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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 665–686.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Silvia Loi; Peng Li; Mikko Myrskylä Abstract Adverse life events are major causes of declining health and well-being, but the effects vary across subpopulations. We analyze how the intersection of migration status and sex relates to two main adverse life events—job loss and divorce—thereby...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2227–2253.
Published: 19 July 2013
... of homelessness and that reducing income volatility to buffer the potential effects of adverse life events—such as health shocks, relationship dissolution, or unemployment—may be the best way to prevent homelessness (O’Flaherty 2008 , 2009 ). He found that the most common shocks experienced by families involve...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1611–1639.
Published: 13 August 2018
.... Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with a higher exposure to stressors and fewer resources to cope successfully (Aneshensel 1992 ; McLeod and Kessler 1990 ). Both long-term stressors (such as economic strain and discrimination) and acute stressors (such as adverse life events) have been shown to be more...
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1903–1928.
Published: 08 September 2020
... of ownership exit (Charles and Hurst 2002 ; Hall and Crowder 2011 ; Killewald and Bryan 2016 ). Life-cycle characteristics are also likely to influence homeownership exits, such as age, union status, and family size. Adverse household trigger events—for example, unexpected economic and health shocks...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1211–1239.
Published: 01 August 2024
... period among infants born to White mothers, suggesting that racist macro-level political events, such as Trump's election, could benefit people racialized as White. However, robustness checks using various de-trending strategies render inconsistent results, suggesting that changes in adverse health...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 901–927.
Published: 21 May 2018
... are education systems that are more or less inclusive or stratifying, employment policies that are more or less protective in terms of unemployment and exposure to adverse working conditions, public support after negative life events that is more or less generous, and social policy interventions that are more...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 435–457.
Published: 28 February 2018
... and Lee 2004 ). Fig. 1 Possible pathways for the effect of childhood coresidence with paternal grandfather on health in later life Results from previous studies suggest a number of mechanisms by which coresidence with a paternal grandmother may have had an immediate beneficial or adverse...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 507–530.
Published: 21 April 2011
... ; and Statistics Denmark 1902 ). For our purposes, it is important to point out that unemployment benefits were introduced in Denmark in 1907, with the explicit objective of dampening adverse effects of the business cycle on the economic well-being of the Danish population. To keep the heterogeneity in early-life...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1747–1766.
Published: 01 December 2023
... countries (MHICs), where cohort studies allow linkages between early-life events and health at older ages ( Hoffman et al. 2017 ). Several studies have documented the negative effects of early-life adversity on health outcomes later in life by investigating major disruptive events, such as the Dutch famine...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 87–113.
Published: 01 February 2024
.... Therefore, policymakers aiming to promote lifelong health outcomes could focus on early-life events to prevent adverse later-life outcomes. Second, in events related to climate change and environmental phenomena, individual efforts are suboptimal, private solutions do not account for the externalities...
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 313–327.
Published: 01 August 1996
... components: Eh in health, Em in marriage formation, and es in marriage dissolution. The three components are assumed multivariate normal, so that E - N( 0,1: ). The full joint likelihood of all rele~ant life-cycle events, from age 12 until either the time of death or the time when a person's event history...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 951–974.
Published: 01 June 2021
... developmental changes occur during specific periods of life. The nature of change during these periods may be biological—as with puberty or early neurocognitive development—or social—as during the transition to adulthood. During these critical/sensitive periods, adverse exposures or events may fundamentally...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 231–257.
Published: 03 January 2017
... of subjective well-being. Respondents answer on an 11-point scale ranging from 0 (“completely dissatisfied”) to 10 (“completely satisfied”). Methodological research has shown that this single-item measure is sensitive, valid, and reliable (Diener et al. 2013 ), and it is widely used in studies of life events...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 23–47.
Published: 04 January 2012
... among mothers of young children. In addition to accounting for the number of transitions that a mother experiences during the first five years of her child’s life, we pay close attention to the type and timing of these transitions. We find that mothers who transition to cohabitation or marriage...
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 251–265.
Published: 01 May 1990
... ). Demographic Surveillance System—Matlab: Vital Events and Migration—1978 . Dhaka, Bang-ladesh : International Centre for Diarrhocal Disease Research Clark C. A. M. ( 1981 ). Demographic and Socioeconomic Correlates of Infant Growth in Guatemala . Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corp Cleland J...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2021–2049.
Published: 02 November 2015
... (testicular, prostate, and colon), reduced lifespan, and possibly cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome (Walsh et al. 2009a , b , 2010 ). From a life course epidemiology perspective, physiological scarring has been used to define an event that permanently alters the physiological functioning...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1499–1524.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to behavior measures. Subgroup analysis suggests some adverse effects of income variability and trend on reading and behavior for non-White children but no clear patterns by child's age or family income or wealth levels. This study contributes to an understanding of the dynamic nature of family life...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 255–279.
Published: 01 February 2023
...-life adversity if the health shock greatly increases mortality, as these effects create potential issues of health selection. Copyright © 2023 The Authors 2023 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Height Mortality...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 319–340.
Published: 17 January 2018
... internal conflicts in recent history. Fig. 1 Homicide rate by year and month in Mexico (per 10,000 population) Although generating evidence of a clear causal link has been difficult, a growing literature has concluded that intrauterine shocks can adversely affect fetal health as measured...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 933–959.
Published: 05 June 2017
... that of Germany. In such a context, being a mother and pursuing a career are usually conceptualized as two mutually incompatible life domains. In this regime, female employment is often not perceived as a prerequisite for having children. Instead, women may withdraw from the labor market in response to adverse...
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