Karen Oppenheim Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 172937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Oppenheim Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen Oppenheim |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON K O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Muslim and Non-Muslim Differences in Female Autonomy and Fertility: Evidence from Four Asian Countries
On the basis of research on paired Muslim and non-Muslim communities selected in India, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, the authors test the hypothesis that greater observed Muslim pronatalism can be explained by less power or lower autonomy among Muslim women. Indeed, wives in the Muslim communities, compared to the non-Muslim ones: 1) had more children, 2) were more likely to desire additional children, and 3) if they desired no more c…
Husbands’ versus wives’ fertility goals and use of contraception: The influence of gender context in five Asian countries
Using data from Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, we explore how gender context influences (1) husband-wife concordance in the demand for children and (2) the impact of each spouse’s fertility preferences on contraceptive use. We also explore whether the husband’s pronatalism can explain the wife’s unmet need for contraception. The results suggest that gender context has little net effect on couples’ concordance, but influ…
The Changing Family in Comparative Perspective: Asia and the United States
Explaining fertility transitions
In this essay. I suggest that the crisis in our understanding of fertility transitions is more apparent than real. Although most existing theories of fertility transition have been partially or wholly discredited, this reflects a tendency to assume that all fertility transitions share one or two causes, to ignore mortality decline as a precondition for fertility decline, to assume that pretransitional fertility is wholly governed by social constr…
The Impact of Population Growth on Well-being in Developing Countries
Women's Position and Demographic Change
The Impact of Population Growth on Well-being in Developing Countries
Gender and Family Change in Industrialized Countries
This volume focuses on the relationship between change in the family and change in the roles of women and men on contemporary industrial societies. Of central concern is whether change in gender roles has fuelled - or is merely historically coincident with - such changes in the family as rising divorce rates, increases in out-of-wedlock childbearing, declining marriage rates, and a growing disconnection between the lives of men and children. Cove…
Market Child Care Versus Care by Relatives: Choices Made by Employed and Nonemployed Mothers
We study the determinants of whether mothers of preschool-aged children use market child care versus care by relatives to assess the importance of economics versus preferences. The evidence suggests that employed mothers turn to relatives for child care partly out of preference, not just because relatives are inexpensive. Public policies that encourage the use of relatives for child care might therefore increase parental satisfaction and quality …
Gender and family change in industrialized countries
This volume focuses on the relationship between change in the family and change in the roles of women and men in contemporary industrial societies. Of central concern is whether change in gender roles has fuelled - or is merely historically coincident with - such changes in the family as rising divorce rates, increases in out-of-wedlock childbearing, declining marriage rates, and a growing disconnection between the lives of men and children. Cove…
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control
Women's position and demographic change
The perceived impact of child care costs on women’s labor supply and fertility
In a sample of Detroit-area mothers of preschool-aged children interviewed in 1986, one-third reported that child care problems had constrained their employment. Such reports were relatively prevalent among poor women. those without relatives nearby, and those willing to entrust the care of their children to nonfamily members. Only one-tenth of the sample reported a similar child care constraint on fertility, a phenomenon unrelated to income but …
The World's Women 1970-1990: Trends and Statistics
Determinants of Child Care Ideals among Mothers of Preschool-Aged Children
This paper explores the extent to which care by a childs parents is considered ideal at different preschool ages using data collected in 1986 for a probability sample of 1302 mothers of preschool-aged children living in the greater Detroit metropolitan area. Womens current use of child care marital and employment status income youngest childs age gender role ideology religion religiosity education race proximity to relatives and place of residenc…
Attitudes Toward Women's Familial Roles: Changes in the United States, 1977-1985
Changes between 1977 and 1985 in women's and men's attitudes toward women's familial roles were examined using National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey data. Despite speculation that a backlash against feminism occurred during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and evidence from past studies of a possible slowdown in gender-role attitude change, the data show a significant increase in profeminist views of the wife and mother roles amon…
The impact of women's social position on fertility in developing countries
Sources of age and date-of-birth misreporting in the 1900 U.S. census
Analysis of the characteristics of people with discrepancies between reported age and reported date of birth or with missing data on these variables suggests that discrepancies between age and date of birth in the 1900 U.S. census were largely generated by enumerators carelessness in recording or inferring age. Missing data however appear to have been generated by ignorance about age and systematic forms of miscommunication as well as by enumerat…
The Decline of Fertility in Los Angeles, California, 1880-1900
Data from the 1900 U.S. Census of Population show that fertility in Los Angeles California, declined by more than 50 per cent between 1880 and 1900. Women's mean age at first marriage, which rose by approximately three years, contributed to the decline, but change in marital fertility was more important than change in nuptiality. Although the fertility of in-migrating U.S.-born women was lower than that of California-born women, the decline was n…
Differences between Women's and Men's Reproductive Goals in Developing Countries
Clearer understanding of the impact of gender on reproductive decision making is important for the formulation of family planning policy in developing countries. In general gender differences in fertilty goals are most likely to be found in highly patriarchal low-income high-fertility lineage-dominated societies in which formal schooling is relatively uncommon. It is unclear however whether men or women are likely to be more pronatalist in such s…
The status of women: Conceptual and methodological issues in demographic studies
Sex and Advantage: A Comparative, Macro-Structural Theory of Sex Stratification
Population Information in Nineteenth-Century Census Volumes
Female Employment and Fertility in Peninsular Malaysia: The Maternal Role Incompatibility Hypothesis Reconsidered
Multivariate analysis of the 1974 Malaysian Fertility and Family Survey tests the hypothesis that an inverse relationship between women’s work and fertility occurs only when there are serious conflicts between working and caring for children. The results are only partly consistent with the hypothesis and suggest that normative conflicts between working and mothering affect the employment-fertility relationship in Malaysia more than spacio-tempora…
Sex, Discrimination, and the Division of Labor
Some Methodological Issues in Cohort Analysis of Archival Data
Walton, John 1966a Substance and artifact: the current status of research on community power structure. American Journal of Sociology 71 (January) :430-8. 1966b Discipline, method and community power: a note on the sociology of knowledge. American Sociological Review 31 (October): 684-99. 1967 The vertical axis of community organization and the structure of power. Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 48 (December) :353-68. Wolfinger, Raymond E. …
Change in U.S. Women's Sex-Role Attitudes, 1964-1974
Explaining fertility transitions
In this essay. I suggest that the crisis in our understanding of fertility transitions is more apparent than real. Although most existing theories of fertility transition have been partially or wholly discredited, this reflects a tendency to assume that all fertility transitions share one or two causes, to ignore mortality decline as a precondition for fertility decline, to assume that pretransitional fertility is wholly governed by social constr…
Attitudes Toward Women's Familial Roles: Changes in the United States, 1977-1985
Changes between 1977 and 1985 in women's and men's attitudes toward women's familial roles were examined using National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey data. Despite speculation that a backlash against feminism occurred during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and evidence from past studies of a possible slowdown in gender-role attitude change, the data show a significant increase in profeminist views of the wife and mother roles amon…
The status of women: Conceptual and methodological issues in demographic studies
Husbands’ versus wives’ fertility goals and use of contraception: The influence of gender context in five Asian countries
Using data from Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, we explore how gender context influences (1) husband-wife concordance in the demand for children and (2) the impact of each spouse’s fertility preferences on contraceptive use. We also explore whether the husband’s pronatalism can explain the wife’s unmet need for contraception. The results suggest that gender context has little net effect on couples’ concordance, but influ…
The impact of women's social position on fertility in developing countries
Women's position and demographic change
Differences between Women's and Men's Reproductive Goals in Developing Countries
Clearer understanding of the impact of gender on reproductive decision making is important for the formulation of family planning policy in developing countries. In general gender differences in fertilty goals are most likely to be found in highly patriarchal low-income high-fertility lineage-dominated societies in which formal schooling is relatively uncommon. It is unclear however whether men or women are likely to be more pronatalist in such s…
Muslim and Non-Muslim Differences in Female Autonomy and Fertility: Evidence from Four Asian Countries
On the basis of research on paired Muslim and non-Muslim communities selected in India, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, the authors test the hypothesis that greater observed Muslim pronatalism can be explained by less power or lower autonomy among Muslim women. Indeed, wives in the Muslim communities, compared to the non-Muslim ones: 1) had more children, 2) were more likely to desire additional children, and 3) if they desired no more c…
Female Employment and Fertility in Peninsular Malaysia: The Maternal Role Incompatibility Hypothesis Reconsidered
Multivariate analysis of the 1974 Malaysian Fertility and Family Survey tests the hypothesis that an inverse relationship between women’s work and fertility occurs only when there are serious conflicts between working and caring for children. The results are only partly consistent with the hypothesis and suggest that normative conflicts between working and mothering affect the employment-fertility relationship in Malaysia more than spacio-tempora…
The perceived impact of child care costs on women’s labor supply and fertility
In a sample of Detroit-area mothers of preschool-aged children interviewed in 1986, one-third reported that child care problems had constrained their employment. Such reports were relatively prevalent among poor women. those without relatives nearby, and those willing to entrust the care of their children to nonfamily members. Only one-tenth of the sample reported a similar child care constraint on fertility, a phenomenon unrelated to income but …
Determinants of Child Care Ideals among Mothers of Preschool-Aged Children
This paper explores the extent to which care by a childs parents is considered ideal at different preschool ages using data collected in 1986 for a probability sample of 1302 mothers of preschool-aged children living in the greater Detroit metropolitan area. Womens current use of child care marital and employment status income youngest childs age gender role ideology religion religiosity education race proximity to relatives and place of residenc…
U. S. Women's Sex-Role Ideology, 1970
Recently collected sex-role attitude data are analyzed with a view to understanding the ideological bases of specific attitudes. Correlation analysis suggests that women do not currently organize all sex-role attitudes along a single dimension, although their outlook toward the sex-based familial division of labor is supported by beliefs about the needs of children and women. Regression analysis of attitudes in relation to personal characteristic…
Reply to Glenn
Market Child Care Versus Care by Relatives: Choices Made by Employed and Nonemployed Mothers
We study the determinants of whether mothers of preschool-aged children use market child care versus care by relatives to assess the importance of economics versus preferences. The evidence suggests that employed mothers turn to relatives for child care partly out of preference, not just because relatives are inexpensive. Public policies that encourage the use of relatives for child care might therefore increase parental satisfaction and quality …
Sources of age and date-of-birth misreporting in the 1900 U.S. census
Analysis of the characteristics of people with discrepancies between reported age and reported date of birth or with missing data on these variables suggests that discrepancies between age and date of birth in the 1900 U.S. census were largely generated by enumerators carelessness in recording or inferring age. Missing data however appear to have been generated by ignorance about age and systematic forms of miscommunication as well as by enumerat…
The Decline of Fertility in Los Angeles, California, 1880-1900
Data from the 1900 U.S. Census of Population show that fertility in Los Angeles California, declined by more than 50 per cent between 1880 and 1900. Women's mean age at first marriage, which rose by approximately three years, contributed to the decline, but change in marital fertility was more important than change in nuptiality. Although the fertility of in-migrating U.S.-born women was lower than that of California-born women, the decline was n…
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control
Some Methodological Issues in Cohort Analysis of Archival Data
Walton, John 1966a Substance and artifact: the current status of research on community power structure. American Journal of Sociology 71 (January) :430-8. 1966b Discipline, method and community power: a note on the sociology of knowledge. American Sociological Review 31 (October): 684-99. 1967 The vertical axis of community organization and the structure of power. Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 48 (December) :353-68. Wolfinger, Raymond E. …
Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific Communities
Reviews qualifications to write these books.But he has an attractive if rather journalistic style, the data he presents are fully documented, and he includes useful appendices with additional technical information.In the first title the author has accumulated his evidence by detailed and extensive research, including encounters with addicts, pushers, and police.He examines all aspects of the drug and its use as an addictive agent, and provides fa…
Women & Work: An International Comparison
U. S. Women's Sex-Role Ideology, 1970
Recently collected sex-role attitude data are analyzed with a view to understanding the ideological bases of specific attitudes. Correlation analysis suggests that women do not currently organize all sex-role attitudes along a single dimension, although their outlook toward the sex-based familial division of labor is supported by beliefs about the needs of children and women. Regression analysis of attitudes in relation to personal characteristic…
Sex, Discrimination, and the Division of Labor
Change in U.S. Women's Sex-Role Attitudes, 1964-1974
Reply to Glenn
Comment III
Female Employment and Fertility in Peninsular Malaysia: The Maternal Role Incompatibility Hypothesis Reconsidered
Multivariate analysis of the 1974 Malaysian Fertility and Family Survey tests the hypothesis that an inverse relationship between women’s work and fertility occurs only when there are serious conflicts between working and caring for children. The results are only partly consistent with the hypothesis and suggest that normative conflicts between working and mothering affect the employment-fertility relationship in Malaysia more than spacio-tempora…
Sex and Advantage: A Comparative, Macro-Structural Theory of Sex Stratification
Population Information in Nineteenth-Century Census Volumes
The status of women: Conceptual and methodological issues in demographic studies
The impact of women's social position on fertility in developing countries
Sources of age and date-of-birth misreporting in the 1900 U.S. census
Analysis of the characteristics of people with discrepancies between reported age and reported date of birth or with missing data on these variables suggests that discrepancies between age and date of birth in the 1900 U.S. census were largely generated by enumerators carelessness in recording or inferring age. Missing data however appear to have been generated by ignorance about age and systematic forms of miscommunication as well as by enumerat…
The Decline of Fertility in Los Angeles, California, 1880-1900
Data from the 1900 U.S. Census of Population show that fertility in Los Angeles California, declined by more than 50 per cent between 1880 and 1900. Women's mean age at first marriage, which rose by approximately three years, contributed to the decline, but change in marital fertility was more important than change in nuptiality. Although the fertility of in-migrating U.S.-born women was lower than that of California-born women, the decline was n…
Differences between Women's and Men's Reproductive Goals in Developing Countries
Clearer understanding of the impact of gender on reproductive decision making is important for the formulation of family planning policy in developing countries. In general gender differences in fertilty goals are most likely to be found in highly patriarchal low-income high-fertility lineage-dominated societies in which formal schooling is relatively uncommon. It is unclear however whether men or women are likely to be more pronatalist in such s…
Attitudes Toward Women's Familial Roles: Changes in the United States, 1977-1985
Changes between 1977 and 1985 in women's and men's attitudes toward women's familial roles were examined using National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey data. Despite speculation that a backlash against feminism occurred during the late 1970s and early 1980s, and evidence from past studies of a possible slowdown in gender-role attitude change, the data show a significant increase in profeminist views of the wife and mother roles amon…
Determinants of Child Care Ideals among Mothers of Preschool-Aged Children
This paper explores the extent to which care by a childs parents is considered ideal at different preschool ages using data collected in 1986 for a probability sample of 1302 mothers of preschool-aged children living in the greater Detroit metropolitan area. Womens current use of child care marital and employment status income youngest childs age gender role ideology religion religiosity education race proximity to relatives and place of residenc…
The perceived impact of child care costs on women’s labor supply and fertility
In a sample of Detroit-area mothers of preschool-aged children interviewed in 1986, one-third reported that child care problems had constrained their employment. Such reports were relatively prevalent among poor women. those without relatives nearby, and those willing to entrust the care of their children to nonfamily members. Only one-tenth of the sample reported a similar child care constraint on fertility, a phenomenon unrelated to income but …
The World's Women 1970-1990: Trends and Statistics
Women's position and demographic change
Gender and family change in industrialized countries
This volume focuses on the relationship between change in the family and change in the roles of women and men in contemporary industrial societies. Of central concern is whether change in gender roles has fuelled - or is merely historically coincident with - such changes in the family as rising divorce rates, increases in out-of-wedlock childbearing, declining marriage rates, and a growing disconnection between the lives of men and children. Cove…
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control
The Impact of Population Growth on Well-being in Developing Countries
Women's Position and Demographic Change
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