Susan De Vo
Biographic Data
| ID | 120971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan De Vo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | De Vo |
| SIGNATURE | DE VO S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
The Color of Love is an insightful treatment of the social psychology of race and the family, ostensibly in Brazil but with observations that have more general applicability. Besides being an excellent core book for undergraduate or graduate social science courses on the African diaspora, The Color of Love has wide appeal as an ancillary reading in a variety of other courses ranging from Early Childhood Education to Cross-Cultural Social Psycholo…
On The Role of the Extended Family in Helping to Pay for the Household Expenses of Unmarried Older Women (60+) in Latin Anerica and the Caribbean
This study helps document the important role of extended family living-considered in terms of both coresidence and child proximity-in helping to predict assistance with paying household expenses among elderly unmarried women in seven Latin American and Caribbean cities: Bridgetown, Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City, Montevideo, Santiago (Chile) and Sao Paulo. It also looks into the idea that economic need helps predict family assistance to elderl…
Special Reviewers
On classifying race in Brazil: Example from a study of the functional ability of older people (60+)
How should race be categorized? This article investigates the usefulness of having three categories to describe a black-white racial continuum, focusing on Brazil and the functional ability of elderly (60+) people there. Ironically, even as the U.S. census has started to acknowledge mixed race again, much social research in Brazil has begun not to. Using 1998 national household survey microdata (PNAD) for Brazil, we find it advantageous to use a …
Family Structure and School Attendance Among Children 13-16 in Argentina and Panama
This paper examines the relative likelihood of an adolescent 13-16 being in school by his or her family situation in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Panama. Both countries had moderate levels of school attendance but rather different socioeconomic conditions and marital patterns. Family situations included parents who were unmarried, consensually married or formally married, and family households that were singleparent, simple two-hea…
Using housing items to indicate socioeconomic status: Latin America
Change in Extended Family Living among Elderly People in South Korea, 1970-1980
Is there a Socioeconomic Dimension to Household Extension in Latin America
This paper investigates whether urban/ rural residence or husband's occupation is related to household extension in six Latin American countries in the middle 1970s. Since urban households were more likely to be extended than rural households among the less well educated, the urban/rural differences appeared more consistent with a world-system perspective than with a "modernization" view. It is important to note, however, that the existence of a …
The one-person household in Latin America: A brief note
The Relationship Between Age and Household Type in Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka in 1975, there was a clear relationship between age and the propensity to live in a complex family household that was consistent with the idea that the extended household was important at all ages, but particularly at older ages. The relationship is also consistent with the predominance of a stem-family system. The proportion living in a complex fami ly household was lowest among children under 15 years of age (at 35%) and again at 3…
Leaving the Parental Home: Patterns in Six Latin American Countries
Using cross-sectional data from household files of the World Fertility Survey this study explores sociodemographic determinants of leaving the parental household among young adults in Colombia Costa Rica the Dominican Republic Mexico Panama and Peru in the mid-1970s. The article describes the relationships between being a child of a household head on the 1 hand and age sex marital status urban/rural residence education and work status on the othe…
Measures Comparing Living Arrangements of the Elderly: An Assessment
The ability to evaluate differences in living arrangements across countries in terms of the relative importance of culture or socioeconomic factors depends in part on the measure used and whether it takes into account demographic conditions and cultural biases. This note discusses 4 measures that have been adopted for measuring the living arrangements of the elderly and using data from Latin America Asia Northwest Europe and North America evaluat…
Household Headship Among Unmarried Mothers in Six Latin American Countries
This paper describes and explores the relationship of several life-course and development-related factors with household headship among unmarried women 15-49 years of age with a child under the age of 15 in six Latin American countries: Mexico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Colombia, and Peru. We argue that, in contrast to the apparent situation in the U.S., a majority of unmarried women in these countries live as subfamilies in som…
Latin American Households in Comparative Perspective
Comparative family sociology has had little to say about the Latin American family or household despite it links to a European colonial culture mixed with a distinct set of indigenous and historical circumstances. In this paper tentative judgements are put forward about the similarities and differences between the Western and Latin American household by examining four of its dimensions: the household's relative complexity, the separate residence …
An Old-Age Security Incentive for Children in the Philippines and Taiwan
Preferences for the Sex of Offspring and Demographic Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany: An Examination of Evidence From Village Genealogies
Peer Reviewed
Using housing items to indicate socioeconomic status: Latin America
Preferences for the Sex of Offspring and Demographic Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany: An Examination of Evidence From Village Genealogies
Peer Reviewed
Measures Comparing Living Arrangements of the Elderly: An Assessment
The ability to evaluate differences in living arrangements across countries in terms of the relative importance of culture or socioeconomic factors depends in part on the measure used and whether it takes into account demographic conditions and cultural biases. This note discusses 4 measures that have been adopted for measuring the living arrangements of the elderly and using data from Latin America Asia Northwest Europe and North America evaluat…
Latin American Households in Comparative Perspective
Comparative family sociology has had little to say about the Latin American family or household despite it links to a European colonial culture mixed with a distinct set of indigenous and historical circumstances. In this paper tentative judgements are put forward about the similarities and differences between the Western and Latin American household by examining four of its dimensions: the household's relative complexity, the separate residence …
Change in Extended Family Living among Elderly People in South Korea, 1970-1980
Leaving the Parental Home: Patterns in Six Latin American Countries
Using cross-sectional data from household files of the World Fertility Survey this study explores sociodemographic determinants of leaving the parental household among young adults in Colombia Costa Rica the Dominican Republic Mexico Panama and Peru in the mid-1970s. The article describes the relationships between being a child of a household head on the 1 hand and age sex marital status urban/rural residence education and work status on the othe…
An Old-Age Security Incentive for Children in the Philippines and Taiwan
On The Role of the Extended Family in Helping to Pay for the Household Expenses of Unmarried Older Women (60+) in Latin Anerica and the Caribbean
This study helps document the important role of extended family living-considered in terms of both coresidence and child proximity-in helping to predict assistance with paying household expenses among elderly unmarried women in seven Latin American and Caribbean cities: Bridgetown, Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City, Montevideo, Santiago (Chile) and Sao Paulo. It also looks into the idea that economic need helps predict family assistance to elderl…
Family Structure and School Attendance Among Children 13-16 in Argentina and Panama
This paper examines the relative likelihood of an adolescent 13-16 being in school by his or her family situation in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Panama. Both countries had moderate levels of school attendance but rather different socioeconomic conditions and marital patterns. Family situations included parents who were unmarried, consensually married or formally married, and family households that were singleparent, simple two-hea…
Is there a Socioeconomic Dimension to Household Extension in Latin America
This paper investigates whether urban/ rural residence or husband's occupation is related to household extension in six Latin American countries in the middle 1970s. Since urban households were more likely to be extended than rural households among the less well educated, the urban/rural differences appeared more consistent with a world-system perspective than with a "modernization" view. It is important to note, however, that the existence of a …
Household Headship Among Unmarried Mothers in Six Latin American Countries
This paper describes and explores the relationship of several life-course and development-related factors with household headship among unmarried women 15-49 years of age with a child under the age of 15 in six Latin American countries: Mexico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Colombia, and Peru. We argue that, in contrast to the apparent situation in the U.S., a majority of unmarried women in these countries live as subfamilies in som…
Preferences for the Sex of Offspring and Demographic Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany: An Examination of Evidence From Village Genealogies
Peer Reviewed
An Old-Age Security Incentive for Children in the Philippines and Taiwan
Latin American Households in Comparative Perspective
Comparative family sociology has had little to say about the Latin American family or household despite it links to a European colonial culture mixed with a distinct set of indigenous and historical circumstances. In this paper tentative judgements are put forward about the similarities and differences between the Western and Latin American household by examining four of its dimensions: the household's relative complexity, the separate residence …
Measures Comparing Living Arrangements of the Elderly: An Assessment
The ability to evaluate differences in living arrangements across countries in terms of the relative importance of culture or socioeconomic factors depends in part on the measure used and whether it takes into account demographic conditions and cultural biases. This note discusses 4 measures that have been adopted for measuring the living arrangements of the elderly and using data from Latin America Asia Northwest Europe and North America evaluat…
Household Headship Among Unmarried Mothers in Six Latin American Countries
This paper describes and explores the relationship of several life-course and development-related factors with household headship among unmarried women 15-49 years of age with a child under the age of 15 in six Latin American countries: Mexico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Colombia, and Peru. We argue that, in contrast to the apparent situation in the U.S., a majority of unmarried women in these countries live as subfamilies in som…
The Relationship Between Age and Household Type in Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka in 1975, there was a clear relationship between age and the propensity to live in a complex family household that was consistent with the idea that the extended household was important at all ages, but particularly at older ages. The relationship is also consistent with the predominance of a stem-family system. The proportion living in a complex fami ly household was lowest among children under 15 years of age (at 35%) and again at 3…
Leaving the Parental Home: Patterns in Six Latin American Countries
Using cross-sectional data from household files of the World Fertility Survey this study explores sociodemographic determinants of leaving the parental household among young adults in Colombia Costa Rica the Dominican Republic Mexico Panama and Peru in the mid-1970s. The article describes the relationships between being a child of a household head on the 1 hand and age sex marital status urban/rural residence education and work status on the othe…
The one-person household in Latin America: A brief note
Change in Extended Family Living among Elderly People in South Korea, 1970-1980
Is there a Socioeconomic Dimension to Household Extension in Latin America
This paper investigates whether urban/ rural residence or husband's occupation is related to household extension in six Latin American countries in the middle 1970s. Since urban households were more likely to be extended than rural households among the less well educated, the urban/rural differences appeared more consistent with a world-system perspective than with a "modernization" view. It is important to note, however, that the existence of a …
Using housing items to indicate socioeconomic status: Latin America
Family Structure and School Attendance Among Children 13-16 in Argentina and Panama
This paper examines the relative likelihood of an adolescent 13-16 being in school by his or her family situation in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Panama. Both countries had moderate levels of school attendance but rather different socioeconomic conditions and marital patterns. Family situations included parents who were unmarried, consensually married or formally married, and family households that were singleparent, simple two-hea…
Special Reviewers
On classifying race in Brazil: Example from a study of the functional ability of older people (60+)
How should race be categorized? This article investigates the usefulness of having three categories to describe a black-white racial continuum, focusing on Brazil and the functional ability of elderly (60+) people there. Ironically, even as the U.S. census has started to acknowledge mixed race again, much social research in Brazil has begun not to. Using 1998 national household survey microdata (PNAD) for Brazil, we find it advantageous to use a …
On The Role of the Extended Family in Helping to Pay for the Household Expenses of Unmarried Older Women (60+) in Latin Anerica and the Caribbean
This study helps document the important role of extended family living-considered in terms of both coresidence and child proximity-in helping to predict assistance with paying household expenses among elderly unmarried women in seven Latin American and Caribbean cities: Bridgetown, Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City, Montevideo, Santiago (Chile) and Sao Paulo. It also looks into the idea that economic need helps predict family assistance to elderl…
The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families
The Color of Love is an insightful treatment of the social psychology of race and the family, ostensibly in Brazil but with observations that have more general applicability. Besides being an excellent core book for undergraduate or graduate social science courses on the African diaspora, The Color of Love has wide appeal as an ancillary reading in a variety of other courses ranging from Early Childhood Education to Cross-Cultural Social Psycholo…
Sociology (14 works) · Demography (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Population (12 works) · Latin Americans (10 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (8 works) · Socioeconomics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Socioeconomic status (6 works)