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We project the religious composition of the United States to 2043, considering fertility differences, migration …, intergenerational religious transmission and conversion by 11 ethnoreligious groups. If fertility and migration trends continue … younger age groups. Immigration drives growth among Hindus and Muslims, while low fertility explains decline among Jews. The …
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marriage and motherhood. -- abortion ; contraception ; fertility ; marriage …
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The institution of marriage has served to funnel economic resources from fathers to children. Its continued decline in the countries of the developed world threatens the adequacy of the economic support of human reproduction, now increasingly provided by women. Its decline is also probably...
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in declining fertility in a variety of modern societies; and how providing for societies' physical reproduction … in social relations. Exploring the increasingly negative relationship between fertility and "familialism", the paper also …
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The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues that an approach based on expectations is better suited to explain collective action in episodes of social change than existing sociological theories. Two case studies - one on...
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Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …
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not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …
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