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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 February 2000
...- ate analyses, however, pregnancy intention was unrelated to measures of child development. Baydar did find that the availability of developmental resources was associated with cognitive development, and concluded that developmental resources mediated effects of pregnancy intention on cogni- tive...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 517–537.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Child development India Cognition Locus of control Orphanhood is pervasive and can severely disrupt a child's life. Worldwide, there were more than 200 million orphans in 2012 ( UNICEF 2012 ), and this figure has been trending upward. Although the rise in HIV-related deaths in sub-Saharan...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 49–76.
Published: 28 December 2011
... development. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the relationship between paternal incarceration and developmental outcomes for approximately 3,000 urban children. We estimate cross-sectional and longitudinal regression models that control not only for fathers’ basic...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2229–2255.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and emotional characteristics have important consequences for healthy child development. Children fare better developmentally when they are raised in an environment characterized by low conflict between their parents and caregivers (Davies and Cummings 1994 ). Moreover, children of depressed parents...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1867–1894.
Published: 04 October 2014
.... The theories in sociology, developmental psychology, and economics tell us that parental time plays a central role in child development. Along with financial and material investments, the time parents spend with children is seen as an input into the production of human capital (Becker 1991 ). In early...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 419–450.
Published: 01 April 2021
... . Developmental Psychology , 43 , 1428 – 1446 . Duncan G. J. , & National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Early Child Care Research Network . ( 2003 ). Modeling the impacts of child care quality on children's preschool cognitive development . Child Development , 74...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 529–558.
Published: 25 March 2020
... for selection factors related to both early-life and later-life health or has had to rely on retrospectively reported accounts of childhood circumstances. Using the 1958 National Child Development Study, and in particular the biomedical survey conducted in 2002–2003, we investigate associations between...
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 369–392.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Monica, CA : RAND . Klebanov , P.K. , Brooks-Gunn , J. , McCarton , C. , & McCormick , M.C. ( 1998 ). The Contribution of Neighborhood and Family Income to Developmental Test Scores Over the First Three Years of Life . Child Development , 69 , 1420 – 36 . 10.2307/1132275...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 513–540.
Published: 15 March 2017
...Sharon H. Bzostek; Lawrence M. Berger Abstract A vast amount of literature has documented negative associations between family instability and child development, with the largest associations being in the socioemotional (behavioral) domain. Yet, prior work has paid limited attention...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 367–390.
Published: 28 November 2018
... are disproportionately concentrated among families with advantageous demographic characteristics in the United States. Our results underline the fact that the same degree of income inequality can translate into different disparities in child development, depending on the distribution of other family resources...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 809–812.
Published: 23 March 2017
...Rasheda Khanam; Son Nghiem 6 3 2017 23 3 2017 © Population Association of America 2017 2017 Unobserved Heterogeneity Dynamic Panel Data Mathematical Score Child Cognitive Development Income Parameter The association between childhood outcomes and family income has...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 597–621.
Published: 15 April 2016
... effects. We include father’s physical and mental health and father’s parenting style in modeling income and child development, which have been ignored even in the developmental psychology literature. Finally, we address endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity by using a comprehensive set of covariates...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1845–1871.
Published: 23 August 2017
... work reciprocally and dynamically over the life course to produce inequality, research has yet to address how these two pathways simultaneously shape children’s development. Using longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and marginal structural models, we ask three...
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Published: 20 August 2018
Fig. 1 Child mortality rate by level of economic development in 2010, select developing countries. Source: World Bank Database More
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1175–1197.
Published: 04 June 2014
.... , & Strupp , B. International Child Development Steering Group ( 2007 ). Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries . Lancet , 369 , 60 – 70 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60032-4 Günther , I. , & Harttgen , K. ( 2012 ). Deadly cities...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 75–93.
Published: 01 February 2002
... , F.K. ( 1988 ). Child Survival, Fertility Control and Population Growth in Developing Countries: Implication for Health and Policy Programs . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University . Family Planning for Couples in Rural Areas—Tunisia Operations Research Family Planning Database Project...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., Individual and Household Attributes, and Child Survival in Brazil . Demography , 33 , 211 – 29 . 10.2307/2061873 Sastry, N. 2004. “Urbanization, Development, and Under-Five Mortality Differentials by Place of Residence in São Paulo, Brazil, 1970–1991.” Demographic Research (Special Collection 2...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 337–360.
Published: 09 January 2017
... sanitation and population density in predicting health and human capital outcomes across developing countries. As motivation for a study that seeks to explain differences in child height between India and sub-Saharan Africa, Spears ( 2013 ) observed that heterogeneity in open-defecation density across...
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Demography (1971) 8 (3): 401–410.
Published: 01 August 1971
... IN THE STUDY OF PERINATAL MORTALITY B. Fischler Department of Social Medicine, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jeru- salem, Israel E. Peritz Child Health and Development Studies, Oakland, California; University of California, Berkeley, California and Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School...
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2009
...-Spatial Memory of Elementary School Children With Varying Lateral Profiles . Human Physiology , 22 , 296 – 301 . Bishop D.V.M. ( 1990 ). Handedness and Developmental Disorder . London : Lawrence Erlbaum . Blau D.M. ( 1999 ). The Effect of Income on Child Development . Review...