James B Pick
Biographic Data
| ID | 387848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James B Pick |
| GIVEN NAMES | James B |
| FAMILY NAME | Pick |
| SIGNATURE | PICK J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Redlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9048-324X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social media access and purposeful use in China: Geospatial patterns and socioeconomic and Covid-19 influences
Social media purposeful use and brand use regularly elevated in Chinese megacities. • Social media uses and brands varr over study period only for frequency and Douyin. • Spatial patterns of clustered social media uses, brands & Covid effects are studied. • Regressions find relation of social media with social, economic & innovation factors. • Results imply pandemic-related isolation increased selective uses of social media
Spatiotemporal Patterns and Socioeconomic Influences on Host Participation in Short-Term Rental Markets: Airbnb in San Francisco
This paper examines spatiotemporal patterns and socioeconomic influences on host participation in Airbnb’s short-term rental (STR) marketplace in San Francisco during the years 2019–2022, a four-year period that spans the COVID-19 pandemic. This provides the motivation for the study to examine how San Francisco’s demographic and socioeconomic fluctuations influenced Airbnb hosts to rent their properties on the platform. To do so, Airbnb property …
Multivariate and geospatial analysis of technology utilization in US counties
Management and mitigation of location privacy violations: Case study analysis of U.S. local governments
Location privacy is a growing challenge in today’s geo-referenced world. This exploratory study investigates the management of location privacy and mitigation of its violations through case studies of six city and county governments in the United States. It focuses on why or why not local governments have instituted location privacy policies, how they incorporate location privacy in their management, and how the managerial processes of location p…
Geographical Information Systems
A geographical information system ( GIS ) consists of a database of attributes, spatial information, geospatial operators that link the two, user interface, and analytical, statistical and modeling features. GISs have grown rapidly in this century in business, government, and mass consumption markets. Location has become pervasive with mobile devices. By industry, GIS is often applied in natural resources, transportation, utilities, supply chain,…
Digital divides in the world and its regions: A spatial and multivariate analysis of technological utilization
Shifting patterns of suburban dominance: The case of Chicago from 2000 to 2010
The main map Shifting Patterns of Suburban Dominance: The Case of Chicago from 2000 to 2010 depicts the dramatic outward shift in population from Chicago's old industrial suburbs to the region's new economy suburbs. In a prior study, a rank mobility index (RMI) was applied to Chicago's suburbs and mapped using a graduated symbol map to show dramatic changes in the suburban hierarchy from 1990 to 2000. This paper updates the earlier study with res…
Determinants of China's Technology Availability and Utilization 2006–2009: A Spatial Analysis
There are significant regional disparities in the level of technology availability and utilization in China. This study analyzes determinants of technology availability and utilization in China's 31 administrative units using data on technology adoption and socioeconomic factors. It examines the extent of spatial autocorrelation on technology levels and regression residuals, and provides exploratory spatial cluster analysis of technology attribut…
Which Are the Largest? Why Lists of Major Urban Areas Vary So Greatly
Lists of the world's most populous urban areas are surprisingly inconsistent in standard reference sources. These even disagree about which area is the world's largest. We first review the differences found in lists of the 20 largest areas reported by several unofficial sources and by the United Nations. We then demonstrate that variations in the populations and rankings stem mostly from differences in concepts and geographic definitions, and ide…
The U.S.-Mexican borderlands region: A binational spatial analysis
The study addresses research questions about demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the joint U.S.-Mexico border region. The study sample consists of all of the counties and municipios in the U.S.-Mexico border region i.e. all those in the U.S. four border states (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas), as well as those in the six Mexican border states (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas). …
Mexico Megacity
Demographic, social, and economic effects on Mexican causes of death in 1990
Demographic, social, and economic influences on cause of death are analyzed for Mexico in 1990. The paper draws on epidemiologic transition theory and empirical studies as a framework to examine effects of 28 independent variables in four groups—demographic, socio‐cultural, economic, and housing/health/crime—on standardized mortality by cause. Data at the state level are mostly from the Mexican census of 1990. Effects are analyzed through spatial…
Mexico Megacity
The Nafta agreement and labor force projections: Implications for the border region
Projection of the Mexican National Labor Force, 1980-2005
Mexico has a large and rapidly growing labor force. This paper projects the Mexican national labor force from 1980 to 2005, with varying assumptions of vital rates, economic activity, and international migration. Projections are also made for the urban and rural components of the Mexican population, assuming inter-component migration flows. Results indicate that the Mexican labor force will grow over the projection period at an average annual rat…
Twentieth century migration to Baja California
This study examines state migration patterns to Baja California for most of the twentieth century. Methods of analysis include computerized mapping and regression. Findings indicate that, in spite of very rapid population growth in Baja California, the geographic distribution for origin states of migration to Baja remained consistent over eighty years of censuses from 1900 to 1980. Furthermore, there is strong consistency in the determinants of m…
Atlas of Mexico
Socioeconomic Influences on Fertility in the Mexican Borderlands Region
El presente estudio analiza los efectos socioeconómicos en la fecundidad de los 272 municipios en los seis estados fronterizos de México durante 1980. Un modelo preliminar de fertilidad se prueba mediante análisis regresivo. Se genera un modelo modificado de fertilidad en la frontera que pone énfasis en las influencias del alfabetismo, la participación de la fuerza de trabajo, los ingresos y el desempleo
Respuesta al comentario de C. Brambila al artículo: Determinantes socioecónomicos de migración en México
Aunque los autores reconocen que algunos aspectos del comentario son valiosos, discuten puntos que, en su opinión, son incorrectos
La política fronteriza del norte de México: Perspectivas en la década de los noventa
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Determinantes socioeconómicos de migración en México
En este estudio se examina la influencia socioeconómica en la frecuencia de migración y movimientos transitorios en cuatro regiones de México. El análisis se basa en los datos colectados en la Encuesta Mexicana de Fecundidad 1976-1977, y considera la influencia de: educación, ocupación, alfabetización, lugar de residencia y fecundidad. Los métodos utilizados para el análisis son regresión y regresión logística. En la regresión logística las tres …
Fertility determinants in the oil region of Mexico
This study analyzes fertility determinants in the oil region of Mexico, consisting of the states of Veracruz, Tabasco, and Campeche. Data are from the 1980 Mexican census and the unit of analysis is the municipio. The regression models, in which the dependent variables of children ever born and child-woman ratio are examined, reveal religious variables to be most significant, with greater fertility for non-Catholics and persons with no religion t…
Socioeconomic determinants of fertility: Selected Mexican regions, 1976-1977
Cumulative fertility is analyzed for four regions of Mexico, based on World Fertility Survey data of 1976–77: the State of Baja California, the Northwest region, the State of Jalisco, and the Northeast region. Based on stepwise regression methodology, the study compares results for twelve subsamples of married respondents, three age categories by four regions. The dependent variables are children ever born and children ever bom in the last five y…
Geographical distribution and variation in selected socioeconomic variables for municipios in six Mexican Border States, 1980
The present study analyzes data on selected socioeconomic characteristics for the six states of Mexico on the U.S.-Mexico border utilizing data on the region's 272 municipios. A common definition of the Mexican borderlands, the one adopted in the present research, includes the six states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas (Beegle et al. 1960; Stoddard et al. 1983; and Reich 1984). On occasion, researchers …
An Analysis of Interstate Migration in Mexico: Impact of Origin and Destination States on Migration Patterns
Se presentan dos teorías competitivas sobre la migración interestatal utilizando el censo de 1980 de México. Una tesis comparativa económica y un modelo de segmentación económica fueron perfeccionados al incorporar una perspectiva sistema-mundial
The U.S.-Mexican borderlands region: A binational spatial analysis
The study addresses research questions about demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the joint U.S.-Mexico border region. The study sample consists of all of the counties and municipios in the U.S.-Mexico border region i.e. all those in the U.S. four border states (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas), as well as those in the six Mexican border states (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas). …
Geographical distribution and variation in selected socioeconomic variables for municipios in six Mexican Border States, 1980
The present study analyzes data on selected socioeconomic characteristics for the six states of Mexico on the U.S.-Mexico border utilizing data on the region's 272 municipios. A common definition of the Mexican borderlands, the one adopted in the present research, includes the six states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas (Beegle et al. 1960; Stoddard et al. 1983; and Reich 1984). On occasion, researchers …
Correlates of fertility and mortality in low‐migration standard metropolitan statistical areas
Socioeconomic determinants of fertility and mortality were estimated by regression analysis for 29 low‐migration SMSA's located in the eastern part of the U. S. A low‐migration sample was chosen to maximize length of life history within the regions. Independent variables included per cent nonwhite, gross and net migration, population, density, medical care, welfare, per cent Catholic, education, income, and labor force participation. Density was …
Determinantes socioeconómicos de migración en México
En este estudio se examina la influencia socioeconómica en la frecuencia de migración y movimientos transitorios en cuatro regiones de México. El análisis se basa en los datos colectados en la Encuesta Mexicana de Fecundidad 1976-1977, y considera la influencia de: educación, ocupación, alfabetización, lugar de residencia y fecundidad. Los métodos utilizados para el análisis son regresión y regresión logística. En la regresión logística las tres …
Which Are the Largest? Why Lists of Major Urban Areas Vary So Greatly
Lists of the world's most populous urban areas are surprisingly inconsistent in standard reference sources. These even disagree about which area is the world's largest. We first review the differences found in lists of the 20 largest areas reported by several unofficial sources and by the United Nations. We then demonstrate that variations in the populations and rankings stem mostly from differences in concepts and geographic definitions, and ide…
Socioeconomic Influences on Fertility in the Mexican Borderlands Region
El presente estudio analiza los efectos socioeconómicos en la fecundidad de los 272 municipios en los seis estados fronterizos de México durante 1980. Un modelo preliminar de fertilidad se prueba mediante análisis regresivo. Se genera un modelo modificado de fertilidad en la frontera que pone énfasis en las influencias del alfabetismo, la participación de la fuerza de trabajo, los ingresos y el desempleo
An Analysis of Interstate Migration in Mexico: Impact of Origin and Destination States on Migration Patterns
Se presentan dos teorías competitivas sobre la migración interestatal utilizando el censo de 1980 de México. Una tesis comparativa económica y un modelo de segmentación económica fueron perfeccionados al incorporar una perspectiva sistema-mundial
Computer Display of Population Age Structure
The standard human population pyramid contains only current information; it is often inadequate when making comparisons of different countries or years. A graphic computer program superimposes current population, life table survivor ships, stable population, and past population projected up to the present. Fertility, health conditions, migration, and demographic transition stage are better revealed by this expanded graph form. A time series of th…
Computer Display of Population Age Structure
The standard human population pyramid contains only current information; it is often inadequate when making comparisons of different countries or years. A graphic computer program superimposes current population, life table survivor ships, stable population, and past population projected up to the present. Fertility, health conditions, migration, and demographic transition stage are better revealed by this expanded graph form. A time series of th…
Correlates of fertility and mortality in low‐migration standard metropolitan statistical areas
Socioeconomic determinants of fertility and mortality were estimated by regression analysis for 29 low‐migration SMSA's located in the eastern part of the U. S. A low‐migration sample was chosen to maximize length of life history within the regions. Independent variables included per cent nonwhite, gross and net migration, population, density, medical care, welfare, per cent Catholic, education, income, and labor force participation. Density was …
An alternate approach to analyzing convergence by Leslie matrices
The process of convergence of a population vector to its stable equivalent under iteration by a Leslie matrix is analyzed. The norm mostly used is an additive norm, called the eigen‐norm. A natural convergence measure S is shown to be monotonic non‐increasing upon matrix iteration. Guaranteed rates of convergence of S for any population are described by functions F and B, and results are obtained for these functions. Analogous measures based upon…
Geothermal Energy Development: Problems and Prospects in the Imperial Valley of California
1. Projected Population, Growth, and Displacement from Geothermal Development.- Farm Labor Force Reduction Based on Land Area Analysis.- Farm Labor Reduction.- Historical Migration and Age Structure.- Population Projections.- Series (I) and (II).- Series (III) and (IV).- Series (V) and (VI).- Results.- Conclusions.- Transferability of Methods and Results.- 6. Geothermal Development. Update.- Beginnings of Geothermal Impact on County Population an…
Projection of farm labor displacement from geothermal development, Imperial County, California, U.S.A
A methodology is introduced to project the number of farm laborers displaced by reduction in agricultural land by geothermal energy development. For each geothermal area, the projection is based on estimates of land used for energy facilities and of land environmentally disrupted, on estimates of manpower per acre by crop type, and on estimates of alternative employment of farm laborers. Each area's projected farm labor force displacement per 100…
Geographical distribution and variation in selected socioeconomic variables for municipios in six Mexican Border States, 1980
The present study analyzes data on selected socioeconomic characteristics for the six states of Mexico on the U.S.-Mexico border utilizing data on the region's 272 municipios. A common definition of the Mexican borderlands, the one adopted in the present research, includes the six states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas (Beegle et al. 1960; Stoddard et al. 1983; and Reich 1984). On occasion, researchers …
An Analysis of Interstate Migration in Mexico: Impact of Origin and Destination States on Migration Patterns
Se presentan dos teorías competitivas sobre la migración interestatal utilizando el censo de 1980 de México. Una tesis comparativa económica y un modelo de segmentación económica fueron perfeccionados al incorporar una perspectiva sistema-mundial
Socioeconomic determinants of fertility: Selected Mexican regions, 1976-1977
Cumulative fertility is analyzed for four regions of Mexico, based on World Fertility Survey data of 1976–77: the State of Baja California, the Northwest region, the State of Jalisco, and the Northeast region. Based on stepwise regression methodology, the study compares results for twelve subsamples of married respondents, three age categories by four regions. The dependent variables are children ever born and children ever bom in the last five y…
Fertility determinants in the oil region of Mexico
This study analyzes fertility determinants in the oil region of Mexico, consisting of the states of Veracruz, Tabasco, and Campeche. Data are from the 1980 Mexican census and the unit of analysis is the municipio. The regression models, in which the dependent variables of children ever born and child-woman ratio are examined, reveal religious variables to be most significant, with greater fertility for non-Catholics and persons with no religion t…
Socioeconomic Influences on Fertility in the Mexican Borderlands Region
El presente estudio analiza los efectos socioeconómicos en la fecundidad de los 272 municipios en los seis estados fronterizos de México durante 1980. Un modelo preliminar de fertilidad se prueba mediante análisis regresivo. Se genera un modelo modificado de fertilidad en la frontera que pone énfasis en las influencias del alfabetismo, la participación de la fuerza de trabajo, los ingresos y el desempleo
Respuesta al comentario de C. Brambila al artículo: Determinantes socioecónomicos de migración en México
Aunque los autores reconocen que algunos aspectos del comentario son valiosos, discuten puntos que, en su opinión, son incorrectos
La política fronteriza del norte de México: Perspectivas en la década de los noventa
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Determinantes socioeconómicos de migración en México
En este estudio se examina la influencia socioeconómica en la frecuencia de migración y movimientos transitorios en cuatro regiones de México. El análisis se basa en los datos colectados en la Encuesta Mexicana de Fecundidad 1976-1977, y considera la influencia de: educación, ocupación, alfabetización, lugar de residencia y fecundidad. Los métodos utilizados para el análisis son regresión y regresión logística. En la regresión logística las tres …
Twentieth century migration to Baja California
This study examines state migration patterns to Baja California for most of the twentieth century. Methods of analysis include computerized mapping and regression. Findings indicate that, in spite of very rapid population growth in Baja California, the geographic distribution for origin states of migration to Baja remained consistent over eighty years of censuses from 1900 to 1980. Furthermore, there is strong consistency in the determinants of m…
Atlas of Mexico
Projection of the Mexican National Labor Force, 1980-2005
Mexico has a large and rapidly growing labor force. This paper projects the Mexican national labor force from 1980 to 2005, with varying assumptions of vital rates, economic activity, and international migration. Projections are also made for the urban and rural components of the Mexican population, assuming inter-component migration flows. Results indicate that the Mexican labor force will grow over the projection period at an average annual rat…
The Nafta agreement and labor force projections: Implications for the border region
Mexico Megacity
Demographic, social, and economic effects on Mexican causes of death in 1990
Demographic, social, and economic influences on cause of death are analyzed for Mexico in 1990. The paper draws on epidemiologic transition theory and empirical studies as a framework to examine effects of 28 independent variables in four groups—demographic, socio‐cultural, economic, and housing/health/crime—on standardized mortality by cause. Data at the state level are mostly from the Mexican census of 1990. Effects are analyzed through spatial…
Mexico Megacity
The U.S.-Mexican borderlands region: A binational spatial analysis
The study addresses research questions about demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the joint U.S.-Mexico border region. The study sample consists of all of the counties and municipios in the U.S.-Mexico border region i.e. all those in the U.S. four border states (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas), as well as those in the six Mexican border states (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas). …
Which Are the Largest? Why Lists of Major Urban Areas Vary So Greatly
Lists of the world's most populous urban areas are surprisingly inconsistent in standard reference sources. These even disagree about which area is the world's largest. We first review the differences found in lists of the 20 largest areas reported by several unofficial sources and by the United Nations. We then demonstrate that variations in the populations and rankings stem mostly from differences in concepts and geographic definitions, and ide…
Shifting patterns of suburban dominance: The case of Chicago from 2000 to 2010
The main map Shifting Patterns of Suburban Dominance: The Case of Chicago from 2000 to 2010 depicts the dramatic outward shift in population from Chicago's old industrial suburbs to the region's new economy suburbs. In a prior study, a rank mobility index (RMI) was applied to Chicago's suburbs and mapped using a graduated symbol map to show dramatic changes in the suburban hierarchy from 1990 to 2000. This paper updates the earlier study with res…
Determinants of China's Technology Availability and Utilization 2006–2009: A Spatial Analysis
There are significant regional disparities in the level of technology availability and utilization in China. This study analyzes determinants of technology availability and utilization in China's 31 administrative units using data on technology adoption and socioeconomic factors. It examines the extent of spatial autocorrelation on technology levels and regression residuals, and provides exploratory spatial cluster analysis of technology attribut…
Geographical Information Systems
A geographical information system ( GIS ) consists of a database of attributes, spatial information, geospatial operators that link the two, user interface, and analytical, statistical and modeling features. GISs have grown rapidly in this century in business, government, and mass consumption markets. Location has become pervasive with mobile devices. By industry, GIS is often applied in natural resources, transportation, utilities, supply chain,…
Geography (23 works) · Economics (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Population (16 works) · Demography (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Socioeconomic status (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works)