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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
... no significant effect on the likelihood of intending to move. This finding justifies the creation of a simple dichotomous variable, preference status, contrasting these two groups. Community satisfaction and preference status are highly interrelated and each has an independent effect on intentions to move...
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in Naming the Precious Child: New Evidence of Intentional Family Planning in Historical Populations
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Published: 01 April 2023
Fig. 2 Causal diagram of fertility determinants. We observe status, naming, and fertility, but do not observe preferences. Without controls for status, the predictive power of names for fertility may reflect the joint influence of status on naming and fertility. With effective controls
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Effects of U. S. immigration law on manpower characteristics of immigrants
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 179–191.
Published: 01 May 1975
... statuses (e.g., relatives, etc It is of interest to note that the effect of these mechanisms has been to reduce the number of professional immigrants from Europe and the Americas, while that of the other continents has in- creased. Thus, regarding the causal effects of United States immigration law...
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The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest: Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and the Age at Leaving Home
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 857–875.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... 4 Utility gain from nest leaving as a function of C ¯ and γ Fig. 4 Utility gain from nest leaving as a function of C¯ and γ Nest leaving Socioeconomic status Habit-forming preferences Intergenerational mobility SHARE We omit 4,528 individuals who were not born...
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Risk preferences and the timing of marriage and childbearing
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 439–460.
Published: 01 May 2008
...-tolerant women are more likely to delay marriage, consistent with either a search model of marriage or a risk-pooling explanation. In addition, risk preferences affect fertility timing in a way that differs by marital status and education, and that varies over the life cycle. Greater tolerance for risk...
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Son Preference in Indian Families: Absolute Versus Relative Wealth Effects
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 343–370.
Published: 08 February 2011
... to notions of local status (relative wealth). Using cross-sectional data from the 1998–1999 and 2005–2006 National Family and Health Surveys, I construct measures of absolute and relative wealth by using principal components analysis. A series of statistical models of son preference is estimated by using...
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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
.... Increment-decrement labor force status life tables are generally preferable to conventional working life tables. They reflect the implications of a clearly specified set of behavioral rates, provide detailed measures of the flows be- tween labor force statuses, do not introduce seriously biasing...
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Modern and traditional value orientations and fertility behavior: A social demographic study
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 37–48.
Published: 01 February 1971
...William B. Clifford, II Abstract Modern versus traditional value orientations based on the Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck schema are related to family size preferences and birth control effectiveness. Value orientations are viewed as mediating the relationship between socioeconomic status...
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Fertility and economic activity of women in Guatemala city, 1964
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 273–286.
Published: 01 August 1970
... are located. Table 5 shows that the residuals ob- tained using the additive model tend to be negative and larger among the do- mestics than among the women in the other two activity statuses. The use of the equation with the interaction terms generally reduces the residuals, mainly by a tendency to increase...
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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
... Mexico: A Comparative Analysis, 1982–87.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC. Yoddumnern-Attig, B., K. Richter, A. Soonthorndhada, C. Sethaput, and A. Pramualratana. 1992. Changing Roles and Statuses of Women in Thailand: A Documentary Assessment...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1143–1171.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Emily Rauscher; Haoming Song Abstract Infant sex ratios that differ from the biological norm provide a measure of gender status inequality that is not susceptible to social desirability bias. Ratios may become less biased with educational expansion through reduced preference for male children...
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View articletitled, Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United States, 1969–2018
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The use of public transportation in urban areas: Toward a causal model
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Demography (1977) 14 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 February 1977
...) and low (scored 2) statuses; except for the in- clusion of clerical workers in the low status category, this dichotomy corre- sponds to the white-collar-blue-collar dis- tinction. In the case of income, residential density, and employment density, the dichotomy was based on the median, scor- ing 1...
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Family composition and the labor force activity of American wives
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 195–209.
Published: 01 May 1970
... whether there are discontinuities in the rates of employment when youngest children enter school, etc.), number of children in the family, and the presence of other relatives in the family. The paper concludes with a discussion of the meaning of family status differentials in employment including...
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Neighborhood Diversity, Neighborhood Affluence: An Analysis of the Neighborhood Destination Choices of Mixed-Race Couples With Children
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 1051–1073.
Published: 16 April 2019
...Ryan Gabriel; Amy Spring Abstract Past research has indicated that mixed-race couples with children appear to possess a heightened preference for neighborhoods that are racially and ethnically diverse and relatively affluent so as to reside in areas that are requisitely accepting of, and safe...
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Socioeconomic Differences in Multipartner Fertility Among Norwegian Men
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1135–1153.
Published: 14 November 2012
... multiple children in stable unions. Multipartner fertility, on the other hand, is positively associated with both disadvantage and advantage: higher-order birth risks with a new partner are more prevalent among men with low as well as high socioeconomic status. An intervening factor among disadvantaged men...
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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
... status (SES), and other measures related to the implicit discrimination processes that sort girls and boys into different families. However, with this approach, it would be difficult to appropriately control for implicit discrimination processes because the intensity of son preference and prenatal sex...
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Fertility decline and gender bias in northern India
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 637–657.
Published: 01 November 2003
..., religion and caste, work status, and standard of living. Through women s age, we intended to capture the cohort effect on the preference for sons, that is, whether younger women have a weaker preference for sons than do older women. We expected urban residence, educa- tional level, and exposure to the mass...
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Gender of children and birth timing
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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 411–423.
Published: 01 August 1989
... with at least one boy), but the control for marital status does not change the effect of gender composition on birth timing (the effect on birth timing of having two girls is counteracted by decreasing the likelihood of being currently married). The preference to balance the gender composition of children...
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Sex Ratio at Birth: Values, Variance, and Some Determinants
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 131–142.
Published: 01 February 1974
... categories chose males for their first child. Of those who actually had girls for their first child, a plurality would, nevertheless, prefer a first boy in their desired family. It was hypothesized and demonstrated that sex-role ideologies were a strong predictor of variance in first-child sex preferences...
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Racial intermarriage pairings
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 147–159.
Published: 01 May 2001
... ). University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press . Bobo , L. , & Zubrinsky , C. ( 1996 ). Attitudes on Residential Integration: Perceived Status Differences, Mere In-Group Preference, or Racial Prejudice? . Social Forces , 74 , 883 – 909 . 10.2307/2580385 Clark , W...
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