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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 303–324.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Lisa Cameron; Jenny Williams Abstract Recent research on the relationship between child health and income in developed countries reveals a positive gradient that is more pronounced for older children, suggesting that the impact of income upon health accumulates. This article examines whether...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 75–93.
Published: 01 February 2002
... from Latin America. The results show that in all six countries, the use of contraceptives and MCH care are significantly associated, independent of intervening factors; this finding suggests that families develop a joint demand for better-quality health and limited family size and translate...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 459–475.
Published: 01 August 1993
...J. Ties Boerma; George Stroh Abstract Demographic and health surveys are a useful source of information on the levels and trends of neonatal mortality in developing countries. Such surveys provide data on mortality occurring at 4–14 days of life, which is a sensitive indicator of neonatal tetanus...
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Demography (2005) 42 (3): 397–425.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Mark R. Montgomery; Paul C. Hewett Abstract In the United States and other high-income countries, there is intense scholarly and programmatic interest in the effects of household and neighborhood living standards on health. Yet few studies of developing-country cities have explored these issues. We...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
... of Household Wealth on Educational Attainment: Evidence From 35 Countries . Population and Development Review , 25 , 85 – 120 . 10.1111/j.1728-4457.1999.00085.x Filmer D. ( 2001 ). Estimating Wealth Effects Without Expenditure Data—or Tears: An Application to Educational Enrollments in States...
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 211–234.
Published: 01 May 1970
...Harry M. Raulet Abstract This essay aims at a critical analysis of the major assumptions of the family planning movement and their implications for population and development policy in the less developed countries. A neo-Malthusian perspective, in which a reduction of the current high rates...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 98–107.
Published: 01 March 1967
...Eduardo E. Arriaga Summary This study begins with a brief analysis of past and present urban-rural mortality in those countries which are presently considered to be developed. The same analysis centers in developing countries, for it is thought that their rural mortality should be greater than...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 574–577.
Published: 01 June 1968
.... Though in no country in the world is there yet a general acceptance that it is THE INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION- ITS ROLE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES COLVILLE DEVERELL· already necessary to stabilize population growth as a contribution to the ultimate need for world population stabilization...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 707–728.
Published: 28 January 2019
... the impacts of known events on child height and stunting. Studies from developed countries with highly accurate birth registration exploit timing of exposure to gauge the long-term impacts of shocks very effectively (Currie and Rossin-Slater 2013 ; Deschenes et al. 2009 ; Messias et al. 2006 ). Clearly...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 835–863.
Published: 06 May 2016
.... Pseudo-cohorts are constructed using female respondent data from 189 cross-sectional rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 50 developing countries between 1986 and 2013. Generalized linear models are estimated to test the relationships and calculate cohort-level outcome proportions...
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Place and Child Health: The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries
Demography (2017) 54 (1): 337–360.
Published: 09 January 2017
... in developed countries have found a strong urban advantage (Eberhardt et al. 2001 ; Hartley 2004 ), discussions of urban health have often historically begun with the history of poor sanitation and high infectious disease burdens that plagued the cities of now-rich countries while they were developing...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. I decompose the overall improvement in the infant survival rate in the respective countries from the 1990s to the 2010s into the part that can be explained by the improvements in circumstantial environments in which infants develop and the remaining part...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1175–1197.
Published: 04 June 2014
...Günther Fink; Isabel Günther; Kenneth Hill Abstract Continued population growth and increasing urbanization have led to the formation of large informal urban settlements in many developing countries in recent decades. The high prevalence of poverty, overcrowding, and poor sanitation observed...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 151–174.
Published: 19 January 2012
...Julio Cáceres-Delpiano Abstract In this work, I study the impact of fertility on mothers’ employment for a sample of developing countries. Using the event of multiple births as an instrumental variable (IV) for fertility, I find that having children has a negative impact on female employment...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 223–243.
Published: 01 February 2008
... size is more evident in rural China, where the public education system is poor. Given that our estimates of the effect of having twins on nontwins at least provide the lower bound of the true effect of family size, these findings suggest a quantity-quality trade-off for children in developing countries...
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 191–210.
Published: 01 May 1987
... Household Small Farm Large Farm Migration Decision Female Migration References Anderson , D. , & Leiserson , M. ( 1980 ). Rural nonfarm employment in developing countries . Economic Development and Cultural Change , 28 ( 2 ), 227 – 248 . 10.1086/451170 Anker , R...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 688.
Published: 01 November 1984
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 217–233.
Published: 01 May 1984
... with nontraditional intercensal interval lengths. Thus we can obtain mortality estimates for less developed countries with defective data, despite departures from stability. Further, we assess the sensitivity of the method to violations in various assumptions underlying the procedure: error in estimated growth rates...
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Demography (1981) 18 (3): 369–388.
Published: 01 August 1981
.... ( 1969 ). Selectivity of Migrants to a Metropolis in a Developing Country: A Mexican Case Study . Demography , 6 , 347 – 357 . 10.2307/2060082 DaVanzo, J. 1972. An Analytical Framework for Studying the Potential Effects of an Income Maintenance Program on U.S. Interregional Migration. Rand...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 347–357.
Published: 01 November 1969
... of male migrants to Monterrey, Mexico, a rapidly growing metropolis in a developing country. A comparison was made between the characteristics of migrants and census information for the origin populations for 1940 and 1960. Overall, in terms of education and occupational position, migrants are positively...
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