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When to promote, and when to avoid, a population perspective
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 763–784.
Published: 01 November 2008
... perspective to the problem of causal inference can hinder social and behavioral science. The second half of the article describes the “slippery slope” by which some demographic studies slide from providing a highly useful description about the population to using regressions to estimate causal models...
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Revisiting the Occupational Health Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: A Research Note
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1283–1292.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Emma Zang; Qinyou Hu; Zitong Wang Abstract This research note reevaluates the occupational health impact of right-to-work (RTW) legislation, incorporating recent developments in causal inference techniques. In an era marked by an uptick in the adoption of anti-union legislation and increases...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 607–628.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to perform tasks previously done by human workers—is one structural force driving the decline of manufacturing jobs and wages. In this study, we examine the impact of automation on age- and sex-specific mortality. Using exogenous variation in automation to support causal inference, we find that increases...
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Brazil’s Missing Infants: Zika Risk Changes Reproductive Behavior
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1647–1680.
Published: 01 September 2020
... peaked months before residents learned about the epidemic and its relation to congenital anomalies. This spatiotemporal variation supports analysis of both biological effects of Zika infection on fertility and the effects of learning about Zika risk on reproductive behavior. Causal inference techniques...
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Changes in Household Composition and Children’s Educational Attainment
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 525–548.
Published: 16 January 2019
...-varying methods for causal inference to test the independent effects of different types of changes in household composition on educational attainment. Experiencing changes involving nonparent, nonsibling household members has a significant negative effect on educational attainment that is similar...
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Marriage selection and mortality patterns: Inferences and fallacies
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 189–208.
Published: 01 May 1993
... differentials—such as age schedules of excess mortality in the single population or the relationship between the level of excess mortality and the relative size of the single population—to make inferences about the relative importance of selection and causal processes. In this paper, a simple mathematical...
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One step back in understanding racial differences in birth weight
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 569–571.
Published: 01 November 2001
... and demographic processes researchers must be vigilant not to commit the errors of the past by misusing race as a variable. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2001 2001 Birth Weight Skin Color Causal Effect Racial Difference Causal Inference References J. Adams...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 707–729.
Published: 01 June 2023
... for social science. 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). Teenage parenthood Mental health Causal inference Bayesian methods Statistical machine learning In this article we analyze...
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View articletitled, Does Anyone Suffer From Teenage Motherhood? Mental Health Effects of Teen Motherhood in Great Britain Are Small and Homogeneous
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 773–784.
Published: 01 April 2021
... . Demography , 55 , 1 – 31 . Imai K. , & van Dyk D. A. ( 2004 ). Causal inference with general treatment regimes: Generalizing the propensity score . Journal of the American Statistical Association , 99 , 854 – 866 . Naimi A. I. , Cole S. R. , & Kennedy E. H...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 721–743.
Published: 09 March 2017
... unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Age-period-cohort analysis Identification Causal inference Mechanisms Front...
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View articletitled, An Assessment and Extension of the Mechanism-Based Approach to the Identification of Age-Period-Cohort Models
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Intergenerational Neighborhood Attainment and the Legacy of Racial Residential Segregation: A Causal Mediation Analysis
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1221–1250.
Published: 26 July 2017
... in this study. These potential omissions, and their consequences for causal inference, are discussed in the Conclusion section. The urban continuity pathway, on the other hand, appears very sensitive to potential omissions. Relatively small departures of the sensitivity parameter from 0 produce...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1765–1792.
Published: 01 October 2021
... specific pieces of the migration-education relationship depending on available information. Figure 2 illustrates the limitations of this approach for drawing causal inferences. Scholars have typically identified the association between the n th parental migration ( MN n )—or characteristics of the nth...
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View articletitled, Does Parental Migration During Childhood Affect Children's Lifetime Educational Attainment? Evidence From Mexico
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1275–1298.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of missing information in this analysis is approximately 17% and primarily reflects panel attrition. 5 Unobserved confounding is a ubiquitous threat to causal inference in observational studies and may lead to bias in estimates of contextual effects. To account for this possibility, we implement...
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View articletitled, Toxic Neighborhoods: The Effects of Concentrated Poverty and Environmental Lead Contamination on Early Childhood Development
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Effects of dependency among causes of death for cause elimination life table strategies
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Demography (1979) 16 (2): 313–327.
Published: 01 May 1979
... are hypothetically eliminated in one of three ways: (a) a standard competing risk adjustment for cause elimination when deaths are singly caused (Chiang, 1968), (b) lethal defect-pattern of failure computations for multiply caused death when no causal order is inferred (Manton et al., 1976), and (c) relative...
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Comment on “The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Different-Sex Marriage: Evidence From the Netherlands”
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2343–2347.
Published: 21 October 2014
...? The results of his approach to statistical inference—looking for evidence of a difference in rates of opposite-sex marriage—provide an absence of evidence of such effects. However, the validity of his conclusion of no causal relationship between same-sex marriage laws and rates of opposite-sex marriage...
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Incarceration and Household Asset Ownership
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2075–2103.
Published: 26 October 2016
... of confounding in the relationship between incarceration and asset ownership. We provide additional evidence to strengthen causal inference. First, in Model 1, to further diminish unobserved heterogeneity, we restrict the sample to fathers (and mothers who share children with fathers) most at risk...
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Remarks on the analysis of causal relationships in population research
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 91–108.
Published: 01 February 2005
... , S. , Foster , E.M. , & Furstenberg , F. ( 1993 ). Demography , 30 , 1 – 13 . 10.2307/2061859 Holland , P. ( 1986 ). “Statistics and Causal Inference.” . Journal of the American Statistical Association , 81 , 945 – 60 . 10.2307/2289064 Hotz , V.J...
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Inequality in Place: Effects of Exposure to Neighborhood-Level Economic Inequality on Mortality
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2041–2063.
Published: 01 December 2021
... remove potential indirect causal pathways ( Wodtke et al. 2011 ). In using MSMs to make individuals more exchangeable (by generating a counterfactual that strengthens inference), we take seriously the possibility of both direct and indirect effects of local inequality for mortality risk. However, our...
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A comment on glenn Firebaugh’s “population density and fertility”
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 283–284.
Published: 01 May 1986
..., if both the CBR and population density (through migration, mortality, etc.) respond to a third, omitted variable, causal inferences of the effect of density on the CBR will be ill-founded. Even if the true relationship, causal or not, between these two variables is weak, pooling the data will create...
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The Effects of Education on Mortality: Evidence From Linked U.S. Census and Administrative Mortality Data
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1513–1541.
Published: 21 July 2020
.... , Xiong , Y. , & Zhang , J. ( 2015b ). Causal inferences: Identical twins help and clarity about necessary assumptions is critical . Social Science & Medicine , 127 , 201 – 202 . Andersson , M. A. ( 2016 ). Health returns to education by family socioeconomic origins, 1980...
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