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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 82–97.
Published: 01 February 1996
...Leslie A. Whittington; H. Elizabeth Peters Abstract In this paper we examine the impact of the resources of children and of their parents on the children’s transition to residential and financial independence. Previous studies of this transition focused primarily on the impact of family structure...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 253–265.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Elizabeth Frankenberg; Duncan Thomas Abstract We use data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to investigate the impact of a major expansion in access to midwifery services on health and pregnancy outcomes for women of reproductive age. Between 1990 and 1998 Indonesia trained some 50,000 midwives...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 719–735.
Published: 01 November 1993
...H. Elizabeth Peters; Laura M. Argys; Eleanor E. Maccoby; Robert H. Mnookin Abstract This paper uses an implicit contracting framework to understand the dynamic nature of divorce settlements and to analyze the determinants of noncompliance with child support awards. In addition to the standard...
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 81–96.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Elizabeth Thomson; Yvonne Brandreth Abstract We propose a multidimensional conceptualization of fertility demand and evaluate potential measures of each dimension, using data from a telephone survey of Wisconsin residents age 18-34. Most of the measures met tests for interval-level measurement; all...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 227–241.
Published: 01 May 1993
...Elizabeth Phillips; Irwin Garfinkel Abstract This study examines the changes over time in the personal incomes of nonresident fathers—whether divorced or nonmarital—in Wisconsin. Using data from the Wisconsin Court Record data base and the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, the authors examine...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 477–488.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Elizabeth Zenger Abstract This paper studies the familial association of neonatal mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh and its relationship to birth-spacing effects on mortality. Findings show that familial association is strongest for siblings of adjacent birth orders. Moreover, birth-spacing effects...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 53–70.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Elizabeth Hervey Stephen; Ronald R. Rindfuss; Frank D. Bean Abstract Previous research has failed to generate consensus about why black fertility has persistently exceeded that of whites in the United States. In an effort to shed light on this question, this article examines black/white differences...
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Demography (1985) 22 (1): 115–123.
Published: 01 February 1985
...Richard Williams; Elizabeth Thomson Abstract This paper examines biases that may occur when models of couple behavior are estimated using one partner’s report of own and of spouse’s desired family size rather than independent reports obtained from both partners. When estimates of random measurement...
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Demography (1983) 20 (4): 507–518.
Published: 01 November 1983
...Elizabeth Thomson Abstract Models specifying the utility of another child as either a couple or an individual experience and incorporating variations in the measurement properties of responses about child utility and expectations are estimated with data from the U.S. Value of Children survey. Full...
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 207–218.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Elizabeth C. Cooksey Abstract This article examines the effect of family background factors on first premarital pregnancy resolution for adolescents in the United States. Teenage fertility constitutes a sizable percentage of total fertility, and each outcome has a potentially different type...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 15–35.
Published: 01 February 1989
...John B. Casterline; Elizabeth C. Cooksey; Abdel Fattah E. Ismail Abstract This article uses household-level economic and fertility survey data to examine the relationship between household income and child survival in Egypt. Income has little effect on infant mortality but is inversely related...
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Demography (1990) 27 (4): 579–588.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Elizabeth Thomson; Elaine McDonald; Larry L. Bumpass Abstract The relationship between desired and achieved fertility may be misspecified by excluding husbands’ fertility desires or by confounding effects of shared desires with the resolution of conflicting desires. Using couple data from...
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 17–33.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Gray Swicegood; Frank D. Bean; Elizabeth Hervey Stephen; Wolfgang Opitz Abstract This article examines the effects of English proficiency and female education on cumulative and recent fertility within the Mexican-origin population in the U.S. To ascertain whether the cultural or the human capital...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 109–129.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Elizabeth Frankenberg; Douglas McKee; Duncan Thomas Abstract We combined data from a population-based longitudinal survey with satellite measures of aerosol levels to assess the impact of smoke from forest fires that blanketed the Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra in late 1997 on adult...
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 151–171.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Elizabeth Fussell; Douglas S. Massey Abstract We present theoretical arguments and empirical research to suggest that the principal mechanisms of cumulative causation do not function in large urban settings. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project, we found evidence of cumulative causation...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 385–415.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Alberto Palloni; Elizabeth Arias Abstract We tested three competing hypotheses regarding the adult “Hispanic mortality paradox”: data artifact, migration, and cultural or social buffering effects. On the basis of a series of parametric hazard models estimated on nine years of mortality follow-up...
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 399–414.
Published: 01 August 1972
...Elizabeth Murphy Whelan Abstract An investigation into the timing of first births in relationship to the date of marriage in Massachusetts confirmed the finding of previous national and local birth timing studies that first births likely to have been conceived before the marriage of their parents...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1251–1275.
Published: 10 July 2017
...Robert L. Wagmiller, Jr.; Elizabeth Gage-Bouchard; Amelia Karraker Abstract Studies of racial residential segregation have found that black-white segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas has declined slowly but steadily since the early 1970s. As of this writing, black-white residential segregation...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1277–1304.
Published: 05 July 2017
...Amy Spring; Elizabeth Ackert; Kyle Crowder; Scott J. South Abstract A growing body of research has examined how family dynamics shape residential mobility, highlighting the social—as opposed to economic—drivers of mobility. However, few studies have examined kin ties as both push and pull factors...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 367–390.
Published: 28 November 2018
...Bruce Bradbury; Jane Waldfogel; Elizabeth Washbrook Abstract Previous research has documented significantly larger income-related gaps in children’s early cognitive development in the United States than in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In this study, we investigate the extent to which...
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