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Chronic conditions and the decline in late-life disability

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Vicki A. Freedman, Robert F. Schoeni, Linda G. Martin, Jennifer C. Cornman
Demography (2007) 44 (3): 459–477.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2007.0026
Published: 01 August 2007
... be a contributing factor. We discuss these findings in light of improvements in treatments and changes in the environments of older adults. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2007 2007 Chronic Condition Condition Group National Health Interview Survey Mental Distress Musculoskeletal...
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Gender Differences in Self-assessed Measures of Health: How Does the Structure of Self-rated Health Compare Across Transgender and Cisgender Groups?

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Madeline Smith-Johnson
Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2147–2175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11689375
Published: 01 December 2024
... health conditions—across social groups, including by gender. However, prior work has not included transgender adults despite evidence that widespread interpersonal and structural stigma uniquely shapes their subjective experience of health. This study draws on information about 12 health conditions...
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Paradox Between Immigrant Advantages in Morbidity and Mortality: Dynamic Patterns and Tentative Explanations

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Hui Zheng, Wei-hsin Yu
Demography (2025) 62 (2): 707–736.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11868456
Published: 01 April 2025
... Health Interview Survey 2002–2018 with linked mortality data through 2019 ( n = 405,270) to comprehensively investigate how this paradox unfolds with age for various groups of immigrants. The analysis shows that immigrants’ advantages in chronic conditions and disabilities narrow or even disappear at old...
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Convenience of work and the job constraint of children

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Jean C. Darian
Demography (1975) 12 (2): 245–258.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060763
Published: 01 May 1975
... but (3) not living in group quarters and (4) not self-employed or unpaid family work- ers. The purpose of the analysis is to investigate the role of convenient work- ing conditions by examining the labor force response of women with different child-care responsibilities to available work. This is done...
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Education and Physical Health Trajectories in Later Life: A Comparative Study

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Liliya Leopold
Demography (2018) 55 (3): 901–927.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0674-7
Published: 21 May 2018
... study to provide a comparative longitudinal investigation of differences in health trajectories between education groups. I analyzed data from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden—four countries that offer sharp contrasts with regard to the social conditions shaping...
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Fertility Intentions and Residential Relocations

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Sergi Vidal, Johannes Huinink, Michael Feldhaus
Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1305–1330.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0592-0
Published: 11 July 2017
... with children and older age group turn nonsignificant for long-distance relocations. All in all, adjusted results for living conditions featured in the model covariates indicate that couples with children and older respondents relocate less because most adjustments may have already been made. Fertility...
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Effects of group size on the availability of marriage partners

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David D. McFarland
Demography (1970) 7 (4): 411–415.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060234
Published: 01 November 1970
..., and when males and females are equally likely to become group members. The expected proportion of group members unable to find eligible partners under these conditions decreases monotonically as group size increases, approaching a limit of zero as the group size becomes large, but becomes substantial...
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Explaining levels of within-group wage inequality in U.S. labor markets

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Leslie McCall
Demography (2000) 37 (4): 415–430.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2000.0008
Published: 01 November 2000
... explanations of rising wage inequality over time have little impact on within-group wage inequality when measured at the local labor market level: (1) industrial shifts and (2) increased technology and trade. By contrast, flexible and insecure employment conditions (e.g., unemployment, contingent work...
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Segregation, Choices, and Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Evidence From Revealed Choice Data

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Dafna Gelbgiser, Sigal Alon
Demography 11994413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11994413
Published: 11 June 2025
... by discounting costs, geographic proximity, and information constraints. Results from conditional logit (choice) models reveal group variations in how academically equivalent applicants weigh program characteristics, leading to significant disparities in the incidence of academic mismatch. These variations...
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Mortality in the United States: A review and evaluation of special reports of the national center for health statistics

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Mortimer Spiegelman
Demography (1968) 5 (1): 525–538.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03208595
Published: 01 March 1968
... mortality. Now, since improved mortality from a chronic condition often means that death from that condition has been postponed to a later age, the older age groups appear to be accumulating increasing proportions of physically impaired lives, and this means an adverse effect on mortality trends...
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Panel Conditioning in Longitudinal Studies: Evidence From Labor Force Items in the Current Population Survey

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Andrew Halpern-Manners, John Robert Warren
Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1499–1519.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0124-x
Published: 15 August 2012
...) and MIS 2 (February for Cohort A, March for Cohort B), we set up an important comparison in February 2007. For that calendar month, we can compare labor force characteristics for individuals in Cohort A with those in Cohort B. In the absence of panel conditioning, outcomes for these groups should...
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The Harmonic Mean as the Basis of a Realistic Two-Sex Marriage Model

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Robert Schoen
Demography (1981) 18 (2): 201–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061093
Published: 01 May 1981
... groups. The harmonic mean consistency condition is shown to be fully sensitive to the competitive nature of the “marriage market.” When compared with alternative approaches to the two-sex problem in the context of data for Sweden, 1961–64, the simple harmonic mean method yields results fairly similar...
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That earlier plague

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Josiah C. Russell
Demography (1968) 5 (1): 174–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03208570
Published: 01 March 1968
... as destructive as the later plague, it reduced the population 40–50 percent by the end of the century. This simplified culture by cutting down the size of the cities. Heavier mortality of smaller households injured the clergy and the more literate groups. The lighter losses in the dry areas tended to upset...
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Health of Immigrant Children: The Role of Immigrant Generation, Exogamous Family Setting, and Family Material and Social Resources

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Silvia Loi, Joonas Pitkänen, Heta Moustgaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Pekka Martikainen
Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1655–1685.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9411326
Published: 01 October 2021
... are classified according to the ICD-10 classification as somatic conditions (ICD10 codes A00-N99, P00-Q99), psychopathological disorders (ICD10 codes F20-F69, F80-F99), injuries (ICD10 codes S00-S99, T00-T14), and any disorder (any of the aforementioned). The group of somatic conditions includes all types...
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Employment gains and wage declines: The erosion of black women’s relative wages since 1980

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Becky Pettit, Stephanie Ewert
Demography (2009) 46 (3): 469–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0061
Published: 01 August 2009
... conditions have been arguably less progressive for black women s employment and earnings: through the 1980s, 1990s, and the rst half of the 2000s, the wage gap between black and white women widened considerably. Using data from the Current Population Survey Merged Outgoing Rotation Group (CPS-MORG...
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Heterogeneity in Expected Longevities

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Josep Pijoan-Mas, José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2075–2102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0346-1
Published: 13 November 2014
... in the coming years, it would need to come from reductions of mortality conditional on health. However, the use of health information implies larger estimates of the socioeconomic gradient of expected longevities. Thus, we also expect the differences in mortality rates across socioeconomic groups to increase...
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Disease Incidence and Mortality Among Older Americans and Europeans

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Aïda Solé-Auró, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Michael Hurd, Eileen Crimmins
Demography (2015) 52 (2): 593–611.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0372-7
Published: 26 February 2015
... prevalence differences with the United States are observed. Furthermore, the comparisons of incidence in Banks et al. ( 2010 ) focused on overall differences of diseases across age groups. In light of potential differences in conditional incidence and mortality rates by diseases, we investigate whether...
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Childhood Family Structure and Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States

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Deirdre Bloome
Demography (2017) 54 (2): 541–569.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0564-4
Published: 17 March 2017
... is reweighted to capture the outcome that children from the alternative family group would have evidenced if they had (counter to fact) grown up in stable two-parent families. With an appropriate weighting model, this approach identifies causal effects under the (overly strong) assumption that conditional...
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The (Conditional) Resource Dilution Model: State- and Community-Level Modifications

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Benjamin G. Gibbs, Joseph Workman, Douglas B. Downey
Demography (2016) 53 (3): 723–748.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0471-0
Published: 12 May 2016
... of the twentieth century, and this relationship varies across religious groups. Findings suggest that state and community resources can offset the impact of resource dilution—a more sociological interpretation of sibship size patterns than that of the traditional RD model. 31 3 2016 12 5 2016 ©...
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Mortality and Macroeconomic Conditions: What Can We Learn From France?

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Max Brüning, Josselin Thuilliez
Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1747–1764.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00811-4
Published: 26 August 2019
... in France. The results are robust across different specifications, over time, and across different geographic levels. However, we find that heterogeneity across age groups and mortality causes matters. Furthermore, in areas with a low average educational level, a large population, and a high share...
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