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Infant mortality decline in Malaysia, 1946–1975: The roles of changes in variables and changes in the structure of relationships
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 143–160.
Published: 01 May 1986
... 23, Number 2 May 1986 INFANT MORTALITY DECLINE IN MALAYSIA, 1946-1975: THE ROLES OF CHANGES IN VARIABLES AND CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF RELATIONSHIPS Julie DaVanzo The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California 90406 Jean-Pierre Habicht Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca...
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The intermediate variables, social structure, and fertility change: A critique
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 March 1968
... Summary” ( Paper contributed for the 1965 World Population Conference, United Nations, WPC/WP/194 [September, 1965], p.6. 25 Freedman, The Sociology of Human Fertility , p, 41. 26 Ibid. Freedman, The Sociology of Human Fertility , p, 41. THE INTERMEDIATE VARIABLES, SOCIAL STRUCTURE...
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in Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States
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Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 2 Data structure and variables. a Parentheses indicate the median year of birth. b Zero-generation grandparents’ information is derived from first-generation parents’ responses about their fathers. Zero-generation year of birth is estimated from the birth years of the first-generation
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Determinants of short- and long-term mobility expectations for home owners and renters
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 81–95.
Published: 01 February 1990
... sample of 580 Phoenix-area households, we test models of short-term (l year) and long-term (5 years) mobility expectations for home owners and renters. The results show that residential satisfaction mediates the effects of structural variables on mobility expectations in the short term for home owners...
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Expected Family Size and Perceived Status Deprivation among High School Senior Women
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Demography (1974) 11 (1): 57–73.
Published: 01 February 1974
... in which several structural variables and attitudes concerning the role of women were seen as influencing career, education, and marital expectations. It was proposed that these life-style expectations along with the causally prior structural and attitudinal variables would influence family size...
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The use of public transportation in urban areas: Toward a causal model
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Demography (1977) 14 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 February 1977
.... Building on the work of Schnore, we develop a model in which both structural and individual variables are interrelated and show that the structural contexts within which individuals make decisions about their choice are crucial. We also show that, while status differentials are largely accounted...
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Female Professional Work Opportunities: A Cross-National Study
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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 107–120.
Published: 01 February 1975
...Rosemary Santana Cooney Abstract While economic development has been associated with increased participation of females in the labor force, it remains problematic whether sexual equality within the labor force has also increased. This study examines the differentiation of structural variables...
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The Persistence of High Fertility in the American South on the Eve of the Baby Boom
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 615–631.
Published: 01 November 1994
... support. Considerable similarity is observed in the findings for blacks and for whites. Yet important differences also emerge, especially the more powerful effects of structural variables on white fertility. We conclude that the evidence indicates the need for “diversity” in the study of demographic...
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Some roots of preference: Roles, activities and familial values
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Demography (1979) 16 (3): 359–376.
Published: 01 August 1979
... of these attitudes, behaviors, and values has an impact on reproductive goals independent of their association with structural variables. The wife’s outside activities and exposure to modern influences through the mass media are especially important linkages, having a particularly strong mediating effect...
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The impact of origin community characteristics on rural–urban out-migration in a developing country
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 191–210.
Published: 01 May 1987
...Richard E. Bilsborrow; Thomas M. McDevitt; Sherrie Kossoudji; Richard Fuller Abstract It is widely believed that structural variables such as inequitable land distribution, lack of rural employment opportunities, and rural-urban wage and amenity gaps influence population movements in developing...
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Constraints to the fulfillment of residential preferences among Texas homebuyers
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 61–76.
Published: 01 February 1987
... and age of the homebuyer. Mismatch is most common among homebuyers preferring a suburban location, less so for those preferring nonmetropolitan residences, and lowest among people preferring central cities. Occupation as a social structural variable also affects homebuyers ’ chance of fulfilling...
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Knox meets Cox: Adapting epidemiological space-time statistics to demographic studies
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 629–650.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in demographic research and note some possible pitfalls. We demonstrate how to use familiar proportional hazards models to adapt the Knox test for demographic applications. These adaptations allow for nonrepeatable events and for the incorporation of structural variables that change in space and time. We apply...
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Family structure and children’s educational outcomes: Blended families, stylized facts, and descriptive regressions
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 671–696.
Published: 01 November 2004
... “stylized facts” (i.e., simple correlations) that control only for family structure to “descriptive regressions” that control for other variables such as family income. When controls for other variables are introduced, the relationship between family structure and children’s educational outcomes weakens...
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The dimensionality of the urban functional system
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 519–537.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Richard A. Wanner Abstract This paper suggests that the formulation and testing of hypotheses relating the functional role of cities in a society to other urban structure and process variables might be facilitated by substituting a continuous variable approach to the functional system...
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Economic structure and fertility: A comparative analysis
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 307–317.
Published: 01 August 1971
.... A model is presented that treats these three components of economic structure as intervening variables through which the exogenous variables, urbanization, industrialization, and education, operate in influencing the fertility level of a society. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America...
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Published: 09 June 2020
Fig. 2 The hierarchical structure of the main components in the population model. The data are shown in boxes, and the unknown variables in circles.
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Constraints, Satisfaction and Residential Mobility: Speare’s Model Reconsidered
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Demography (1985) 22 (2): 199–222.
Published: 01 May 1985
... of residence. Second, we look at whether or not either of the sets of structural variables significantly add to the predic- tion of thoughts about moving, over and above residential satisfaction. If indeed these variables only affect mobility in- tentions insofar as they affect satisfac- tion, their inclusion...
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Industrialization, family and fertility: A structural-psychological analysis of the Brazilian case
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 49–69.
Published: 01 February 1971
...Bemard C. Rosen; Alan B. Simmons Abstract This paper addresses itself to some linkages between macro-social structure (industrialization, social class), social psychological variables (husband-wife decision making), psychological variables (attitudes), and fertility. A total of 726 currently mated...
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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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Simplicity and Complexity in the Effects of Parental Structure on High School Graduation
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 701–717.
Published: 01 November 1993
.... I retained the disadvantaged black and Hispanic samples. The 253 respondents with missing data on the parental structure variables were excluded, as were 144 with missing data on the educational attainment variable. I also excluded 23 respondents who had moved out of their parents' household before...
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