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Published: 01 April 2022
Fig. 3 Prevalence of coresident full siblings/half-siblings (left axis) and sibling coresidence transition rates (right axis) for children 0–17 years old: Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1968–2017. Point estimates in italics are significantly different from the corresponding value
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 923–934.
Published: 01 November 2010
... factors, such as individual and family background variables. We measure social interaction through the cross-sibling influences on fertility. Continuous-time hazard models are estimated separately for women’s first and second births. In addition to individual socioeconomic variables, demographic variables...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Rohini P. Pande Abstract This article examines the role of the sex composition of surviving older siblings on gender differences in childhood nutrition and immunization, using data from the National Family Health Survey, India (1992–1993). Logit and ordered logit models were used for severe...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 521–542.
Published: 01 August 2003
... accumulate less wealth than do those from smaller families. Siblings dilute parents’ finite financial resources and nonmaterial resources, such as time. This diminishment of resources reduces educational attainment, inter vivos transfers, and inheritance. Reduced educational attainment and transfers alter...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 477–488.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Elizabeth Zenger Abstract This paper studies the familial association of neonatal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh and its relationship to birth-spacing effects on mortality. Findings show that familial association is strongest for siblings of adjacent birth orders. Moreover, birth-spacing effects...
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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 August 1989
... and in the number of siblings. Two situations are considered regarding the latent probability of having a boy: population homogeneity and population heterogeneity. The sex difference in the number of siblings exists even under population homogeneity, and the difference remains constant when each couple employs...
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Demography (1990) 27 (4): 537–557.
Published: 01 November 1990
...R. Jean Haurin; Frank L. Mott Abstract Using approximately 2,000 sibling pairs from the ab] National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience of Youth, we examine the influence of an older sibling’s age at first sexual intercourse on the sexual initiation of a younger sibling. Hypotheses...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 295–318.
Published: 18 December 2017
... of individuals and their parents and unobserved factors shared within a family. Our estimates of the observed and unobserved parts of the long arm of childhood are based on family-level variance in a survival analytic regression model, using siblings nested within families as the units of analysis. The study...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 929–955.
Published: 21 May 2018
... sibling comparison design, we find that birth spacing is generally not associated with long-term health, although we find that men born after very long birth intervals have a higher probability of being overweight or obese in early adulthood. Overall, we conclude that birth intervals have little...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1359–1385.
Published: 01 October 2023
... administrative register data of the full population of Sweden to provide the first kinship enumeration for a complete population based on empirical data. We created ego-focused kinship networks of children, parents, siblings, grandchildren, grandparents, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, and cousins. We show...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 1–26.
Published: 25 November 2015
...Paula Fomby; Joshua A. Goode; Stefanie Mollborn Abstract As family structure in the United States has become increasingly dynamic and complex, children have become more likely to reside with step- or half-siblings through a variety of pathways. When these pathways are accounted for, more than one...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2033–2061.
Published: 09 September 2019
... the perspective of children. This study uses nationally representative data from the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth to examine cohort change in children’s exposure to multiple-partner fertility. We find that one in five children in the 1979 cohort had at least one half-sibling...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2221–2244.
Published: 30 November 2020
...Clara H. Mulder; Emma Lundholm; Gunnar Malmberg Abstract Young adult internal migration forms a large share of the influx of people into large cities in the developed world. We investigate the role of the residential locations of siblings for young adults’ migration to large cities, using the case...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 387–411.
Published: 04 February 2014
...Stéphane Helleringer; Gilles Pison; Almamy M. Kanté; Géraldine Duthé; Armelle Andro Abstract Estimates of adult mortality in countries with limited vital registration (e.g., sub-Saharan Africa) are often derived from information about the survival of a respondent’s siblings. We evaluated...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1573–1596.
Published: 09 September 2014
...Petter Lundborg; Paul Nystedt; Dan-Olof Rooth Abstract We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1687–1713.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Philippe Bocquier; Carren Ginsburg; Ashira Menashe-Oren; Yacouba Compaoré; Mark Collinson Abstract A considerable body of research has studied the effects of siblings on child mortality through birth intervals. This research has commonly focused on older siblings. We argue that birth intervals...
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in Education Gains Attributable to Fertility Decline: Patterns by Gender, Period, and Country in Latin America and Asia
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Published: 05 July 2017
Fig. 1 Mean estimated coefficients on number of siblings in micro-level IV models by country and sample. Coefficients plotted are the estimated 2SLS coefficients at the country-year level on number of siblings predicting the probability of any secondary school, using the sex composition
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Published: 01 June 2022
Fig. 2 Diagram showing five siblings, two of whom (A and B) died in the 1982 killings (shown by the dashed vertical line). The surviving siblings (C–E) are related to a genocide victim (i.e., they are “bereaved”), but only the life-line of C overlapped with that of a victim.
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in The Swedish Kinship Universe: A Demographic Account of the Number of Children, Parents, Siblings, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Aunts/Uncles, Nieces/Nephews, and Cousins Using National Population Registers
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Published: 01 October 2023
Fig. 4 Average number of siblings by birth cohort and whether full or half-sibling (top panel) and proportional distribution of the number of siblings (half- or full) by birth cohort (bottom panel): Swedish-born individuals from the 1932–2017 birth cohorts who were alive at the end of 2017
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Published: 18 December 2014
Fig. 1 Educational attainment of children aged 23 or older, by number of siblings. Source: HDSS-Demtrend, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), 2012
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