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The demography of the unrelated individual: 1900–1950

Steven Ruggles
Demography (1988) 25 (4): 521–536.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061319
Published: 01 November 1988
...Steven Ruggles Abstract This article is an analysis of the frequency and characteristics of unrelated individuals between 1900 and 1950. The much-heralded rise of the primary individual during the 20th century has been offset by a decline in the frequency of secondary individuals. The overall...
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Women’s status and domestic violence in rural Bangladesh: Individual- and community-level effects

Michael A. Koenig, Saifuddin Ahmed, Mian Bazle Hossain, A. B. M. Khorshed Alam Mozumder
Demography (2003) 40 (2): 269–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0014
Published: 01 May 2003
... elevated risks of violence, and community-level variables were unrelated to violence. In the less culturally conservative area, in contrast, individual-level women’s status indicators were unrelated to the risk of violence, and community-level measures of women’s status were associated with significantly...
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The level and trend of poverty in the United States, 1939–1979

Christine Ross, Sheldon Danziger, Eugene Smolensky
Demography (1987) 24 (4): 587–600.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061394
Published: 01 November 1987
...Christine Ross; Sheldon Danziger; Eugene Smolensky 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Poverty Line Household Head Poverty Rate Current Population Survey Unrelated Individual References Bowen , W. G. , &amp; Finegan , T. A. ( 1969...
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Privacy, poverty, and old age

John C. Beresford, Alice M. Rivlin
Demography (1966) 3 (1): 247–258.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060076
Published: 01 March 1966
... time. Steiner and Dorfman related the living arrangements of aged couples and unrelated individuals to their incomes in 1951.14 They found aged couples and unrelated males somewhat more likely to be sharing a dwelling unit with relatives (either as heads of families or as parents or other relatives...
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Demographic Change, Rising Earnings Inequality, and the Distribution of Personal Well-Being, 1959–1989

Lynn A. Karoly, Gary Burtless
Demography (1995) 32 (3): 379–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061687
Published: 01 August 1995
... are the poverty rate and the Gini coefficient of family income. The poverty rate is measured by determining the number of persons who are unrelated individuals or members of families with cash incomes below the official poverty thresholds. These thresholds in tum are estimates of the incomes necessary...
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Investigating the Structure of Son Bias in Armenia With Novel Measures of Individual Preferences

Matthias Schief, Sonja Vogt, Charles Efferson
Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1737–1764.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9429479
Published: 01 October 2021
... at the level of the individual decision-maker. We find that men are, on average, considerably more son-biased than women. We also show that regional differences in son bias exist and that they appear unrelated to the socioeconomic composition of the population. Finally, we estimate the degree of spousal...
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Public assistance receipt among immigrants and natives: How the unit of analysis affects research findings

Jennifer Van Hook, Jennifer E. Glick, Frank D. Bean
Demography (1999) 36 (1): 111–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648137
Published: 01 February 1999
... be based on the resources of the house- hold, the family, or the individual (or some other sub- household or subfamily unit). In the United States, the basis for the measurement of poverty (i.e., the unit of analysis) is the family and the unrelated individual. Independent of the unit of analysis, the unit...
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The fall in household size and the rise of the primary individual in the United States

Frances E. Kobrin
Demography (1976) 13 (1): 127–138.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060425
Published: 01 February 1976
... in household size is viewed as largely the result of the decline in fertility, and the removal from the household of unrelated individuals such as boarders, lodgers, and servants. However, if the term "ex- tension" is defined to mean the ordinary inclusion in families of adults who are not currently married...
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The Effects of Education on Mortality: Evidence From Linked U.S. Census and Administrative Mortality Data

Andrew Halpern-Manners, Jonas Helgertz, John Robert Warren, Evan Roberts
Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1513–1541.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00892-6
Published: 21 July 2020
... sense heritability of age at death for members of this cohort was approximately 1.5 × ( r twins – r siblings ) = 1.5 × (0.21 – 0.12) = 0.14. We reiterate that this is a rough estimate. 6 Fixed-effects models for pairs of unrelated individuals will produce point estimates (but not variance...
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Why poverty remains high: The role of income growth, economic inequality, and changes in family structure, 1949–1999

John Iceland
Demography (2003) 40 (3): 499–519.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0025
Published: 01 August 2003
... and Urban Development. 1. It should be noted that although a family in U.S. Census Bureau publications refers specifically to a unit with two or more people related by blood, adoption, or marriage, the poverty unit of measurement also includes single unrelated individuals. Even though these individuals...
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Sources of age and date-of-birth misreporting in the 1900 U.S. census

Karen Oppenheim Mason, Lisa G. Cope
Demography (1987) 24 (4): 563–573.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061392
Published: 01 November 1987
... reflects greater ignorance about age among certain social groups than among others or among those reporting the ages of other household members to the census taker (especially the ages of unrelated individuals living in family households). Ignorance about age may also produce the digital preference...
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The Effect of Unemployment on Household Composition and Doubling Up

Emily E. Wiemers
Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2155–2178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0347-0
Published: 25 November 2014
... and others of whom live with young adult children. Table 1 Characteristics of individuals in doubled-up households % Doubled-Up % Three-Generation % Adult Children % Unrelated % Related Age  25–34 29.25 5.48 11.38 6.46 5.21  35–44 16.85 4.68 4.86 3.43 3.58  45–54...
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How well can we track cohabitation using the sipp? A consideration of direct and inferred measures

Reagan Baughman, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Scott Houser
Demography (2002) 39 (3): 455–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0024
Published: 01 August 2002
... person. The Census Bureau version of an Adjusted POSSLQ also stipulates that both unrelated individuals be age 18 or older in order to eliminate single parents living with foster children. We do not make this restriction because foster children are explicitly identified in the 1996 SIPP data...
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Comment on “the age of extremes: Concentrated affluence and poverty in the twenty-first century”

Sheldon Danziger
Demography (1996) 33 (4): 413–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061774
Published: 01 November 1996
... includes unrelated individuals and varies by family size: An unrelated individual in 1990 was rich if her income exceeded about $47,000; a couple, if their income exceeded about $62,000; a family of four, about $94,000.3 Between 1949 and 1969, real earnings and incomes grew rapidly, "a rising tide lifted...
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Is the Gene-Environment Interaction Paradigm Relevant to Genome-Wide Studies? The Case of Education and Body Mass Index

Jason D. Boardman, Benjamin W. Domingue, Casey L. Blalock, Brett C. Haberstick, Kathleen Mullan Harris ...
Demography (2014) 51 (1): 119–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0259-4
Published: 27 November 2013
... to characterize genetic similarity between each unique pair of unrelated observations in a study. Like quantitative genetic models that rely on assumed genetic relationships among related individuals, new methods rely on measured genetic similarity among unrelated individuals to decompose phenotypic variance...
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Father Absence and Accelerated Reproductive Development in Non-Hispanic White Women in the United States

Lauren Gaydosh, Daniel W. Belsky, Benjamin W. Domingue, Jason D. Boardman, Kathleen Mullan Harris
Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1245–1267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0696-1
Published: 05 July 2018
... a subsample of unrelated individuals. Add Health includes a sibling sample, and we use this sample to repeat polygenic score analyses within a design that excludes potential confounding by population stratification. We test genetic associations using sister fixed-effects models, restricting again...
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How does POSSLQ measure up? Historical estimates of cohabitation

Lynne M. Casper, Philip N. Cohen
Demography (2000) 37 (2): 237–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648125
Published: 01 May 2000
... age 25 to 29: 4 percentage points. individual in group quarters, and not related to or a foster child of the reference person; and (3) no other adults (age 15+) except foster children, children or other relatives of the reference person, or children of unrelated subfamilies. This definition still...
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Interdependencies in Mothers’ and Daughters’ Work-Family Life Course Trajectories: Similar but Different?

Sergi Vidal, Philipp M. Lersch, Marita Jacob, Karsten Hank
Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1483–1511.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00899-z
Published: 11 August 2020
... arithmetic means of within-dyad similarities for the comparisons. On average, if individuals within families (i.e., related mother-daughter dyads) are more similar to each other than two unrelated individuals of each generation (i.e., unrelated mother-daughter dyads), this will be evidence of persistence...
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Changing living arrangements: A hazard model of transitions among household types

Toni Richards, Michael J. White, Amy Ong Tsui
Demography (1987) 24 (1): 77–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061509
Published: 01 February 1987
... from year to year, even ifthey split off from the stern family. In the PSID every survey wave eolleets information about eaeh respondent's eharaeteristies and usually those of his or her eoresidents, so it is possible to determine the type ofhousehold an individuallives in at eaeh point in time...
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From Child to Parent? The Significance of Children’s Education for Their Parents’ Longevity

Jenny Torssander
Demography (2013) 50 (2): 637–659.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0155-3
Published: 02 October 2012
... therefore form a better comparison group (i.e., have more in common) than unrelated individuals. Hence, the results from the sibling models will to some extent help to distinguish between what “runs in the family” and what is actually an effect of children’s educational level. The study is based...
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