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Why People Stay: The Impact of Community Context on Nonmigration in the USAIrwin Michael, Blanchard Troy, Tolbert Charles, Nucci Alfred, Lyson ThomasMost prior research on US migration has relied on individual-level explanations of moving. In this study we build ...

Peasant Marriage in Nineteenth-Century RussiaAvdeev Alexandre, Blum Alain, Troitskaia IrinaDuring the nineteenth century, the Russian family existed within a particular institutional and social context, very different from that of Western Europe. The constraints surrounding and shaping family formation, and ...

The Local Family CircleBonvalet CatherineDespite the rise of individualism, the extended family continues to exist in urban society. The relationship between adult children and their parents take on a great variety of forms. While some keep their distance, others on ...

Education, Ethnicity, and Reproductive Practice in CameroonJohnson-Hanks JenniferIt is often observed that educated women have lower birth rates than do the less educated, inviting a causal interpretation. However, educated women also differ from those who have never attended school in ...

The Fertility of Palestinian Women in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan and LebanonKhawaja MarwanThis article presents a largely descriptive account of reproduction among Palestinian populations in four settings: the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan and Lebanon. Trends and differentials ...

Demographic Behaviour and Behaviour GeneticsVetta Atam, Courgeau DanielThe use of behaviour genetic heritability analysis to study demographic behaviour is fraught with problems. We explain the concepts and methods used by behaviour geneticists, which are based on Fisher (1918) and Jinks ...

The Demography of an Equitable and Stable Intergenerational Transfer SystemDe Santis GustavoPAYG (Pay-As-You-Go) transfer schemes may take different forms. In this article I classify those proposed in the literature in three main classes. I present a new variant, labelled ES, ...

One Wedding, Two Divorces? Consistency and Inconsistency of Male and Female Responses in Russian Divorce SurveysFesty Patrick, Kortchagina IrinaThe responses of women and men in two Russian surveys of divorced persons taken in 1993 and 1998 respectively are compared ...

Principes de biodémographie avec référence particulière à la longévité humaineCarey James R., Judge Debra S. Le présent article décrit un ensemble de « principes » biodémographiques fondamentaux se rapportant à la sénescence, la mortalité et la longévité, dérivés en majeure ...

Studies conducted abroad have shown that the proportion of prison inmates reporting poor health is high, but little is known about the situation in French prisons. In this paper, data are taken from the 2001 French survey on disabilities in ...