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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
...Jason M. Fletcher Abstract In this article, I use a national sample of high school students to test for several types of social influences on the decision to have sexual intercourse. I find evidence of endogenous social interactions (social multipliers), where the propensity of an individual...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 873–898.
Published: 19 May 2020
... a dynamic causal model, we find strong evidence of social multiplier effects through social learning. The results for social influence and spread through mass communications are promising, but we are unable to identify definitive causal impacts. 17 4 2020 19 5 2020 © The Author(s) 2020...
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View articletitled, The Examination of Diffusion Effects on Modern Contraceptive Use in Nigeria
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Family, Firms, and Fertility: A Study of Social Interaction Effects
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 243–266.
Published: 06 January 2020
... 2020 2020 Fertility Social interaction effects Social multipliers Siblings Colleagues Recent studies have suggested that individual fertility behavior is profoundly influenced by network partners. This literature has focused on networks, such as siblings (Cools and Kaldager 2017...
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View articletitled, Family, Firms, and Fertility: A Study of <span class="search-highlight">Social</span> Interaction Effects
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Social networks and HIV/AIDS risk perceptions
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 1–33.
Published: 01 February 2007
...., Arellano and Honoré 2001), the available methods require more panel waves than are available for the present study. The formulation in Eq. (1) is consistent with Montgomery and Casterline s (1996) social multiplier model of diffusion in which, if b is the direct impact of some change on an individual s...
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Transition to Parenthood: The Role of Social Interaction and Endogenous Networks
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 559–579.
Published: 27 April 2011
... of a population of size N with π* N possessing a certain characteristic (e.g., a parity above a certain threshold) implies that the share π defined in Eqs. ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) is a random number following a hypergeometric distribution. Transforming this random number π into a social multiplier si...
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Family reunification and the immigration multiplier: U.S. immigration law, origin-country conditions, and the reproduction of immigrants
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 291–311.
Published: 01 August 1986
... of the immigration and naturalization decisions-and hence of the immigration multiplier-would require incorporating social, economic, political, and other features of the origin countries. Our strategy is to simulate this prospective design using existing data sources. We first combine 1970 Census data on the number...
View articletitled, Family reunification and the immigration <span class="search-highlight">multiplier</span>: U.S. immigration law, origin-country conditions, and the reproduction of immigrants
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Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 747–777.
Published: 25 March 2020
... consequential disadvantages are heavily clustered rather than independently distributed, so that the population crystallizes into sharply distinct advantaged and disadvantaged social groups along just a few dimensions. Similarly, the Black mortality multiplier is a mathematical construct that simplifies...
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View articletitled, Multidimensional Mortality Selection: Why Individual Dimensions of Frailty Don’t Act Like Frailty
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Noncustodial Fathers’ Ability to Pay Child Support
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 219–233.
Published: 01 May 1989
...) . ( 1980 ). Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research . McDonald , T. , Moran , J. , & Garfinkel , I. ( 1983 ). Wisconsin Study of Absent Fathers’ Ability to Pay More Child Support . Madison : University of Wisconsin . Nichols-Casebolt...
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Population Pyramids Yield Accurate Estimates of Total Fertility Rates
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 221–241.
Published: 28 January 2020
... equality between the mean and variance of the number of surviving children. This strong assumption generally does not hold in practice (e.g., Barakat 2017 : figure 1 ). Individual heterogeneity in age-specific rates would tend to produce overdispersion (variance > mean), whereas strong social norms...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1207–1233.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., Black, and Hispanic young women . Work and Occupations , 34 , 369 – 398 . Alon S. , & Tienda M. ( 2005 ). Job mobility and early career wage growth of White, African American, and Hispanic Women . Social Science Quarterly , 86 , 1196 – 1217 . Aughinbaugh...
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View articletitled, How Education Shapes Women's Work and Family Lives Across Race and Ethnicity
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1713–1737.
Published: 01 October 2022
... : United Nations Children's Fund . Available from http://www.childmortality.org/files_v21/download/IGME%20report%202017%20child%20mortality%20final.pdf United Nations . ( 2019a ). World population prospects: 2019 (Report). New York, NY : United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs...
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View articletitled, A Bayesian Cohort Component Projection Model to Estimate Women of Reproductive Age at the Subnational Level in Data-Sparse Settings
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Some Further Observations on the Index of Residential Differentiation
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Demography (1981) 18 (2): 251–256.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Barrie S. Morgan; John Norbury Abstract The relationship between the index of residential differentiation ( RDI ), a recently introduced measure of residential segregation which is designed to summarize the distribution of c social groups in a single index, and the indices of dissimilarity ( D...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1699–1709.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., and Environmental Shocks and Stressors (#PEN04796, Accession #7003407), and Penn State's Social Sciences Research Institute. A.S. and D.R. are supported by NIA R21AG083393. 1 Criteria used to define this NCHS urban–rural classification can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/urban_rural.htm...
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View articletitled, Research Note Showing That the Rural Mortality Penalty Varies by Region, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, 1999–2016
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An estimate of a rare population group: The U.S. Jewish population
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 389–394.
Published: 01 August 1978
...: An Empirical Investigation . Ann Arbor : Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan . Kish , Leslie ( 1965 ). Survey Sampling . New York : John Wiley and Sons . Kish , Leslie , & Hess , I. ( 1959 ). On Variances of Ratios and Their Differences in Multi-Stage Samples...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 179–183.
Published: 01 February 1990
.... ( 1965 ). The Social Strategy of Family Formation: Some Variations in Time and Space . Demography , 2 , 349 – 362 . 10.2307/2060123 Weir, D. R. (1983). The Fertility Transition in Rural France, 1740–1829 . Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, Dept. of Economics. Demography...
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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
.... ( 2007 ). Social multipliers in sexual initiation decisions among U.S. high school students . Demography , 44 , 373 – 388 . 10.1353/dem.2007.0009 Goddijn M. , & Leschot N. J. ( 2000 ). Genetic aspects of miscarriage . Baillière’s Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology , 14 , 855...
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Black-White Unions: West Indians and African Americans compared
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 177–185.
Published: 01 May 2001
... . Social Forces , 72 , 119 – 46 . 10.2307/2580162 Kalmijn , M. ( 1996 ). The Socioeconomic Assimilation of Caribbean American Blacks . Social Forces , 74 , 911 – 30 . 10.2307/2580386 Kalmijn , M. ( 1998 ). Intermarriage and Homogamy: Causes, Patterns and Trends . In K.S...
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Continuous and robust measures of the overweight epidemic: 1971–2000
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 303–314.
Published: 01 May 2004
... and the Politics of America’s Obesity Epidemic . Cambridge, MA : Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University . Pagan J.A. , & Davila A. ( 1997 ). Obesity, Occupational Attainment, and Earnings . Social Science Quarterly , 78 , 756 – 70 . Register C.A. , & Williams D.R...
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Prenatal Health, Educational Attainment, and Intergenerational Inequality: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 525–552.
Published: 28 February 2012
... evident during pregnancy and at birth, and can be found from different countries with varying health care systems and levels of social inequality (Kramer et al. 2000 ). Disparities exist according to socioeconomic status (SES; measured as education, income, or occupation) but also according to other...
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Methodology for the Measurement of Current Fertility From Population Data on Young Children
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 50–73.
Published: 01 March 1965
... must be used to measure the growth components of the population in the absence of adequate vital statistics. Even in nations where the quality of vital statistics is good, census records often offer information on fertility differentials by social and economic char- acteristics of the population...
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