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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 291–310.
Published: 01 February 2025
... that could also shape relationship stability, such as pregnancy scares. A pregnancy scare is when a woman suspects she has an undesired pregnancy but later discovers she is not pregnant. This experience might increase or decrease relationship stability. Drawing on data collected from young women...
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View articletitled, Make It or Break It? <span class="search-highlight">Pregnancy</span> <span class="search-highlight">Scares</span> and Romantic Relationship Dissolution
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Published: 01 February 2025
Fig. 1 Predictive margins (and 95% confidence intervals) of relationship dissolution by ever having had a pregnancy scare. Predictive margins are from a model similar to Model 3 in Table 2 but including an interaction between relationship type and ever having experienced a pregnancy scare
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1667–1698.
Published: 01 October 2024
... at baseline and resulted from the pregnancy or recent birth that made their mothers eligible for enrollment in the study (the index children). 6 Among these children, we test the extent to which the family planning intervention might have impacted these early-life linear growth patterns as a result...
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View articletitled, Family Planning and Children's Human Capital: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi
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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
... for this study began in 1938, there were fears in some quarters that the low level of the birth rate might induce a "population scare" and cause this country to follow several a See, Raymond Pearl, The Natural History of Population (New York: Oxford University Press, 1939), pp. 198-248; Regine K. Stix and Frank...
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The Impact of the Flint Water Crisis on Fertility
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2005–2031.
Published: 05 December 2019
... . Adams D. ( 2014 , August 18 ). Flint officials say “abnormal” test to blame in E. coli scare, water boil advisory remains . Retrieved from http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2014/08/flint_officials_say_abnormal_t.html Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) . ( 2007...
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View articletitled, The Impact of the Flint Water Crisis on Fertility
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Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Among Adolescent Women in 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 657–686.
Published: 01 April 2025
... to avoid pregnancy (12% of all women in this age range in these settings), and more than one third of these women (37%) are not using a contraceptive method ( Sully et al. 2020 ). Adolescent women might face constrained decisions about marriage, sexual debut, and their health, making them particularly...
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View articletitled, Contraceptive Use and Discontinuation Among Adolescent Women in 55 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Birth control and the black American: A matter of genocide?
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 571–590.
Published: 01 November 1973
... a specified number of children. Apparently there were many cases of extraordinarily fruitful slaves (Curtin, 1969, pp. 28-29, 73,92) . Despite special privileges bestowed during pregnancy and just after child- birth, there were slave women who re- fused to breed children into bondage to add...
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Thirty Years of Demography and Demography
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 533–549.
Published: 01 November 1993
... once a year; Demography was an annual in its first appearance, and no one was sure whether enough worthwhile research was going on each year to fill a volume. We were even less sure of being able to scare up enough subscribers to pay for printing. THE FOUNDING: PROBLEMS AND EARLY ACHIEVEMENT Both...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 485–511.
Published: 23 February 2017
... influence schooling decisions, employment and wages, teenage pregnancy, smoking, participation in illegal activities, and incarceration (Blanden et al. 2007 ; Heckman et al. 2006 ), and also drive in part health inequalities in adulthood (Conti et al. 2010 ). The highest priority recommendation...
View articletitled, Children’s Development and Parental Input: Evidence From the UK Millennium Cohort Study
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The intermediate variables, social structure, and fertility change: A critique
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 March 1968
... of the male. Since he is not under the pressures that affect his wife in this matter. he may be reluctant to aid her in avoiding pregnancy. And the social insulation ot the two sexes is often carried so far that communication between them is dif- ficult. This inSUlation is particularly observable in regard...
