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Global Patterns of Seasonal Variation in Human Fertility a
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1994-02)
The influence of parental resources on the timing of the transition to marriage
(Elsevier, 1992-09)
This paper studies the relationship of parental resources to the marital transitions of children. It extends past research by explicitly distinguishing various dimensions of parental resources and by taking parental ...
Women and sustainable development, a reflection
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-11)
Studying (Small) businesses with the Michigan Employment Security Commission longitudinal data base
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-12)
This paper addresses the usefulness of a longitudinal data file constructed from records on employers from the Michigan Employment Security Commission. We describe the main features of the data file, which includes quarterly ...
Self-Esteem and Psychological Distress in Later Life
(Sage Publications, 1990)
The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between self-esteem and psychological distress in later life. The majority of researchers who have assessed this relationship assume that greater self-esteem is ...
Received Support, Anticipated Support, Social Class, and Mortality
(Sage Publications, 1997)
The purpose of this study was to assess the relationships among received support, anticipated support, social class, and mortality. Anticipated support is defined as the belief that significant others will provide assistance ...
Early Parental Loss, Recent Life Events, and Changes in Health among Older Adults
(Sage Publications, 1998)
The purpose of this study is to see whether older adults who lost a parent early in life are more vulnerable to the effects of recent stressful events than elderly people who were raised in an intact home. Data from a ...
Children's Living Arrangements in Unmarried-Mother Families
(SAGE Periodicals Press, 1997)
Children in the United States are more likely than ever before to spend part of their lives in single-mother families. However, researchers usually ignore the complexity of household living arrangements, focusing solely ...
Participation in the 1990 Decennial Census
(Sage Publications, 1998)
Theoretical perspectives on survey participation suggest that survey participation is a form of community involvement, reflecting a sense of civic obligation that also motivates such behavior as voting, serving on juries, ...
On summary measures analysis of the linear mixed effects model for repeated measures when data are not missing completely at random
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999-09-15)
Subjects often drop out of longitudinal studies prematurely, yielding unbalanced data with unequal numbers of measures for each subject. A simple and convenient approach to analysis is to develop summary measures for each ...