John Hobcraft
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3580869 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Hobcraft |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Hobcraft |
| FIRMA | HOBCRAFT J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of York |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 358 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Regional Demographic Development
Family Structure Instability, Genetic Sensitivity, and Child Well-Being
The association between family structure instability and children's life chances is well documented, with children reared in stable, two-parent families experiencing more favorable outcomes than children in other family arrangements. This study examines father household entrances and exits, distinguishing between the entrance of a biological father and a social father and testing for interactions between family structure instability and children'…
Genetic Differential Sensitivity to Social Environments
Researchers have proposed a genetic differential sensitivity to social environmental (GDSE) model positing that individuals with certain genetic makeups are more sensitive to favorable and unfavorable environmental influences than those without these genetic makeups. We discuss several issues facing researchers who want to use GDSE to examine health: (1) the need for greater theorizing about the social environment to properly understand the size …
Reflections on the Incorporation of Biomeasures into Longitudinal Social Surveys
This article is concerned with the underlying rationales for including biomeasures in longitudinal social surveys. In particular, it seeks to draw out the potential advantages of incorporating biomeasures in household panel studies for advancing our understanding of behaviors. A key emphasis is on elaborating pathways from biology through the brain/mind to behaviors and outcomes, particularly for social, demographic, economic, and health domains.…
Identifying Patterns of Resilience Using Classification Trees
This paper introduces and illustrates the value of a classification trees approach in the study of resilience. The inherently interactive nature of the resilience construct makes this approach useful. Classification trees are a person-centred approach to data analysis, which successively split the sample into pairs of increasingly homogeneous groups of individuals. We outline the approach and then illustrate using adult educational outcomes for c…
Childhood deprivation, health and development
OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between childhood socioeconomic and family circumstances, health and behavioural and cognitive development, and health and mental well-being outcomes in adulthood; exploring whether associations are different for cohorts born in 1958 and 1970, or for men and women. DESIGN: Pooled analysis of two prospective, population-based, British birth cohort studies. PARTICIPANTS: 11 327 men and women born in 1958 and 1…
The timing and partnership context of becoming a parent
This paper uses two British birth cohorts, born in 1958 and 1970. There are substantial inter-cohort shifts in timing and context of becoming a parent and gender differences in timing. We use common childhood measures for the two cohorts, pool the two
Towards a scientific understanding of demographic behaviour
This note draws upon and summarises a much fuller treatment of the issues involved in shaping the research agenda for improving our understanding of demographic behaviour (Hobcraft, 2006). One key element of this agenda is to shift attention away from events and towards a focus on dynamic processes and their interplays. This involves moving away from a preoccupation with marriage and divorce, births, deaths, migrations, and household structures t…
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The ABC of demographic behaviour
This paper proposes core innovations in the strategy of research on demographic behaviour. One aim is a shift of attention away from events and towards a focus on dynamic processes and their interplay: away from a preoccupation with marriage and divorce, births, deaths, migrations, and household structure towards a broader perspective that takes account of partnership and intimacy, parenthood, potential and well-being, position in society and spa…
Parental divorce and subsequent disadvantage
Although many studies have examined the link between parental divorce and subsequent wellbeing, some theories of the effects of divorce suggest that the negative associations should have declined over time. However, few studies have examined the extent to which the associations have remained stable over time. Using data from two British cohorts, we analyzed both shorter- and longer-term outcomes of children who experienced parental divorce and th…
Discussion of paper ‘Explanations of the fertility crisis in modern societies
Understanding social exclusion
This text explores the issue of social exclusion, considering its measurement, main determinants, and ways in which it may be reduced. The editors show how a focus on the topic may alter the relevant policy questions by fostering debate in government
Eugene Grebenik 1919–2001
Childhood poverty, early motherhood and adult social exclusion
Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the current political agenda. The key new issue that this research addresses is the relative importance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlates of outcomes later in life. How far are the 'effects' of early motherhood on later outcomes due to childhood precursors, especially experience of childhood poverty? Subsidiary questions relate to the magnitude of these associations,…
Parental Divorce during Childhood
It is well established that young people whose parents divorced or experienced marital breakdown during their childhood are likely to enter into first partnerships and into parenthood earlier than those whose parents remained married. In this paper using data from the British National Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles Survey we examine how far the timing of first coitus plays a role in the genesis of this demographic behaviour for children of divor…
The First Fifty Years - A Tribute to E. Grebenik
Fertility in England and Wales
This paper provides a detailed account of fertility levels and trends in England and Wales since 1938, with a briefer coverage of a much longer time-span. The paper is concerned both with the measurement of fertility and with understanding the observed fertility behaviour. We lament and correct the failure of demographers to apply measurement tools available since the 1950s to the analysis of fertility in England and Wales, with a particular emph…
Breastfeeding and Fertility
In this paper information collected in the World Fertility Survey on durations of breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence and amenorrhoea is used. Rates of conception and of resumption of menstruation are presented for four breastfeeding states: full breastfeeding, partial breastfeeding, weaned, and never breastfed. The various patterns of breastfeeding affect resumption of menstruation in consistent and expected directions. Continued breastfeed…
Reproductive Change in Developing Countries
This book assesses the role which the Survey has played in documenting and understanding the emergence of new trends in fertility behaviour which are of the utmost important to the future of mankind. It is the first time that these results have been placed in a broad perspective of scientific knowledge and political relevance. Demographers; social researchers; family planning administrators; students of these and development studies
Socio-economic Factors in Infant and Child Mortality
Using results from the World Fertility Survey (WFS) for 28 countries, socioeconomic differences in neonatal, postneonatal, and child mortality were examined. To maintain some degree of comparability and to make presentation of the results feasible, focus was on 5 variables which are available for each survey. It can be argued that each of the 5 socioeconomic variables considered here--mother's education, mother's work status since marriage, curre…
Demographic Determinants of Infant and Early Child Mortality
In this paper we examine the relative importance of a number of demographic determinants of infant and early child mortality using information from 39 World Fertility Survey countries. We include sex of the child, age of the mother at the time of the birth, birth order, mother's educational level and a number of indicators of spacing of adjacent births among the correlates of chances of survival for children below the age of five years. Mortality…
Socio-economic factors in Infant and child mortality
In this paper five socio-economic correlates of infant and child mortality are considered using results from World Fertility Survey enquiries in 28 developing countries. We consider differences in mortality for segments of life during the first five years on each of the following variables: mother's education, mother's work status, husband's occupation, husband's education and type of place of residence. A simple tabular analysis is followed by a…
Child-Spacing Effects on Infant and Early Child Mortality
For at least 60 years the deleterious effects of rapid childbearing on infant and early child survival chances have been the subject of study. The analyses of child spacing effects on infant and early childhood mortality presented here are based upon data from 26 developing countries which participated in the World Fertility Survey (WFS). All WFS data sets include a complete live birth history including the date of birth of all children born aliv…
Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Demography
Demographic Determinants of Infant and Early Child Mortality
In this paper we examine the relative importance of a number of demographic determinants of infant and early child mortality using information from 39 World Fertility Survey countries. We include sex of the child, age of the mother at the time of the birth, birth order, mother's educational level and a number of indicators of spacing of adjacent births among the correlates of chances of survival for children below the age of five years. Mortality…
Childhood poverty, early motherhood and adult social exclusion
Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the current political agenda. The key new issue that this research addresses is the relative importance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlates of outcomes later in life. How far are the 'effects' of early motherhood on later outcomes due to childhood precursors, especially experience of childhood poverty? Subsidiary questions relate to the magnitude of these associations,…
Parental divorce and subsequent disadvantage
Although many studies have examined the link between parental divorce and subsequent wellbeing, some theories of the effects of divorce suggest that the negative associations should have declined over time. However, few studies have examined the extent to which the associations have remained stable over time. Using data from two British cohorts, we analyzed both shorter- and longer-term outcomes of children who experienced parental divorce and th…
Socio-economic factors in Infant and child mortality
In this paper five socio-economic correlates of infant and child mortality are considered using results from World Fertility Survey enquiries in 28 developing countries. We consider differences in mortality for segments of life during the first five years on each of the following variables: mother's education, mother's work status, husband's occupation, husband's education and type of place of residence. A simple tabular analysis is followed by a…
Parental Divorce during Childhood
It is well established that young people whose parents divorced or experienced marital breakdown during their childhood are likely to enter into first partnerships and into parenthood earlier than those whose parents remained married. In this paper using data from the British National Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles Survey we examine how far the timing of first coitus plays a role in the genesis of this demographic behaviour for children of divor…
Fertility in England and Wales
This paper provides a detailed account of fertility levels and trends in England and Wales since 1938, with a briefer coverage of a much longer time-span. The paper is concerned both with the measurement of fertility and with understanding the observed fertility behaviour. We lament and correct the failure of demographers to apply measurement tools available since the 1950s to the analysis of fertility in England and Wales, with a particular emph…
The ABC of demographic behaviour
This paper proposes core innovations in the strategy of research on demographic behaviour. One aim is a shift of attention away from events and towards a focus on dynamic processes and their interplay: away from a preoccupation with marriage and divorce, births, deaths, migrations, and household structure towards a broader perspective that takes account of partnership and intimacy, parenthood, potential and well-being, position in society and spa…
Family Structure Instability, Genetic Sensitivity, and Child Well-Being
The association between family structure instability and children's life chances is well documented, with children reared in stable, two-parent families experiencing more favorable outcomes than children in other family arrangements. This study examines father household entrances and exits, distinguishing between the entrance of a biological father and a social father and testing for interactions between family structure instability and children'…
Discussion of paper ‘Explanations of the fertility crisis in modern societies
Childhood deprivation, health and development
OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between childhood socioeconomic and family circumstances, health and behavioural and cognitive development, and health and mental well-being outcomes in adulthood; exploring whether associations are different for cohorts born in 1958 and 1970, or for men and women. DESIGN: Pooled analysis of two prospective, population-based, British birth cohort studies. PARTICIPANTS: 11 327 men and women born in 1958 and 1…
Genetic Differential Sensitivity to Social Environments
Researchers have proposed a genetic differential sensitivity to social environmental (GDSE) model positing that individuals with certain genetic makeups are more sensitive to favorable and unfavorable environmental influences than those without these genetic makeups. We discuss several issues facing researchers who want to use GDSE to examine health: (1) the need for greater theorizing about the social environment to properly understand the size …
The timing and partnership context of becoming a parent
This paper uses two British birth cohorts, born in 1958 and 1970. There are substantial inter-cohort shifts in timing and context of becoming a parent and gender differences in timing. We use common childhood measures for the two cohorts, pool the two
Pour améliorer notre compréhension des comportements démographiques
que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Breastfeeding and Fertility
In this paper information collected in the World Fertility Survey on durations of breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence and amenorrhoea is used. Rates of conception and of resumption of menstruation are presented for four breastfeeding states: full breastfeeding, partial breastfeeding, weaned, and never breastfed. The various patterns of breastfeeding affect resumption of menstruation in consistent and expected directions. Continued breastfeed…
Reproductive Change in Developing Countries
This book assesses the role which the Survey has played in documenting and understanding the emergence of new trends in fertility behaviour which are of the utmost important to the future of mankind. It is the first time that these results have been placed in a broad perspective of scientific knowledge and political relevance. Demographers; social researchers; family planning administrators; students of these and development studies
Advances in theP/Fratio method for the analysis of birth histories
One of the most frequently used indirect techniques for deriving estimates of recent fertility from simple questions in censuses and surveys is the 'P/F ratio' method. Availability of detailed birth-history data, as in the World Fertility Survey, and applications of the P/F procedure as a diagnostic tool in the evaluation of the quality of data have led to simplifications and extensions of the original method. This analysis illustrates that when …
Reflections on the Incorporation of Biomeasures into Longitudinal Social Surveys
This article is concerned with the underlying rationales for including biomeasures in longitudinal social surveys. In particular, it seeks to draw out the potential advantages of incorporating biomeasures in household panel studies for advancing our understanding of behaviors. A key emphasis is on elaborating pathways from biology through the brain/mind to behaviors and outcomes, particularly for social, demographic, economic, and health domains.…
Identifying Patterns of Resilience Using Classification Trees
This paper introduces and illustrates the value of a classification trees approach in the study of resilience. The inherently interactive nature of the resilience construct makes this approach useful. Classification trees are a person-centred approach to data analysis, which successively split the sample into pairs of increasingly homogeneous groups of individuals. We outline the approach and then illustrate using adult educational outcomes for c…
Towards a scientific understanding of demographic behaviour
This note draws upon and summarises a much fuller treatment of the issues involved in shaping the research agenda for improving our understanding of demographic behaviour (Hobcraft, 2006). One key element of this agenda is to shift attention away from events and towards a focus on dynamic processes and their interplays. This involves moving away from a preoccupation with marriage and divorce, births, deaths, migrations, and household structures t…
Eugene Grebenik 1919–2001
The Registrar General's Statistical Review. Part III (Commentary), 1965
Sample Census--Great Britain Summary Tables
The Population Census
Regional Demographic Development
This book contains revised versions of papers originally presented at a 1977 conference. The papers are concerned with regional demographic development in Great Britain. Four major topics are considered: population history fertility migration and population projections (ANNOTATION)
Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Demography
Advances in theP/Fratio method for the analysis of birth histories
One of the most frequently used indirect techniques for deriving estimates of recent fertility from simple questions in censuses and surveys is the 'P/F ratio' method. Availability of detailed birth-history data, as in the World Fertility Survey, and applications of the P/F procedure as a diagnostic tool in the evaluation of the quality of data have led to simplifications and extensions of the original method. This analysis illustrates that when …
Child-Spacing Effects on Infant and Early Child Mortality
For at least 60 years the deleterious effects of rapid childbearing on infant and early child survival chances have been the subject of study. The analyses of child spacing effects on infant and early childhood mortality presented here are based upon data from 26 developing countries which participated in the World Fertility Survey (WFS). All WFS data sets include a complete live birth history including the date of birth of all children born aliv…
Socio-economic factors in Infant and child mortality
In this paper five socio-economic correlates of infant and child mortality are considered using results from World Fertility Survey enquiries in 28 developing countries. We consider differences in mortality for segments of life during the first five years on each of the following variables: mother's education, mother's work status, husband's occupation, husband's education and type of place of residence. A simple tabular analysis is followed by a…
Socio-economic Factors in Infant and Child Mortality
Using results from the World Fertility Survey (WFS) for 28 countries, socioeconomic differences in neonatal, postneonatal, and child mortality were examined. To maintain some degree of comparability and to make presentation of the results feasible, focus was on 5 variables which are available for each survey. It can be argued that each of the 5 socioeconomic variables considered here--mother's education, mother's work status since marriage, curre…
Demographic Determinants of Infant and Early Child Mortality
In this paper we examine the relative importance of a number of demographic determinants of infant and early child mortality using information from 39 World Fertility Survey countries. We include sex of the child, age of the mother at the time of the birth, birth order, mother's educational level and a number of indicators of spacing of adjacent births among the correlates of chances of survival for children below the age of five years. Mortality…
Reproductive Change in Developing Countries
This book assesses the role which the Survey has played in documenting and understanding the emergence of new trends in fertility behaviour which are of the utmost important to the future of mankind. It is the first time that these results have been placed in a broad perspective of scientific knowledge and political relevance. Demographers; social researchers; family planning administrators; students of these and development studies
Breastfeeding and Fertility
In this paper information collected in the World Fertility Survey on durations of breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence and amenorrhoea is used. Rates of conception and of resumption of menstruation are presented for four breastfeeding states: full breastfeeding, partial breastfeeding, weaned, and never breastfed. The various patterns of breastfeeding affect resumption of menstruation in consistent and expected directions. Continued breastfeed…
The First Fifty Years - A Tribute to E. Grebenik
Fertility in England and Wales
This paper provides a detailed account of fertility levels and trends in England and Wales since 1938, with a briefer coverage of a much longer time-span. The paper is concerned both with the measurement of fertility and with understanding the observed fertility behaviour. We lament and correct the failure of demographers to apply measurement tools available since the 1950s to the analysis of fertility in England and Wales, with a particular emph…
Parental Divorce during Childhood
It is well established that young people whose parents divorced or experienced marital breakdown during their childhood are likely to enter into first partnerships and into parenthood earlier than those whose parents remained married. In this paper using data from the British National Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles Survey we examine how far the timing of first coitus plays a role in the genesis of this demographic behaviour for children of divor…
Childhood poverty, early motherhood and adult social exclusion
Childhood poverty and early parenthood are both high on the current political agenda. The key new issue that this research addresses is the relative importance of childhood poverty and of early motherhood as correlates of outcomes later in life. How far are the 'effects' of early motherhood on later outcomes due to childhood precursors, especially experience of childhood poverty? Subsidiary questions relate to the magnitude of these associations,…
Understanding social exclusion
This text explores the issue of social exclusion, considering its measurement, main determinants, and ways in which it may be reduced. The editors show how a focus on the topic may alter the relevant policy questions by fostering debate in government
Eugene Grebenik 1919–2001
Discussion of paper ‘Explanations of the fertility crisis in modern societies
Parental divorce and subsequent disadvantage
Although many studies have examined the link between parental divorce and subsequent wellbeing, some theories of the effects of divorce suggest that the negative associations should have declined over time. However, few studies have examined the extent to which the associations have remained stable over time. Using data from two British cohorts, we analyzed both shorter- and longer-term outcomes of children who experienced parental divorce and th…
The ABC of demographic behaviour
This paper proposes core innovations in the strategy of research on demographic behaviour. One aim is a shift of attention away from events and towards a focus on dynamic processes and their interplay: away from a preoccupation with marriage and divorce, births, deaths, migrations, and household structure towards a broader perspective that takes account of partnership and intimacy, parenthood, potential and well-being, position in society and spa…
Towards a scientific understanding of demographic behaviour
This note draws upon and summarises a much fuller treatment of the issues involved in shaping the research agenda for improving our understanding of demographic behaviour (Hobcraft, 2006). One key element of this agenda is to shift attention away from events and towards a focus on dynamic processes and their interplays. This involves moving away from a preoccupation with marriage and divorce, births, deaths, migrations, and household structures t…
Pour améliorer notre compréhension des comportements démographiques
que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement
Identifying Patterns of Resilience Using Classification Trees
This paper introduces and illustrates the value of a classification trees approach in the study of resilience. The inherently interactive nature of the resilience construct makes this approach useful. Classification trees are a person-centred approach to data analysis, which successively split the sample into pairs of increasingly homogeneous groups of individuals. We outline the approach and then illustrate using adult educational outcomes for c…
Childhood deprivation, health and development
OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between childhood socioeconomic and family circumstances, health and behavioural and cognitive development, and health and mental well-being outcomes in adulthood; exploring whether associations are different for cohorts born in 1958 and 1970, or for men and women. DESIGN: Pooled analysis of two prospective, population-based, British birth cohort studies. PARTICIPANTS: 11 327 men and women born in 1958 and 1…
Sociology (18 obras) · Demography (15 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Population (14 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Developmental psychology (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (6 obras)