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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 199–216.
Published: 01 May 1986
.... The Suitability of Early KAP Surveys for Comparative Analysis . Final Report to the Population Council Program on the Determinants of Fertility in Developing Countries. Entwisle B. , Hermalin A. I. , & Mason W. M. ( 1982 ). Socioeconomic Determinants of Fertility in Developing Nations...
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Demography (1988) 25 (4): 581–595.
Published: 01 November 1988
...Julie DaVanzo Abstract Household data from Malaysia are used to assess the roles of a number of mortality correlates in explaining the inverse relationship between the infant mortality rate (IMR) and socioeconomic development. Increases in mothers’ education and improvements in water and sanitation...
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 531–551.
Published: 01 November 1987
...Dudley L. Poston, Jr.; Baochang Gu 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Family Planning Total Fertility Rate Development Index Socioeconomic Development Fertility Decline References Alker , H. R. ( 1969 ). A typology of ecological fallacies...
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 319–330.
Published: 01 August 1971
...Barbara S. Janowitz Abstract Recent studies by Adelman and by Friedlander and Silver, which have investigated whether regression equations derived from cross-section data can be used to predict the impact of socioeconomic development on changing levels of fertility, are reviewed critically...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 693–717.
Published: 01 August 2008
... Over Development in Peninsular Malaysia . Population Studies , 51 , 139 – 51 . 10.1080/0032472031000149876 Thornton A. ( 2001 ). The Developmental Paradigm, Reading History Sideways, and Family Change . Demography , 38 , 449 – 46 . 10.1353/dem.2001.0039 Financing Education...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1845–1871.
Published: 23 August 2017
... development that we cannot explain. A key finding is that the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage and child health on cognitive developmental trajectories are not influenced by measurable time-varying confounding. We find that socioeconomic disadvantage (poor health) has a significant negative impact...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 303–324.
Published: 01 May 2009
... BETWEEN SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND HEALTH STRONGER FOR OLDER CHILDREN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?* LISA CAMERON AND JENNY WILLIAMS Recent research on the relationship between child health and income in developed countries reveals a positive gradient that is more pronounced for older children, suggesting...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
... mortality by household wealth but a substantial increase by mother’s education. Improvements in infrastructure and economic development were associated with lower levels of socioeconomic inequality in under-five mortality. Mother’s education emerged as the key factor underlying socioeconomic inequalities...
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 163–190.
Published: 01 May 1987
... as the others. The closer the fit between their income levels and needs, the less sensitive they will be to changes in the level of living or opportunities in their own community. The differential sensitivity to development produces the slope changes in the class-migration relation in different developmental...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 627–634.
Published: 01 November 1981
... impact. A new estimate is derived to account more completely for the effects of the social context and socioeconomic development on fertility. This estimate indicates that 5 percent of the variation in crude birth rate decline for 89 developing countries is due to family planning programs...
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 479–481.
Published: 01 August 1973
...Barbara S. Janowitz Abstract Ekanem has shown that variations in socioeconomic development are associated with differences in birth rates. However, he has made no attempt to determine if his regression equations can be used to predict trends in fertility. This note shows that, using Ekanem’s data...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1513–1542.
Published: 25 August 2015
... generating the heterogeneity in these outcomes—including levels of socioeconomic development, language, culture, and quality of education in countries of origin, as well as selectivity of those who migrate—figures prominently among important unresolved research questions. 1 7 2015 25 8 2015...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 701–720.
Published: 23 February 2017
... health. Using important socioeconomic indicators, we develop a novel method to adjust country-specific reported infant mortality figures. We conclude that an augmented measure of mortality that includes both infant and late fetal deaths should be considered when assessing levels of social welfare...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 153–181.
Published: 11 March 2011
... Publications . Alwin, D. F., & Wray, L. A. (2005). A life-span developmental perspective on social status and health. Journal of Gerontology , 60B(Special Issue II) , 7–14. Andersen R. M. , Yu H. , Wyn R. , Davidson P. L. , Brown E. R. , & Teleki S. ( 2002 ). Access...
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 361–366.
Published: 01 May 1975
...Mashal Khan 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1975 1975 Infant Mortality Statistical Yearbook Dominican Republic Socioeconomic Development Ryukyu Island References Ekanem Ita I ( 1972 ). A Further Note on the Relation between Economic Development...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 215–219.
Published: 01 May 2000
... 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2000 2000 National Average Socioeconomic Development Divorce Rate High Divorce Rate State Statistical Bureau References Chu , Z. ( 1994 ). New Trend of Divorce Today . Society , 2 , 29 – 30 . Fu , X. ( 1992...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 635–643.
Published: 01 November 1981
... of the Effects of Socioeconomic Development on Fertility Rates . Demography , 8 , 307 – 317 . 10.2307/2060620 Johnston J. ( 1972 ). Econometric Methods . 2nd Edition New York : McGraw-Hili Book Company . Kasarda J. D. ( 1971 ). Economic Structure and Fertility: A Comparative...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1109–1134.
Published: 06 July 2016
... and economic development, and immigrants have arrived with distinct distributions of socioeconomic status, visa type, year of immigration, and age at immigration. We use high-quality linked Social Security and Medicare records to estimate life tables for the older U.S. population over the full range of birth...
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Demography (1974) 11 (3): 509–520.
Published: 01 August 1974
... of the city and its developmental changes. Most migration studies of cities in developing countries indicate that the rapid population growth in these cities is "attributable to the mi- gration of people to cities from rural areas" (Kuroda, 1968, p. 336). These studies also argue that migrants are generally...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1535–1557.
Published: 19 August 2011
... by presenting a difference-in-differences (DD) estimator based on an exogenous differential treatment between the Han and minorities under the one-child policy. In the quasi-experimental design of the DD estimator, both the ethnicity-specific heterogeneity and the effects of socioeconomic development have been...
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