John O G Billy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John O G Billy |
| GIVEN NAMES | John O G |
| FAMILY NAME | Billy |
| SIGNATURE | BILLY J O G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Battelle |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 350 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Role of Relationship Power in Couple Decisions About Contraception in the Us
Most analyses of the contraceptive decision-making in which couples engage are based on the reports of only one partner, usually the female partner. This study uses information from the 2006 National Couples Survey conducted in the US, which was obtained from both partners in intimate heterosexual relationships to investigate the relative impact of the male and female partner's method preferences on the type of method they use together. It also i…
Sexual Risk‐Taking Among Adult Dating Couples In the United States
Sexual behaviors are not controlled by any one individual in a relationship; characteristics of each partner are important. Couples-based interventions that take into consideration relationship-especially power-dynamics may enable individuals to initiate and sustain safer-sex practices
Assessment of factors affecting the validity of self-reported health-risk behavior among adolescents: Evidence from the scientific literature
Contraceptive Method Switching in the United States
William R. Grady, John O. G. Billy, Daniel H. Klepinger, Contraceptive Method Switching in the United States, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 34, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2002), pp. 135-145
Gender, Race, Class and Self-Reported Sexually Transmitted Disease Incidence
Koray Tanfer, Lisa A. Cubbins, John O.G. Billy, Gender, Race, Class and Self-Reported Sexually Transmitted Disease Incidence, Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 27, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1995), pp. 196-202
Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women
The impact of social context on female adolescents sexual behavior subsequent to first intercourse was investigated through use of data on females 15-19 years of age from Cycle III of the 1982 US National Survey of Family Growth. Logistic regression was selected to estimate models for the two dependent variables--experiencing premarital intercourse and coital frequency--for the 566 Black and 1286 White subjects. Community factors such as social d…
The Sexual Behavior of Men in the United States
A nationally representative study of the sexual behavior of men aged 20-39 in the United States shows that the prevalence and frequency of sexual acts (vaginal, anal and oral) and sexual orientation vary by social and demographic characteristics. Analysis of data from 3,321 respondents to the 1991 National Survey of Men reveals that 95% of men have had vaginal intercourse; among them, 23% have had 20 or more vaginal sex partners in their lifetime…
Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity
Journal Article Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity Get access Karin L. Brewster, Karin L. Brewster University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct all correspondence to Karin L. Brewster, Carolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #8120, University Square, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
A Multilevel Analysis of Marital and Nonmarital Fertility in the U.S
Journal Article A Multilevel Analysis of Marital and Nonmarital Fertility in the U.S. Get access John O.G. Billy, John O.G. Billy Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers Direct all correspondence to John O.G. Billy, Battelle-HARC, 4000 N.E. 41st St., Seattle, WA 98105. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David E. Moore David E. Moore Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers Search for other works by this author…
The Changing Lives of American Women
The Changing Lives of American Women
The authors identify basic features of womens changing lives from greater personal control over life outcomes to their greater independence relative to family claims and sum up the general picture with a concept of the woman as a primary individual. This story focuses on the women who married and gave birth to children in the baby boom of postwar America the women of the baby-boom generation itself and their daughters who are encountering a perio…
Contraceptive switching among currently married women in the United States
This study examines contraceptive method switching among married women in the US. It enquires first into the effect of method type and women's socioeconomic characteristics on the risk of switching to each of six methods, including no method, and secondly into the previous methods used by women who adopt specific contraceptive means. The results indicate a great deal of circulation among all method types and of movement to unprotected intercourse…
The Changing Lives of American Women
Status Enhancement and Fertility: Reproductive Responses to Social Mobility and Educational Opportunity
Effects of Sexual Activity on Adolescent Social and Psychological Development
Recent studies have documented significant increases in the premarital sexual activity of adolescents; whether premarital adolescent sexual activity has any effects on later life events which do not operate through pregnancy related behaviors remains largely untested. This study conducts such an initial investigation by focusing on the short-term consequences of early sexual involvement for changes in the social and psychological characteristics …
Status Enhancement and Fertility: Reproductive Responses to Social Mobility and Educational Opportunity
This book synthesizes conceptual frameworks around which research on the determinants of fertility have been organized. Elaborating underlying causal dynamics it specifies how both traditional and more modern status attainment processes affect fertility. Emphasis is given to the potent role education plays in developing modern sex-role orientations among women and in providing them with the means to pursue rewarding alternatives to bearing large …
Choice and Circumstance: Racial Differences in Adolescent Sexuality and Fertility
Initiation of Coitus in Early Adolescence
It is assumed that in the case of 2 adolescents with similar social constraints the individual with higher motivation is more likely to begin sexual behavior. The models also include another dimension i.e. to have coitus one needs a partner. The partner is not usually a victim in this deviant but a willing participant and it is necessary to consider the ability to attract a partner in the model. Conceptualizing adolescent coitus as the failure of…
Status Enhancement and Fertility
The effect of marital status at first birth on marital dissolution among adolescent mothers
The effect of the sequencing of marriage and first birth on marital dissolution among adolescent mothers is investigated. We compare three groups who had a first live birth before age 20: those married before becoming pregnant, those married between conception and birth, and those who did not marry before the birth. The analysis demonstrates that teenage mothers are less likely to experience a separation if they marry before rather than after the…
Patterns of Adolescent Friendship and Effects on Sexual Behavior
The study investigates homogeneity bias and its sources between adolescent same sex friends by whether or not adolescents have had sexual intercourse using 2 rounds of panel data from a junior high school system in urban Florida. Data were analysed by race sex subgroups. White females and white males tend to name same sex friends whose sexual intercourse behavior is like their own. Sexual intercourse is not a significant factor in accounting for …
The Impact of Prenatal Care on Birth Weight: Evidence From an International Data Set
The impact of prenatal visits on birth weight in six countries is studied using data from an international collaborative maternity care monitoring project. The analyses presented pertain only to those women having singleton live births and whose pregnancies went to term. Results of the analyses indicate that around the world the number of prenatal visits is significantly related to birth weight. Controlling for other variables known to influence …
Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice
Journal Article Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice Get access John O. G. Billy, John O. G. Billy University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Address correspondence to John O. G. Billy, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Richard Udry, J. Richard Udry University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by th…
The rescission of behaviors: Inconsistent responses in adolescent sexuality data
Initiation of Coitus in Early Adolescence
It is assumed that in the case of 2 adolescents with similar social constraints the individual with higher motivation is more likely to begin sexual behavior. The models also include another dimension i.e. to have coitus one needs a partner. The partner is not usually a victim in this deviant but a willing participant and it is necessary to consider the ability to attract a partner in the model. Conceptualizing adolescent coitus as the failure of…
Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women
The impact of social context on female adolescents sexual behavior subsequent to first intercourse was investigated through use of data on females 15-19 years of age from Cycle III of the 1982 US National Survey of Family Growth. Logistic regression was selected to estimate models for the two dependent variables--experiencing premarital intercourse and coital frequency--for the 566 Black and 1286 White subjects. Community factors such as social d…
Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity
Journal Article Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity Get access Karin L. Brewster, Karin L. Brewster University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct all correspondence to Karin L. Brewster, Carolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #8120, University Square, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Patterns of Adolescent Friendship and Effects on Sexual Behavior
The study investigates homogeneity bias and its sources between adolescent same sex friends by whether or not adolescents have had sexual intercourse using 2 rounds of panel data from a junior high school system in urban Florida. Data were analysed by race sex subgroups. White females and white males tend to name same sex friends whose sexual intercourse behavior is like their own. Sexual intercourse is not a significant factor in accounting for …
A Multilevel Analysis of Marital and Nonmarital Fertility in the U.S
Journal Article A Multilevel Analysis of Marital and Nonmarital Fertility in the U.S. Get access John O.G. Billy, John O.G. Billy Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers Direct all correspondence to John O.G. Billy, Battelle-HARC, 4000 N.E. 41st St., Seattle, WA 98105. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David E. Moore David E. Moore Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers Search for other works by this author…
Effects of Sexual Activity on Adolescent Social and Psychological Development
Recent studies have documented significant increases in the premarital sexual activity of adolescents; whether premarital adolescent sexual activity has any effects on later life events which do not operate through pregnancy related behaviors remains largely untested. This study conducts such an initial investigation by focusing on the short-term consequences of early sexual involvement for changes in the social and psychological characteristics …
Gender, Race, Class and Self-Reported Sexually Transmitted Disease Incidence
Koray Tanfer, Lisa A. Cubbins, John O.G. Billy, Gender, Race, Class and Self-Reported Sexually Transmitted Disease Incidence, Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 27, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1995), pp. 196-202
The effect of marital status at first birth on marital dissolution among adolescent mothers
The effect of the sequencing of marriage and first birth on marital dissolution among adolescent mothers is investigated. We compare three groups who had a first live birth before age 20: those married before becoming pregnant, those married between conception and birth, and those who did not marry before the birth. The analysis demonstrates that teenage mothers are less likely to experience a separation if they marry before rather than after the…
The rescission of behaviors: Inconsistent responses in adolescent sexuality data
Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice
Journal Article Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice Get access John O. G. Billy, John O. G. Billy University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Address correspondence to John O. G. Billy, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Richard Udry, J. Richard Udry University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by th…
Contraceptive Method Switching in the United States
William R. Grady, John O. G. Billy, Daniel H. Klepinger, Contraceptive Method Switching in the United States, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 34, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2002), pp. 135-145
Sexual Risk‐Taking Among Adult Dating Couples In the United States
Sexual behaviors are not controlled by any one individual in a relationship; characteristics of each partner are important. Couples-based interventions that take into consideration relationship-especially power-dynamics may enable individuals to initiate and sustain safer-sex practices
The rescission of behaviors: Inconsistent responses in adolescent sexuality data
The Impact of Prenatal Care on Birth Weight: Evidence From an International Data Set
The impact of prenatal visits on birth weight in six countries is studied using data from an international collaborative maternity care monitoring project. The analyses presented pertain only to those women having singleton live births and whose pregnancies went to term. Results of the analyses indicate that around the world the number of prenatal visits is significantly related to birth weight. Controlling for other variables known to influence …
Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice
Journal Article Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Friendship Choice Get access John O. G. Billy, John O. G. Billy University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Address correspondence to John O. G. Billy, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Richard Udry, J. Richard Udry University of North CarolinaChapel Hill Search for other works by th…
Patterns of Adolescent Friendship and Effects on Sexual Behavior
The study investigates homogeneity bias and its sources between adolescent same sex friends by whether or not adolescents have had sexual intercourse using 2 rounds of panel data from a junior high school system in urban Florida. Data were analysed by race sex subgroups. White females and white males tend to name same sex friends whose sexual intercourse behavior is like their own. Sexual intercourse is not a significant factor in accounting for …
The effect of marital status at first birth on marital dissolution among adolescent mothers
The effect of the sequencing of marriage and first birth on marital dissolution among adolescent mothers is investigated. We compare three groups who had a first live birth before age 20: those married before becoming pregnant, those married between conception and birth, and those who did not marry before the birth. The analysis demonstrates that teenage mothers are less likely to experience a separation if they marry before rather than after the…
Initiation of Coitus in Early Adolescence
It is assumed that in the case of 2 adolescents with similar social constraints the individual with higher motivation is more likely to begin sexual behavior. The models also include another dimension i.e. to have coitus one needs a partner. The partner is not usually a victim in this deviant but a willing participant and it is necessary to consider the ability to attract a partner in the model. Conceptualizing adolescent coitus as the failure of…
Status Enhancement and Fertility
Status Enhancement and Fertility: Reproductive Responses to Social Mobility and Educational Opportunity
Effects of Sexual Activity on Adolescent Social and Psychological Development
Recent studies have documented significant increases in the premarital sexual activity of adolescents; whether premarital adolescent sexual activity has any effects on later life events which do not operate through pregnancy related behaviors remains largely untested. This study conducts such an initial investigation by focusing on the short-term consequences of early sexual involvement for changes in the social and psychological characteristics …
Status Enhancement and Fertility: Reproductive Responses to Social Mobility and Educational Opportunity
This book synthesizes conceptual frameworks around which research on the determinants of fertility have been organized. Elaborating underlying causal dynamics it specifies how both traditional and more modern status attainment processes affect fertility. Emphasis is given to the potent role education plays in developing modern sex-role orientations among women and in providing them with the means to pursue rewarding alternatives to bearing large …
Choice and Circumstance: Racial Differences in Adolescent Sexuality and Fertility
Contraceptive switching among currently married women in the United States
This study examines contraceptive method switching among married women in the US. It enquires first into the effect of method type and women's socioeconomic characteristics on the risk of switching to each of six methods, including no method, and secondly into the previous methods used by women who adopt specific contraceptive means. The results indicate a great deal of circulation among all method types and of movement to unprotected intercourse…
The Changing Lives of American Women
The Changing Lives of American Women
The authors identify basic features of womens changing lives from greater personal control over life outcomes to their greater independence relative to family claims and sum up the general picture with a concept of the woman as a primary individual. This story focuses on the women who married and gave birth to children in the baby boom of postwar America the women of the baby-boom generation itself and their daughters who are encountering a perio…
The Changing Lives of American Women
A Multilevel Analysis of Marital and Nonmarital Fertility in the U.S
Journal Article A Multilevel Analysis of Marital and Nonmarital Fertility in the U.S. Get access John O.G. Billy, John O.G. Billy Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers Direct all correspondence to John O.G. Billy, Battelle-HARC, 4000 N.E. 41st St., Seattle, WA 98105. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David E. Moore David E. Moore Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers Search for other works by this author…
The Sexual Behavior of Men in the United States
A nationally representative study of the sexual behavior of men aged 20-39 in the United States shows that the prevalence and frequency of sexual acts (vaginal, anal and oral) and sexual orientation vary by social and demographic characteristics. Analysis of data from 3,321 respondents to the 1991 National Survey of Men reveals that 95% of men have had vaginal intercourse; among them, 23% have had 20 or more vaginal sex partners in their lifetime…
Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity
Journal Article Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity Get access Karin L. Brewster, Karin L. Brewster University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct all correspondence to Karin L. Brewster, Carolina Population Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #8120, University Square, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women
The impact of social context on female adolescents sexual behavior subsequent to first intercourse was investigated through use of data on females 15-19 years of age from Cycle III of the 1982 US National Survey of Family Growth. Logistic regression was selected to estimate models for the two dependent variables--experiencing premarital intercourse and coital frequency--for the 566 Black and 1286 White subjects. Community factors such as social d…
Gender, Race, Class and Self-Reported Sexually Transmitted Disease Incidence
Koray Tanfer, Lisa A. Cubbins, John O.G. Billy, Gender, Race, Class and Self-Reported Sexually Transmitted Disease Incidence, Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 27, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1995), pp. 196-202
Contraceptive Method Switching in the United States
William R. Grady, John O. G. Billy, Daniel H. Klepinger, Contraceptive Method Switching in the United States, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 34, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2002), pp. 135-145
Assessment of factors affecting the validity of self-reported health-risk behavior among adolescents: Evidence from the scientific literature
Sexual Risk‐Taking Among Adult Dating Couples In the United States
Sexual behaviors are not controlled by any one individual in a relationship; characteristics of each partner are important. Couples-based interventions that take into consideration relationship-especially power-dynamics may enable individuals to initiate and sustain safer-sex practices
The Role of Relationship Power in Couple Decisions About Contraception in the Us
Most analyses of the contraceptive decision-making in which couples engage are based on the reports of only one partner, usually the female partner. This study uses information from the 2006 National Couples Survey conducted in the US, which was obtained from both partners in intimate heterosexual relationships to investigate the relative impact of the male and female partner's method preferences on the type of method they use together. It also i…
Sociology (17 works) · Demography (15 works) · Population (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Demography (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Fertility (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)