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Demography (1985) 22 (1): 89–100.
Published: 01 February 1985
... AND VARIATION IN THE SEASONALITY OF U.S. FERTILITY, 1947-1976 Daniel A. Seiver Department of Economics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 (1) Seasonal variation in American births is one of the great demographic regulari- ties which has never been convincingly explained, and only occasionally docu- mented...
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 February 1986
... , 247 – 264 . 10.2307/2174938 Udry J. R. ( 1983 ). Do couples make fertility plans one birth at a time? . Demography , 20 , 117 – 128 . 10.2307/2061230 DEMOGRAPHY© Volume 23, Number 1 February 1986 COMMENT ON BARBARA DEVANEY'S "AN ANALYSIS OF VARIATIONS IN U.S. FERTILITY...
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 141–142.
Published: 01 February 1986
...Barbara L. Devaney 7 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1986 1986 Total Fertility Rate Relative Income Female Wage Female Earning Continuous Slippage DEMOGRAPHY© Volume 23, Number 1 February 1986 AN ANALYSIS OF VARIATIONS IN U.S. FERTILITY AND FEMALE LABOR FORCE...
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Demography (1990) 27 (3): 475–481.
Published: 01 August 1990
... University Press Westoff C. F , & Bumpass L. ( 1973 ). The Revolution in Birth Control Practices of U.S. Roman Catholics . Science , 179 , 41 – 44 . 10.1126/science.179.4068.41 Westoff C. F. , & Jones E. F. ( 1979 ). The End of Catholic Fertility . Demography...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 251–266.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Administrative Records for Fertility Estimation (CLAR-FE), permits both. It derives fertility histories and rate schedules from U.S. Census Bureau–held data for the nation and by state, racial and ethnic subgroups, and the important life course status of parity. We generate three types of rates for 2000–2020...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 193–207.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Lawrence L. Wu Abstract Historical trends in U.S. nonmarital fertility have been compiled almost exclusively from vital statistics on births. This paper complements this historical record by providing cohort estimates of nonmarital fertility for cohorts of U.S. women spanning approximately 50 years...
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 465–486.
Published: 01 November 1981
... Printing Office . Fecundity of Immigrant Women. Vol. 28 of Reports . ( 1911 ). Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office . van de Walle E. , & Knodel J. ( 1980 ). Europe’s Fertility Transition: New Evidence and Lessons for Today’s Developing World . Population Bulletin...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 523–533.
Published: 01 November 2000
... Educational Category Fertility Timing References Bachu, A. 1999. “Trends in Childlessness Among U.S. Women.” Presented at the 1999 meetings of the Population Association of America, March 25, New York. Bianchi , S.M. , & Spain , D. ( 1986 ). American Women in Transition . New York...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 101–124.
Published: 28 December 2011
...? . In S. Hofferth , & L. Casper (Eds.), Handbook of measurement issues in family research (pp. 325 – 334 ). Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates . Bachu A. ( 1996 ). Fertility of American men (Population Division Working Paper No. 14) . Washington, DC : U.S. Census...
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 237–245.
Published: 01 May 2000
...). For the past few decades, many cohabitation studies have referred to increases in the prevalence of cohabitation R *Lynne M. Casper, Fertility and Family Statistics Branch, U.S. Census Bureau, and Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 605–620.
Published: 01 November 2003
... in overall fertility beginning at or before the turn of the nineteenth century, the new estimates suggest that U.S. fertility did not begin its secular decline until circa 1840. Moreover, new estimates of white marital fertility, based on “own-children” methods, suggest that the decline in marital fertility...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 553–568.
Published: 01 August 2006
... life course under the specified pattern of transfer rates. The two living state case and hierarchical multistate models with any number of living states are analyzed in detail. Applying our approach to 1997 U.S. fertility data, we find that observed rates of parity progression are roughly proportional...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1821–1841.
Published: 15 October 2014
...Alice Goisis; Wendy Sigle-Rushton Abstract Over the past several decades, U.S. fertility has followed a trend toward the postponement of motherhood. The socioeconomic causes and consequences of this trend have been the focus of attention in the demographic literature. Given the socioeconomic...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 May 1998
... provid- ers for about one out ofevery seven children (Lueck, Orr, and O'Connell 1982). Comparable levels of fathers' care have since been documented using data from the Current Popula- tion Surveys of the 1970s and 1980s (O'Connell and Rogers 'Lynne M. Casper and Martin O'Connell, Fertility and Family...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 103–127.
Published: 13 December 2018
... to generate key benchmarks for a national sample, present subpopulation estimates, and describe the sample of adults with children by multiple partners. Multiple-partner fertility SIPP MPF Based on new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, roughly 1 of every 10 adults in the United States experiences...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 877–894.
Published: 01 June 2022
... violations of the constant proportional fertility assumption, the calculated values deviate from the observed values by an average of only 7–8%. Short-term projections suggest that U.S. cohort fertility will continue to decline. The consistency of results in the linear case between the Ryder...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 801–819.
Published: 01 November 2004
.... , & Potter R.G. ( 1983 ). Fertility, Biology, and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants . New York : Academic Press . Butz W.P. , & Ward M.P. ( 1979 ). Will U.S. Fertility Remain Low? A New Economic Interpretation . Population and Development Review , 5 , 663 – 88...
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 455–479.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Ronald Demos Lee Abstract This paper develops a stock adjustment model relating total expected births to conventional aggregate fertility rates for married women over 25. Each year, cohorts bear about 20 percent of their additional expected births. Aggregate U.S. rates have been consistent...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2035–2045.
Published: 09 November 2020
...Caroline Sten Hartnett; Alison Gemmill Abstract The U.S. period total fertility rate has declined steadily since the Great Recession, reaching 1.73 children in 2018, the lowest level since the 1970s. This pattern could mean that current childbearing cohorts will end up with fewer children than...
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Demography (1990) 27 (4): 639–652.
Published: 01 November 1990
... Accurate Are the US Bureau of the Census Projections of Total Live Births? . Journal of Forecasting , 1 , 365 – 374 . 10.1002/for.3980010404 Ahlburg , D. A. ( 1983 ). Good Times, Bad Times: A Study of the Future Path of U.S. Fertility . Social Biology , 30 , 1723 – 1723 . Ahlburg...
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