Nan E Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nan E Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON N E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Gender, Family Norms, and Male-Factor Infertility in Japan: An Analysis of Internet Blogs
This study analyzes blogs about male-factor infertility posted on a Japanese blogsite on a certain day in April 2014. It focuses on an understudied topic and is the first study of Japanese male infertility based on blogs. The blog format afforded anonymity to the bloggers, and our sample of 97 adults yields the largest number of individual respondents of all cross-cultural studies cited in our literature review. We extract three major themes from…
Childlessness and Mental Well-Being in a Global Context
Pronatal norms exist in various countries to varying degrees. Depending on the strength of pronatalism, adults who remain childless can experience negative sanctions that could affect their happiness and life satisfaction. We test these ideas on childless respondents from 36 nations in two waves of the World Values Survey (1994-1999 and 1999-2004). Childless adults are unhappier and less satisfied if they live in highly pronatalist nations than i…
Health, Retirement, and Migration from Metro Counties: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Event history analyses and difference-in-proportions tests are used to analyze 1994-2003 data from the Health and Retirement Survey. For young-old metropolitan adults who had never retired, self-rated health (SRH) was unrelated to the odds of becoming a migrant, but for those who had retired, better SRH raised the odds. Neither SRH nor its interwave change was related to the risk of a nonmetro or metro destination. Metro-metro and metro-nonmetro …
Self‐Rated Health and the “First Move” Around Retirement: A Longitudinal Study of Older Americans
Purpose: I examine whether less favorable self‐rated health raises the risk of outmigration more for young‐old adults (aged 53‐63 at the start of the 10‐year longitudinal study in 1994) in nonmetro than metro counties and increases the odds that both groups of outmigrants will choose metro over nonmetro destinations. Finally, I examine whether nonmetro outmigrants are more likely than metro outmigrants to cite a health concern or a desire to get …
The Effect of Social Integration on Self-rated Health for Elderly Japanese People: A Longitudinal Study
The current study used the 1999 wave of the Nihon University Japanese Longitudinal Study of Aging to measure intrafamilial and extrafamilial social integration scores for people aged 65-plus, and their self-ranked health reported in follow-up interviews in 2001. An innovation was the usage of ordinal logit regressions of this ordinally-measured dependent variable on the two dimensions of social integration. Higher scores on each dimension of soci…
Social Integration and Healthy Aging in Japan: How Gender and Rurality Matter
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution-and How It Can Renew America - By Thomas L. Friedman
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel - By Jeannette Walls
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine - By Gary Paul Nabhan
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine , by Gary Paul Nabhan , Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books , 2009 . 223 pp. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN : 1-59726-399-0 . Gary Paul Nabhan has written an engaging biography of Nikolay Vavilov (1887–1943), a Russian plant pathologist and geneticist who became one of the global leaders in these fields in the twentieth century. In early childhood, the young Moscow-born N…
The Shifting Roles of Women in Intergenerational Mutual Caregiving in Japan: The Importance of Peace, Population Growth, and Economic Expansion
This article looks at historical changes in the cultural superstructure defining the proper organization of elder care. Intergenerational mutual care in Japan developed in a context of various factors, including cultural ideals, centralization of the civil state, and the family unit, called the ie . In the Tokugawa period, care was often emphasized as men's morality in public, for the Tokugawa shogunate emphasized the Confucian ideology of filial…
Patterns and Associations of Body Weight Among Older Adults in Two Asian Societies
Nonmetro Residence and Impaired Vision Among Elderly Americans
Purpose: Nonmetro and metro elderly people are contrasted in their risk of having (relative to lacking) an impairment in distance vision and in near vision. Methods: Using the 1995–1996 panel (Wave 2) of the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) Survey, the prevalence of 5 eye‐threatening conditions (cardiovascular disease, cataract, diabetes, glaucoma, and hypertension), a variety of medical treatments for these conditions, the …
Nonmetro Residence, Hearing Loss, and Its Accommodation Among Elderly People
Background: No previous studies compare the prevalence of physiological hearing loss among older adults by nonmetro/metro residence. Also, there is little information on their relative successes in accommodating hearing loss with a hearing aid. Purpose: This study sought to bridge these gaps by analyzing the 8,222 respondents to Wave 1 (1993–1994) of the national Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) Survey. Methods: Respondents …
The racial crossover in comorbidity, disability, and mortality
This study analyzed one respondent per household who was age 70 or more at the time of the household’s inclusion in Wave 1 (1993–1994) and whose survival status was determinable at Wave 2 (1995–1996) of the Survey on Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD Survey). At age 76 at Wave 1, there was a racial crossover in the cumulative number of six potentially fatal diagnoses (chronic lung disease, cancer, heart disease, hypertension, …
Aging and Eldercare in Lesser Developed Countries
The family is the main source of caregiving to all its members. One's need for and ability to give care is negotiated by one's place in the family's life cycle and one's social identity-male or female, grandparent, parent, child, or spouse. The availability of relatives shapes the type of care the family can provide for itself and what forms of care it requires from outsiders. The social structure of the family is culturally shaped and globally v…
Attempts to Resolve a Disability in Walking: Different Strategies or Different Outcomes for Nonmetro Elderly Americans
This study analyzed the first two waves (1993-1994 and 1995-1996) of the national Survey on Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old. It focused on the prevalence of a common intrinsic disability at Wave 1-an unaided physiological hardship in walking across a room-and sought which factors eliminated the hardship so that there was no actual disability. Nonmetro and metro elderly people with this intrinsic disability were equally likely to us…
Aging and Eldercare in More Developed Countries: The United States, South Korea, and Puerto Rico
Successful aging can be enabled through a knowledge of what elders need to remain interdependent with their families, communities, and societies. But the rapid growth of the elderly populations in both the more and lesser developed countries is raising demands for eldercare and requiring brand new ways of assuring its success at these multiple levels of social organization. Two unifying themes in this special issue are (a) the relationships of he…
Fields without dreams: Defending the agrarian idea
Nonmetropolitan Sex-Role Ideologies: A Longitudinal Study1
Using the two waves (1987-1988 and 1992-1994) from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), I focused on the 3,792 Main Respondents (MRs) living in sexual unions at Wave 1 who, along with the spouse or domestic partner, were successfully recontacted at Wave 2. MRs from both formal marriages and nonmarital cohabitations were included. An identically worded set of questions about proper roles for men and women was posed to each member…
Socio-demographic correlates of multiple causes of death: Real or artifactual
Changing Rural Social Systems: Adaptation and Survival
Can Structural-Functionalism be revised to account for adverse changes in these rural social systems? Can theoretical revisions then guide new forms of rural development in which communities rebuild familial and occupational systems so that social inequalities converge? In these essays, the answers to both questions invite new propositions on how rural social systems are organized
Educational Inequality in Adult Mortality: An Assessment with Death Certificate Data from Michigan
Education was added to the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death in 1989. The current study uses Michigan’s 1989–1991 death certificates, together with the 1990 Census, to evaluate the quality of data on education from death certificates and to examine educational differences in mortality rates. With log-rates modeling, we systematically analyze the variability in educational differences in mortality by race and sex across the adult life cycle. The …
Does women's literacy affect desired fertility and contraceptive use in rural–urban Pakistan?
The 1984–85 Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey showed that urban wives had more than twice the literacy rate of rural wives. The present study explored the relationship of the rural–urban gap in female literacy to differences in contraceptive use. In rural areas, literacy did not increase women's perceptions of having reached a ‘sufficient’ number of living children, although the opposite was true for urban areas. Yet rural women with an ‘i…
Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America
Hindu and Christian fertility in India: A test of three hypotheses
Three hypotheses interpret differences in human fertility among religious groups. The Particularistic Theology Hypothesis stresses the pronatalist influence of doctrines forbidding artificial contraception and emphasizing the importance of sons, while the Characteristics Hypothesis focuses on the antinatalist effect of urban residence, higher education, and late age at marriage. But the Minority Status Hypothesis argues that such antinatalist eff…
Family size in successive generations: The effects of birth order, intergenerational change in lifestyle, and familial satisfaction
Studies of family size in successive generations have found a small but persistently positive effect of size of family of orientation. Recent work has suggested that this relationship may be influenced by birth order, intergenerational change in lifestyle, and familial satisfaction. Data from a 24-year longitudinal study of women in Pennsylvania indicate that number of siblings does influence size of family of procreation. More important, this re…
Educational Inequality in Adult Mortality: An Assessment with Death Certificate Data from Michigan
Education was added to the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death in 1989. The current study uses Michigan’s 1989–1991 death certificates, together with the 1990 Census, to evaluate the quality of data on education from death certificates and to examine educational differences in mortality rates. With log-rates modeling, we systematically analyze the variability in educational differences in mortality by race and sex across the adult life cycle. The …
Minority-Group Status and the Fertility of Black Americans, 1970: A New Look
The minority-status theory of Goldscheider and Uhlenberg predicts that a significant interactive relaitonship among race, education, and fertility arises partially from differences in black and white mean fertility among the highly educated. Using black and white women surveyed by the 1970 National Fertility Study, I completely decomposed the variance in fertility jointly explained by race and education to examine the from of the interactive rela…
Size of Farm or Size of Family: Which Comes First
Efforts to control rampant population growth in sub-Saharan Africa have been stymied by confusion between the potential causes and consequences of high fertility in the region. A controversy has surfaced over the causal direction of the fundamental relationship between human fertility and size of landholdings. Members of one school of thought claim that farm couples modify their fertility behaviour according to the amount of land they own or oper…
The racial crossover in comorbidity, disability, and mortality
This study analyzed one respondent per household who was age 70 or more at the time of the household’s inclusion in Wave 1 (1993–1994) and whose survival status was determinable at Wave 2 (1995–1996) of the Survey on Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD Survey). At age 76 at Wave 1, there was a racial crossover in the cumulative number of six potentially fatal diagnoses (chronic lung disease, cancer, heart disease, hypertension, …
Relative Income, Race, and Fertility
If a white husband's income is higher than expected for men of his age, race, education, job characteristics, and region, economic theory predicts higher complete fertility for his wife. In the present study one per cent public use samples from the 1970 Census for California and Hawaii were used to examine the effect of relative income on Japanese, Chinese, and black fertility. Relative income was defined in two ways: (1) with regard to earnings …
Childlessness and Mental Well-Being in a Global Context
Pronatal norms exist in various countries to varying degrees. Depending on the strength of pronatalism, adults who remain childless can experience negative sanctions that could affect their happiness and life satisfaction. We test these ideas on childless respondents from 36 nations in two waves of the World Values Survey (1994-1999 and 1999-2004). Childless adults are unhappier and less satisfied if they live in highly pronatalist nations than i…
Religious Differentials in Reproduction: The Effects of Sectarian Education
College-educated Catholic women in the 1976 National Survey of Family Growth had higher actual and expected fertility than did college educated Protestants. Moreover, Catholic colleges or universities had a pronatalist effect on alumnae. Thus, a significant part of the higher Catholic than Protestant cumulative fertility among college-educated women arose from the greater propensity of such Catholics to attend sectarian schools and colleges. The …
Minority-Group Status and Fertility: A Study of Japanese and Chinese in Hawaii and California
Since there is a racial majority in California but not in Hawaii, these two states provide a natural experiment for testing the minority-status theory of fertility. The following propositions were deduced from the theory: (1) no net differences in Japanese, Chinese, and white fertility in Hawaii; (2) lower Japanese, and Chinese than white fertility in California; (3) lower Japanese and Chinese fertility in California than in Hawaii. Support for t…
Nonmetropolitan Sex-Role Ideologies: A Longitudinal Study1
Using the two waves (1987-1988 and 1992-1994) from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), I focused on the 3,792 Main Respondents (MRs) living in sexual unions at Wave 1 who, along with the spouse or domestic partner, were successfully recontacted at Wave 2. MRs from both formal marriages and nonmarital cohabitations were included. An identically worded set of questions about proper roles for men and women was posed to each member…
Southern traditionalism and sex-role ideology: A research note
Attempts to Resolve a Disability in Walking: Different Strategies or Different Outcomes for Nonmetro Elderly Americans
This study analyzed the first two waves (1993-1994 and 1995-1996) of the national Survey on Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old. It focused on the prevalence of a common intrinsic disability at Wave 1-an unaided physiological hardship in walking across a room-and sought which factors eliminated the hardship so that there was no actual disability. Nonmetro and metro elderly people with this intrinsic disability were equally likely to us…
Socio-demographic correlates of multiple causes of death: Real or artifactual
Religion and Reproduction in Philippine Society: A New Test of the Minority-Group Status Hypothesis
Most previous tests of the religious-minority-group status hypothesis have sought explanations of Catholic pronatalism in more developed countries settled by Europeans or European immigrants. The present pilot study departed from that tradition by focussing on Protestant antinatalism in a lesser developed country settled by Malay and Chinese immigrants. This study of 366 unmarried college students in the central and southern Philippines found tha…
Social Integration and Healthy Aging in Japan: How Gender and Rurality Matter
Aging and Eldercare in Lesser Developed Countries
The family is the main source of caregiving to all its members. One's need for and ability to give care is negotiated by one's place in the family's life cycle and one's social identity-male or female, grandparent, parent, child, or spouse. The availability of relatives shapes the type of care the family can provide for itself and what forms of care it requires from outsiders. The social structure of the family is culturally shaped and globally v…
Aging and Eldercare in More Developed Countries: The United States, South Korea, and Puerto Rico
Successful aging can be enabled through a knowledge of what elders need to remain interdependent with their families, communities, and societies. But the rapid growth of the elderly populations in both the more and lesser developed countries is raising demands for eldercare and requiring brand new ways of assuring its success at these multiple levels of social organization. Two unifying themes in this special issue are (a) the relationships of he…
Hindu and Christian fertility in India: A test of three hypotheses
Three hypotheses interpret differences in human fertility among religious groups. The Particularistic Theology Hypothesis stresses the pronatalist influence of doctrines forbidding artificial contraception and emphasizing the importance of sons, while the Characteristics Hypothesis focuses on the antinatalist effect of urban residence, higher education, and late age at marriage. But the Minority Status Hypothesis argues that such antinatalist eff…
A Response to Rindfuss
Family size in successive generations: The effects of birth order, intergenerational change in lifestyle, and familial satisfaction
Studies of family size in successive generations have found a small but persistently positive effect of size of family of orientation. Recent work has suggested that this relationship may be influenced by birth order, intergenerational change in lifestyle, and familial satisfaction. Data from a 24-year longitudinal study of women in Pennsylvania indicate that number of siblings does influence size of family of procreation. More important, this re…
Minority-Group Status and the Fertility of Black Americans, 1970: A New Look
The minority-status theory of Goldscheider and Uhlenberg predicts that a significant interactive relaitonship among race, education, and fertility arises partially from differences in black and white mean fertility among the highly educated. Using black and white women surveyed by the 1970 National Fertility Study, I completely decomposed the variance in fertility jointly explained by race and education to examine the from of the interactive rela…
A Response to Rindfuss
Minority-Group Status and Fertility: A Study of Japanese and Chinese in Hawaii and California
Since there is a racial majority in California but not in Hawaii, these two states provide a natural experiment for testing the minority-status theory of fertility. The following propositions were deduced from the theory: (1) no net differences in Japanese, Chinese, and white fertility in Hawaii; (2) lower Japanese, and Chinese than white fertility in California; (3) lower Japanese and Chinese fertility in California than in Hawaii. Support for t…
Ethnicity, Culture, and Fertility: An Exploratory Study of Fertility Behaviour and Sexual Beliefs
Religious Differentials in Reproduction: The Effects of Sectarian Education
College-educated Catholic women in the 1976 National Survey of Family Growth had higher actual and expected fertility than did college educated Protestants. Moreover, Catholic colleges or universities had a pronatalist effect on alumnae. Thus, a significant part of the higher Catholic than Protestant cumulative fertility among college-educated women arose from the greater propensity of such Catholics to attend sectarian schools and colleges. The …
Housing quality and child mortality in the rural philippines
This study investigated factors influencing child survival to age 5 years for a rural farm sample in Iloilo Province, Philippines. Children from better quality housing were more likely to live to age 5 than were children from worse quality housing. The life expectancy at birth, indirectly estimated by the Brass method, was 63·4 years for children from worse quality housing and 69·9 years for children from better quality housing. The implications …
Southern traditionalism and sex-role ideology: A research note
Relative Income, Race, and Fertility
If a white husband's income is higher than expected for men of his age, race, education, job characteristics, and region, economic theory predicts higher complete fertility for his wife. In the present study one per cent public use samples from the 1970 Census for California and Hawaii were used to examine the effect of relative income on Japanese, Chinese, and black fertility. Relative income was defined in two ways: (1) with regard to earnings …
Books reviews
MITEINANDER SPRECHEN UND HANDELN: FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HELLMUT GEISSNER. Edited by Edith Slembek. Frankfurt (Main): Scriptor Verlag, 1986; pp. 360. REALISM AND RELATIVISM: A PERSPECTIVE ON KENNETH BURKE. By Robert L. Heath. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 270. $34.95. THE INVENTION OF ATHENS: THE FUNERAL ORATION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY. By Nicole Loraux, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…
Religion and Reproduction in Philippine Society: A New Test of the Minority-Group Status Hypothesis
Most previous tests of the religious-minority-group status hypothesis have sought explanations of Catholic pronatalism in more developed countries settled by Europeans or European immigrants. The present pilot study departed from that tradition by focussing on Protestant antinatalism in a lesser developed country settled by Malay and Chinese immigrants. This study of 366 unmarried college students in the central and southern Philippines found tha…
Polygamy and fertility in Somalia
The 1983 Somali Family Health Survey showed that polygamy and monogamy selected women with different social characteristics. Wives in polygamous unions were prone to be younger at first marital cohabitation and to have previous marital disruptions. Since a young age at first cohabitation and number of previous marriages have opposite effects on the cumulative fertility rate of women, the difference in this rate between wives in polygamous and mon…
Son preference and child replacement in Bangladesh: A new look at the child survival hypothesis
Birth history data from women in the 1975–76 Bangladesh Fertility Survey were used to search for intentions to replace dead children. The median intervals between successive births of orders (i) and (i + 1) were not shorter when some siblings of orders below (i) had died. Nor was the median duration between the death of a child and the first posthumous birth shorter when the dead child was a boy or when it was survived by fewer than two brothers.…
Matriarchy, polyandry, and fertility amongst the Mosuos in China
A survey of 232 households of the Mosuo minority group in Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, suggested that polyandrous matriarchy did not raise the birth rate per household, but lowered the community birth rate by restricting many women's chances of marrying. The results imply that tolerance by the national government of polyandry within certain minority groups (e.g. Mosuos and Tibetans) will not prevent but may aid the attainment of z…
Effect of Son Mortality on Contraceptive Practice in Bangladesh
This study based on the 1975–76 Bangladesh Fertility Survey showed that the mortality of sons, and not daughters, was associated with a lower rate of female contraceptive initiation of use and a higher rate of discontinuation.
Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America
Organic-solvent water pollution and low birth weight in Michigan
This pilot study explored the association between a measure of water pollution caused by benzene or chlorinated solvents and the incidence of low birth weights for white residents of Michigan counties. A positive relationship between water pollution by these contaminants and the per cent of low-weight births (less than 2,500 grams, or about 5.5 pounds) resulted despite controls for the incidence of teenaged childbearing, infrequent prenatal care,…
Size of Farm or Size of Family: Which Comes First
Efforts to control rampant population growth in sub-Saharan Africa have been stymied by confusion between the potential causes and consequences of high fertility in the region. A controversy has surfaced over the causal direction of the fundamental relationship between human fertility and size of landholdings. Members of one school of thought claim that farm couples modify their fertility behaviour according to the amount of land they own or oper…
Does women's literacy affect desired fertility and contraceptive use in rural–urban Pakistan?
The 1984–85 Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey showed that urban wives had more than twice the literacy rate of rural wives. The present study explored the relationship of the rural–urban gap in female literacy to differences in contraceptive use. In rural areas, literacy did not increase women's perceptions of having reached a ‘sufficient’ number of living children, although the opposite was true for urban areas. Yet rural women with an ‘i…
Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America
Hindu and Christian fertility in India: A test of three hypotheses
Three hypotheses interpret differences in human fertility among religious groups. The Particularistic Theology Hypothesis stresses the pronatalist influence of doctrines forbidding artificial contraception and emphasizing the importance of sons, while the Characteristics Hypothesis focuses on the antinatalist effect of urban residence, higher education, and late age at marriage. But the Minority Status Hypothesis argues that such antinatalist eff…
Educational Inequality in Adult Mortality: An Assessment with Death Certificate Data from Michigan
Education was added to the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death in 1989. The current study uses Michigan’s 1989–1991 death certificates, together with the 1990 Census, to evaluate the quality of data on education from death certificates and to examine educational differences in mortality rates. With log-rates modeling, we systematically analyze the variability in educational differences in mortality by race and sex across the adult life cycle. The …
Socio-demographic correlates of multiple causes of death: Real or artifactual
Changing Rural Social Systems: Adaptation and Survival
Can Structural-Functionalism be revised to account for adverse changes in these rural social systems? Can theoretical revisions then guide new forms of rural development in which communities rebuild familial and occupational systems so that social inequalities converge? In these essays, the answers to both questions invite new propositions on how rural social systems are organized
Fields without dreams: Defending the agrarian idea
Sociology (33 works) · Demography (32 works) · Population (23 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Fertility (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (12 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (12 works)