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The determinants of migration between standard metropolitan statistical areas

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Michael J. Greenwood, Douglas Sweetland
Demography (1972) 9 (4): 665–681.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060673
Published: 01 November 1972
... both for the country as a whole and for individual SMSA’s. The “migration elasticities” estimated for individual SMSA’s are in turn used to test several additional hypotheses concerning migrant behavior. Other similar migration studies have found “wrong” signs or insignificant coefficients on certain...
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Cross-Section Studies As Predictors of Trends in Birth Rates: A Note on Ekanem’s Results

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Barbara S. Janowitz
Demography (1973) 10 (3): 479–481.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060853
Published: 01 August 1973
... Association of America 1973 1973 Capita Income Wrong Sign Economic Variable Socioeconomic Variable Socioeconomic Development References Ekanem , Ita I. ( 1972 ). A Further Note on the Relation Between Economic Development and Fertility . Demography , 9 , 383 – 398 . 10.2307...
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Erratum to: Entry into marriage and parenthood by young men and women

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Robert T. Michael, Nancy Brandon Tuma
Demography (1986) 23 (3): i.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061431
Published: 01 August 1986
... ofMarriage and Childbearing" ELWOOD CARLSON. Using the Melbourne Family Survey in Migration 469 Research: Reply to Santow ERRATUM In the November 1985 issue of Demography, an equation in Robert Michael and Nancy Tuma's article, "Entry into marriage and parenthood by young men and women," has a wrong sign...
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Erratum to: Mortality estimation from registered deaths in less developed countries

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Neil G. Bennett, Shiro Horiuchi
Demography (1984) 21 (4): 688.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03207887
Published: 01 November 1984
... of similarity of reported re- both to change signs and to become sults very reassuring. We find the differ- statistically significant in the wrong sign, ences interesting, but not unexpected whereas his insignificant coefficient on given that so many differences are evi- age is to be believed. We are certainly...
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Response to: “A comment on J. Akin et al., ‘The determinants of breastfeeding in Sri Lanka’”

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John S. Akin, David K. Guilkey, Barry M. Popkin
Demography (1984) 21 (4): 687–688.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060926
Published: 01 November 1984
...- both to change signs and to become sults very reassuring. We find the differ- statistically significant in the wrong sign, ences interesting, but not unexpected whereas his insignificant coefficient on given that so many differences are evi- age is to be believed. We are certainly dent...
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Comment on W. Whitney Hicks’ “economic development and fertility change in Mexico, 1950–1970”

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Daniel A. Seiver
Demography (1976) 13 (1): 149–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060427
Published: 01 February 1976
... the wrong sign. Our measures of income are quite different and perhaps account for the differing signs of the income coefficients. It is my belief that the demographic transition occurs in part Age Group 20-24 25-29 30-34 1960 1. 297 2.664 3.859 1970 1. 387 3.065 4.558 Percent Change +6.9 +15.1 +18.1...
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A comment on J. Akin et al., “The determinants Of breastfeeding in Sri Lanka”

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David P. Smith
Demography (1984) 21 (4): 683–686.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060925
Published: 01 November 1984
... of an interaction term; III the Akin et al. probit analysis age remains significant but carries the wrong sign. The effect is due to multicollinear- ity, and is repeated in many of the WFS country data sets. Among 28 countries 686 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 21, number 4, November 1984 Table 2.-Estimated Increment to Mean...
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Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor, and Spatial Aptitudes

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Michael Baker, Kirsten Cornelson
Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1749–1775.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0706-3
Published: 14 September 2018
... than the estimates for physical strength. In the multiple regression estimates, the “wrong signs” of the color variables are mostly rectified. Statistically significant relationships approaching the magnitude of the results for strength are observed for the noise and feeling variables. The next...
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Determinants of male labor mobility

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Donald E. Pursell
Demography (1972) 9 (2): 257–261.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060638
Published: 01 May 1972
... that relatively larger numbers of NE are associated with a greater mag- nitude of Mo. The WI variable has the wrong sign, but this can be dismissed be- cause the standard error is much larger than the regression coefficient. The re- sults suggest that M; is closely related to A.E and NE, and that Mo occurs...
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Race, intervening variables, and two components of low birth weight

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Jeffrey E. Kallan
Demography (1993) 30 (3): 489–506.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061653
Published: 01 August 1993
.... For the PRETERMlnormal contrast, neither variable is significant, although the odds ratio for smoking is moderately large (e·43 = 1.54). Prenatal care, however, has no effect on either outcome and the inadequate care category has the wrong sign. 10 For the IUGRInormal contrast, smoking is a significant predictor...
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Simultaneity bias in migration models: An empirical examination

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Michael J. Greenwood
Demography (1975) 12 (3): 519–536.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060833
Published: 01 August 1975
... actually changes from being sig- nificant and of the expected sign when beginning-of-period level variables are employed to being insignificant and of the "wrong" sign but higher in absolute value, when end-of-period variables are employed. Hence, twenty-one of twenty- four cases can be interpreted...
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A regression approach to estimating the average number of persons per household

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Stanley K. Smith, June Nogle, Scott Cody
Demography (2002) 39 (4): 697–712.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0040
Published: 01 November 2002
... regressions, this variable had the expected sign and was statistically significant; in others, it had the wrong sign or was statistically insignificant. Because none of these variables had much impact on PPH estimates, we excluded them from further analyses. 702 Demography, Volume 39-Number 4, November 2002...
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An empirical study of the effects of socioeconomic development on fertility rates

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Barbara S. Janowitz
Demography (1971) 8 (3): 319–330.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060620
Published: 01 August 1971
.... , Eliminating A, whose coefficient is not significant and has the wrong sign, we get (Y is left in the equation because of the importance attached to this vari- able in the literature) : (4') GRR = 3.96 - .OOO27Y (.00026) + .0066IL - .023E - A9XI (.0037) (.009) (.45) - .39X2 + .23Xa - 1.09X, - .72X, (4") GRR...
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Fertility Decline in Prussia: Estimating Influences on Supply, Demand, and Degree of Control

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Ronald D. Lee, Patrick R. Galloway, Eugene A. Hammel
Demography (1994) 31 (2): 347–373.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061889
Published: 01 May 1994
... based on Eq. (6) and including nine regional dummies, the coefficients for the M component are of the "wrong" sign in three out of four cases. Coefficients in the other subcomponents agree more closely with hypotheses, however. In the demand subequation (N only one of the 11 coefficients (Church) has...
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Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion?

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Nicole Schneeweis, Vegard Skirbekk, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Demography (2014) 51 (2): 619–643.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0281-1
Published: 28 February 2014
... with a higher likelihood of having a fixed bath in the accommodation, a higher likelihood of being relocated during the war, and experiencing a period of financial hardship. These associations are not found with the smaller sample 7. Furthermore, most significant coefficients have the “wrong” sign...
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Is the density-fertility relation a statistical artifact?: A reply to eric Jensen

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Glenn Firebaugh
Demography (1986) 23 (2): 285–289.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061623
Published: 01 May 1986
...Glenn Firebaugh Conclusion Is the density-fertility relation a statistical artifact? The answer, I conclude, is no. Like all empirical findings, the observed coefficients might misstate the true effects, so the density coefficient could be “wrong.” Moreover, the density coefficient does...
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The residential segregation of occupational groups in central cities and suburbs

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John Fine, Norval D. Glenn, J. Kenneth Monts
Demography (1971) 8 (1): 91–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060341
Published: 01 February 1971
... Mifflin . Wrong , D. H. ( 1967 ). Suburbs and myths of suburbia . In D. H. Wrong , & H. L. Gracey (Eds.), Readings in Introductory Sociology . New York : Macmillan . DEMOGRAPHY Volume 8, Number 1 February 1971 THE RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION OF OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS IN CENTRAL...
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Separating Scarring Effect and Selection of Early-Life Exposures With Genetic Data

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Shiro Furuya, Fengyi Zheng, Qiongshi Lu, Jason M. Fletcher
Demography (2024) 61 (2): 363–392.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11239766
Published: 01 April 2024
... of effects of exposures in the critical period because observed effects of exposures may be too large, may be too small, or may even take a wrong sign unless the selection issue is addressed. Although selection is an unignorable process that may affect interpretation of scientific findings in life course...
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Reply

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Paul A. David, Warren C. Sanderson
Demography (1990) 27 (1): 179–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061562
Published: 01 February 1990
... calculations that the two relatively staightforward CPA postulates result in a lower bound on the proportion ever controlling (20.6%) that is so much higher than the 8.4% derived from the index of dissimilarity.3 This is surely an indication of the value of CPA's demographic framework, not a sign...
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Hazard Versus Linear Probability Difference-in-Differences Estimators for Demographic Processes

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Lawrence L. Wu, Fangqi Wen
Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1911–1928.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10207604
Published: 01 October 2022
... and then declining, with d d l p ( h z ) wrong in sign immediately after treatment and at longer durations since treatment, but correct in sign in between. Panel b provides a more extreme example, with d d l p ( h z ) always negative and hence always wrong in sign...
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