Recently added articles from Demography:
THE RISING SHARE OF NONMARITAL BIRTHS: IS IT ONLY COMPOSITIONAL EFFECTS?*
Feb 01, 2009; ... A recent article by Gray, Stockard, and Stone contended that the increase in the proportion of births to unmarried women since 1974 in the United States was not caused by any major change in underlying fertility behavior, but rather by a decrease in the proportion of women who are married, which ...
COMMENT: THERE MAY BE COMPOSITIONAL EFFECTS, BUT THEY DO NOT WORK THAT WAY*
Feb 01, 2009; ... This analysis joins the debate on how declines in marriage have shifted the composition of the unmarried and married populations in the United States, and how compositional shifts have affected nonmarital birth rates. Gray, Stockard, and Stone (2006) presented one model for compositional effects ...
COMPOSITION AND DECOMPOSITION IN NONMARITAL FERTILITY*
Feb 01, 2009; ... Ermisch (2009) criticized Gray, Stockard, and Stone (2006), arguing that they incorrectly tested a model positing a nonlinear relationship between the nonmarital fertility ratio and the proportion of unmarried women. I identify a different problem, which is that even if this model were to hold ...
HEIGHT AND THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION: EVIDENCE FROM ITALIAN MILITARY DATA*
Feb 01, 2009; ... Researchers modeling historical heights have typically relied on the restrictive assumption of a normal distribution, only the mean of which is affected by age, income, nutrition, disease, and similar influences. To avoid these restrictive assumptions, we develop a new semiparametric approach in ...
RESPONSE TO ERMISCH, MARTIN, AND WU*
Feb 01, 2009; ... Our recent paper in Demography (Gray, Stockard, and Stone 2006) has attracted the close scrutiny of several prominent academics. Three sets of formal comments, authored independently by Ermisch, Martin, and Wu (EMW), appear in this issue of Demography. In this response we argue that the analysis ...
PREDICTING ADULT HEALTH AND MORTALITY FROM ADOLESCENT FACIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN YEARBOOK PHOTOGRAPHS*
Feb 01, 2009; ... Several important longitudinal studies in the social sciences have omitted biomarkers that are routinely recorded today, including height and weight. To account for this shortcoming in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), an 11-point scale was developed to code high school senior class ...
MARRIAGE BEHAVIOR RESPONSE TO PRIME-AGE ADULT MORTALITY: EVIDENCE FROM MALAWI*
Feb 01, 2009; ... This article examines the effect of AIDS-related mortality of the prime-age adult population on marriage behavior among women in Malawi. A rise in prime-age adult mortality increases risks associated with the search for a marriage partner in the marriage market. A possible behavioral change in ...
BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF HISPANIC FERTILITY HAZARDS FROM SURVEY AND POPULATION DATA*
Feb 01, 2009; ... Previous studies have demonstrated both large gains in efficiency and reductions in bias by incorporating population information in regression estimation with sample survey data. These studies, however, assumed that the population values are exact. This assumption is relaxed here through a ...
FAMILY BOUNDARY AMBIGUITY AND THE MEASUREMENT OF FAMILY STRUCTURE: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COHABITATION*
Feb 01, 2009; ... We used data from the first wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine family boundary ambiguity in adolescent and mother reports of family structure and found that the greater the family complexity, the more likely adolescent and mother reports of family structure ...
BIRDS OF A FEATHER, OR FRIEND OF A FRIEND? USING EXPONENTIAL RANDOM GRAPH MODELS TO INVESTIGATE ADOLESCENT SOCIAL NETWORKS*
Feb 01, 2009; ... In this article, we use newly developed statistical methods to examine the generative processes that give rise to widespread patterns in friendship networks. The methods incorporate both traditional demographic measures on individuals (age, sex, and race) and network measures for structural ...
FLEEING THE STORM(S): AN EXAMINATION OF EVACUATION BEHAVIOR DURING FLORIDA'S 2004 HURRICANE SEASON*
Feb 01, 2009; ... The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in Florida's history, with four hurricanes causing at least 47 deaths and some $45 billion in damages. To collect information on the demographic impact of those hurricanes, we surveyed households throughout the state and in the local areas that sustained ...
A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF FAMILY MIGRATION AND THE GENDER GAP IN EARNINGS IN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN*
Feb 01, 2009; ... This article uses longitudinal data for the United States and Great Britain to examine the impact of residential mobility and childbirth on the earnings of women, their family earnings, and the related division of earnings by gender. This project is the first to compare explicitly the impact of ...
DUAL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS: DO THEY MAKE MORE AND RICHER CITIZENS?*
Feb 01, 2009; ... In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing their nationality of origin. I estimate the effects of these new laws on naturalization rates ...
WHEN TO PROMOTE, AND WHEN TO AVOID, A POPULATION PERSPECTIVE*
Nov 01, 2008; ... Demography's population perspective, and the sampling methods that help produce it, are powerful but underutilized research tools. The first half of this article makes the case for more vigorous promotion of a population perspective throughout the sciences. It briefly reviews the basic elements ...
WIVES AND EX-WIVES: A NEW TEST FOR HOMOGAMY BIAS IN THE WIDOWHOOD EFFECT*
Nov 01, 2008; ... Increased mortality following the death of a spouse (the "widowhood effect") may be due to (1) causation, (2) bias from spousal similarity (homogamy), or (3) bias from shared environmental exposures. This article proposes new tests for bias in the widowhood effect by examining husbands, wives, ...
URBANIZATION AND FERTILITY: AN EVENT-HISTORY ANALYSIS OF COASTAL GHANA*
Nov 01, 2008; ... In this article, we undertake an event-history analysis of fertility in Ghana. We exploit detailed life history calendar data to conduct a more refined and definitive analysis of the relationship among personal traits, urban residence, and fertility. Although urbanization is generally associated ...
A DECOMPOSITION METHOD BASED ON A MODEL OF CONTINUOUS CHANGE*
Nov 01, 2008; ... A demographic measure is often expressed as a deterministic or stochastic function of multiple variables (covariates), and a general problem (the decomposition problem) is to assess contributions of individual covariates to a difference in the demographic measure (dependent variable) between two ...
FERTILITY EFFECTS OF ABORTION AND BIRTH CONTROL PILL ACCESS FOR MINORS*
Nov 01, 2008; ... This article empirically assesses whether age-restricted access to abortion and the birth control pill influence minors' fertility in the United States. There is not a strong consensus in previous literature regarding the relationship between laws restricting minors' access to abortion and ...
SPOUSAL MOBILITY AND EARNINGS*
Nov 01, 2008; ... An important finding in the literature on migration has been that the earnings of married women typically decrease with a move, while the earnings of married men often increase with a move, suggesting that married women are more likely to act as the "trailing spouse." This article considers a ...
GENDER, RESOURCES ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE, AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING IN EGYPT*
Nov 01, 2008; ... In this article, I evaluate the life-course determinants of cognitive functioning among 1,003 women and men aged 50 and older in Ismailia, Egypt. Three questions motivate this analysis: (1) Do older women have poorer cognitive functioning than do older men?; (2) Do cognitive resources accrued in ...