...Barry M. Popkin; David K. Guilkey; John S. Akin; Linda S. Adair; J. Richard Udry; Wilhelm Flieger Abstract The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey is used to examine the roles of women’s nutrition and infant feeding in determining time from birth to menses and time from menses...

...Toni Richards; Michael J. White; Amy Ong Tsui Abstract This paper analyzes movements among household types. Persons in one household may join another type. Correspondingly, a household’s structure may change when someone joins it. Data are from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics, spanning 1968...

...Ansley J. Coale; A. Meredith John; Toni Richards Abstract The mathematics of stable populations recently has been generalized to cover populations with time-varying fertility and mortality by a modification incorporating the sum of age-varying growth rates in place of the fixed growth rate...

...Toni Richards Abstract This paper analyzes short-run fluctuations in national time series of vital events for France in the period 1740 to 1909. Fertility, mortality, and nuptiality form a simultaneous system which interacts with economic and meteorological conditions. In the short run...

...Samuel H. Preston; Alan Thomas Richards Abstract Several authors have argued that increased work opportunities for women have helped to produce a reduction in the average age at marriage in the United States. This paper tests this proposition on data for the 100 largest SMSA’s in 1960. Using...

...Richard V. Burkhauser; Greg J. Duncan; Richard Hauser; Roland Berntsen Abstract Longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel show that in the Federal Republic of Germany, women experience even sharper drops in economic status immediately after...

...Richard E. Bilsborrow; Thomas M. McDevitt; Sherrie Kossoudji; Richard Fuller Abstract It is widely believed that structural variables such as inequitable land distribution, lack of rural employment opportunities, and rural-urban wage and amenity gaps influence population movements in developing...

...Richard Suzman 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2010 2010 United Nations Publication Start Data Collection Global Health Action National Advisory Council Risk Venture References B. Cohen , & J. Menken ( 2006 ). Aging in Sub-Saharan...

...Charles Hirschman; Richard Alba; Reynolds Farley Abstract The 1996 Racial and Ethnic Targeted Test (RAETT) was a “mail-out mail-back” household survey with an experimental design of eight alternative questionnaire formats containing systematic variations in race, instructions, question order...

...Richard Alba; Amy Lutz; Elena Vesselinov Abstract A long-standing and unresolved issue in the study of racial and ethnic groups concerns the persistence of initial inequalities among groups. Recently it has surfaced again in the study of U.S. immigrant groups, in George Borjas’s (1994) claim...

...Richard Alba; John Logan; Amy Lutz; Brian Stults Abstract We investigate whether a three-generation model of linguistic assimilation, known from previous waves of immigration, can be applied to the descendants of contemporary immigrant groups. Using the 5% Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample...

...Richard V. Burkhauser; Mary C. Daly; Andrew J. Houtenville; Nigar Nargis Abstract Despite their widespread use in the literature, the Current Population Survey (CPS) and similar surveys have come under attack of late. We put the criticisms in perspective by systematically examining what the CPS...

...Robert A. Hummer; Richard G. Rogers; Charles B. Nam; Christopher G. Ellison Abstract We use recently released, nationally representative data from the National Health Interview Survey—Multiple Cause of Death linked file to model the association of religious attendance and sociodemographic, health...

...Diane J. Macunovich; Richard A. Easterlin; Christine M. Schaeffer; Eileen M. Crimmins Abstract Today the great majority of noninstitutionalized elderly widows live alone, a striking increase from a quarter-century ago. A noticeable difference has occurred, however, in trends by age; the proportion...

...J. Richard Udry Abstract I explain a biosocial model of women’s gendered behavior (behavior on which the sexes differ). This model integrates a macro sociological theory with a biological theory derived from primate behavior. The sociological model is designed to explain changes in the relationship...

...John R. Logan; Richard D. Alba Abstract The suburbanization of racial and ethnic minorities is analyzed in terms of the locational resources provided by their communities of residence. In suburbs in the New York CMSA, non-Hispanic whites and Asians, on average, live in communities with higher...

...Richard G. Rogers Abstract This paper examines the demographic and social factors associated with differences in length of life by race. The results demonstrate that sociodemographic factors—age, sex, marital status, family size, and income—profoundly affect black and white mortality. Indeed...

...Richard D. Alba; John R. Logan Abstract To investigate racial and ethnic diversity in suburbanization, we draw on two complementary theoretical traditions, which we label “assimilation” and “stratification.” Our analytic model is multilevel, and includes variables characterizing individuals...

...Karen C. Holden; Richard V. Burkhauser; Daniel J. Feaster Abstract A major concern of workers, even those financially prepared for retirement, is that a small risk of poverty may grow over time. Cross-sectional data showing that older cohorts have higher poverty rates substantiate this concern...