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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 127–137.
Published: 01 February 1992
..., February 1992 A Method for Calculating Rates of Induced Abortion* Karen G. Foreit The Futures Group 1 Thomas Circle Washington, DC 20005 Dorothy L. Nortman 324 Beechwood Place Leonia, NJ 07605 Accurate measurement of induced abortion is necessary for understanding the fertility dynamics of a population...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 02 November 2018
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View articletitled, Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United States
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 437–460.
Published: 14 April 2011
...Kevin J. A. Thomas Abstract This study examines how familial contexts affect poverty disparities between the children of immigrant and U.S.-born blacks, and among black and nonblack children of immigrants. Despite lower gross child poverty rates in immigrant than in U.S.-born black families...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 477–498.
Published: 10 February 2012
...Kevin J. A. Thomas Abstract This study uses data from the 2000 U.S. census to examine whether the schooling advantage of black immigrants’ children found in previous studies is robust. According to the results, the advantage associated with having migrant parents is not restricted to the children...
View articletitled, Migration Processes, Familial Characteristics, and Schooling Dropout Among Black Youths
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 521–544.
Published: 18 November 2012
...Alberto Palloni; Jason R. Thomas Abstract The assessment of the impact that socioeconomic determinants have on the prevalence of certain chronic conditions reported by respondents in population surveys must confront two problems. First, the self-reports could be in error (false positives and false...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 513–534.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Kevin J.A. Thomas Abstract In this study, I examine disparities in schooling progress among children born to immigrant and U.S.-born blacks. I find that in one- and two-parent families, children born to black immigrants are less likely to fall behind in school than those born to U.S.-born blacks...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 185–207.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Duncan Thomas; Ityai Muvandi Abstract Botswana and Zimbabwe have been acclaimed as being on the vanguard of the demographic transition in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper examines the comparability of the CPS and the DHS data for each country and finds that part of the observed decline in aggregate...
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Demography (1994) 31 (2): 217–227.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Duncan Thomas; Ityai Muvandi Abstract Part, but not all, of the observed decline in the number of children ever born reported in the 1984 CPS and the 1988 DHS in Botswana and Zimbabwe can be attributed to differences in sample composition: women in the 1988 survey appear to be better educated than...
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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 (2014) 51 (2): 437–457.
Published: 27 February 2014
...Ava Gail Cas; Elizabeth Frankenberg; Wayan Suriastini; Duncan Thomas Abstract Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely to be correlated with other, unobserved factors that affect child well-being. Population...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 367–386.
Published: 04 February 2014
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 15–38.
Published: 14 January 2015
...Jenna Nobles; Elizabeth Frankenberg; Duncan Thomas Abstract Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1513–1542.
Published: 25 August 2015
...Irma T. Elo; Elizabeth Frankenberg; Romeo Gansey; Duncan Thomas Abstract The number of migrants to the United States from Africa has grown exponentially since the 1930s. For the first time in America’s history, migrants born in Africa are growing at a faster rate than migrants from any other...
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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 (1991) 28 (4): 571–586.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Jay D. Teachman; Jeffrey Thomas; Kathleen Paasch Abstract Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, we examine the effect of the legal status of coresidential unions on the likelihood of dissolution. We find that legal unions are much more stable than...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1817–1841.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Michael J. Thomas; Lars Dommermuth Abstract Past research has found that relations to nonresident family can influence individual fertility and migration behaviors separately. However, fertility and migration outcomes may also be interrelated, suggesting potential links across all three demographic...
View articletitled, Interrelationships Among Fertility, Internal Migration,and Proximity to Nonresident Family:A Multilevel Multiprocess Analysis
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2041–2063.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Linda Zhao; Philipp Hessel; Juli Simon Thomas; Jason Beckfield Abstract This study contributes to the debate on whether income inequality is harmful for health by addressing several analytical weaknesses of previous studies. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics in combination with tract-level...
View articletitled, Inequality in Place: Effects of Exposure to Neighborhood-Level Economic Inequality on Mortality
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 513–527.
Published: 01 June 1966
...Glenn V. Fuguitt; Donald W. Thomas Summary Small town population change is an important factor in the urbanization process. We analyzed changes in incorporated places under 10,000 in the United States during the 1940–60 period, making a distinction between changes in population size classes...
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 737–761.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Pilar Gonalons-Pons; Zohra Ansari-Thomas Abstract This study introduces a demographic framework to analyze the social division of care work time, defined as the sum of paid and unpaid care work time provided to children and adults in a population. Combining data from the American Heritage Time Use...
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 383–403.
Published: 01 August 1973
...Bennett Dyke; Jean W. MacCluer Abstract Monte Carlo simulation has been used to estimate age-specific fertility and mortality rates for a small population,the French-derived isolate of Northside on St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands. Estimates were based on data collected in a household census...
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