Search Results for Social interaction effects

...Zafer Buyukkececi; Thomas Leopold; Ruben van Gaalen; Henriette Engelhardt Abstract Research has indicated that fertility spreads through social networks and attributed this phenomenon to social interaction effects. It remains unclear, however, whether the findings of previous studies reflect...

... (1975) mutual enforcement of delinquent behaviors within gangs or similarly tight-knit groups. The effects of social interaction processes are likely to be particularly important when an individual is uncertain about the best response to an innovation or environmental change or to new social...

... of death and indicate the simultaneous importance of biological and social factors. It is important that the pattern of interactions suggests an overall dependence of infant life chances on social circumstances. It also suggests that these effects are attenuated for some variables and causes of death...

... of biology is substantially smaller than the literature suggests. I also estimate the interacting effects of biology with some intrauterine and external environmental factors, including birth order within a twin pair, social status, and climate. I find that a twin is more likely to be male if he...

..., these effects point to a potentially important influence of social age, defined by an individual’s school cohort, instead of biological age. The relevance of social age is likely due to social interactions and peer-group influences exerted by individuals who are in the same school cohort but are not necessarily...

...Glenn V. Fuguitt; Donald R. Field Abstract Selected social characteristics of individuals were examined for groups of villages simultaneously dichotomized by size, location relative to larger cities, and population change. The percent of people having a selected characteristic in each village group...

...? The effect of schooling across public health periods . Journal of Population Research . LeVine R. A. , LeVine S. E. , Rowe M. L. , & Schnell-Anzola B. ( 2004 ). Maternal literacy and health behavior: A Nepalese case study . Social Science & Medicine , 58 , 863 – 877...

...) the interactive or joint effects of individual and household characteristics and community- level attributes. Although the availability of health, sanitation, and other social services is important for reducing child mortal- ity, its interaction with individual and household character- istics determines...

... The same analytic machinery can be used to assess the effect of mortality decline on Social Security finances. We will need a new picture of the economic life cycle, which is con- fined here to interactions with the Social Security system. Figure 3 shows the 1993 payroll taxes and benefits plotted by age...

... in subjective well-being. Normative, social, and economic factors did not explain these disproportionate declines. We discuss alternative explanations for why immigrant men are most vulnerable to the adverse effects of unemployment in Germany. 6 12 2016 3 1 2017 © Population Association...

... effects seem strongest, net of covariate effects. pace-time analysis has long been central to the study of population. Many of the important questions and theories in demography focus on changes over time and on how those changes differ over geographic and social space. Perhaps the most prominent exam...

... of interaction effects implies that the size of the gender gap varies over time and across different population groups. 9 1 2011 15 10 1989 15 5 1990 © Population Association of America 1990 1990 Labor Force Trend Line American Sociological Review General Social Survey...

... et al. 2004 ). However, genetic influences on smoking vary considerably across different social environments (Boardman 2009 ; Boardman et al. 2008 ; Timberlake et al. 2006 ). The environmental moderation of genetic factors is anticipated by the gene-by-environment interaction (GxE) paradigm...

... Rahman M. O. ( 1997 ). The effects of spouses on the mortality of older people in rural Bangladesh . Health Transition Review , 7 , 1 – 12 . Rahman M. O. , Foster A. , & Menken J. ( 1992 ). Older widow mortality in rural Bangladesh . Social Science & Medicine , 34...

... Premarital Birth Family Background Variable References Åberg, Y. 2003. “Social Interactions: Studies of Contextual Effects and Endogenous Processes.” Doctoral dissertation. Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. Axinn W.G. , Clarkberg M.E. , & Thornton A. ( 1994...

... Status Surrounding the Death of a Spouse . Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences , 46 , 310 – 20 . Demography, Vol. 31, No.3, 1994 Double Jeopardy: Interaction Effects of Marital and Poverty Status on the Risk of Mortality* Ken R. Smith Department of Family and Consumer Studies University...

... functions as a vehicle through which they can socialize and maintain ties with their own people. As for the interaction between religi- osity and education found among Native Mexican Americans, the results do sug- gest a dual effect of education dependent on degree of religiosity. Among the nom- inally...

... moderation and “lens-type” gene–environment interactions taking a different form. 1 They argued that social scientists often frame their G×E research aims as studying lens-type interactions, but reliance on PGSs for levels of an outcome might impede their progress: The selection of PGS effects...

... social and emotional outcomes is important as well. If there are positive effects of education on marriage, this would suggest an accumulation of disadvantages for the less-educated. If the less-educated are less likely to find attractive jobs and less likely to marry, they are economically and socially...