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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 615–631.
Published: 01 November 1994
..., and health. Differences by race are also considered, in view of the distinctly different histories of whites and African-Americans in the south. Our findings suggest that unicausal explanations for the persistence of high fertility are too simplistic; all three theoretical perspectives receive empirical...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 421–434.
Published: 01 November 1998
...: Applications and Data Analysis Methods . Newbury Park, CA : Sage Publications . Caldwell , J. , & Caldwell , P. ( 1993 ). The South African Fertility Decline . Population and Development Review , 19 , 225 – 62 . 10.2307/2938436 Caldwell , J.C. , Orubuloye , J.O...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 297–322.
Published: 07 February 2020
... differences Cross-national comparative study U.S. fertility South African fertility Sociologists and demographers have long puzzled over the nature of immigrant fertility and the features of migrants and migration experiences that affect fertility behavior. Although scholars have debated whether...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1949–1972.
Published: 01 September 2017
... This suggested that African American fertility decline in the early twentieth century had commenced in rural portions of the nation and in the South, where fertility stood at near-natural levels, voluntary control was limited, and economic incentives for large families remained high (Farley 1970a ; Tolnay 1981...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 371–388.
Published: 01 February 2022
... and changes in interbirth intervals. This study makes use of a large archive of 360 fertility surveys covering 78 LMICs from five geographic regions (East and South Africa, Middle and West Africa, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and West Asia and North Africa). The analysis is based on data...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 267–296.
Published: 22 January 2020
... the other African countries experienced a decline in progression from the fourth to the eighth birth that was at least as large as the decline in progression to the fourth birth. The two exceptions are South Africa, where fertility was already fairly low, and The Gambia. Moreover, inspection of the detailed...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1029–1048.
Published: 21 June 2011
... = total fertility rate; MCPR = modern contraceptive prevalence rate. Sources: Instituto Nacional de Estatística and Macro International ( 1998 , 2005 ). Since colonial times, Mozambican men, especially from the country’s south, have worked in South African mines (CEA/UEM 1997 ; Crush et al...
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Demography (1992) 29 (3): 333–341.
Published: 01 August 1992
... that date. In nearly all of the provinces with the eastern European pattern of marriage a decline of 10% in marital fertility occurred before 1930. In Asian and African populations (with very early and nearly universal marriage) declines in marital fertility did not occur before 1950; in some areas...
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 59–77.
Published: 01 February 2007
... and Fertility: Results From 26 Demographic and Health Surveys . Studies in Family Planning , 26 , 87 – 202 . Colclough , C. , & Lewin , with K. ( 1993 ). Educating All the Children: Strategies for Primary Schooling in the South . Oxford : Clarendon Press . Diez Roux , A.V...
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 467–479.
Published: 01 November 2001
.... ( 1987 ). Side-Stepping the Postpartum Sex Taboo: Mende Cultural Perceptions of Tinned Milk in Sierra Leone . In E. van de Walle , & J.A. Ebigola (Eds.), The Cultural Roots of African Fertility Regimes, Proceedings of the Ile-Ife Conference (pp. 101 – 24 ). Philadelphia...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1043–1067.
Published: 01 August 2024
... = West Africa. Turning to the right panel of Figure 4 , the prevalence of women with bereaved mothers is also high, especially in Latin American (31%), Central African (33%), East African (33%), and West African (30%) countries. By comparison, fewer women have bereaved mothers in South...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 901–925.
Published: 01 June 2021
... ). The shaping of a settler fertility transition: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century South African demographic history reconsidered . European Review of Economic History , 23 , 421 – 445 . Cinnirella F. , Klemp M. , & Weisdorf J. ( 2017 ). Malthus in the bedroom: Birth spacing...
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 247–264.
Published: 01 May 1992
... ratio and women's rates of marriage across U.S. marriage markets. This relationship appears to hold both within other countries (Errnisch 1981; Schoen and Baj 1985) and cross-nationally (South 1988; South and Trent 1988). The deficit of marriageable men is believed to be especially acute among African...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1143–1171.
Published: 01 June 2022
... that shifts in culture and social norms play a larger role in changing son-biased sex ratios (accounting for nearly three fourths of the decline in South Korea) than development measures, including education and urbanization ( Chung and Das Gupta 2007 ). However, educational expansion preceded the change...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 355–368.
Published: 01 August 1997
... . 10.1080/0032472031000142516 A.J. Coale , & S.C. Watkins ( 1986 ). Decline of Fertility in Europe . Princeton : Princeton University Press . Conte , E. ( 1979 ). “Politics and Marriage in South Kanem (Chad): A Statistical Presentation of Endogamy From 1895 to 1975...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 143–157.
Published: 01 May 1993
... Akim J. , & Omari A. ( 1991 ). Fertility The 1988 Census of Tanzania: An Initial Analysis (pp. 32 – 55 ). Dar es Salaam : Population Planning Unit . Dyson Tim ( 1990 ). On the Demography of South Asia Famines . London : Department of Population Studies, London School...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 573–594.
Published: 16 January 2019
... male labor migrants to neighboring South Africa. Historically, male labor migrants were formally recruited to work in the South African mining industry. This employment was highly regulated and produced predictable returns: in many cases, remittances were sent directly by employers as part of labor...
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 233–250.
Published: 01 May 2002
... 2000). In fact, an effect of the educational level in the community on actual fertility, net of urbanization and the woman s own education, still has not been docu- mented statistically. Thomas (1999) indicated that he had found such an effect for South African women, but did not show its size...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 643–668.
Published: 21 March 2018
... pregnancy on education in South Africa while controlling for pre-fertility characteristics; however, the effect remained large for African females, consistent with Ardington et al. ( 2015 ). Our study contributes to the limited empirical evidence of the impact of early childbearing on socioeconomic...
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 386–398.
Published: 01 March 1965
... – 150 ). New York : Appleton-Century . 7 DuBois , W. E. Burghardt ( 1954 ). The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America (pp. 91 – 91 ). New York : Social Science Press . 8 Dow , George F. ( 1927 ). Slave Ships and Slaving (pp. 148 – 148...
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