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Yu, Zhou | Misleading comparisons of homeownership rates between groups and over time: the effects of variable household formation | Despite ominous signs of housing market stress, the homeownership rate reached an all time high in 2006. We seek to understand whether the conventional definition of homeownership, which is based on the share of households and ignores the effects of variable household formation, has confounded the a... | | 2009 |
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Yu, Zhou | Misleading comparisons of homeownership rates when the variable effect of household formation is ignored: explaining rising homeownership and the homeownership gap between Blacks and Asians | Despite ominous signs of housing market stress in the U.S., the homeownership rate reached an all time high in 2006. The conventional definition of homeownership, which is based on the share of households and ignores the effects of variable household formation, confounds the measurement of "success"... | | 2010-01-01 |
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Rogers, Alan R.; Harpending, Henry C. | Mismatch distributions of mtDNA reveal recent human population expansions | Although many genetic studies of human evolution have tried to make distinctions between the replacement and the multiregional evolution hypotheses, current methods and data have not resolved the issue. However, new advances in nucleotide divergence theory can complement these investigations with a ... | | 1994 |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Mixed blessings of no-fault divorce | Between the mid-1960s and 1979 the crude divorce rate in the United States more than doubled.1 Although divorce had increased at a steady rate for more than the previous 100 years, the mid-1960s marked the beginning of an unprecedented boom.2 Despite modest declines over the last twenty years,3 th... | Divorce reform | 2005 |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Model of kin-structured migration | When individuals disperse from one local group to another, they often do so in the company of relatives. This is known as "kin-structured migration," and its effect on genetic population structure is investigated here. It is shown that when migration is kin-structured, the ratio of between- to with... | Fission; Mobility; Population | 1987 |
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Rogers, Alan R.; Jorde, Lynn B. | Modeling the amplification dynamics of human Alu retrotransposons | Retrotransposons have had a considerable impact on the overall architecture of the human genome. Currently, there are three lineages of retrotransposons (Alu, L1, and SVA) that are believed to be actively replicating in humans. While estimates of their copy number, sequence diversity, and levels of ... | Retrotransposons; Amplification dynamics; Mutation; Human-chimpanzee divergence | 2005 |
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Gelfand, Donna M. | Mother-toddler interaction patterns associated with maternal depression. | Interactive coordination was observed in laboratory play interactions of pairs of 29 clinically depressed and 14 nondepressed mothers and their 13-29-month-old children (M = 18.9 months). Nondepressed mothers and their children displayed more interactive coordination than depressed-mother dyads (p <... | Depression; Child-rearing; Infants; Motherhood | 1997-09 |
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Wei, Y. H. Dennis | Multi-scale regional inequality in Guangdong, China | | | 2011 |
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Kukathas, Chandran | Multiculturalism of Fear (Book Review) | Reviews the book "The Multiculturalism of Fear," by Jacob Levy. | Books; Multiculturalism; Fear | 2003-10-16 |
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Wen, Ming | Neighborhood environment and health in old age: what role do individual characteristics play in this link? | This research investigates the relationship among objectively assessed neighborhood SES, subjective perceptions of neighborhood environment, and self-rated physical health among older persons. We further explore the structural and psychosocial mechanisms at the individual level underlying the observ... | Community; District; Geriatric; Elderly; Healthcare | 2004-01-16 |
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Wen, Ming | Neighborhood socioeconomic status and BMI differences by immigrant and legal status: Evidence from Utah | We build on recent work examining the BMI patterns of immigrants in the US by distinguishing between legal and undocumented immigrants. We find that undocumented women have relative odds of obesity that are about 10 percentage points higher than for legal immigrant women, and their relative odds of ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Fan, Jessie Xiaojing | Net income, gross income, and bias in child support awards in gross income-shares states | In this study I discuss the pros and cons of using net income vs. gross income in gross income-shares states. It is argued that the "standardized net" approach is the best approach in determining child support awards based on the combined principles of equity and accuracy. However most states use g... | Net income; Gross income; Tax credit; State income tax | 2006-07-27 |
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McElreath, Richard | New methods in quantitative ethnography: economic experiments and variation in the price of equality | A new method for quantitatively documenting concerns for economic fairness has the potential for identifying variation in prosociality within and across societies. Multiple dictator games conducted in two small-scale societies presented decision makers with a choice between an equitable and an ine... | Inequality; Payoffs; Prosociality | 2007-12 |
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McDaniel, Susan | New stork rising? Women's roles and reproductive changes | Anyone who has not been living in a remote cave will know that reproduction in the past decade has been changing rather dramatically. These changes have occurred on several fronts. Writing as a sociologist, I shall emphasize the social aspects of these changes, looking first at some of the changes ... | In vitro; Birth rate; Artificial insemination | 1989 |
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Fogel, Alan Dale | Noninnatist alternatives to the negative evidence hypothesis | In this commentary we consider three issues. First, we suggest that Crain's definition of innateness is not biologically plausible. Second, we show how the criteria he uses as hallmarks of innateness can have alternative explanations. Finally, we reinterpret his research findings on grounds that do ... | | 1992 |
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Zimmer, Zachary; Korinek, Kim | Number of children and proximate residence among older adults in the context of population aging: a comparative analysis of six societies in the Asia-Pacific region | Population aging, occurring concurrently with social and economic change, has the potential to dismantle traditional support structures for older adults in the Asia-Pacific region. An example is the traditional system of living with an adult child, which may be threatened by smaller families and mor... | Population; Aging; Asia-Pacific | 2007-08-18 |
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Vernon, Kenneth B. | Numic fires: modeling the effects of anthropogenic fire on foraging decisions in the Great Basin | Across Western North America, hunter-gatherers modified their surrounding environment with the application of fire (1; 11; 15). However, to date we lack a general theoretical framework to investigate the reasons why people would burn or its effects on traditional foraging economies. To begin to fill... | Behavioral ecology; Diet; Fire | 2015 |
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Nicoll, Kathleen | OSL chronologies for Aeolian activity in the context of lake-level fluctuations, drainage reorganization and glacial retreat, North-Central Minnesota | Dunes and stratified eolian sedi-ments are a significant component of the postglacial landscape across the mid-continent. During the 1970s, a benchmark study in north-central Minne-sota inferred a period of eolian activity 8,000 ? 5,000 years ago (i.e., the Altithermal Hypsithermal periods), based u... | | 2006 |
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Utz, Rebecca L. | Obesity in America, 1960-2000: is it an age, period or cohort phenomenon? | Increasing rates of obesity have sparked tremendous public concern because excess body weight is linked to a host of mortality, morbidity, and disability outcomes. Using five waves of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), this project privides a four-decade pict... | Health, weight; Overweight; Population trends | 2004-09-23 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Occupation and fertility on the frontier: Evidence from the state of Utah | BACKGROUND Most of what we know about fertility decline in the United States comes from aggregate (often state or county level) data sources. It is difficult to identify variation in fertility change across socio-economic classes in such data, although understanding such variation would provide deep... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Older persons' AIDS knowledge and willingness to provide care in an impoverished nation: evidence from Cambodia | Since the beginning of the global pandemic, assessing knowledge and attitudes regarding AIDS has been an important subject of research and for good reasons. Given the unusual features of HIV/AIDS, there is considerable potential for misunderstanding important aspects of the disease that could affect... | AIDS knowledge | 2007 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Older women: their quest for justice and peace | Myths, misconceptions and stereotypes about women and about older people combine in ways that prevent us from noticing some promising new developments in the quest for justice and peace. A popular stereotype sees the person working toward peace and justice as youthful, and significantly, often male.... | Women; Peace; Justice | 1988 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | On Human fertility: Individual or group benefit? | Caldwell et al. (CA 28:25-43) have pointed to the pervasive influence of Carr-Saunders's (1922) concept of population regulation throughout two-thirds of a century of anthropology and demography. | | 1988-01-01 |
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Wiessner, Pauline W. | On emergency decisions, egalitarianism, and group selection | Boehm (CA 37:763-93) puts forward an important thesis-that with the evolution of egalitarian societies, privileged routes to reproductive advantage are blocked and the power of individua selection severely compromised. With competition so constrained, altruistic behavior can more readily spread i... | Boehm's mode; Evolution of altruistic behavior | 1998-06 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | On life history evolution (a comment on Chisholm) | Chisholm (CA 34:I-24) is right that the theory, models, and data of evolutionary biology apply to questions asked by social scientists. Work in life-history theory (Stearns 1992, Roff 1992, Charnov 1993) has especially provocative implications for the understanding of human development (see review i... | | 1994-01-01 |
