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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 327–343.
Published: 01 May 2010
...; Wang et al. 2009). The key support that autism is a genetic disorder arises from the reported difference in concordance rates for autism in identical and fraternal twin pairs, and a high recurrence risk in siblings. There is no reason to believe that any one of these frameworks is wrong...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 465–482.
Published: 01 August 2004
... the association of women s HIV status with union dissolution and then merged information on the women s partners to examine the effects of female HIV infection in HIV-concordant and discordant unions. Marriage in Africa has been characterized as having high separation, divorce, and remarriage rates (Caldwell...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1143–1170.
Published: 01 June 2021
... in education and employment are associated with higher rates of IPV; in Africa, wives' employment is also associated with higher acceptance of IPV ( Cools and Kotsadam 2017 ; Hornung et al. 1981 ; Weitzman 2014 ). These findings are often interpreted as a “backlash” effect, whereby gains in women's education...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 251–266.
Published: 01 April 2024
... ASFR rates with the NCHS-published rates in four large states: California, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. The pattern of concordance between our rates and the NCHS data is similar here, but the degree of concordance varies by state. For non-Hispanic Black Americans older than 30 and for Hispanic Americans...
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Demography (2007) 44 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 February 2007
... a large positive relationship between childhood and adult health. Compared with excellent, very good, or good childhood health, poor childhood health is associated with more than three times greater odds of having poor adult self-rated health and twice the risk of a work-limiting disability or a chronic...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1703–1728.
Published: 03 September 2015
... domains or countries (although violations were particularly common among Mexicans, who showed concordance below 50 % in every domain). There was no discernible association between countries’ level of socioeconomic development and rates of misordering: for example, Ghana’s overall percentage of correct...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1185–1205.
Published: 21 July 2016
... roster. We find a 94 % concordance rate between the count measure and the report measure provided by the PNAD. Although this measure does not provide information on twins, it assures us that we are not missing a large portion of siblings living outside the household, at least for 12- to 18-year-olds...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1517–1533.
Published: 16 August 2011
... ), nations (Pampel 2002 ), and socioeconomic groups (Jha et al. 2006 ). Such influences will not disappear soon. The decline in regular smoking incidence caused large changes in the relative size of the smoking population, but the rate of decline has slowed more recently (Mendez and Warner 2004 ). Indeed...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 295–320.
Published: 01 February 2021
... significantly increase the rate of contraceptive adoption. After having adopted, women's contraceptive intentions have been realized and do not prolong use. The risk of discontinuation among women who adopted after baseline was significantly higher than for those using at baseline, irrespective of their initial...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1399–1420.
Published: 24 January 2013
... familial influences. The strengths of this study include the twin study design as such, the high response rates in the surveys, and the exhaustive register information for practically completed fertility for women and for men. The original twin sample was not exactly representative of the general...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1667–1698.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and economic development strategies. Throughout the study, anthropometric measurement rates among eligible children were low as a result of two factors. First, this study was conducted in a densely urban environment where children have relatively high freedom of mobility and were often not available...
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Unwed fathers’ ability to pay child support: New estimates accounting for multiple-partner fertility
Demography (2009) 46 (2): 247–263.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and Furstenberg 2006). The following comparison is based on observed data (complete cases). Among our sample of Fragile Families couples who were unwed at the birth of the focal child and nonresident at the one-year interview, there is a 77% concordance rate overall within couples at the one-year interview...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2151–2171.
Published: 25 July 2013
... depending on when, relative to conception, the losses occur. Community-wide job losses significantly affect the realization of black teen births that have already been conceived. Although we cannot measure abortion rates directly, changes in abortion behaviors most likely account for these effects because...
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Demography (1978) 15 (1): 57–73.
Published: 01 February 1978
... doesn't affect this rate much, the variation being only about three percentage points. The hus- Husband-Wife Agreement About Reproductive Goals 67 band's preferences appear slightly the more important, particularly if he wants fewer children than does the wife. If his underlying preference is for more...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1325–1338.
Published: 01 October 2024
... in this research note suggest that Black–White comparisons will benefit from standard adjustments (e.g., weighting procedures) but that misestimation of health disparities may arise for Hispanic patients because of differential coverage rates for this group. Corresponding author: [email protected]...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 387–411.
Published: 04 February 2014
... the likelihood of omission/addition depends on the vital status of the sibling (Timaeus and Jasseh 2004 ). For example, if respondents are more likely to omit their siblings who died at adult ages than their live siblings, adult mortality rates will be underestimated. The direction of bias resulting from vital...
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 459–477.
Published: 01 August 2007
... and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions . Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research . Das Gupta P. ( 1993 ). Standardization and Decomposition of Rates: A User’s Manual . Washington, DC : U.S. Bureau of the Census . Desai M. , Pratt L.A. , Lentzner H...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 841–855.
Published: 28 April 2012
... decedents given Vietnam draft-eligibility cutoffs; and (2) observed proportion of draft-eligible decedent women. The results demonstrate no effect of draft exposure on mortality, including for cause-specific death rates. When we examine population subgroups—including splits by race, educational attainment...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 207–220.
Published: 01 February 2022
... version of life expectancy. That is, the distribution of lifespans of the people alive at a single moment is a self-weighted distribution of cohort lifespans, such that longer lifespans have proportionally greater representation. One implication is that if death rates are unchanging, the average lifespan...
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 573–586.
Published: 01 August 2002
... little effect on recent marital fertility rates. Modeling of discordant reports indicates that fertility reports are more likely to be underestimated by both men and women for their earliest marriages. Reliable fertility data can be collected from men in this population. 14 1 2011 ©...
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