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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 375–401.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Debra Friedman; Michael Hechter; Satoshi Kanazawa Abstract This paper uses a non-standard value assumption—uncertainty reduction—to explain parenthood. We begin by reviewing the inadequacies of normative and standard rational choice explanations of shifts in fertility behavior. Then we propose...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 623–647.
Published: 18 April 2016
... Western societies. However, when this theoretical framework is applied to Western societies, coresidence is not the appropriate outcome variable because the rationale for parent–child coresidence in the West is different from Eastern societies. Parents who coreside with children in Western societies...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 965–988.
Published: 20 June 2012
... of modern sociological theory. Although the intellectual roots of adjustment theory—functionalism and theories of rational choice—are well known, those of innovation theory—conflict theory—may be less obvious. We argue that the intellectual roots of fertility theories matter. Popper ( 1963 :33–39) asserted...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 589–603.
Published: 01 November 2003
..., are widespread. But there are both persistent rationales for having children and institutional adjustments that can make the widespread intentions for two children attainable, even in increasingly individualistic and egalitarian societies. Low Fertility in the Twenty-First Century 589 Demography, Volume 40...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 451–468.
Published: 01 August 2009
... are paid independently of income, rational choice models would predict family bene ts to have a larger impact on the fertility of low-income families (Gauthier and Hatzius 1997:304). Education another component of socioeconomic status may also moderate the effects of cash bene ts. Well-educated...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 383–391.
Published: 01 February 2021
... for public health workshops as well as the everyday management of household activities like sending children to school. From this, it could be gathered that CCTs are structured by a gender rationale that frames program requirements as feminized tasks. However, from Stark's perspective, CCTs are neutral...
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 691–710.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., but these norms are probably less well agreed upon than those associated with marriage. A second relevant theoretical perspective is rational choice theory. This theory features self-interested actors exercising their individual preferences and complying with onerous norms only when the costs of not doing so...
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 311–329.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... , & Ferguson , L.R. ( 1995 ). The Stopping and Spacing of Childbirths and Their Birth History Predictors: Rational Choice Theory and Event-History Analysis . American Sociological Review , 60 , 272 – 98 . 10.2307/2096387 Influences on Nonmarital Childbearing 311 Demography, Volume 39-Number 2...
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 February 1996
... of rational choice explanations, and Becker himself is one of the great masters of such explanations. As long as they pro- duce testable implications that are supported by empirical evidence, counterintuitive explanations are evidence oftheo- retical strength. 2) Our assumption that uncertainties emanating...
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 469–496.
Published: 01 August 2005
..., a prereform review of the econometric literature revealed only "suggestive but inconclusive" evidence of welfare effects on interstate migration, recom- mending it as among the "good candidates for additional research" (Moffitt 1992:56). Much of the literature has been based on a rational-choice model...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 189–197.
Published: 01 May 1997
...: Rational-Choice Theory and Event-History Analysis . American Sociological Review , 60 , 272 – 98 . 10.2307/2096387 A MIXTURE MODEL FOR DURATION DATA: ANALYSIS OF SECOND BIRTHS IN CHINA* LEI LI AND MINJA KIM CHOE In this paper we introduce a mixture model in which we com- bine logistic regression...
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 255–267.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Attachment and Childbearing in Finland.” Demographic Research , Special Collection 3(8). Available online at http://www.demographic-research.org Yamaguchi , K. , & Ferguson , L.R. ( 1995 ). The Stopping and Spacing of Childbirths and Their Birth-History Predictors: Rational-Choice Theory...
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 181–198.
Published: 01 February 2007
.... , & Berkowitz King , R. ( 2001 ). Why Have Children in the 21st Century? Biological Predisposition, Social Coercion, Rational Choice . European Journal of Population , 17 , 3 – 20 . Mulder , C.H. , & Clark , W.A.V. ( 2000 ). Leaving Home and Leaving the State: Evidence From the United...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1715–1737.
Published: 26 April 2013
... predictors: Rational-choice theory and event-history analysis . American Sociological Review , 60 , 272 – 298 . 10.2307/2096387 ...
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 189–212.
Published: 01 May 2004
... into subsequent TANF programs deterred women from becoming and re- maining unmarried mothers. We explored female headship in the context of a rational- choice model in which changes in the programs rules affect not only the direct incentives to marry and bear children but also the indirect incentives that arise...
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 133–136.
Published: 01 February 1996
... the opposite views, which follow from the rational choice and human capital framework: I) that the married status is more conducive to childbearing than the unmarried status, and 2) that strong, solid unions are more likely to display high fertility than weak, unstable ones. REFERENCES Becker, G.S. 1981...
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Demography (1976) 13 (4): 571–575.
Published: 01 November 1976
... the result of a spa- tial bias in their opportunity to locate va- cancies. This is a simple, obviously oversimpli- fied, conception of a search process. It does not treat the subtle complexities of each particular migrant's experience. Nev- ertheless, it proposes a rationale, based on information gathering...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 783–811.
Published: 19 May 2011
... ratio at birth in a rational choice framework. The “missing girls” phenomenon began to receive widespread attention after Amartya Sen ( 1990 ) alerted Western researchers to a “sex bias in relative care”—decades of mistreatment and neglect of China’s women. 3 He suggested that this bias...
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 559–574.
Published: 01 August 2005
.... ( 1996 ). Contextual Influences on Young Men’s Transition to First Marriage . Social Forces , 74 , 1097 – 119 . 10.2307/2580394 Macy , M.W. , & Flache , A. ( 1995 ). Beyond Rationality in Models of Choice . Annual Review of Sociology , 21 , 73 – 91 . 10.1146/annurev.so...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 971–991.
Published: 18 January 2013
... Mexican emigration has affected Mexican society. In a purely rational choice framework in which preferences are exogenously determined and individuals optimize subject to constraints, one would posit that the behavioral responses of women to changes in mate availability documented here would be reversed...
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