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Gender, Turning Points, and Boomerangs: Returning Home in Young Adulthood in Great Britain

Juliet Stone, Ann Berrington, Jane Falkingham
Demography (2014) 51 (1): 257–276.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0247-8
Published: 02 November 2013
...–2008) and situate returning home in the context of other life-course transitions. We demonstrate how turning points in an individual’s life course—such as leaving full-time education, unemployment, or partnership dissolution—are key determinants of returning home. An increasingly unpredictable labor...
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Life Shocks and Crime: A Test of the “Turning Point” Hypothesis

Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy E. Reichman, Ofira Schwartz-Soicher
Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1177–1202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0042-3
Published: 10 June 2011
... the “turning point” hypothesis. 16 5 2011 10 6 2011 © Population Association of America 2011 2011 Crime Incarceration Turning points Child health Criminal activity is costly to both individuals and society. In the United States, crime resulted in a total loss of almost $16...
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Data plots of the inversion point for female, adjusted, and male total fertility rates in relation to model selection and selected variables.

The sensitivity of the turning point in relation to the model selection and...

in Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States > Demography
Published: 01 December 2024
Fig. 3 The sensitivity of the turning point in relation to the model selection and the selected variables. Shaded areas indicate the observed value range over the entire observation period. “No J-Shape” on a line indicates that the relationship was concave instead of convex. The numbers More
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Changes in Couples' Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality

Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Christine R. Schwartz, Kelly Musick
Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1093–1117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9160055
Published: 01 June 2021
... and spouses' division of paid work have played a more important role. We expand this work to consider the critical turning point of parenthood in shaping couples' division of employment and earnings. Drawing on three U.S. nationally representative surveys, we examine the role of parenthood in spouses...
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The Role of Suburbanization in Metropolitan Segregation After 1940

John R. Logan, Samuel Kye, H. Jacob Carlson, Elisabeta Minca, Daniel Schleith
Demography (2023) 60 (1): 281–301.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10430012
Published: 01 February 2023
...John R. Logan; Samuel Kye; H. Jacob Carlson; Elisabeta Minca; Daniel Schleith Abstract The three decades from 1940 through 1970 mark a turning point in the spatial scale of Black–White residential segregation in the United States compared with earlier years. We decompose metropolitan segregation...
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The Mechanism Underlying Change in the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy at Birth: An Extended Decomposition

Qi Cui, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Heather Booth
Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2307–2321.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00832-z
Published: 20 November 2019
... changes over time. Industrialized countries have experienced similar trends in the sex gap in life expectancy at birth. For most countries, the sex gap widened after 1950 but has more recently narrowed, although the timing of the turning point varies considerably (Glei and Horiuchi 2007 ). Methods...
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Models

Nathan Keyfitz
Demography (1971) 8 (4): 571–580.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060692
Published: 01 November 1971
... population could and other national agencies, as well as be gained during a long period ending the United Nations, based on alternative in the 1930's. Since then we have had to sets of assumptions, appear conspicu- live with turning points. To forecast a ously among official statistics-for ex- turning point...
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Revisiting the J-Shape: Human Development and Fertility in the United States

Henrik-Alexander Schubert, Christian Dudel, Marina Kolobova, Mikko Myrskylä
Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1949–1973.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11680156
Published: 01 December 2024
...Fig. 3 The sensitivity of the turning point in relation to the model selection and the selected variables. Shaded areas indicate the observed value range over the entire observation period. “No J-Shape” on a line indicates that the relationship was concave instead of convex. The numbers...
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Mortality level, desired family size, and population increase: Comment

Susan Hill Cochrane
Demography (1971) 8 (4): 537–540.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060689
Published: 01 November 1971
... the turning point at which parents decide to forgo an additional pregnancy this cost-benefit approach is more useful. The turning point occurs when the costs out- weigh the benefits. However, it is im- portant to remember that all the costs and benefits are not financial in nature. Obviously, there exists...
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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”

Mark R. Rosenzweig, Daniel A. Seiver
Demography (1975) 12 (4): 665–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060722
Published: 01 November 1975
... by different sets of variables at different parities" (p. 51) as the effects of all the socioeconomic variables are important at both high and low parities. What is interesting is the sign reversals of the three socioeconomic variables, but no evidence of a threshold can be seen. The parity turning points...
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Race, military service, and marital timing: Evidence from the NLSY-79

Jay Teachman
Demography (2007) 44 (2): 389–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2007.0018
Published: 01 May 2007
... , 7 , 261 – 309 . Daula , T. , Smith , D.A. , &amp; Nord , R. ( 1990 ). Inequality in the Military: Fact or Fiction . American Sociological Review , 55 , 714 – 18 . 10.2307/2095866 Elder , G.H. ( 1986 ). Military Times and Turning Points in Men’s Lives...
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Parental imprisonment, the prison boom, and the concentration of childhood disadvantage

Christopher Wildeman
Demography (2009) 46 (2): 265–280.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0052
Published: 01 May 2009
... in the Shadow of the Prison . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Edin K. , Nelson T.J. , &amp; Paranal R. ( 2004 ). Fatherhood and Incarceration as Potential Turning Points in the Criminal Careers of Unskilled Men . In M. Patillo , D.F. Weiman , &amp; B. Western (Eds...
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Long swings in U.S. demographic and economic growth: Some findings on the historical pattern

Richard A. Easterlin
Demography (1965) 2 (1): 490–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060134
Published: 01 March 1965
... per year) ings for population and labor force are based on the decennial population cen- suses of 1870 to 1950. The timing of the censuses during this period occurred suf- ficiently close to turning points in the demographic swings to permit use of this valuable detailed source. This is illus- trated...
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Temporary Integration, Resilient Inequality: Race and Neighborhood Change in the Transition to Adulthood

Patrick Sharkey
Demography (2012) 49 (3): 889–912.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0105-0
Published: 09 May 2012
... lines: From public housing to white suburbia . Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press . Rumbaut R. G. ( 2005 ). Turning points in the transition to adulthood: Determinants of educational attainment, incarceration, and early childbearing among children of immigrants . Ethnic...
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Research Note: Demographic Change on the United States Coast, 2020–2100

Mathew E. Hauer, R. Kyle Saunders, Daniel Shtob
Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1221–1232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10127418
Published: 01 August 2022
.... , &amp; Armstrong D. M. ( 2018 ). Demographic turning points for the United States: Population projections for 2020 to 2060 (Current Population Reports, No. P25-1144). Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Census Bureau . Welch B. L. ( 1947...
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Young Women’s Transition to Marriage

Linda J. Waite, Glenna D. Spine
Demography (1981) 18 (4): 681–694.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060955
Published: 01 November 1981
... of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia. Modell John , Furstenberg F. F. , &amp; Strong D. ( 1978 ). The Timingof Marriage in the Transition to Adulthood: Continuity and Change, 1860-1975 . In J. Demos , &amp; S. S. Boocock (Eds.), Turning Points (pp. S120 – 50...
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Proximate sources of population sex imbalance in india

Emily Oster
Demography (2009) 46 (2): 325–339.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0055
Published: 01 May 2009
... in India . American Sociological Review , 58 , 247 – 65 . 10.2307/2095969 Klasen S. ( 1994 ). ‘Missing Women’ Reconsidered . World Development , 22 , 1061 – 71 . 10.1016/0305-750X(94)90148-1 Klasen S. , &amp; Wink C. ( 2002 ). A Turning Point in Gender Bias...
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The impact of state-level restrictions on abortion

Kenneth J. Meier, Donald P. Haider-Markel, Anthony J. Stanislawski, Deborah R. McFarlane
Demography (1996) 33 (3): 307–312.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061763
Published: 01 August 1996
... and Women s Health: A Turning Point for America? New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute. Gold, R.B. and D. Daley. 1991. "Public Funding of Contraceptive, Sterilization, and Abortion Services, Fiscal Year 1990." Family Planning Perspectives 23:204-11. Gold, R.B. and S. Guardado. 1988. "Public Funding...
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A Quiescent Phase in Human Mortality? Exploring the Ages of Least Vulnerability

Michal Engelman, Christopher L. Seplaki, Ravi Varadhan
Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0569-z
Published: 10 April 2017
... , S. J. , &amp; Carnes , B. A. ( 1997 ). Ever since Gompertz . Demography , 34 , 1 – 15 . 10.2307/2061656 . Ouellette , N. , Barbieri , M. , &amp; Wilmoth , J. R. ( 2014 ). Period-based mortality change: Turning points in trends since 1950 . Population and Development...
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Population forecasting standards: Some consideralions concerning their necessity and content

Donald B. Pittenger
Demography (1977) 14 (3): 363–368.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060792
Published: 01 August 1977
... to wholes in terms of component change. Key turning points or levels attained in population size or component change rates and the dates when they are to occur may also be specified. (Examples of sce- narios may be found in Keyfitz, 1972, p. 354, and in Pittenger, 1976, pp. 225-226.) Finally...
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