Parental Resources, Schooling Achievements, and Gender Schooling Gaps: Evidence of Change over 25 years in Rural Guatemala [0.03%]
家长资源、教育成就及性别受教育差距的变迁——以 Guatemala 农村地区 25 年来的经验为例
Kathryn M Yount,John A Maluccio,Jere R Behrman et al.
Kathryn M Yount et al.
We use village census data and linear regression models to examine changes between 1975 and 2002 in the associations of parental resources with boys' and girls' schooling in four rural Guatemalan villages. Levels of schooling in 1975 were u...
Wendy D Manning,Peggy C Giordano,Monica A Longmore et al.
Wendy D Manning et al.
Young adult involvement in sexual behavior typically occurs within a relationship context, but we know little about the ways in which specific features of romantic relationships influence sexual decision-making. Prior work on sexual risk ta...
Charles F Westoff,Emily A Marshall
Charles F Westoff
Sarah R Brauner-Otto
Sarah R Brauner-Otto
The relationship between attitudes and individual behavior is at the core of virtually all demographic theories of fertility. This paper extends our understanding of fertility behavior by exploring how psychic costs of childbearing and cont...
A Closer Look at the Second Demographic Transition in the U.S.: Evidence of Bidirectionality from a Cohort Perspective (1982-2006) [0.03%]
从世代视角看美国第二人口转变的双向性（1982-2006）
Jennifer B Kane
Jennifer B Kane
Second demographic transition (SDT) theory posits that increased individualism and secularization have contributed to low fertility in Europe, but very little work has directly tested the salience of SDT theory to fertility trends in the U....
Scott J South,Katherine Trent,Sunita Bose
Scott J South
Although scholars and policymakers have long been concerned with the "missing women" of India, little rigorous research has examined the consequences of India's sex ratio imbalance for young men's sexual risk behavior and reproductive healt...
Indeterminate Responses to Attitudinal Questions About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Rural Bangladesh [0.03%]
孟加拉国农村地区针对妇女的伴侣暴力的态度问题的不确定回答
Kathryn M Yount,Nafisa Halim,Sara Head et al.
Kathryn M Yount et al.
Using data from 165 participants in a survey experiment in six Ban-gladeshi villages, we explored the levels and correlates of women's indeterminate responses to a five-part attitudinal question on intimate partner violence (IPV) against wo...
Union Formation Implications of Race and Gender Gaps in Educational Attainment: The Case of Latin America [0.03%]
教育成就的种族和性别差距对拉丁美洲婚配的影响
Albert Esteve,Luis Ángel López
Albert Esteve
We use census microdata to assess the levels of educational homogamy in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Mexico. This paper contributes to the literature on homogamy in three ways. First, by co...
James M Raymo,Yanfei Zhou
James M Raymo
The goal of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which the well-being of single mothers in Japan is related to coresidence with other adults. Using data from a representative survey of households headed by single mothers, we examine two ...
A Sudden Transition: Household Changes for Middle Aged U.S. Women in the Twentieth Century [0.03%]
二十世纪美国中年妇女的家庭变化：一种突然的转型
Emily R Merchant,Brian Gratton,Myron Gutmann
Emily R Merchant
Between 1900 and 1990, the percentage of U.S. white women aged 40-69 living with a child of their own fell from 63% to 27%, with three fourths of that change occurring between 1940 and 1960. Historical census data from the Integrated Public...