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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2079–2107.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Rebecca Anna Schut; Courtney Boen Abstract Research links restrictive immigration policies to immigrant health and health care outcomes. Yet most studies in this area focus on the impact of single policies in particular years, with few assessing how broader state-level immigration policy contexts...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1451–1472.
Published: 02 September 2011
... that the context of the focal relationship as well as the individual’s own characteristics influence the type of contraceptive method used. Relationship commitment and couple heterogamy are posited to be associated with contraceptive method choice because they represent the relationship stage (e.g., just met...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 813–834.
Published: 11 April 2017
... disparity in children’s family contexts in the United States have moved in different and sometimes opposing directions. The incidence of mother-headed families has increased and has become more differentiated by social status, but children’s sibsize, having become sharply more unequal during the postwar...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 133–145.
Published: 01 February 2001
... if recent immigrants originated in Europe or Asia. Although native-born non-Hispanic white men showed a tendency toward out-migration if recent immigrants originated in Latin America or the Caribbean, this result was insignificant after we controlled for state economic and regional context. 14 1 2011...
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Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 1 Respondent-reported barriers to care-seeking by proportion of restrictive policies in a state context. “Other barriers” estimates are not shown for U.S.-born and documented non-White Latinx groups because of small sample sizes. Gray shading in all graphs indicates 95% confidence intervals. More
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 797–818.
Published: 18 May 2012
... for calculating smoking-attributable mortality in contexts with relatively mature epidemics of cigarette smoking. 11 4 2012 18 5 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 Mortality Cigarette smoking United States Method Geographic variation Tobacco use is the largest...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1635–1664.
Published: 10 September 2019
... in highly segregated states. However, there are early signs of reversal in this trend. The results provide evidence that school finance reforms have been somewhat effective in reducing the consequences of income segregation on funding inequities, while inequalities in the social context of schooling...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 158–173.
Published: 01 March 1968
... with communism. The argument most frequently heard at the World Population Conference in 1965, by contrast, accepted the population problems of underdeveloped countries as real, at least in the present context, but maintained that they will be solved through the natural course of events by raising the level...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2089–2115.
Published: 01 December 2021
... mortality. I utilize this distinction to explore how the social context into which infants are born contributes to gaps in mortality between Black and White neonates. I analyze variation in Black–White differences in neonatal mortality across 33 states using 1995–2010 data. For each state, I calculate...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 591–614.
Published: 30 November 2012
... (but see Gibbons et al. 2005 ), I differentiate between spatial and temporal variation in suicide rates to determine whether and how social correlates operate differently in these two contexts. In other words, during this period, the factors that determine varying levels of suicide across states...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 419–450.
Published: 01 April 2021
... children; less is known about the impact of center-based care in earlier childhood. The French context is particularly suited to such interrogation because the majority of French children who attend center-based care do so in high-quality, state-funded, state-regulated centers, known as crèches...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1763–1789.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Nicolo P. Pinchak; Christopher R. Browning; Catherine A. Calder; Bethany Boettner Abstract In the United States, Black youth tend to grow up in remarkably less resourced neighborhoods than White youth. This study investigates whether and to what extent Black youth are moreover exposed to less...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 297–322.
Published: 07 February 2020
... ; Chavez 2013 ; Parrado 2011 ; Parrado and Morgan 2008 ). Immigration flows in the United States and globally have grown ever more heterogeneous (Castles et al. 2013 ), and likely as diverse are immigrants’ fertility behaviors. As immigrants and immigrant contexts diversify globally, the bulk...
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 291–311.
Published: 01 August 1986
... categories and by gender and are obtained in the context of an analysis of how individual characteristics of immigrants and their origin country conditions affect (a) the decision to migrate to the United States and (b) once admitted, their propensity to remain and to become U.S. citizens. The analyses...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 529–545.
Published: 01 August 2004
... children and, among those who do not want more children, Muslims are much less likely than Hindus to use contraceptives. These findings are robust to model specification and pervasive across the states of India. This national study provides the context within which local studies should be enmeshed and begs...
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 443–453.
Published: 01 August 1972
...N. Krishnan Namboodiri Abstract The ratio-correlation method is one of several methods currently being used in the United States for making postcensal estimates of subnational units such as states and counties. It seems to have been commonly presumed by those writing on the subject that the working...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1451–1475.
Published: 05 July 2017
...Rachel M. Shattuck Abstract Most young people in the United States express the desire to marry. Norms at all socioeconomic levels posit marriage as the optimal context for childbearing. At the same time, nonmarital fertility accounts for approximately 40 % of U.S. births, experienced...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1319–1344.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... ( 2002 ). Two decades of family change: The shifting economic foundations of marriage . American Sociological Review , 67 , 132 – 147 . 10.2307/3088937 Sweeney , M. M. ( 2010 ). The reproductive context of cohabitation in the United States: Recent change and variation in contraceptive...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 129–149.
Published: 14 November 2018
...Alison Gemmill Abstract Permanent childlessness is increasingly acknowledged as an outcome of a dynamic, context-dependent process, but few studies have integrated a life course framework to investigate the complex pathways leading to childlessness. This study focuses on an understudied yet...
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 271–278.
Published: 01 May 1987
...K. Srinivasan; A. C. Muthiah Abstract In a number of developing countries, especially in South Asia, there is a custom for a pregnant woman to go to her mother’s home for delivery and remain for some months afterwards. In this context, estimates of various fertility measures, based on data from...