Economic Insecurity and the Fertility Intentions of Italian Women with One ChildPopulation Research and Policy Review - Tập 32 - Trang 373-413 - 2013
Francesca Fiori, Francesca Rinesi, Antonella Pinnelli, Sabrina Prati
The present study addresses the issue of economic insecurity and its relationship with the reproductive plans of 5,358 Italian women in couples who have recently had their first child. Data were sourced from the ISTAT Sample Survey on Births, 2005 edition. This article’s originality lies in the conceptualization of economic insecurity and the investigation of its effects on fertility intentions. W...... hiện toàn bộ
Areal Interpolation of Population Counts Using Pre-classified Land Cover DataPopulation Research and Policy Review - Tập 26 - Trang 619-633 - 2007
Michael Reibel, Aditya Agrawal
The need to combine spatial data representing sociodemographic information across incompatible spatial units is a common problem for demographers. A particular concern is computing small area trends when aggregation zone boundaries change during the trend interval. To that end, this study provides an example of dasymetric areal interpolation using the pre-classified land cover data available throu...... hiện toàn bộ
An Analysis of Fertility Differentials by Religion in Kerala State: A Test of the Interaction HypothesisPopulation Research and Policy Review - Tập 22 - Trang 557-574 - 2003
Manoj Alagarajan
In a revelation of overall decline to below replacement fertility in the Kerala state of India, it was generally found that fertility among Muslims is higher and contraceptive prevalence lower than among Hindus and Christians. This paper examines the interaction between religion and other socioeconomic factors, that is, whether the effect of religion on fertility remains constant across other fact...... hiện toàn bộ
Motherhood and Graduate Education: 1970–2000Population Research and Policy Review - Tập 28 - Trang 473-504 - 2008
Arielle Kuperberg
This study examines issues related to the fertility of graduate students over time. First, it examines changes in motherhood rates between 1970 and 2000 among women aged 20–49 who are enrolled in graduate school, both by themselves and relative to prevailing trends among women not enrolled in graduate school, and to other college educated women. Overall, women enrolled in graduate school are incre...... hiện toàn bộ
Race, Place, and Veteran Status: Migration among Black and White Men, 1940–2000Population Research and Policy Review - Tập 30 - Trang 701-728 - 2011
Amy Kate Bailey
In this paper, I gauge the impact of veteran status on migration probabilities for black and white men in the late 20th century United States, comparing cohorts that were subject to various military staffing policies. I find that white veterans are more likely than are white non-veterans to live outside the state of their birth and to have recently migrated. These effects persist regardless of whe...... hiện toàn bộ
Marriage Squeeze, Never-Married Proportion, and Mean Age at First Marriage in ChinaPopulation Research and Policy Review - Tập 33 - Trang 189-204 - 2013
Quanbao Jiang, Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li
China’s sex ratio imbalance and the surplus of males have received a great deal of attention, but measures of the extent of the marriage squeeze do not take into account the marital status of population. In this paper, we devise an index of the marriage squeeze for the never-married population and use it to project the male marriage squeeze from 2000 to 2060. From the predicted population and nupt...... hiện toàn bộ