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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 769–795.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Heidi West; Angubeen Khan; Abdur Razzaque; Randall Kuhn Abstract Labor migration has a profound effect on families, but evidence documenting the impact of migration on women left behind is still lacking. Utilizing the Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Surveys, we examined the roles of migration...
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in Migration, Gender, and Families: The Effects of Spousal Migration on Women's Empowerment
> Demography
Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 2 Women's empowerment by spousal migration, remittances, and spousal contact. Sources: MHSS1 (1996–1997) and MHSS2 (2012–2014). p values indicate the significance of t test statistics: * p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001.
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 201–213.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Paul Boyle; Thomas J. Cooke; Keith Halfacree; Darren Smith Abstract In this paper we consider the effects of family migration on women’s employment status, using census microdata from Great Britain and the United States. We test a simple hypothesis that families tend to move long distances in favor...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1029–1048.
Published: 21 June 2011
... for by an increased birth rate upon cessation of migration. An analysis of women’s lifetime fertility shows that it decreases as the time spent in migration by their husbands accrues. When we compare reproductive intentions stated by respondents with migrant and nonmigrant husbands, we find that migrants’ wives...
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in Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration From a Gendered Lens
> Demography
Published: 03 September 2019
Fig. 1 Predicted probabilities of only women migrating and only men migrating for beneficiary and nonbeneficiary households
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 347–372.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Emilio A. Parrado; Chenoa A. Flippen; Chris McQuiston Abstract Our study drew on original data collected in Durham, NC, and four sending communities in Mexico to examine differences in women’s relationship power that are associated with migration and residence in the United States. We analyzed...
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 133–157.
Published: 01 February 1994
...Nancy S. Landale Abstract This study examines the transition to first union among Puerto Rican women. I argue that understanding the behavior of mainland Puerto Ricans requires attention to family patterns in Puerto Rico and to the dynamics of migration between Puerto Rico and the United States...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 707–729.
Published: 01 April 2022
... migration, net of other factors such as adaptation and selection. For all ages at migration from one to 20, female forced migrants had lower levels of completed fertility than similar women born in present-day Finland, which suggests a permanent impact of migration. However, women born in the same year...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 429–442.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Nancy S. Landale; Susan M. Hauan Abstract This paper examines the relationship between migration and premarital childbearing in a highly migratory Latino subgroup, Puerto Rican women. Using pooled origin-destination data from surveys conducted in Puerto Rico and in the New York metropolitan area...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 971–991.
Published: 18 January 2013
...Steven Raphael Abstract This article assesses whether international migration from Mexico affects the marital, fertility, schooling, and employment outcomes of the Mexican women who remain behind by exploiting variation over time as well as across Mexican states in the demographic imbalance between...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 935–961.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Guy Stecklov; Calogero Carletto; Carlo Azzarri; Benjamin Davis Abstract This article examines the dynamics and causes of the shift in the gender composition of migration, and more particularly, in women’s access to migration opportunities and decision-making. Our analysis focuses on Albania...
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“Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration From a Gendered Lens”: Comment
Demography (2021) 58 (1): 379–381.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Oded Stark Abstract In a recent article, “Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration From a Gendered Lens,” Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1573–1605.
Published: 03 September 2019
...Fig. 1 Predicted probabilities of only women migrating and only men migrating for beneficiary and nonbeneficiary households ...
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in How High is Hispanic/Mexican Fertility in the United States? Immigration and Tempo Considerations
> Demography
Published: 22 June 2011
Fig. 5 Fertility rates for Hispanic women before and after migration, by age cohort. Data are from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2002
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in Spatial and Social Distance at the Onset of the Fertility Transition: Sweden, 1880–1900
> Demography
Published: 17 January 2019
Fig. 2 Lifetime net migration pattern by socioeconomic status (women aged 15–54). For individuals born in Sweden, migration is measured by calculating the spherical distances between the parish of birth and the parish of residence. Sources: Swedish National Archives et al. ( 2011a , 2011b
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 383–391.
Published: 01 February 2021
... paper, I argued that conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are gendered in their program conditions in ways that promote a normative gendered division of labor and that constrain beneficiary women from migrating. I note here that Stark's primary issue with this point appears to be his contention that CCTs...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 989–1015.
Published: 08 May 2015
...Rochelle R. Côté; Jessica Eva Jensen; Louise Marie Roth; Sandra M. Way Abstract This article contributes to understandings of gendered social capital by analyzing the effects of gendered ties on the migration of men and women from four Latin American countries (Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 569–593.
Published: 01 April 2024
... can be attributed to selection into migration and return, although significant gaps persist among women with similar socioeconomic characteristics. Our findings highlight three key observations. First, when migrants return before beginning childbearing, their transition to motherhood closely resembles...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1059–1080.
Published: 22 June 2011
...Fig. 5 Fertility rates for Hispanic women before and after migration, by age cohort. Data are from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2002 ...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 197–217.
Published: 23 November 2011
... of job-related moves that we find are reduced substantially in the fixed-effects models, indicating strong selection effects. Married women who moved for family reasons experience significant and substantial earnings declines. Consistent with conventional models of migration, we find that household...
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