Browsing by Subject "demography"
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(2011-08-08)John Bongaarts' proximate determinants model of fertility has accounted for over 90 percent of variation in the total fertility rate (TFR) of primarily developing nations and historical populations. Recently, dramatically ...
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(2017-05-02)Both individual and structural level analyses have been conducted on black intermarriage extensively, but how well have they been measured? This dissertation examines the effects of education and metropolitan contexts of ...
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(2014-05-09)Spiranthes parksii Correll is a federally endangered species endemic to 13 counties of the Post Oak Savanna in Central Texas. Approximately 700 S. parksii are located on the Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency’s ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)This study utilized a multi-level model to examine the impact of religion as an occupation on mortality. Death certificate data were used to examine clergy mortality and compares them to census categorized professionals, ...
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(2010-01-16)This research addresses the question of what factors lead Mexican-origin individuals living in the U.S. to seek a new residence outside their Southwestern state of residence. The analysis examines three hypotheses: (1) the ...
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(2016-12-06)This dissertation study tested the hypothesis that greater political fragmentation in a metropolitan area increases the degree of residential segregation between non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks. The questions ...
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The Political-Economic and Demographic Causes of Metropolitan Income Inequality and Its Components (2010-07-14)This research project examines variations in inequality in individual earned incomes across U.S. metropolitan areas. The main analysis includes thirteen explanatory variables from three major perspectives - the political ...
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(2009-05-15)This thesis utilizes a series of seven logistic regression models to examine the predictors of the likelihood of adoption among U.S. women based on the National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6. The individual characteristics ...
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Situating Male Fertility: A Demographic Analysis of Male and Female Fertility in the United States (2012-02-14)In this dissertation I investigate whether or not a series of social, demographic, and cultural factors affect fertility differently, in either direction or magnitude, for men and women. This work situates the study of ...