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Interaction and family planning in the French Urban Family
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 615–625.
Published: 01 June 1967
.... These data are used to answer the question, are socioeconomic variables (husband’s level of education, occupation, and income, for example) more closely correlated with the success of the couple’s family planning than are the variables of positive interaction (agreement, communication, and equality...
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Multidimensional Life Table Estimation of the Total Fertility Rate and Its Components
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1387–1395.
Published: 21 December 2012
... in the sense that they can be tabulated by categories or selected values of one socioeconomic variable while controlling for other socioeconomic variables. The methodology is applied to birth history data, in the form of actual birth histories from a fertility survey or reconstructed birth histories derived...
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Family planning program activity and patient enrollment rates in the United States, 1969 and 1971
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Demography (1977) 14 (2): 213–222.
Published: 01 May 1977
...Michael Hout Abstract The effects of demographic characteristics, socioeconomic conditions, health care, and family planning program activity on patient enrollment rates are estimated for 1969 and 1971. Two program activity variables (agencies and clinic locations) have significant, positive net...
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Age, biological factors, and socioeconomic determinants of fertility: A new measure of cumulative fertility for use in the empirical analysis of family size
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Demography (1978) 15 (4): 487–497.
Published: 01 November 1978
...Bryan Boulier; Mark R. Rosenzweig Abstract To influence the number of children ever born to a woman, socioeconomic variables must operate through behavioral and biological mechanisms such as the age at marriage, the level of fertility in the absence of deliberate fertility control, and the level...
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Do siblings’ fertility decisions influence each other?
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 923–934.
Published: 01 November 2010
... factors, such as individual and family background variables. We measure social interaction through the cross-sibling influences on fertility. Continuous-time hazard models are estimated separately for women’s first and second births. In addition to individual socioeconomic variables, demographic variables...
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Toward a general theory of fertility: A causal modeling approach
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 301–320.
Published: 01 August 1978
.... Socioeconomic variables, in the form of the normative social structure and social stratification, and economic constraints, such as income and price, are hypothesized to influence fertility through their impact on social psychological processes within the family. The overall theory is tested on two independent...
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Differential fertility in central India: A path analysis
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 329–350.
Published: 01 August 1973
...Hugh Loebner; Edwin D. Driver Abstract This study is one of the few multivariate analyses of the relations of several demographic and socioeconomic variables to fertility and the use of contraception. For fertility, 56 of the 92 hypothesized paths are found to be significant at the .05 level...
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Multivariate analysis of parity progression–based measures of the total fertility rate and its components
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 97–124.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Robert Retherford; Naohiro Ogawa; Rikiya Matsukura; Hassan Eini-Zinab Abstract This article describes a methodology for applying a discrete-time survival model—the complementary log-log model—to estimate effects of socioeconomic variables on (1) the total fertility rate and its components and (2...
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Male labor force participation revisited
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Demography (1972) 9 (4): 635–653.
Published: 01 November 1972
...Roger K. Baer Abstract This paper evaluates hypotheses which incorporate designated socioeconomic variables and male age specific incidences of labor force participation. Salient independent variables include education, net migration, unemployment, and earnings. The multiple regression method...
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Economic determinants of fertility: Results from cross-sectional aggregate data
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Demography (1973) 10 (2): 205–223.
Published: 01 May 1973
...Glen G. Cain; Adriana Weininger Abstract Census data for areal units, SMSA’s in 1960 and cities in 1940, are used to test hypotheses and estimate parameters concerning the influence of a variety of socioeconomic variables on fertility rates of ever married white and nonwhite women aged 25–29, 30–34...
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The role of education in explaining and forecasting trends in functional limitations among older Americans*
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 461–473.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Vicki A. Freedman; Linda G. Martin Abstract Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we document the importance of education in accounting for declines in functional limitations among older Americans from 1984 to 1993. Of the eight demographic and socioeconomic variables considered...
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Factors related to the intention to have additional children in the United States: A reanalysis of data from the 1965 and 1970 national fertility studies
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Demography (1978) 15 (3): 337–344.
Published: 01 August 1978
... and age of the youngest child were found to have a much more important effect on the intent to have additional children than were such socioeconomic variables as wife’s employment and husband’s education. Parity and the interval since the latest birth (or the age of the youngest child) were found to have...
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Household income and child survival in Egypt
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 15–35.
Published: 01 February 1989
... to mortality in early childhood. The relationship persists with other associated socioeconomic variables controlled. The mechanisms underlying the income effects are not evident from this analysis: income differentials in sources of household drinking water, type of toilet facilities, and maternal demographic...
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Demographic consequences of the 1984–1985 Ethiopian famine
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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 515–522.
Published: 01 August 1989
... higher than the rate among the Bangladesh victims and that the Ethiopian famine-related mortality was general and not a function of household socioeconomic variables. The data also show a 26 percent lower total fertility rate among famine victims. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America...
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Bayesian estimation of hispanic fertility hazards from survey and population data*
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 65–83.
Published: 01 February 2009
... combination of socioeconomic variables. The use of population data in combination with survey data may therefore be highly advantageous even when the population data are known to have significant levels of nonsampling error. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2009 2009 Hispanic...
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Race differences in age at first birth and the pace of subsequent fertility: Implications for the minority group status hypothesis
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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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Decomposition results: Fraction of the height gap between general caste chi...
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in Local Social Inequality, Economic Inequality, and Disparities in Child Height in India
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Published: 15 July 2019
Fig. 3 Decomposition results: Fraction of the height gap between general caste children and ST, SC, and OBC children unexplained by socioeconomic variables. Estimates represent reweighting decomposition results that describe height gaps between rural general caste children and rural children
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Comment on N. K. Namboodiri’s “which couples at given parities expect to have additional births? an exercise in discriminant analysis”
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 665–668.
Published: 01 November 1975
...Mark R. Rosenzweig; Daniel A. Seiver 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1975 1975 Discriminant Analysis Socioeconomic Variable Potential Income Additional Birth Male Earning References Goldberger Arthur S. ( 1964 ). Econometric Theory . New York...
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Determinants of Contraceptive Use in Rural Bangladesh: The Demand for Children, Supply of Children, and Costs of Fertility Regulation
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 August 1987
...Bashir Ahmed 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Family Planning Socioeconomic Variable Birth Interval Living Child Natural Fertility References Ahmed , B. ( 1984 ). Determinants of Fertility in Bangladesh: Desired Family Size, Natural...
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Cross-Section Studies As Predictors of Trends in Birth Rates: A Note on Ekanem’s Results
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 479–481.
Published: 01 August 1973
... Association of America 1973 1973 Capita Income Wrong Sign Economic Variable Socioeconomic Variable Socioeconomic Development References Ekanem , Ita I. ( 1972 ). A Further Note on the Relation Between Economic Development and Fertility . Demography , 9 , 383 – 398 . 10.2307...
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