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Martin, Steve – Social Forces, 2009
In the article "Cohort Effects on Non-marital Fertility," in this issue of "Social Forces," Jean Stockard employs a novel strategy for disentangling cohort, period, and age effects on the non-marital fertility ratio. In a model with fixed-effect controls for age and for time period, the author documents evidence for three cohort-specific factors…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Birth Rate, Whites, One Parent Family
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Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Casciaro, Tiziana – Social Forces, 2006
We propose a theory which predicts that an increase in an actor's relative power reduces the actor's rewards in high mutual dependence dyads. Our argument is based on the premise that higher relative power gives the more powerful actor a greater share of surplus, but it also reduces dyadic exchange frequency, which lowers the expected magnitude of…
Descriptors: Rewards, Power Structure, Networks, Social Exchange Theory
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Burstein, Paul – Social Forces, 2006
Statistical studies often show public opinion strongly affecting public policy. But the studies may overestimate the effect because they focus on issues--those especially important to the public--on which governments are most likely to be responsive. This article considers what the opinion-policy linkage would be if less-important issues were also…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Public Policy, Statistical Studies, Conflict