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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 403–426.
Published: 01 August 1994
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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 (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 (1992) 29 (3): 431–450.
Published: 01 August 1992
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 13–26.
Published: 01 February 1971
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 159–173.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Laura M. Argys; H. Elizabeth Peters; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Judith R. Smith Abstract We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child data to address three questions. First, does the receipt of child support have beneficial effects for children with absent fathers apart from increasing income...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1397–1421.
Published: 11 July 2014
...H. Elizabeth Peters; Kosali Simon; Jamie Rubenstein Taber Abstract Despite the high levels of marital disruption in the United States and the fact that a significant portion of health insurance coverage for those less than age 65 is based on family membership, surprisingly little research...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 135–144.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Michael S. Rendall; Lynda Clarke; H. Elizabeth Peters; Nalini Ranjit; Georgia Verropoulou Abstract We evaluate men;s retrospective fertility histories from the British Household Panel Survey and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Further, we analyze the PSID men’s panel-updated...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1347–1375.
Published: 13 August 2011
...Jere R. Behrman; Hans-Peter Kohler; Vibeke Myrup Jensen; Dorthe Pedersen; Inge Petersen; Paul Bingley; Kaare Christensen Abstract Schooling generally is positively associated with better health-related outcomes—for example, less hospitalization and later mortality—but these associations do...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1775–1796.
Published: 05 September 2014
...Rey Hernández-Julián; Hani Mansour; Christina Peters Abstract This article uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 101–124.
Published: 28 December 2011
...Kara Joyner; H. Elizabeth Peters; Kathryn Hynes; Asia Sikora; Jamie Rubenstein Taber; Michael S. Rendall Abstract Researchers continue to question fathers’ willingness to report their biological children in surveys and the ability of surveys to adequately represent fathers. To address...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1845–1871.
Published: 26 April 2013
...Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak; Randall Kuhn; Christina Peters Abstract This paper uses a wealth shock from the construction of a flood protection embankment in rural Bangladesh coupled with data on the universe of all 52,000 marriage decisions between 1982 and 1996 to examine changes in marital prospects...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 499–510.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Peter A. Morrison Abstract This paper projects school enrollments in Santa Ana, California and evaluates the accuracy of the projections. It emphasizes the distinctive aspects of a local setting undergoing substantial immigrant influx and highlights the uncertainties that must be addressed. I adapt...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Hans-Peter Kohler; Dimiter Philipov Abstract Bongaarts and Feeney have recently proposed an adjusted total fertility rate to disentangle tempo effects from changes in the quantum of fertility. We propose an extension to the Bongaarts and Feeney formula that includes variance effects...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 29–42.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Joseph Lee Rodgers; Hans-Peter Kohler; Kirsten Ohm Kyvik; Kaare Christensen Abstract Behavior genetic designs and analyses can be used to address issues of central importance to demography. We use this methodology to document genetic influence on human fertility. Our data come from Danish twin...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 43–58.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Hans-Peter Kohler; Jere R. Behrman; Susan C. Watkins Abstract Demographers have argued increasingly that social interaction is an important mechanism for understanding fertility behavior. Yet it is still quite uncertain whether social learning or social influence is the dominant mechanism through...
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 713–738.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Jere R. Behrman; Hans-Peter Kohler; Susan Cotts Watkins Abstract The impacts of social networks on changes in contraception in rural Kenya are investigated using special data from a longitudinal household survey. An analytic model, informed by detailed knowledge of the setting, yielded estimates...
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 183–201.
Published: 01 May 1995
...William A. V. Clark; Peter A. Morrison Abstract As U.S. cities accommodate increasing ethnic and racial diversity, political choices may unify or divide their local populations. Those choices pull communities toward two different modes of pluralism: traditional “melting pot” assimilation...
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Demography (1988) 25 (3): 443–459.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Michael J. White; Peter R. Mueser Abstract Analyses of residential mobility are usually conditioned on a system of geography in which territory is divided into discrete units. Types of movement are defined in terms of these units, the most important distinction being that between local mobility...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 489–508.
Published: 01 November 1986
...Thomas E. Fricke; Sabiha H. Syed; Peter C. Smith 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1986 1986 Development Review Natal Home Marriage Timing Multiple Classification Analysis Marriage Behavior References Ahmad , I. ( 1978 ). Endogamy and status...