Volume 50, 2013

Issue 5, October

Original Papers

Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
Shelley Clark, Dana Hamplova' Pages

Maternal Reading Skills and Child Mortality in Nigeria: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters
Emily Smith-Greenaway Pages

Mortality Increase in Late-Middle and Early-Old Age: Heterogeneity in Death Processes as a New Explanation
Ting Li, Yang Claire Yang, James J. Anderson

Living Arrangements and the Elderly: An Analysis of Old-Age Mortality by Household Structure in Casalguidi, 1819–1859
Matteo Manfredini, Marco Breschi

Perturbation Analysis of Indices of Lifespan Variability
Alyson A. van Raalte, Hal Caswell

Marriage (Still) Matters: The Contribution of Demographic Change to Trends in Childlessness in the United States
Sarah R. Hayford

Marital Processes, Arranged Marriage, and Contraception to Limit Fertility
Dirgha J. Ghimire, William G. Axinn

Interrelationships Between Childbearing and Housing Transitions in the Family Life Course
Hill Kulu, Fiona Steele

Young Women’s Dynamic Family Size Preferences in the Context of Transitioning Fertility
Sara Yeatman, Christie Sennott, Steven Culpepper

Influences on Pregnancy-Termination Decisions in Matlab, Bangladesh
Julie DaVanzo, Mizanur Rahman, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Abdur Razzaque

Duration and Timing of Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and the Risk of Adolescent Parenthood
Geoffrey T. Wodtke

The Compositional and Institutional Sources of Union Dissolution for Married and Unmarried Parents in the United States
Laura Tach, Kathryn Edin

Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: An Exploration of Selection Bias Influences
Ashish Bajracharya, Sajeda Amin

Consanguinity and Other Marriage Market Effects of a Wealth Shock in Bangladesh
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Randall Kuhn, Christina Peters

Residential Integration on the New Frontier: Immigrant Segregation in Established and New Destinations
Matthew Hall

Missing Minorities? The Phases of IRCA Legislation and Relative Net Undercounts of the 1990 vis-a`-vis 2000 Decennial Census for Foreign-born Cohorts
Matheu Kaneshiro

A “Mulatto Escape Hatch” in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era
Aliya Saperstein, Aaron Gullickson

Issue 6, December

Editor's Note

Stewart Tolnay

Original Paper

Assessing Validity and Application Scope of the Intrinsic Estimator Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort Problem
Liying Luo

Commentary

Misunderstandings, Mischaracterizations, and the Problematic Choice of a Specific Instance in Which the IE Should Never Be Applied
Yang Claire Yang, Kenneth C. Land

Comment of Liying Luo’s Article, “Assessing Validity and Application Scope of the Intrinsic Estimator Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort Problem”
Robert M. O’Brien

Comment on “Assessing Validity and Application Scope of the Intrinsic Estimator Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort (APC) Problem”
Leonhard Held, Andrea Riebler

Cohort Analysis’ Unholy Quest: A Discussion
Stephen E. Fienberg

Reply

Paradigm Shift in Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: A Response to Yang and Land, O’Brien, Held and Riebler, and Fienberg
Liying Luo

Original Papers

The Effect of School Quality on Black-White Health Differences: Evidence From Segregated Southern Schools
David Frisvold, Ezra Golberstein

Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England
Liam Delaney, Alan Fernihough, James P. Smith

Extending the Lee-Carter Method to Model the Rotation of Age Patterns of Mortality Decline for Long-Term Projections
Nan Li, Ronald Lee, Patrick Gerland

Migration and Pacific Mortality: Estimating Migration Effects on Pacific Mortality Rates Using Bayesian Models
Ken Richardson, Santosh Jatrana, Martin Tobias, Tony Blakely

Cohort Trends in Premarital First Births: What Role for the Retreat From Marriage?
Paula England, Lawrence L. Wu, Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer

Does Parental Consent for Birth Control Affect Underage Pregnancy Rates? The Case of Texas
Sourafel Girma, David Paton

The Educational Consequences of Teen Childbearing
Jennifer B. Kane, S. Philip Morgan, Kathleen Mullan Harris, David K. Guilkey

Community-Wide Job Loss and Teenage Fertility: Evidence From North Carolina
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, Christina Gibson-Davis

Has the World Really Survived the Population Bomb? (Commentary on “How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons From 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic History”)
Stan Becker

Commentary

Reply to Stan Becker, “Has the World Really Survived the Population Bomb? (Commentary on “How the World Survived the Population Bomb: Lessons from 50 Years of Extraordinary Demographic History”)”
David Lam

Original Papers

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Ability Gaps?
Paul Frijters, David W. Johnston, Manisha Shah, Michael A. Shields

The Impact of Educational Homogamy on Isolated Illiteracy Levels
In~aki Permanyer, Joan Garci'a, Albert Esteve

Life Shocks and Homelessness
Marah A. Curtis, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy E. Reichman

Volume 51, 2014

Issue 1, February

Editorial Notes

A Message From the New Editor
Pamela J. Smock

Original Papers

Culture and Demography: From Reluctant Bedfellows to Committed Partners
Christine A. Bachrach

Projecting the Effect of Changes in Smoking and Obesity on Future Life Expectancy in the United States
Samuel H. Preston, Andrew Stokes, Neil K. Mehta, Bochen Cao

Mortality Deceleration and Mortality Selection: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Lifespan Variation by Occupational Class: Compression or Stagnation Over Time?
Alyson A. van Raalte, Pekka Martikainen, Mikko Myrskyla"

The Cost of Disability in China
Prashant Loyalka, Lan Liu, Gong Chen, Xiaoying Zheng

Is the Gene-Environment Interaction Paradigm Relevant to Genome-Wide Studies? The Case of Education and Body Mass Index
Jason D. Boardman, Benjamin W. Domingue, Casey L. Blalock, Brett C. Haberstick, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Matthew B. McQueen

Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States
Guang Guo, Yilan Fu, Hedwig Lee, Tianji Cai, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Yi Li

A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development With Fertility?
Kenneth Harttgen, Sebastian Vollmer

Coresidence With Husband’s Parents, Labor Supply, and Duration to First Birth
C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Seik Kim, Wen-Jen Tsay

The Impact of Family Transitions on Child Fostering in Rural Malawi
Monica J. Grant, Sara Yeatman

Growing Up Together: Cohort Composition and Child Investment
Kelly M. Jones

Gender, Turning Points, and Boomerangs: Returning Home in Young Adulthood in Great Britain
Juliet Stone, Ann Berrington, Jane Falkingham

Challenges in Measuring the Sequencing of Life Events Among Adolescents in Malawi: A Cautionary Note
Barbara S. Mensch, Erica Soler-Hampejsek, Christine A. Kelly, Paul C. Hewett, Monica J. Grant

Big Microdata for Population Research
Steven Ruggles

Is the Demographic Dividend an Education Dividend?
Jesu's Crespo Cuaresma, Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson

The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage: Evidence From the Netherlands
Mircea Trandafir