Search Results for Social Change

...Christiaan W. S. Monden; Jeroen Smits Abstract We gain insight into the dynamics of ethnic intermarriage in times of social change by studying marriages between Latvians and Russians (including Belarussians and Ukrainians) that occurred in Latvia before and after independence from the Soviet Union...

... of these factors have changed over the last few decades, pointing toward the important role of changing social context on marital trajectories. A solid foundation of research has explored the causes and consequences of divorce in Western settings (e.g., Amato 2000 ; Becker et al. 1977 ; Coontz 2007 ; Hannan...

...Arland Thornton; Ming-Cheng Chang; Te-Hsiung Sun Abstract This paper examines the influence of social change and economic growth on intergenerational relationships and the formation of families in Taiwan. Using data from two island-wide surveys in 1973 and 1980, the analysis shows that, as expected...

... pares de variables seleccionadas. Nuestras comprobaciones apoyan la validez de los conceptos de balance y deecquitibrio utilizados en otros estudios. Regression Line Social Change Demographic Change Sion Line Fertility Ratio References 1 Cutright , Phillips ( 1963 ). National...

... discoveries. First, the estimated heritability of autism has been dramatically overstated. Second, heritability estimates can change over remarkably short periods of time because of increases in germ cell mutations. Third, social demographic change can yield genetic changes that, at the population level...

.... 2 Heberle Rudolf ( 1941 ). Social Factors in Birth Control . American Sociological Review , VI ( 6 ), 794 – 805 . 10.2307/2085760 3 Chang P. K. ( 1957 ). A Socialist Theory of Population and China's Population Problem . Economic Research , IV , 36 – 63 . 4 Davis...

... the neighborhood attainment of individuals but not how those neighborhoods change as a result of individual residential decisions. At the community level, spatial assimilation theory might imply that diversification fueled by Latino and Asian population growth will result in greater social or economic...

...Jere R. Behrman; Hans-Peter Kohler; Susan Cotts Watkins Abstract The impacts of social networks on changes in contraception in rural Kenya are investigated using special data from a longitudinal household survey. An analytic model, informed by detailed knowledge of the setting, yielded estimates...

... of the secular decline in effects of social background on being BMG. Demography, Volume 45-Number 3, August 2008: 719 740 719 D HAVE WE PUT AN END TO SOCIAL PROMOTION? CHANGES IN SCHOOL PROGRESS AMONG CHILDREN AGED 6 TO 17 FROM 1972 TO 2005* CARL B. FREDERICK AND ROBERT M. HAUSER We examine trends over time...

... ). Additionally, sharing a household can lead to economies of scale, and married spouses could profit from a larger friendship and kin network (Ross and Mirowsky 2013 ; Umberson and Montez 2010 ). All these mechanisms could enhance SWB. Nonetheless, given dramatic social change over the past decades...

... University Press . Micheli , G. A. ( 2004 ). Claiming for a demologic approach to demographic change . Vienna Yearbook of Population Research , 2 , 29 – 34 . 10.1553/populationyearbook2004s29 Montgomery , M. R. , & Casterline , J. B. ( 1996 ). Social learning, social...

... to address this situation, we complement traditional data sources for the United Kingdom with social media data: our aim is to understand whether information from digital traces can help measure international migration. The Bayesian framework proposed is used to combine data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS...

... life course and the social polarization of childbearing timing. Our second research question is whether any changes observed in the association between homeownership and fertility over time can be explained by the changing socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of individuals...

... for such extensions. We gratefully acknowledge a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Population Change (Grant RES-625-28-0001). We thank the Editor and four anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on this work; Jack Baker, Heather Booth, Jennifer M. Ortman...

... estimates by exploiting variation in income produced by policy changes (as a type of natural experiment) or by experimental social programs (Dahl and Lochner 2012 ; Duncan et al. 2011 ; Milligan and Stabile 2011 ). We considered alternative analytic strategies, such as fixed-effect models using data from...

... Department of Sociology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 641 046 Tamilnadu, India P. M. Kulkarni Institute for Social and Economic Change, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore 560 072 Karnataka, India Parlange, Guilfoyle and Rickson (1983), in attempting to highlight the problem of ecological fallacy in the estimation...

... divorce rate given by divorces per 1,000 marriages, with both ostensibly capturing change in divorce behavior. But because the two measures differ by the multiplicative factor of marriages per capita, trends in divorces per capita can occur even if there is no trend in actual divorce behaviors...

... ). Fertility tables for birth cohorts by color: United States 1917–73 (DHEW Publication No. [HRA] 76–1152) . Rockville, MD : National Center for Health Statistics . Hoem J. ( 1990 ). Social policy and recent fertility change in Sweden . Population and Development Review , 16 , 735 – 747...

...Arun S. Hendi Abstract This study examines proximate sources of change in first-marriage trajectories in the United States between 1960 and 2010. This was a period of tremendous social change: divorce became more common, people started marrying later or not marrying at all, innovations in medicine...

... on the DHS wording (.38–.57). Cognitive interviews illustrated that village women held diverse views, which were attributed to social change. Also, ambiguity in the DHS questions may have led some women to interpret them according to perceived gender norms and to give the socially desirable response...