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Evelyn L. Lehrer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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religion economics and demography the effects of religion on education work and the family
2008Co-Authors: Evelyn L. LehrerAbstract:Part I. The Role of Religion in Marriage and Divorce, 1. Religion as a Determinant of Marital Stability, 2. Religious Intermarriage in the United States: Determinants and Trends, Part II. The Role of Religion in Female Labor Supply and Fertility, 3. The Effects of Religion on the Labor Supply of Married Women, 4. Religion as a Determinant of Fertility, Part III. The Role of Religion in Education and Well-Being, 5. The Benefits From Marriage and Religion in the United States, 6. Religion as a Determinant of Educational Attainment: An Economic Perspective, 7. Religion and High School Graduation: A Comparative Analysis of Patterns for White and Black Young Women, Part IV. A Revised Analytical Framework, Conclusions, and Directions for Future Research, 8. The Role of Religion in Union Formation: An Economic Perspective, 9. Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States, 10. Recent Developments in the Field and an Agenda for Future Research
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the role of religion in economic and Demographic Behavior in the united states a review of the recent literature
Social Science Research Network, 2008Co-Authors: Evelyn L. LehrerAbstract:June 9, 2008 The Role of Religion in Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States: A Review of the Recent Literature* by Evelyn L. Lehrer, IZA, Bonn and Department of Economics University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street Chicago, Illinois 60607-7121 elehrer@uic.edu I am indebted to Alicia Adsera, Carmel Chiswi ck, Chris Ellison, Jennifer Glass, and Lisa Pearce for valuable comments, and to Ramona Krauss and Zhenxiang Zhao for skillful research assistance.
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the role of religion in economic and Demographic Behavior in the united states a review of the recent literature
Research Papers in Economics, 2008Co-Authors: Evelyn L. LehrerAbstract:This paper presents a critical review and synthesis of recent research on the role of religion in economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States. Relationships reviewed include the effects of religion on investments in human capital, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing literature on the implications of religious dissimilarity between the spouses; on two different, possibly countervailing ways in which religiosity may affect Demographic and economic Behavior; and on the importance of estimating models that allow for possible non-linearities in the effects of religiosity.
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religion as a determinant of economic and Demographic Behavior in the united states
Population and Development Review, 2004Co-Authors: Evelyn L. LehrerAbstract:This paper critically reviews and synthesizes research on the role of religion on various aspects of the economic and Demographic Behavior of individuals and families in the United States, including the choice of marital partner, union formation and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on Gary Becker’s contributions to the economics of the family, religious affiliation is seen to affect these outcomes because it has an impact on the costs and benefits of many interrelated decisions that people make over the life cycle. In addition, for Behaviors that pertain to married couple households, affiliation matters because it is a complementary trait within the context of marriage. Religiosity, another dimension of religion, also affects economic and Demographic outcomes, partly because it accentuates differences by religious affiliation, partly because of the generally beneficial effects that religious involvement has on health and well-being.
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religious intermarriage in the united states determinants and trends
Social Science Research, 1998Co-Authors: Evelyn L. LehrerAbstract:Abstract This article uses data from the 1987–1988 National Survey of Families and Households to study the determinants of religious intermarriage in the United States as well as changes over time in its prevalence. Separate logit regressions are estimated for exclusivist Protestant, ecumenical Protestant, and Catholic respondents. Variables identified as playing a role in the intermarriage decision include the proportion of coreligionists in the relevant marriage market, various proxies for religiosity and for commitment to the parental faith, education, a premarital pregnancy, and gender. The estimated effects are generally consistent with hypotheses derived from a model of religious intermarriage. The results also show that the prevalence of religious heterogamy has increased significantly over the past decades for Catholics and ecumenical Protestants. In sharp contrast, there has been no perceptible change in the probability of marrying outside the religion for exclusivist Protestants, a group which continues to display distinctive patterns of economic and Demographic Behavior.
Dimiter Philipov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sweeping changes in marriage cohabitation and childbearing in central and eastern europe new insights from the developmental idealism framework
European Journal of Population-revue Europeenne De Demographie, 2009Co-Authors: Arland Thornton, Dimiter PhilipovAbstract:In Central and Eastern Europe following the political transformations of the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were dramatic declines in marriage and childbearing, significant increases in nonmarital cohabitation and childbearing, and a movement from reliance on abortion to a reliance on contraception for fertility limitation. Although many explanations have been offered for these trends, we offer new explanations based on ideational influences and the intersection of these ideational influences with structural factors. We focus on the political, economic, social, and cultural histories of the region, with particular emphasis on how countries in the region have interacted with and been influenced by Western European and North American countries. Our explanations emphasize the role of developmental models in guiding change in the region, suggesting that developmental idealism influenced family and Demographic changes following the political transformations. Developmental idealism provides beliefs that modern family systems help to produce modern political and economic accomplishments, and it helps establish the importance of freedom and equality as human rights in both the public and private spheres. The disintegration of the governments and the fall of the iron curtain in the late 1980s and early 1990s brought new understanding about social, economic, and family circumstances in the West, increasing consumption aspirations and expectations which clashed with both old economic realities and the dramatic declines in economic circumstances. In addition, the dissolution of the former governments removed or weakened systems supporting the bearing and rearing of children; and the legitimacy of the former governments and their programs was largely destroyed, thereby removing government support for old norms and patterns of Behavior. In addition, the attacks of previous decades on the religious institutions in the region had in many places left these institutions weak. During this period, many openly reached out to embrace the values, living standards, and economic, political, and familial systems of the West. And, the thirst for freedom—and its considerable expansion—operated in personal and familial as well as political and economic realms. These dramatic changes combined together to produce the many changes occurring in family and Demographic Behavior.
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life table representations of family dynamics in sweden hungary and 14 other ffs countries a project of descriptions of Demographic Behavior
Demographic Research, 2002Co-Authors: Gunnar Andersson, Dimiter PhilipovAbstract:In this study, we present a system of descriptions of family-Demographic Behavior in developed countries. We use life-table techniques in order to describe the experience of men, of women, and of c ...
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life table representations of family dynamics in sweden hungary and 14 other ffs countries a project of descriptions of Demographic Behavior
Demographic Research, 2002Co-Authors: Gunnar Andersson, Dimiter PhilipovAbstract:In this study, we present a system of descriptions of family-Demographic Behavior in developed countries. We use life-table techniques in order to describe the experience of men, of women, and of children in processes related to family formation and family dissolution. We develop a large number of descriptive measures, and apply them to survey data from Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, the USA, Austria, Germany (East and West Germany separately), Flanders, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, in order to describe patterns in the family-Demographic Behavior during the late 1980s - early 1990s. We use Sweden and Hungary as examples when presenting the outline of our system of tabulations and provide results for the whole set of countries in an Appendix to the paper.
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life table representations of family dynamics in sweden and hungary initiation of a project of descriptions of Demographic Behavior
Research Papers in Economics, 2001Co-Authors: Gunnar Andersson, Dimiter PhilipovAbstract:In this paper, we present a system of descriptions of family-Demographic Behavior in developed countries. We use life-table techniques in order to describe the experiences of men, women, and children in processes related to family formation and family dissolution. We develop a large number of descriptive measures and apply them to survey data from Sweden and Hungary. The paper demonstrates the potential of our descriptive system for further cross-country comparisons of the Demographic Behavior in European countries. (AUTHORS)
Robert M Groves - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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responsive survey design Demographic data collection and models of Demographic Behavior
Demography, 2011Co-Authors: William G Axinn, Cynthia F Link, Robert M GrovesAbstract:To address declining response rates and rising data-collection costs, survey methodologists have devised new techniques for using process data (“paradata”) to address nonresponse by altering the survey design dynamically during data collection. We investigate the substantive consequences of responsive survey design—tools that use paradata to improve the representative qualities of surveys and control costs. By improving representation of reluctant respondents, responsive design can change our understanding of the topic being studied. Using the National Survey of Family Growth Cycle 6, we illustrate how responsive survey design can shape both Demographic estimates and models of Demographic Behaviors based on survey data. By juxtaposing measures from regular and responsive data collection phases, we document how special efforts to interview reluctant respondents may affect Demographic estimates. Results demonstrate the potential of responsive survey design to change the quality of Demographic research based on survey data.
William G Axinn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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maximizing data quality using mode switching in mixed device survey design nonresponse bias and models of Demographic Behavior
Methods data analyses : a journal for quantitative methods and survey methodology (mda), 2015Co-Authors: William G Axinn, Heather Gatny, James WagnerAbstract:Conducting survey interviews on the internet has become an attractive method for lowering data collection costs and increasing the frequency of interviewing, especially in longitudinal studies. However, the advantages of the web mode for studies with frequent re-interviews can be offset by the serious disadvantage of low response rates and the potential for nonresponse bias to mislead investigators. Important life events, such as changes in employment status, relationship changes, or moving can cause attrition from longitudinal studies, producing the possibility of attrition bias. The potential extent of such bias in longitudinal web surveys is not well understood. We use data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) study to examine the potential for a mixed-device approach with active mode switching to reduce attrition bias. The RDSL design allows panel members to switch modes by integrating telephone interviewing into a longitudinal web survey with the objective of collecting weekly reports. We found that in this design allowing panel members to switch modes kept more participants in the study compared to a web only approach. The characteristics of persons who ever switched modes are different than those who did not – including not only Demographic characteristics, but also baseline characteristics related to pregnancy and time-varying characteristics that were collected after the baseline interview. This was true in multivariate models that control for multiple of these dimensions simultaneously. We conclude that mode options and mode switching is important for the success of longitudinal web surveys to maximize participation and minimize attrition.
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responsive survey design Demographic data collection and models of Demographic Behavior
Demography, 2011Co-Authors: William G Axinn, Cynthia F Link, Robert M GrovesAbstract:To address declining response rates and rising data-collection costs, survey methodologists have devised new techniques for using process data (“paradata”) to address nonresponse by altering the survey design dynamically during data collection. We investigate the substantive consequences of responsive survey design—tools that use paradata to improve the representative qualities of surveys and control costs. By improving representation of reluctant respondents, responsive design can change our understanding of the topic being studied. Using the National Survey of Family Growth Cycle 6, we illustrate how responsive survey design can shape both Demographic estimates and models of Demographic Behaviors based on survey data. By juxtaposing measures from regular and responsive data collection phases, we document how special efforts to interview reluctant respondents may affect Demographic estimates. Results demonstrate the potential of responsive survey design to change the quality of Demographic research based on survey data.
Pablo Ortega Baes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Demographic trends in the cactaceae
Botanical Review, 2003Co-Authors: Hector Godinez Alvarez, Teresa Valverde, Pablo Ortega BaesAbstract:I. Abstract Although our biological knowledge regarding cactus species is thorough in many areas, only in recent years have ecologists addressed their Demographic Behavior. Here we attempt a first review of the present knowledge on cactus demography, including an analysis of the published information on species with different growth forms and life-history traits. Our review shows that cactus distribution ranges are determined by environmental heterogeneity and by species-specific physiological requirements. Temperature extremes may pose latitudinal and altitudinal distribution limits. At a more local scale, soil properties dramatically affect cactus distribution. Most cacti show a clumped spatial distribution pattern, which may be the reflection of a patchy resource distribution within their heterogeneous environments. The association of cacti with nurse plants is another factor that may account for this aggregated distribution. Many cacti grow in association with these perennial nurse plants, particularl...