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... attainment—merit-, policy-, and family-based hukou conversion—on migrants' psychological well-being in middle- and later-life. We further examine how hukou matters—how periods and hukou destinations alter the values of specific urban hukou and their psychological health implications for individuals. We use...

... ). The freshman 15: A critical time for obesity intervention or media myth? . Social Science Quarterly , 92 , 1389 – 1407 . Two additional studies examining education and weight gain during a portion of the life cycle have recently been published. First, Zagorsky and Smith ( 2011 ) used data from...

...Charles L. Baum, II Abstract This study examines the effects of college on weight over much of the life cycle. I compare weights for college students with their weights before and after college and with the weights of noncollege peers using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY...

... to examine associations of family structure states and transitions with children’s socioemotional development during the first nine years of life. We pay close attention to the type and number of family structure transitions experienced and examine whether associations differ depending on family structure...

...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...

... (1988–1994) and NHANES IV (2007–2010), we examined how biological age, relative to chronological age, changed in the United States between 1988 and 2010, while estimating the contribution of changes in modifiable health behaviors. Results suggest that biological age is lower for more recent periods...

... 46-Number 1, February 2009: 127 145 127 T FLEEING THE STORM(S): AN EXAMINATION OF EVACUATION BEHAVIOR DURING FLORIDA S 2004 HURRICANE SEASON* STANLEY K. SMITH AND CHRIS MCCARTY The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in Florida s history, with four hurricanes causing at least 47 deaths and some $45...

... National Survey of Family Growth and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort to examine the antecedents of nonmarital fatherhood, as compared to marital fatherhood. Overall, we find the strongest support across both data sets for education and race/ethnicity as key predictors of having...

... limitations, discussed in the next section, prevent us from tracking a representative sample of Americans across the black-white color line and examining the full range of racial fluidity and its relationship to social status. However, previous scholars (e.g., Gullickson 2010 ; Williamson 1995 ) have argued...

... important implications for understanding the socioeconomic, public health, lifestyle, and medical mechanisms responsible for this narrowing. We use data from 1959 to 2009 and age-period-cohort (APC) models to examine period- and cohort-based changes in adult mortality for U.S. blacks and whites. We do so...

.... Whereas these other events mark an investment in children's wealth and wealth-generating potential, incarceration represents a loss of total wealth within families rather than a transfer of wealth from one generation to the next. Although examining the consequences of these other forms of justice...

... their Interaction with Risk Factors. Discussion Paper 320 . Cambridge, Mass. : Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University . DEMOGRAPHV© Volume 14, Number 4 November 1977 WHAT DIFFERENCE WOULD IT MAKE IFCANCER WERE ERADICATED? AN EXAMINATION OF THE TAEUBER PARADOX Nathan Keyfitz Center for Population...

...Michael B. Toney Abstract This research examines the role of social and economic factors in the past selection of destinations made by migrants living in Rhode Island. Results indicate that social ties playa more important role in the selection of destinations with low levels of opportunity than...

...-of-period levels of explanatory variables by influencing the behavior of these variables over the period of migration, simultaneous-equations bias may be inherent in the parameter estimates of the many single-equation, multiple-regression analyses. This study constitutes an empirical examination...

.... , & Stallard E. ( 1979 ). The Impact of Heterogeneity in Individual Frailty on the Dynamics of Mortality . Demography , 16 , 439 – 454 . 10.2307/2061224 DEMOGRAPHV@ Volume 18, Number 2 May 1981 METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY RISKS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SMALL POPULATIONS: EXAMINATION...

...Suzanne M. Bianchi; Reynolds Farley; Daphne Spain Abstract Changes in racial differences in homeownership and objective indicators of housing quality are examined using 1960 Census data and 1977 Annual Housing Survey data. Blacks, net of differences in socioeconomic status, family composition...

... . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University . DEMOGRAPHV© Volume 19, Number 1 February 1982 A CROSS-CULTURAL EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGES AT MENARCHE, MARRIAGE, AND FIRST BIRTH J. Richard Udry Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina...

... Effects of an Income Maintenance Program on U.S. Interregional Migration (R-I 081-EDA) . Santa Monica : The Rand Corporation . Greenwood , M. J. ( 1975 ). Simultaneity Bias in Migration Models: An Empirical Examination . Demography , 12 , 519 – 536 . 10.2307/2060833 Morrison , P...

... examination. Taken together, the results suggest that children's ethnoracial identity is shaped by family demographic characteristics as well as by education policy. Table 4 displays descriptive statistics from the census for children with two Han parents, one Han parent, and no Han parents. Approximately...

...: A Review of Summary Estimates Derived from the PGE Experiment,” Research Report No. 66 , Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Karachi, table 6. 22 Lee and Isbister, op. cit. 23 Ibid. COUPLE YEARS OF PROTECTION AND BIRTHS PREVENTED A METHODOLOGICAL EXAMINATION LEE L. BEAN...