1. Divorce and Recent Net Migration into the Old West
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James G. Thompson, Lawrence M. Ostresh, Reynolds Rrj, and Kenneth P. Wilkinson
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education.field_of_study ,Internal migration ,Population ,Social change ,Net migration rate ,Social integration ,Geography ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Anthropology ,Population growth ,sense organs ,education ,Developed country ,Rural population ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Demography - Abstract
A positive association between change in the divorce rate and net inmigration [in the United States] has been suggested in discussions of recent rural population growth particularly in areas affected by rapid development of energy resources. Previous research findings suggest that the divorce rate is affected by stress and by effectiveness of constraints to divorce and that these might be influenced by net inmigration. Data on change in divorce rates of 292 counties of the Old West region from 1970 to 1975 were examined. Multiple regression results indicate that new inmigration had little effect on change in the divorce rate. (EXCERPT) more...
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- 1983
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