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The Relationship History Calendar: Improving the Scope and Quality of Data on Youth Sexual Behavior
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1151–1176.
Published: 06 July 2011
... and improve the quality of reporting; however, these methods often limit the complexity of information collected. We designed a life history calendar—the Relationship History Calendar (RHC)—to increase the scope of data collected on sexual relationships and behavior while enhancing their quality. The RHC...
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The influence of the family on premarital sexual attitudes and behavior
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 323–340.
Published: 01 August 1987
... of Wisconsin Press . Duncan , O. D. ( 1975 ). Introduction to Structural Equation Models . New York : Academic Press . Fox , G. L. ( 1981 ). The family’s role in adolescent sexual behavior . In T. Ooms (Ed.), Teenage Pregnancy in a Family Context (pp. 73 – 130...
View articletitled, The influence of the family on premarital <span class="search-highlight">sexual</span> attitudes and <span class="search-highlight">behavior</span>
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Mother–Child Relations and Adolescent Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 563–577.
Published: 01 November 1989
... , G. L. ( 1981 ). The family's role in adolescent sexual behavior . In T. Ooms (Ed.), Teenage Pregnancy in a Family Context: Implications for Policy (pp. 73 – 130 ). Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Fox , G. L. , Fox , B. R. , & Frohardt-Lane , K. ( 1982...
View articletitled, Mother–Child Relations and Adolescent <span class="search-highlight">Sexual</span> Attitudes and <span class="search-highlight">Behavior</span>
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 895–920.
Published: 01 June 2022
... religiosity affects young women's sexual behavior and contraceptive use. Women's attitudes also varied by religiosity. Most notably, moral opposition to birth control and disapproval of premarital sex increased monotonically across women with low, average, and high religiosity. Women did not differ...
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View articletitled, Religiosity and Young Unmarried Women's <span class="search-highlight">Sexual</span> and Contraceptive <span class="search-highlight">Behavior</span>: New Evidence From a Longitudinal Panel of Young Adult Women
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Rural-to-Urban Migration and Sexual Debut in Thailand
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1955–1976.
Published: 22 August 2014
... approach reduces several common sources of bias that hamper existing work on both migration and sexual debut: (1) the longitudinal nature of the data enables us to examine the effects of characteristics that predate both behaviors of interest; (2) the survey on sexual behavior employed a technique...
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Social multipliers in sexual initiation decisions among U.S. high school students
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 373–388.
Published: 01 May 2007
... choosing to have sex varies with the average behavior in his or her school. Additionally, the magnitude of the social multipliers and several other interesting risk factors differ by gender and by race. These findings might help explain the large variation in sexual initiation across schools in the United...
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The Impact of Married Individuals Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of Sexual Partners, and Condom Use With Spouses
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 259–280.
Published: 13 January 2015
...-negative and HIV-positive respondents. These results imply that individuals actively respond to information about their HIV status that they learn during HTC, invoking protective behavior against future risk of HIV/AIDS for themselves and their actual and potential sexual partners. Some limitations...
View articletitled, The Impact of Married Individuals Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of <span class="search-highlight">Sexual</span> Partners, and Condom Use With Spouses
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Biosocial foundations for adolescent female sexuality
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 217–230.
Published: 01 May 1986
...J. Richard Udry; Luther M. Talbert; Naomi M. Morris Abstract Despite the widespread assumption that hormones stimulate motivation for sexual behavior in adolescence, no published empirical studies have demonstrated this link. In a cross-sectional study of 78 females in the eighth, ninth, and tenth...
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The seasonality of conception
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 705–728.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Ester Lucia Rizzi; Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna Abstract Individual data on menstrual cycles of noncontracepting women living in Western countries were used in order to verify whether the biological seasonality of conception persists after sexual behavior is controlled for. Episodes of intercourse were...
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The Impact of HIV Testing on Subjective Expectations and Risky Behavior in Malawi
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1011–1036.
Published: 29 June 2012
...Adeline Delavande; Hans-Peter Kohler Abstract We investigate the causal impact of learning HIV status on HIV/AIDS-related expectations and sexual behavior in the medium run. Our analyses document several unexpected results about the effect of learning one’s own, or one’s spouse’s, HIV status...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2271–2293.
Published: 01 December 2022
... competing desires. Using novel weekly panel data, this analysis assesses how desires for sex may moderate the effect of the desire to avoid pregnancy on a young woman's sexual behavior and contraceptive use. Findings suggest that when a woman strongly wants to avoid pregnancy, she is less likely to have sex...
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View articletitled, What a (Young) Woman Wants: Concurrent Effects of Desire to Avoid Pregnancy and Desire for Sex on <span class="search-highlight">Sexual</span> Intercourse and Contraceptive Use
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in Religiosity and Young Unmarried Women's Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior: New Evidence From a Longitudinal Panel of Young Adult Women
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Published: 01 June 2022
Fig. 1 Conceptual model of pathways through which religiosity may affect young unmarried women's sexual behavior and contraceptive use
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Sexualities and Geographic Mobility Between Childhood and Adulthood in the United States
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1541–1569.
Published: 01 August 2022
... limitations. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health ( N = 11,705) that directly measure sexualities across dimensions (i.e., identity, behavior, and attraction), I examine variation in geographic mobility between childhood (ages 11–17) and adulthood (ages 26–34) across...
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The reporting of sensitive behavior by adolescents: A methodological experiment in Kenya
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 247–268.
Published: 01 May 2003
... behaviors was offered; our results from Kisumu, although not always significant, by and large conform to expectations. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2003 2003 Sexual Behavior Sexual Activity Sensitive Question Sensitive Behavior Population Council References...
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Non-Heterosexuality, Relationships, and Young Women’s Contraceptive Behavior
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 887–909.
Published: 02 May 2017
... pregnancy: more distinct partners during the study period, more sexual intercourse with men, less frequent contraceptive use, less use of a dual method (condom plus hormonal method), and more gaps in contraceptive coverage. Mostly heterosexual women resemble LGBTQ women in their contraceptive behavior...
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Community-Wide Job Loss and Teenage Fertility: Evidence From North Carolina
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2151–2171.
Published: 25 July 2013
... and teenage sexual behavior and fertility outcomes . Journal of Population Economics , 22 , 517 – 536 . 10.1007/s00148-007-0172-5 Becker G. S. ( 1960 ). An economic analysis of fertility . In G. S. Becker (Ed.), Demographic and economic change in developed countries (pp. 209 – 231...
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Sexual Concurrency and Contraceptive Use Among Young Adult Women
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 549–572.
Published: 21 February 2019
...Abigail Weitzman; Jennifer Barber; Yasamin Kusunoki Abstract Leveraging 2.5 years of weekly data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life Study, we investigate the relationship between young women’s sexual concurrency and their contraceptive behavior. Specifically, we (1) examine whether...
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Advanced School Progression Relative to Age and Early Family Formation in Mexico
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 863–890.
Published: 06 May 2019
... and motivate future delinquent behavior (Armour and Haynie 2007 ). Both early sexual onset and union formation are associated with a greater risk of sexually transmitted diseases (Kaestle et al. 2005 ; Nour 2006 , 2009 ), such as HIV (Wand and Ramjee 2012 ). Early union formation is also associated...
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Polygyny, Partnership Concurrency, and HIV Transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1075–1101.
Published: 03 June 2012
... for the fast propagation of HIV in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa. 1 5 2012 3 6 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 HIV Marriage Sexual behavior Partnership concurrency Africa Polygyny was frequently featured in early scientific debates on the epidemiology...
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Bisexuality, Union Status, and Gender Composition of the Couple: Reexamining Marital Advantage in Health
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1791–1825.
Published: 19 September 2019
... on sexual behavior has also found that those with both-gender partners are less happy than those with same-gender or different-gender partners even when SES is adjusted for (Thomeer and Reczek 2016 ). These studies suggest that bisexuals face poorer mental health outcomes largely because of the unique...
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