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Residential preferences, community satisfaction, and the intention to move
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Demography (1979) 16 (4): 565–573.
Published: 01 November 1979
... in a community having different size or location characteristics than their present residence are five times more likely to intend to move than those who have attained their preferred type of residence. Within these two groups, however, the particular configuration of current and preferred residence has...
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Constraints to the fulfillment of residential preferences among Texas homebuyers
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 61–76.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Sean-Shong Hwang; Don E. Albrecht Abstract A 1983 survey of Texas homebuyers reveals a high degree of mismatch between their preferred and actual residences. Analysis indicates that the logit of fulfilling residential preference is largely determined by the type of area preferred and the occupation...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1069–1090.
Published: 09 May 2018
... neighborhood deprivation and earnings. We model neighborhood selection using a conditional logit model, from which we derive correction terms. Driven by the recognition that most households prefer certain types of neighborhoods rather than specific areas, we employ a principle components analysis to reduce...
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Family Influences on Family Size Preferences
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 65–79.
Published: 01 February 1994
... for their children’s fertility. Although both types of maternal preferences influence children’s childbearing preferences, mothers’ preferences for their children’s behavior have the stronger and more proximate effects. Mothers’ preferences continue to influence their children’s preferences through early adulthood...
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Microcredit, Family Planning Programs, and Contraceptive Behavior: Evidence From a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 749–782.
Published: 20 April 2011
...Jaikishan Desai; Alessandro Tarozzi Abstract The impact of community-based family planning programs and access to credit on contraceptive use, fertility, and family size preferences has not been established conclusively in the literature. We provide additional evidence on the possible effect...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 295–320.
Published: 01 February 2021
... intentions. The effectiveness of the type of contraceptive method chosen significantly lowered discontinuation risk. Fertility preferences were not significantly associated with either time to adoption or discontinuation. The pace of the fertility transition in this sub-Saharan African setting is likely...
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View articletitled, A Panel Study of Fertility <span class="search-highlight">Preferences</span> and Contraceptive Dynamics in the Presence of Competing Pregnancy Risks in Uganda
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The growth of American families studies an assessment of significance
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 388–396.
Published: 01 March 1967
..., definitive comparisons of expectations with performance would seem to require longitudinal studies of the same women rather than periodic studies of the same types of women. On the other hand, the latter type of design doubtless is preferable for other purposes. Besides the yield of new data on fertility...
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Labor Force Status Life Tables for the United States, 1972
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Demography (1980) 17 (3): 297–322.
Published: 01 August 1980
... the January 1972 and January 1973 Current Population Surveys, two types of labor force status life tables were calculated for the United States, 1972. One type was a conventional working life table (for males) which started with an ordinary life table and partitioned the life table population into labor force...
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The Impact of Child Care on Fertility in Urban Thailand
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 651–662.
Published: 01 November 1994
... an impact: those whose first child is in a less preferred situation are less likely to have a second. Variables measuring the need for and type of child care are found to have greater consequences for fertility than do usual measures of socioeconomic status. 12 1 2011 © Population Association...
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War, peace, and fertility in Angola
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 215–231.
Published: 01 May 2002
... find evidence of a wartime drop and a postwar rebound in fertility, but these trends vary greatly, depending on the type and degree of exposure to war and on women’s socioeconomic characteristics. At the same time, variations by parity are nonsignificant. In fertility preferences, the relative...
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A Middle Ground? Residential Mobility and Attainment of Mixed-Race Couples
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 165–188.
Published: 01 December 2015
... ). However, we actually know little about the racial-residential preferences of black-white couples, and even less about the preferences of other types of mixed-race couples. One possibility is that residential preferences of mixed-race couples reflect the combination of preferences held by the members...
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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
... marriage, we matched North Carolina administrative data on nearly 800,000 first births among white and black mothers to marriage and divorce records. We found that among married births, midpregnancy-married births (our preferred term for shotgun-married births) have been relatively stable at about 10...
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Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
.... However, in a context where son preference shapes fertility behaviors and family sex composition is not random, girls are likely to be selected into different types of families. This differential selection—which we term implicit discrimination —may also affect the observed aggregate-level disadvantage...
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Immigration and living arrangements: Moving beyond economic need versus acculturation
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 225–249.
Published: 01 May 2007
... for economic and demographic variables, that Hispanic foreign born are more likely to live with siblings. She concluded that this indicates racial/ethnic preference of certain household types, given identical situational imperatives (p. 226). Other research suggests that the tendency for coresidence becomes...
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Opting Out and Leaning In: The Life Course Employment Profiles of Early Baby Boom Women in the United States
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1961–1993.
Published: 21 October 2015
... amount or type of work they could perform 0: No health limitations 1: Reports health limitations 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 Attitudes and Preferences Work expectations Categorical Distribution of the proportion of times they expressed a work preference...
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Child care for preschoolers: Differences by child’s age
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 205–220.
Published: 01 May 1988
... care for those 3–5. We estimate models of the mother’s employment and choice of child care separately for younger and older preschoolers. Our results show that need for care, presence of substitutes for the mother, financial resources, and preferences all affect both full-time care by the mother...
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Reliability of retrospective survey data on infant feeding
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 307–314.
Published: 01 May 1988
...John G. Haaga Abstract This article examines retest reliability and digit preference in retrospective survey data on breastfeeding duration and type of supplementary food, covering three decades and reported by more than 1200 Malaysian women. Women with little or no education, rural residents...
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Estimators of a type I geometric distribution from observations on conception times
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 349–360.
Published: 01 August 1970
...H. Majumdar; Mindel C. Sheps Abstract In order to study distributions of fecundability, Potter and Parker fitted a Pearson Type I geometric distribution (with parameters a and b ) to data from the Princeton Fertility Study. They, and subsequently other authors, estimated a and b from the observed...
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Age Misstatement for Young Children in Rural Bangladesh
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Demography (1982) 19 (4): 447–458.
Published: 01 November 1982
... in and out of specific age categories. This type of sys- tematic age misstatement frequently dis- torts age distributions in population cen- suses-making various stable population techniques difficult-and sample survey data. Systematic age preferences can couple with constant age biases to markedly distort...
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Residential preferences and population distribution
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Demography (1975) 12 (3): 491–504.
Published: 01 August 1975
... Preferences and Population Distribution 495 TABLE 2.-Actual and Preferred Residence of Respondents by Size of Place and Location with Respect to a Large City, United States, 1972 Current Preferred Type of Location Residence Residencea City over 500,000 20% 9% City 50,000 - 500,000 24 16 Subtotal 44 25 Within...
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