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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1251–1270.
Published: 06 June 2014
... the Health and Retirement Study, we analyze whether time-allocation decisions reflect a conflict between time devoted to informal care and time devoted to self-health promotion through physical activity. The empirical model is a system of four correlated equations, wherein the dependent variables are hours...
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S173–S190.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Daniella J. Perlroth; Dana P. Goldman; Alan M. Garber Abstract Comparative effectiveness research (CER) has the potential to slow health care spending growth by focusing resources on health interventions that provide the most value. In this article, we discuss issues surrounding CER and its...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 605–625.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Lei Jin; Nicholas A. Chrisatakis Abstract While it is well known that the widowed suffer increased mortality risks, the mechanism of this survival disadvantage is still under investigation. In this article, we examine the quality of health care as a possible link between widowhood and mortality...
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 309–335.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Christopher A. Swann; Michelle Sheran Sylvester Abstract Foster care caseloads more than doubled from 1985 to 2000. This article provides the first comprehensive study of this growth by relating state-level foster care caseloads to state-specific characteristics and policies. We present evidence...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 67–78.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Shelah S. Bloom; David Wypij; Monica Das Gupta Abstract The dimensions of women’s autonomy and their relationship to maternal health care utilization were investigated in a probability sample of 300 women in Varanasi, India. We examined the determinants of women’s autonomy in three areas: control...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 299–316.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Rachel A. Gordon; P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Abstract Lack of high-quality, affordable, and accessible child care is an often-cited impediment to a manageable balance between work and family. Researchers, however, have been restricted by a scarcity of data on the availability of child care across...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 165–179.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Marcia K. Meyers; Theresa Heintze; Douglas A. Wolf Abstract Changing patterns of maternal employment, coupled with stronger work requirements for welfare recipients, are increasing the demand for child care. For many families, the cost of child care creates a financial burden; for mothers with low...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 139–164.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Charles L. Baum, II Abstract Child care costs reduce the net benefit of working and consequently influence mothers’ decisions to work. They affect the employment of low-income mothers in particular because they represent a larger portion of these mothers’ earnings. I used a hazard framework...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 75–93.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Saifuddin Ahmed; W. Henry Mosley Abstract This study examined the relationship between the use of maternal-child health (MCH) care and the use of contraceptives. The high correlation between the two may be due to the independent effect of one on the other or to an association of both with the same...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 651–662.
Published: 01 November 1994
... child care considerations and fertility decision making among Bangkok women. Although the two-child family has become the norm in recent years, and although most respondents said that ideally they would like to have two children, a high proportion of women surveyed said they planned to only have one...
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 February 1995
... should account for potential increases in caregiving demand due to the aging of the U.S. population. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1995 1995 Labor Supply Labor Force Participation Informal Care Informal Caregiving Female Labor Supply References Auster R...
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 523–543.
Published: 01 November 1992
...Karen Oppenheim Mason; Karen Kuhlthau Abstract In a sample of Detroit-area mothers of preschool-aged children interviewed in 1986, one-third reported that child care problems had constrained their employment. Such reports were relatively prevalent among poor women. those without relatives nearby...
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 17–29.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Rachel Connelly Abstract This paper considers self-employment and providing child care as occupational strategies that can lower the cost of child care. If the ability to care for one’s own children while engaged in market work is important to mothers with young children, we predict that women...
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 333–351.
Published: 01 August 1991
...David M. Blau; Philip K. Robins Abstract This paper uses panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to analyze jointly fertility, employment, and child care decisions of young women over time. As these young women age (from 21 to 25 years on average) they become increasingly...
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Demography (1983) 20 (1): 27–43.
Published: 01 February 1983
... care have independent cross-national effects on cause of death structures and that these effects are not uniform across the age intervals of interest. As improvements occur in level of living and heath care, age-specific death rates decline except at the oldest ages, at which point they may increase...
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Demography (1982) 19 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 August 1982
.... Demographic factors do not account for the effects of variations in parental ability or willingness to provide adequate infant care. The final model estimated incorporated both these social dimensions of child care. Parental ability, measured by father’s social class, mother’s health information, and local...
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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 499–513.
Published: 01 November 1985
...Evelyn L. Lehrer; Seiichi Kawasaki Abstract The determinants of child care arrangements and relations between child care and fertility are examined using data on two-earner households from the 1976 National Survey of Family Growth. We find that the probability of relying on market arrangements...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 287–299.
Published: 01 May 1989
...David M. Blau; Philip K. Robins Abstract A sample of labor-market and birth histories is used to estimate the effects of child-care costs on employment and fertility decisions. A reduced-form empirical analysis is performed, which is based on hazard functions for transitions among various fertility...
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 523–543.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Harriet B. Presser 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1989 1989 Child Care Work Schedule Parental Leave Married Mother Unmarried Mother References Ambry , M. ( 1988 ). At home in the office . American Demographics , 10 , 30 – 33 . Belsky...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Theodore J. Joyce; Michael Grossman Abstract The study examines the impact of the wantedness of a pregnancy on the demand for early prenatal care. Using a cohort of pregnant women in New YorkCity, we estimate a prenatal care demand function in which we control for the probability of giving birth...