Ralph R Sell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3819731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph R Sell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sell |
| SIGNATURE | SELL R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Metropolitan governance, residential segregation, and mortality among African Americans
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the hypothesis that the degree to which local government is metropolitanized is associated with mortality rates for African Americans and with residential segregation, which has itself previously been shown to be positively associated with mortality among African Americans. METHODS: One hundred fourteen US standard metropolitan statistical areas were examined. The primary dependent variable was the age-adjusted, race…
Trends in American family size diversity
International Affinities in Modern Egypt: Results From a Social Distance Survey of Elite Students
The historical formation, contemporary scope, and future dynamics of national identity remain important concerns in Egyptian scholarship. While many aspects of national identity and the forces that shape it in each generation have been analyzed, a more complete understanding of the results of these often antagonistic influences suffers from the lack of descriptive information
Egyptian International Labor Migration and Social Processes: Toward Regional Integration
Egyptian International Labor Migration and Social Processes: Toward Regional Integration
This article reviews evidence that contemporary Egyptian international labor migration to oil-rich Arab countries has followed a classic social process which starts with a homo economicus phase, advances into a goal reorientation phase, and ends with the establishment of diaspora communities in destination societies. The history of Egyptian migration, current estimates of migration, the role of Egyptians in selected Arab countries, and emergent p…
The debt crisis and the end of an era in mortality decline
Analyzing migration decisions: The first step—whose decisions
Many theories of geographic mobility assume that the change-of-residence process includes a substantial degree of choice. This paper classifies stated reasons for moving from the 1973 through 1977 Annual Housing Survey into forced, imposed, and preference-dominated categories. About 25 percent of residential mobility and 40 percent of migration occurred under conditions of substantial constraint. Mobility was most often constrained by family dyna…
The Selective Utilization of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis Experiences of a Regional Program in Upstate New York During the 1970s
The regional prenatal diagnosis program of the Finger Lakes Health Systems Area in upstate New York has been monitored since its start in 1971. By the end of 1980, more than 1,250 diagnostic procedures had been successfully completed. Based on analyses of regional vital statistics, genetic services data, repeated surveys of obstetricians, and an ongoing survey of recent mothers older than 34 years of age, the authors concluded that: 1) in the stu…
Transferred Jobs: A Neglected Aspect of Migration and Occupational Change
Migration and occupational change in the contemporary United States are often explained as reflecting an impersonal market process whereby geographic differences in wages and salaries motivate persons to overcome a reluctance to change both jobs and place of residence. Little is known about job-related migration in which employers directly control this process by linking employment and opportunity structures at origin and destination locations. B…
Market and Direct Allocation of Labor Through Migration
Recent research suggests that the relationship between migration and labor allocation has changed in two ways: (1) fewer migrations are job-related; and (2) more of the remaining job-related migrations are job transfers instead of purely market-induced mobility. Data from the 1973–77 U.S. Annual Housing Surveys are used to compare characteristics of market-induced and job-transfer migrants/Both forms of migration occur among all income, education…
A Research Note on the Demography of Occupational Relocations
Fertility and Education: What Do We Really Know
Changes in childlessness for all women in the United States: A reply to Spencer
The analysis of changes in childlessness as opposed to structural correlates of childlessness is quite new. Our focus on indicators of such changes called for a macro-analytic framework which would permit the test of changing features of population characteristics and the relationship between structural changes in different population cohorts. An appropriate data set was one that would permit the analysis ofchanging levels ofchildlessness in age …
Pronatalism and fertility: The case of the military
While there have been several conceptual analyses of pronatalist influences on fertility, a comparatively small amount of empirical work relates these forces to actual differentials in reproductive behavior. The impact of pronatalist incentives on the fertility of military couples in the United States is examined with data from the 1970 Public Use Samples. The findings failed to support the idea that such incentives lead to higher fertility. Impl…
Attitudes toward abortion and prenatal diagnosis of fetal abnormalities: Implications for educational programs
Genetic counseling, second trimester amniocentesis, reliable techniques for analyzing fetal amniotic fluid and selective abortion together have the potential to prevent a variety of serious birth defects. Advances in technique and/or changing patterns of childbearing may place a large number of women in age groups where genetic counseling programs are recommended. However, attitudes toward abortion may be a critical variable in ascertaining the p…
Population Redistribution, Migration, and Residential Preferences
Census Bureau population estimates for metro politan and nonmetropolitan areas in the 1970s reveal, for the first time in over 50 years, higher population growth and net in-migration for nonmetropolitan areas than metropolitan areas. This dramatic and largely unanticipated reversal in the traditional population growth pattern is not limited to non metropolitan areas adjacent to metropolitan centers, but is also happening in many of the remote non…
Changes in childlessness in the United States: A demographic path analysis
This paper describes changes in the incidence of marital childlessness among United States women since 1940 and tests a model to explain recent observed trends toward increasing childlessness. Based on U.S. Bureau of the Census sources, data are presented that indicate a substantial increase in childlessness for married women under 30 years of age since 1960. A path model is developed based on previous research on childlessness, in an attempt to …
The Cost of Being Black: A 1970 Update
An analysis of U.S. census data regarding race, age, education, occupation, and income of the male experienced civilian labor force in 1960 and 1970 yields four major conclusions. (1) There were large reductions in differences between white and nonwhite occupational distributions at all ages, with the change clearest for young men. (2) The reduction of differences in these distributions is clearest at the lowest and highest educational levels. (3…
Metropolitan governance, residential segregation, and mortality among African Americans
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the hypothesis that the degree to which local government is metropolitanized is associated with mortality rates for African Americans and with residential segregation, which has itself previously been shown to be positively associated with mortality among African Americans. METHODS: One hundred fourteen US standard metropolitan statistical areas were examined. The primary dependent variable was the age-adjusted, race…
Population Redistribution, Migration, and Residential Preferences
Census Bureau population estimates for metro politan and nonmetropolitan areas in the 1970s reveal, for the first time in over 50 years, higher population growth and net in-migration for nonmetropolitan areas than metropolitan areas. This dramatic and largely unanticipated reversal in the traditional population growth pattern is not limited to non metropolitan areas adjacent to metropolitan centers, but is also happening in many of the remote non…
Changes in childlessness in the United States: A demographic path analysis
This paper describes changes in the incidence of marital childlessness among United States women since 1940 and tests a model to explain recent observed trends toward increasing childlessness. Based on U.S. Bureau of the Census sources, data are presented that indicate a substantial increase in childlessness for married women under 30 years of age since 1960. A path model is developed based on previous research on childlessness, in an attempt to …
Analyzing migration decisions: The first step—whose decisions
Many theories of geographic mobility assume that the change-of-residence process includes a substantial degree of choice. This paper classifies stated reasons for moving from the 1973 through 1977 Annual Housing Survey into forced, imposed, and preference-dominated categories. About 25 percent of residential mobility and 40 percent of migration occurred under conditions of substantial constraint. Mobility was most often constrained by family dyna…
The Cost of Being Black: A 1970 Update
An analysis of U.S. census data regarding race, age, education, occupation, and income of the male experienced civilian labor force in 1960 and 1970 yields four major conclusions. (1) There were large reductions in differences between white and nonwhite occupational distributions at all ages, with the change clearest for young men. (2) The reduction of differences in these distributions is clearest at the lowest and highest educational levels. (3…
Egyptian International Labor Migration and Social Processes: Toward Regional Integration
The debt crisis and the end of an era in mortality decline
Transferred Jobs: A Neglected Aspect of Migration and Occupational Change
Migration and occupational change in the contemporary United States are often explained as reflecting an impersonal market process whereby geographic differences in wages and salaries motivate persons to overcome a reluctance to change both jobs and place of residence. Little is known about job-related migration in which employers directly control this process by linking employment and opportunity structures at origin and destination locations. B…
Egyptian International Labor Migration and Social Processes: Toward Regional Integration
This article reviews evidence that contemporary Egyptian international labor migration to oil-rich Arab countries has followed a classic social process which starts with a homo economicus phase, advances into a goal reorientation phase, and ends with the establishment of diaspora communities in destination societies. The history of Egyptian migration, current estimates of migration, the role of Egyptians in selected Arab countries, and emergent p…
Attitudes toward abortion and prenatal diagnosis of fetal abnormalities: Implications for educational programs
Genetic counseling, second trimester amniocentesis, reliable techniques for analyzing fetal amniotic fluid and selective abortion together have the potential to prevent a variety of serious birth defects. Advances in technique and/or changing patterns of childbearing may place a large number of women in age groups where genetic counseling programs are recommended. However, attitudes toward abortion may be a critical variable in ascertaining the p…
Trends in American family size diversity
International Affinities in Modern Egypt: Results From a Social Distance Survey of Elite Students
The historical formation, contemporary scope, and future dynamics of national identity remain important concerns in Egyptian scholarship. While many aspects of national identity and the forces that shape it in each generation have been analyzed, a more complete understanding of the results of these often antagonistic influences suffers from the lack of descriptive information
A Research Note on the Demography of Occupational Relocations
The Cost of Being Black: A 1970 Update
An analysis of U.S. census data regarding race, age, education, occupation, and income of the male experienced civilian labor force in 1960 and 1970 yields four major conclusions. (1) There were large reductions in differences between white and nonwhite occupational distributions at all ages, with the change clearest for young men. (2) The reduction of differences in these distributions is clearest at the lowest and highest educational levels. (3…
Population Redistribution, Migration, and Residential Preferences
Census Bureau population estimates for metro politan and nonmetropolitan areas in the 1970s reveal, for the first time in over 50 years, higher population growth and net in-migration for nonmetropolitan areas than metropolitan areas. This dramatic and largely unanticipated reversal in the traditional population growth pattern is not limited to non metropolitan areas adjacent to metropolitan centers, but is also happening in many of the remote non…
Changes in childlessness in the United States: A demographic path analysis
This paper describes changes in the incidence of marital childlessness among United States women since 1940 and tests a model to explain recent observed trends toward increasing childlessness. Based on U.S. Bureau of the Census sources, data are presented that indicate a substantial increase in childlessness for married women under 30 years of age since 1960. A path model is developed based on previous research on childlessness, in an attempt to …
Changes in childlessness for all women in the United States: A reply to Spencer
The analysis of changes in childlessness as opposed to structural correlates of childlessness is quite new. Our focus on indicators of such changes called for a macro-analytic framework which would permit the test of changing features of population characteristics and the relationship between structural changes in different population cohorts. An appropriate data set was one that would permit the analysis ofchanging levels ofchildlessness in age …
Pronatalism and fertility: The case of the military
While there have been several conceptual analyses of pronatalist influences on fertility, a comparatively small amount of empirical work relates these forces to actual differentials in reproductive behavior. The impact of pronatalist incentives on the fertility of military couples in the United States is examined with data from the 1970 Public Use Samples. The findings failed to support the idea that such incentives lead to higher fertility. Impl…
Attitudes toward abortion and prenatal diagnosis of fetal abnormalities: Implications for educational programs
Genetic counseling, second trimester amniocentesis, reliable techniques for analyzing fetal amniotic fluid and selective abortion together have the potential to prevent a variety of serious birth defects. Advances in technique and/or changing patterns of childbearing may place a large number of women in age groups where genetic counseling programs are recommended. However, attitudes toward abortion may be a critical variable in ascertaining the p…
Fertility and Education: What Do We Really Know
A Research Note on the Demography of Occupational Relocations
Analyzing migration decisions: The first step—whose decisions
Many theories of geographic mobility assume that the change-of-residence process includes a substantial degree of choice. This paper classifies stated reasons for moving from the 1973 through 1977 Annual Housing Survey into forced, imposed, and preference-dominated categories. About 25 percent of residential mobility and 40 percent of migration occurred under conditions of substantial constraint. Mobility was most often constrained by family dyna…
The Selective Utilization of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis Experiences of a Regional Program in Upstate New York During the 1970s
The regional prenatal diagnosis program of the Finger Lakes Health Systems Area in upstate New York has been monitored since its start in 1971. By the end of 1980, more than 1,250 diagnostic procedures had been successfully completed. Based on analyses of regional vital statistics, genetic services data, repeated surveys of obstetricians, and an ongoing survey of recent mothers older than 34 years of age, the authors concluded that: 1) in the stu…
Transferred Jobs: A Neglected Aspect of Migration and Occupational Change
Migration and occupational change in the contemporary United States are often explained as reflecting an impersonal market process whereby geographic differences in wages and salaries motivate persons to overcome a reluctance to change both jobs and place of residence. Little is known about job-related migration in which employers directly control this process by linking employment and opportunity structures at origin and destination locations. B…
Market and Direct Allocation of Labor Through Migration
Recent research suggests that the relationship between migration and labor allocation has changed in two ways: (1) fewer migrations are job-related; and (2) more of the remaining job-related migrations are job transfers instead of purely market-induced mobility. Data from the 1973–77 U.S. Annual Housing Surveys are used to compare characteristics of market-induced and job-transfer migrants/Both forms of migration occur among all income, education…
The debt crisis and the end of an era in mortality decline
Egyptian International Labor Migration and Social Processes: Toward Regional Integration
Egyptian International Labor Migration and Social Processes: Toward Regional Integration
This article reviews evidence that contemporary Egyptian international labor migration to oil-rich Arab countries has followed a classic social process which starts with a homo economicus phase, advances into a goal reorientation phase, and ends with the establishment of diaspora communities in destination societies. The history of Egyptian migration, current estimates of migration, the role of Egyptians in selected Arab countries, and emergent p…
International Affinities in Modern Egypt: Results From a Social Distance Survey of Elite Students
The historical formation, contemporary scope, and future dynamics of national identity remain important concerns in Egyptian scholarship. While many aspects of national identity and the forces that shape it in each generation have been analyzed, a more complete understanding of the results of these often antagonistic influences suffers from the lack of descriptive information
Trends in American family size diversity
Metropolitan governance, residential segregation, and mortality among African Americans
OBJECTIVES: This study tested the hypothesis that the degree to which local government is metropolitanized is associated with mortality rates for African Americans and with residential segregation, which has itself previously been shown to be positively associated with mortality among African Americans. METHODS: One hundred fourteen US standard metropolitan statistical areas were examined. The primary dependent variable was the age-adjusted, race…
Economics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Population (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Fertility (5 works)