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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 383–391.
Published: 01 February 2021
... that with even very small biological sex differences, the comparative advantage in cross-sex couples manifests itself so that it is almost always better for women to specialize in housework and for men to specialize in paid work in order to maximize household production. Becker himself wrote of his own...
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“Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration From a Gendered Lens”: Comment
Demography (2021) 58 (1): 379–381.
Published: 01 February 2021
... does not occur because the wife faces a newly imposed constraint; rather, it occurs because of an endogenous revision of the comparative advantage of household members. In sum, in seeking to understand the likelihood that women will migrate given participation in a CCT program, issues...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1595–1605.
Published: 01 October 2022
... ; O'Connell and Feliz 2011 ; O'Connell and Gooding 2006 ). 1 The revised items on the household roster were first applied to all households in the 2017 Current Population Survey (CPS) and the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS). We compare estimates of cohabitation and marriage among same-sex couples...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 443–453.
Published: 01 November 1996
... for five large metropolitan regions are used to estimate “locational-attainment models,” which evaluate the effects of group members’ individual attributes on two measures of the character of their living environment: the socioeconomic standing (median household income) and racial composition (proportion...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 889–912.
Published: 09 May 2012
... of minority or immigrant groups establish themselves in mainstream labor markets, they will attempt to translate economic advances into residential advantage by moving out of segregated areas and into areas occupied by members of the dominant racial/ethnic group (Alba and Logan 1993 ; Massey and Denton 1985...
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Demography (1972) 9 (1): 119–128.
Published: 01 February 1972
... in households with a den- sity of 1.0 or fewer persons per room, but only three out of ten Mexican-American children are in this advantaged category. The data in Tables 2 and 3 refer to the entire Mexican-American population, and hence conceal important variations within the group. The pattern of large families...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 769–790.
Published: 01 November 2005
... of changing household resources and human- capital investment on rural out-migration. The experimental design allows us to compare the difference in the behavior of treatment and control households and to be reasonably certain that the treatment itself, rather than any observable or unobservable initial condi...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1369–1391.
Published: 10 June 2020
... is the deeply rooted family culture. Compared with the West, China formed a series of patriarchal social norms during its long history of farming, establishing a comprehensive and rigorous family system. These norms affect household structure through defining the hierarchical order of family members...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2008
... that members of minority or immi- grant groups attempt to translate economic advances into residential advantage by moving out of segregated areas and into areas occupied by members of the dominant racial/ethnic group (Massey and Denton 1985). Although differences in socioeconomic status explain a signi cant...
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Demography (1975) 12 (3): 505–518.
Published: 01 August 1975
... structures. It would be stretching a point to claim that the two societies examined in this study, the United States and Israel, were chosen with these criteria in mind. They were not. Rather, the availability of highly comparable individual data on the structure of households and the char- acteristics...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1981–2002.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that children of lower-ranking mothers are less likely to survive and have worse health outcomes, reflected in higher neonatal mortality and shorter height, compared with children of higher-ranking mothers in the same household. That the variation in mothers' social status that we study is not subject...
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 503–521.
Published: 01 November 1992
.... Compared to models that include only a constant term, the model with five variables (household in SFDP plus other controls) generates a chi-square value of 5.69 (5 df) among younger women and 10.81 (5 df) among older women. 7 The improvement in fit created by adding the nonfamily experience measures can...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 233–257.
Published: 21 January 2015
... are difficult or impossible to measure accurately. A DSS-based design presents both advantages and limitations for migration studies. On the positive side, the repeated measures focusing on households and villages over time make possible the longitudinal perspective that is so critical to understanding...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 61–82.
Published: 14 January 2015
... and child survival, what should be done? We do not believe that studying siblings who are discordant on wantedness offers an adequate solution. The birth of the unwanted member of a sibling pair would still occur due to unobservable advantages and disadvantages that apply only to the unwanted child...
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 403–418.
Published: 01 August 1986
...' legitimacy, making it difficult for them to work together constructively. Census officials considered the committee members "activists," implying that their purpose was to maximize their group's advantages, particularly to get as many jobs and as high a census count as possible, regardless of scientific...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 25–41.
Published: 01 February 2002
... (NSOSET; see NSO n.d.) is based on a national probability sample of 21,219 house- holds. Of interest for our purposes is information solicited through a general household questionnaire (administered regardless of whether the household included an older per- son) about the age of each member...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1653–1676.
Published: 28 July 2017
... fifth-quintile schools, and only approximately 10 % attend schools with lower poverty levels in the first and second quintiles during childhood. By contrast, among sample members in advantaged fifth-quintile neighborhoods, approximately 73 % attend low-poverty first-quintile schools, and only...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1175–1197.
Published: 04 June 2014
..., and household characteristics). Overall, the patterns observed are rather clear: compared with children living in rural areas, children in slums have significantly better health, even though they generally fare worse than children in better-off neighborhoods of the same urban settlements. Our results suggest...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 317–336.
Published: 01 August 2001
... compared with one-third of the foreign-born. Presum- ably a parent (or householder) with postsecondary schooling will try to keep their children in school, at least though the high school years. American teenagers born in Taiwan and India are exceptionally advantaged: more than 70% live in a household...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 127–152.
Published: 23 February 2011
... (Williams and Neighbors 2001 ). Many multiracial youth identify themselves in monoracial terms (Brunsma 2006 ; Campbell 2007 ; Rockquemore and Brunsma 2002 ) and report comparable experiences of racial discrimination from racial outsiders (Herman 2004 ). Understanding oneself as a member of a group...
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