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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 139–157.
Published: 01 May 1995
... will occur for women of all socioeconomic statuses but will be greater for those of lower than of higher status groups. The potential problems of an increase in fertility and deterioration in maternal and child health are likely to be greater for the lower-status groups which are least equipped to combat...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 553–574.
Published: 28 January 2012
... groups × 6 education groups × 2 marital statuses × 2 urban residence statuses × 12 five-year age groups). It is possible, though, to trade off the number of variables against how finely each is coded. Therefore, I recode income into five levels (from nine) and jointly reweight on income, education...
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 37–48.
Published: 01 February 1971
... and the fertility behavior variables. Interviews with a probability sample of women in Lexington, Kentucky, provide the data for testing the hypothesized relationships. The results indicate that both value orientations and socioeconomic status are related to fertility behavior. The inference can be made that value...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1377–1400.
Published: 01 November 2011
... W denotes wealth (or another measure of socioeconomic status) and Z denotes nonwealth covariates. Our empirical strategy is to Estimate the effect of W on actual survival, β β WT , using a logit model. The dependent variable is the binary event whether the respondent is alive at 75...
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 369–396.
Published: 01 August 1990
... characteristics representing women’s status, the roles of children, and infant mortality. These contextual variables are hypothesized to have direct and indirect (through individual socioeconomic characteristics) effects on current fertility. The contextual variables account for a modest but significant share...
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 431–453.
Published: 01 August 1991
..., households, and metropolitan contexts. We use it to analyze the determinants of suburban versus central-city residence for 11 racial/ethnic groups. The analysis reveals that family status, socioeconomic, and assimilation variables influence the suburbanization process rather consistently. We take...
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 603–615.
Published: 01 November 1972
...Robert M. Jiobu Abstract This study relates differential socioeconomic status between blacks and whites to racial differentiation in infant mortality rates. The basic assumption is that decreases in socioeconomic differentiation and related variables lead to decreases in the black—white infant...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 699–724.
Published: 20 April 2011
... and socioeconomic differentials in the health status of older people. We use data from the second wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) conducted in 2004 ( N = 8,870). Information from three observer-measured and three self-reported health indicators was combined, using a latent variable modeling...
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 269–288.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Michael A. Koenig; Saifuddin Ahmed; Mian Bazle Hossain; A. B. M. Khorshed Alam Mozumder Abstract We explore the determinants of domestic violence in two rural areas of Bangladesh. We found increased education, higher socioeconomic status, non-Muslim religion, and extended family residence...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 651–662.
Published: 01 November 1994
... an impact: those whose first child is in a less preferred situation are less likely to have a second. Variables measuring the need for and type of child care are found to have greater consequences for fertility than do usual measures of socioeconomic status. 12 1 2011 © Population Association...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1181–1205.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of reproductive age are interviewed. The interviews include questions regarding fertility, reproductive health, nutrition, socioeconomic status, and household demographics using the same format and questions across waves; however, only some modules are collected in select waves, including the HIV biomarker data...
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Published: 01 October 2022
Fig. 2 Structural equation model: Add Health, Waves III–V. Skin tone, SES, and covariates have direct paths to all endogenous variables (not shown). Epsilons represent error terms. N  = 7,371. SES = socioeconomic status. More
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2229–2255.
Published: 01 November 2018
... examination is important given the growing gap in maternal ages at birth for children born to mothers with low and high socioeconomic status. Drawing data from the Children of the NLSY79, our examination of this topic distinguishes between the value for children of being born to a mother who delayed her first...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in children’s achievement. Neighborhood economic status appears to be strongly associated with children’s skills acquisition. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2010 2010 Concentration Index Mathematics Achievement Lorenz Curve Socioeconomic Inequality Immigrant Concentration...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1479–1498.
Published: 24 July 2012
... links children to their biological, step-, and adoptive parents. Using these new variables, we analyze the prevalence of cohabitation as well as the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of different-sex cohabiting couples during the years 2007–2009. Estimates of cohabitation produced using only...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 653–684.
Published: 01 April 2022
... status, household resources, and local development within the community. Estimates are negative in seven out of the 10 countries and results are robust to the use of nonparametric matching techniques and instrumental variables built through georeferenced ancillary sources. In exploring two potential...
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Demography (1982) 19 (3): 301–314.
Published: 01 August 1982
...Craig St. John Abstract We examine race differences in the effects of age at first birth on the pace of subsequent fertility. If race differences in the pace of fertility persist net of age at first birth and socioeconomic variables, they will be taken as new support for the minority group status...
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Published: 01 February 2025
Fig. 4 OLS regression coefficients for smoking exposures on PoAm, from an OLS regression of PoAm regressed on each smoking exposure. All regressions include the following additional control variables: gender, year of birth, years of education, childhood socioeconomic status, and childhood health. More
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 629–640.
Published: 01 November 1974
... (1960, pp. 218-219) has argued, will be nega- tively biased to the degree that contra- ceptive knowledge and practice vary in- versely with socioeconomic status. (4) Economic resource variables may have direct and, indirect effects which oper- ate in different directions. For instance, Easterlin (1969...
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 431–446.
Published: 01 August 1990
... accessibility. I found, however, no significant racial differencesin the effects of socioeconomic status variables on reports of illness; for both blacks and whites, income and education were inversely related to numbers of reported illnesses. (Results of these interaction models are not shown). Reporting...