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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 133–157.
Published: 01 February 1994
...Nancy S. Landale Abstract This study examines the transition to first union among Puerto Rican women. I argue that understanding the behavior of mainland Puerto Ricans requires attention to family patterns in Puerto Rico and to the dynamics of migration between Puerto Rico and the United States...
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Demography (1991) 28 (4): 587–607.
Published: 01 November 1991
... toward cohabitation. Puerto Rican women, however, are much more likely to enter informal first unions than the general population, and have a low propensity to transform informal unions into legal marriages. The paper examines the influence of family background and current activities on union timing...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 615–625.
Published: 01 June 1967
... in decision-making, for example)? While the Indianapolis study has not answered this question, the Puerto Rican study has shown that freedom of the wife and communication between spouses were more closely connected with the success of family planning than were the husband’s level of education or income...
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 381–394.
Published: 01 August 1985
... components of growth in white, black and Puerto Rican female headed families: a comparison of the Cutright and Ross/Sawhill methodologies . Social Science Research , 8 , 144 – 158 . 10.1016/0049-089X(79)90007-3 Cutright P. ( 1974 ). Components of change in the number of female family heads...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 429–442.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of Puerto Rican Women . Demography , 31 , 133 – 58 . 10.2307/2061912 Landale N.S. , & Hauan S.M. ( 1992 ). The Family Life Course of Puerto Rican Children . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 54 , 912 – 24 . 10.2307/353172 Landale N.S. , & Ogena N.B...
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 23–43.
Published: 01 February 2010
... a similar seasonal pattern (Figure 2). These circumstances make it more feasible to entertain hypotheses regarding the cyclical nature of early nutrition for rural Puerto Rican families. The cutting season occurred in the ¿ rst half of the year (January June), and rural families would have experienced...
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 323–338.
Published: 01 August 2000
... and the Latino Family: The Union Formation Behavior of Puerto Rican Women . Demography , 31 , 13 – 57 . 10.2307/2061912 Landale , N.S. , & Hauan , S.M. ( 1996 ). Migration and Premarital Childbearing Among Puerto Rican Women . Demography , 33 , 429 – 42 . 10.2307/2061778...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 509–524.
Published: 01 August 1994
... L.M. ( 1990 ). the National Puerto Rican Coalition The Puerto Rican Family and Poverty: Complex Paths to Poor Outcomes Breaking Out of the Cycle of Poverty (pp. 39 – 83 ). Washington, DC : National Puerto Rican Coalition, Inc. . Hoffman S.D. , & Duncan G.J. ( 1988...
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 131–142.
Published: 01 February 1974
... of these changes. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1974 1974 Male Ratio Religious Denomination Future Child Marriage Squeeze Puerto Rican Family References Dawes, R. M. 1970. Sexual Heterogeneity of Children as a Determinant of American Family Size. Oregon Research...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 651–675.
Published: 14 February 2012
... rather than marital unions in interethnic or interracial relationships, but are less likely in coethnic relationships. Indeed, shared traditional and cultural backgrounds and family support make marriage among coethnics more likely. This pattern is not true for Puerto Ricans, which supports our...
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 497–521.
Published: 01 August 2005
... of their specific Latino- origin category. Specifically, the respondents were asked, "Other than your family, about how much contact do you have with people of (Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban) ori- gin?" The response categories, scored from 1 to 4, were no contact, a little contact, some contact, and a lot...
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Demography (1992) 29 (3): 467–486.
Published: 01 August 1992
... of public assistance (Aid to Families with Dependent Children or Home Relief), close to half of all Puerto Rican households report income at or below the official poverty line and one-third receive public assistance. Moreover, Puerto Rican households eam only 40% as much as white households, compared to 64...
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 90–108.
Published: 01 March 1966
... in family forma- tion and reproductive behavior are inte- gral components in modernization. The conclusions concerning demograph- ic transitions and their associations with urbanization, education, and economic modernization that were stated with ref- erence to the Puerto Rican population are also relevant...
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 February 1992
... English Language Proficiency Hispanic Female Puerto Rican Woman Cultural Assimilation References Alvirez , David , Bean , Frank D. , & Williams , Dorie ( 1981 ). The Mexican American Family . In Charles Mindel , & Robert Habenstein (Eds.), Ethnic Families...
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 599–615.
Published: 01 November 1995
... such inequality in the housing market. Empirical analyses of homeownership, household crowding, and housing costs demonstrate that immigration plays a role in explaining relatively low homeownership and high household crowding for each of four large Hispanic populations (Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and other...
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 431–453.
Published: 01 August 1991
... needs and preferences associated with family and household composition (e.g., the presence of children) into a suburban location. We would expect both disadvantages to hold especially for racially stigmatized groups, such as blacks and, among Hispanics, Puerto Ricans. Therefore one hypothesis stemming...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 375–389.
Published: 01 August 2001
...- grants. To understand more clearly the determinants of immi- grants welfare use, we also conduct a parallel analysis for the native-born population, which includes native-born non- Hispanic whites, native-born non-Hispanic blacks, island- born Puerto Ricans, continent-born Puerto Ricans, and sec- ond...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 131–152.
Published: 01 February 2005
... ). Migration and the Latino Family—The Union Formation Behavior of Puerto-Rican Women . Demography , 31 , 133 – 57 . 10.2307/2061912 Landale , N.S. , Oropesa , R.S. , & Gorman , B.K. ( 2000 ). Migration and Infant Death: Assimilation or Selective Migration Among Puerto Ricans...
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 463–473.
Published: 01 March 1965
..., including the residu- al "all other" category, were included in the analysis. These groups were Cauca- sian, Hawaiian, part Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Puerto Rican, Korean, Negro, and "other." This last group con- sisted mostly of Samoans. These ten are regarded as "races" both in U.S. Census...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 241–265.
Published: 03 March 2011
... of physical activity limitations than each native-born group (i.e., native-born Non-Hispanic, native-born Hispanic, mainland-born Puerto Rican, island-born Puerto Rican). 3 Among the foreign-born, African immigrants reported a significantly lower level of physical activity limitations than all other...
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