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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1441–1468.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Shubhankar Sharma; Jo Mhairi Hale; Mikko Myrskylä; Hill Kulu Abstract Despite extensive research on cognitive impairment and limitations in basic activities of daily living, no study has investigated the burden of their co-occurrence (co-impairment). Using the Health and Retirement Study data...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2057–2084.
Published: 30 November 2020
..., findings on efficacy suggest that policy interventions should avoid placing additional cognitive demands on women experiencing hardship, which may unintentionally impair contraceptive efficacy. Research has shown that the bureaucratic demands of poverty programs become a burden of themselves (Moynihan...
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 907–926.
Published: 01 November 2008
... on physical conditions, even though dementia and neuropsychiatric disorders account for a large (~3%) and growing share of the disease burden worldwide (World Health Organiza- tion [WHO] 2007). This article assesses the determinants of cognitive functioning among older women and men (e.g., those aged 50...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1897–1919.
Published: 03 August 2017
...Ezra Fishman Abstract Dementia is increasingly recognized as a major source of disease burden in the United States, yet little research has evaluated the lifecycle implications of dementia. To address this research gap, this article uses the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS) to provide...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 February 2000
..., but that unwanted pregnancy has little association with birth weight and child cognitive outcomes. Estimates of the association between unwanted pregnancy and maternal behaviors were greatly reduced after controls for unmeasured family background were included in the model. Our results also indicate...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1139–1161.
Published: 01 August 2023
... at older ages. Increasing population levels of education may slow the growth in the burden of cognition-related disease and support economic adjustment to an aging population. Recent empirical studies have used variation in minimum schooling laws to examine the lasting effects of education...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 619–643.
Published: 28 February 2014
.... The burden of the demographic change is likely to depend on age-specific physical health and cognitive performance (which determine labor force participation, social activity, and dependency status) rather than the demographic age structure per se (Skirbekk et al. 2012 ). Cognitive performance is of growing...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 247–266.
Published: 01 February 2022
... for understanding how family policies affect individuals' marital intentions. The importance of information awareness in shaping individuals' attitudes, intentions, and behavior can be traced back to social psychological theories. For example, social cognition theory argues that external influences...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1499–1519.
Published: 15 August 2012
... or stigmatized responses. Second, respondents’ attributes may appear to change across survey waves as they attempt to manipulate a survey instrument in order to minimize their burden. Respondents sometimes find surveys to be tedious, cognitively demanding, and/or undesirably lengthy. As a result...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1845–1871.
Published: 23 August 2017
... questions: (1) how does the reciprocal relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage and child health affect estimates of each circumstance on children’s cognitive development?; (2) how do their respective effects vary with age?; and (3) do family SES and child health have differential effects...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1715–1742.
Published: 13 September 2017
.... 2000 ) has shown that age-related cognitive decline is not a completely exogenous phenomenon but can respond to various types of behavior (see Hertzog et al. 2009 for a review), implying that the health and economic burden of the demographic change may be significantly affected by the health...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1873–1895.
Published: 05 September 2017
... (such as smoking) with initially unclear health risks for populations. Developed herein is a hypothesis that the education gradient comprises multiple potent pathways (material, psychological, cognitive) by which health-risk behaviors are influenced, and that there can be circumstances under which pathways act...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1747–1766.
Published: 01 December 2023
... ). Fetal and placental size and risk of hypertension in adult life . BMJ , 301 , 259 – 262 . Barnes L. L. , Wilson R. S. , Everson-Rose S. A. , Hayward M. D. , Evans D. A. , & Mendes de Leon C. F. ( 2012 ). Effects of early-life adversity on cognitive...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 169–187.
Published: 01 February 2005
...)90301-J Murray , C.J. , & Lopez , J.D. ( 1997 ). Alternative Projections of Mortality and Disability by Cause 1990–2020: Global Burden of Disease Study . Lancet , 349 ( 9064 ), 1498 – 504 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)07492-2 Murray , C.J.L. , & Chen , L.C...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 975–994.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Eric Bonsang; Vegard Skirbekk Abstract Cognitive decline is a widespread concern as populations grow older. However, population aging is partly driven by a decrease in fertility, and family size may influence cognitive functioning in later life. Prior studies have shown that fertility history...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 517–537.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Javier Garcia-Brazales Abstract This article provides the first systematic study of the short- and long-run effects of parental death on the cognitive, noncognitive (locus of control), and physical development of Indian children. Exploiting rich longitudinal data over 15 years, I use difference...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1273–1301.
Published: 10 July 2019
... educated. They exhibit greater academic aptitudes and higher levels of self-esteem and reported fewer nonworking weeks. Families with debt also provide greater cognitive stimulation and emotional support to children. These differences likely reflect that more advantaged individuals in this cohort have...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1573–1596.
Published: 09 September 2014
... and cognitive skills/noncognitive skills. Fourth, a large part of the estimated body-size penalty reflects lower skill acquisition among overweight and obese teenagers. Taken together, these results reinforce the importance of policy combating early-life obesity in order to reduce healthcare expenditures...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 403–422.
Published: 12 March 2020
... to 30 months of age to provide first evidence on the effects of parental migration on development, health, and nutritional outcomes in the critical first stages of life. We find that maternal migration has a negative effect on cognitive development: migration before children reach 12 months of age...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1611–1639.
Published: 13 August 2018
... is complicated by the issue of confounding (i.e., unobserved factors correlated with stress exposure and with children’s outcomes). I combine a natural experiment—a strong earthquake in Chile—with a panel survey to capture the effect of prenatal exposure on acute stress and children’s cognitive ability. I find...
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