greg J. Duncan 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1988 1988 Family Size Capita Income Income Change Percent Figure Precipitous Decline References Duncan , G. J. , & Holfman , S. D. ( 1985 ). A reconsideration...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 459–479.
Published: 01 August 1994
... because they died very young. The incidence of excess early female mortality (probably infanticide) declined precipitously in the Communist period, but not to zero. The recent escalation in the proportion of young females missing in China has been caused largely by rapidly escalating sex-selective...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 647–673.
Published: 01 November 2005
.... The findings indicate that preschool children have a stabilizing effect on their parents’ partnership, whether married or cohabiting, but the effect is weaker for older children. There is also evidence that although pregnancy precipitates marriage among cohabitors, the odds of marriage decline to prepregnancy...
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Published: 01 April 2023
Fig. 4 Mean block racial composition by place type, 1990–2010. In persistence places, the share of Whites in the average neighborhood declined gradually as non-Whites entered neighborhoods retaining stable White populations. The White population share declined more precipitously in places
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S131–S149.
Published: 01 March 2010
... with the much more precipitous decline in these European countries. The decline to 57% in Sweden was also large but modest when compared with the decline in other countries. Japan stands out with the smallest decline of all the countries studied, from about 83% to 75%. The measure of the effect of social...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 83–95.
Published: 01 February 1997
... accrual rates (weighted by plan membership) for U.S. defined benefit plans with selected early and normal retirement ages, with pension accrual as a percentage of wage compensation. The typical pattern shows substantial loss in pension accrual af- ter the early retirement age and very precipitous declines...
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1793–1817.
Published: 01 December 2024
... the idea that mothers are more likely to experience household changes that might precipitate a transition to primary earning now than in the past, given that the proportion of eligible mothers experiencing any potential precipitating event declined over time. In additional analyses, we found...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1269–1293.
Published: 02 July 2018
...Alan Barreca; Olivier Deschenes; Melanie Guldi Abstract We estimate the effects of temperature shocks on birth rates in the United States between 1931 and 2010. We find that days with a mean temperature above 80°F cause a large decline in birth rates 8 to 10 months later. Unlike prior studies, we...
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View articletitled, Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates
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Demography (1988) 25 (3): 405–414.
Published: 01 August 1988
... later. A major concern of workers approaching retirement is that unexpected events during a long retirement will cause precipitous declines in economic well-being for themselves and their families. Economic setbacks caused by rapid inflation, sudden illness, or widowhood, for example, are difficult...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1043–1067.
Published: 01 August 2024
... world regions, the prevalence is closer to one third or one fourth of women. In most countries, the prevalence of maternally bereaved women declined precipitously among recent birth cohorts: the percentage of bereaved women born in the 1980s is a mere fraction relative to those bereaved in the 1960s...
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View articletitled, Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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for article titled, Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 337–344.
Published: 01 August 1978
...- off, 1972, 1976). Some scholars believe that the precipitous decline in fertility since the peak of the baby boom in 1957 hit bottom in the early 1970s and that an upturn in American fertility is in the mak- ing (Sklar and Berkov, 1975; Wolfe, 1977). The trend of increasing labor force participation...
View articletitled, Factors related to the intention to have additional children in the United States: A reanalysis of data from the 1965 and 1970 national fertility studies
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for article titled, Factors related to the intention to have additional children in the United States: A reanalysis of data from the 1965 and 1970 national fertility studies
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1453–1476.
Published: 13 September 2016
... with the substantial literature on networks. Yet, we show that all these determinants are intrinsically linked. In particular, we find that the crisis has accelerated the decline of historical migration flows and precipitated returns, while income growth at origin tends to increase migration flows from Mexican poorest...
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View articletitled, Determinants of Mexico-U.S. Outward and Return Migration Flows: A State-Level Panel Data Analysis
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for article titled, Determinants of Mexico-U.S. Outward and Return Migration Flows: A State-Level Panel Data Analysis
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 535–551.
Published: 01 November 1999
.... , & Cherlin , A. ( 1991 ). The Role of Cohabitation in Declining Rates of Marriage . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 53 , 913 – 25 . 10.2307/352997 Clarkberg , M. , Stolzenberg , R.M. , & Waite , L.J. ( 1995 ). Attitudes, Values, and the Entrance Into Cohabitational...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 211–229.
Published: 01 May 1996
... tempera- ture and precipitation are collected regularly from 60 weather stations in Brazil, some of which have been reporting con- tinuously for more than 100 years. Households were assigned climate data from the nearest weather station, based on its coordinates and those of the municipality in which...
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Demography (1977) 14 (2): 223–238.
Published: 01 May 1977
... fertility per se), show an ac- celerating, even precipitous decline after age 30. The contrast has true bases. First, the conception rates are limited to women who are sexually active and presumed fe- cund, and the proportion of women of this sort declines with age. Second, an in- creasingly high proportion...
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