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Demography and the environment
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 377–389.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Anne R. Pebley Abstract Demographers' interest in the environment has generally been enmeshed in broader issues of population growth and economic development. Empirical research by demographers on environmental issues other than natural-resource constraints is limited. In this paper, I briefly...
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Erratum to: Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in Boys Than in Girls? A New Hypothesis Based on Preconception Environment and Evidence From a Large Sample of Twins
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 445–446.
Published: 09 March 2013
View articletitled, Erratum to: Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in Boys Than in Girls? A New Hypothesis Based on Preconception <span class="search-highlight">Environment</span> and Evidence From a Large Sample of Twins
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Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in Boys Than in Girls? A New Hypothesis Based on Preconception Environment and Evidence From a Large Sample of Twins
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 421–444.
Published: 14 November 2012
... methodological approaches overestimate the effect of the latter. The results reveal little interaction between biology and some observed environmental factors in determining this outcome. These environmental factors include birth order within a twin pair (a proxy for intrauterine environment), social status...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1045–1070.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the required age of schooling from 15 to 16 years in England, Scotland, and Wales. Unlike measures such as an individual's educational attainment or their parent's educational attainment, which can lead to false-positive gene–environment interactions through confounding between the environmental shock...
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View articletitled, Polygenic Scores for Plasticity: A New Tool for Studying Gene–<span class="search-highlight">Environment</span> Interplay
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Is the Gene-Environment Interaction Paradigm Relevant to Genome-Wide Studies? The Case of Education and Body Mass Index
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 119–139.
Published: 27 November 2013
...—including smoking, alcohol consumption, and obesity—are strongly affected by both environmental and genetic factors (Nelson et al. 2006 ). Emerging evidence from the gene-environment (GxE) interaction literature has made it clear that a full understanding of these complex phenomena requires some...
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View articletitled, Is the Gene-<span class="search-highlight">Environment</span> Interaction Paradigm Relevant to Genome-Wide Studies? The Case of Education and Body Mass Index
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Published: 27 November 2013
Fig. 1 Conceptual gene-environment interaction models
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Skill-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental Cognition and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal Environments for Children
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 675–703.
Published: 26 March 2020
... environmental conditions—childcare, schools, and neighborhoods—is arguably just as important. Yet in contrast to parenting tactics, the link between parental skills and environmental selection is often treated as a background factor to be controlled rather than as a sorting process worthy of direct examination...
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View articletitled, Skill-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental Cognition and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal <span class="search-highlight">Environments</span> for Children
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1791–1813.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of the home environments mothers provide for their preschool-age children. Using empirical methods designed to identify plausibly causal effects, we estimate the effects of welfare reform on validated survey and observational measures of maternal behaviors that support children's cognitive skills...
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View articletitled, Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home <span class="search-highlight">Environments</span>
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Relationships between early-life environments, genetic predispositions, lat...
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Fig. 1 Relationships between early-life environments, genetic predispositions, later-life outcomes, and selection. Arrows and rectangular represent causal relationships and stratifying. Detailed explanations about the basic rules for a causal diagram can be found in Elwert's seminal works
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1069–1090.
Published: 09 May 2018
... on the so-called neighborhood effects—defined here as the independent influence of the residential environment on individual outcomes—has grown considerably over the last two decades (see Durlauf 2004 ; Ellen and Turner 1997 ; Galster 2002 ; Nieuwenhuis 2016 ; Nieuwenhuis and Hooimeijer 2016 ; Sampson...
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The DYNAMO-HIA Model: An Efficient Implementation of a Risk Factor/Chronic Disease Markov Model for Use in Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1259–1283.
Published: 10 October 2012
... assessment model for environmental changes attributable to development projects . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health , 56 ( 8 ), 611 – 616 . 10.1136/jech.56.8.611 Mindell J. S. , Boltong A. , & Forde I. ( 2008 ). A review of health impact assessment frameworks...
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View articletitled, The DYNAMO-HIA Model: An Efficient Implementation of a Risk Factor/Chronic Disease Markov Model for Use in Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
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Ethnic Residential Segregation: A Multilevel, Multigroup, Multiscale Approach Exemplified by London in 2011
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1995–2019.
Published: 20 October 2015
... procedures were used. 12 In London, the OA with a median radius of 100m is considerably finer than their 500m pedestrian-based neighborhood; the borough scale with a mean radius of 3,922m is highly comparable to their macro-local environment. 13 For example, Dong and Harris ( 2015...
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Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 645–671.
Published: 08 January 2014
... . 10.2307/2095868 Musterd , S. , Andersson , R. , Galster , G. , & Kauppinen , T. ( 2008 ). Are immigrants’ earnings influenced by the characteristics of their neighbours? . Environment and Planning A , 40 , 785 – 805 . 10.1068/a39107 Musterd , S. , Galster , G...
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Organized Violence and Institutional Child Delivery: Micro-Level Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa, 1989–2014
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1295–1316.
Published: 13 June 2018
... to increasingly complex social, political, and economic environments. Key socioeconomic factors—such as rural/urban residence, wealth, and education—have been found to greatly affect the use of maternal health care services. Women in urban areas are generally far more likely to receive maternal health care...
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Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1269–1293.
Published: 02 July 2018
... of Montreal, 2014 IZA Conference on the Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies, 2014 Southeastern Health Economics Study Group, 2014 Southern Economic Association Meetings, 2015 Society of Labor Economist Meetings, and 2016 NBER Spring Meetings. In addition, special thanks are owed to D. Mark Anderson...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 273–294.
Published: 01 February 2021
..., is an expensive and unnecessary burden on women's health in an environment where the government fails to provide the required basic public healthcare support to women. 1 In our analysis, we limit the Round 3 sample to currently married women to maintain consistency with observations from the previous two...
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View articletitled, Choosing Plan B Over Plan A: Risk Compensation Theory and Contraceptive Choice in India
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Reassessing racial and socioeconomic disparities in environmental justice research
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 383–399.
Published: 01 May 2006
... Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Robin Saha, Environmental Studies Program and Programs in Public Health, University of Montana. Address correspondence to Paul Mohai, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1115; E-mail: [email protected]...
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Explaining the Immigrant Health Advantage: Self-selection and Protection in Health-Related Factors Among Five Major National-Origin Immigrant Groups in the United States
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 175–200.
Published: 13 January 2017
... at the household level, are approximately 70 % (NCHS 2008 : appendix I). Self-selection is unlikely to be the sole driver of an advantage in smoking given that this behavior is generally highly contingent on peer effects (Christakis and Fowler 2008 ) and the social environment in which people live (e.g...
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An Environmental Cause Common to Sex Determination and Infant Mortality
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2051–2052.
Published: 05 October 2015
...William H. James 18 9 2015 5 10 2015 © Population Association of America 2015 2015 Pongou ( 2013 ) suggested that infant mortality is higher in boys than in girls because of an environmental cause common to both. I suggest that this is correct and that one such cause is high...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 499–526.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and consider local weather and environmental conditions associated with the three most frequently posited potential drivers of adverse health outcomes: disease (malaria), heat stress, and food insecurity. We focus this study on Mali, where seasonal trends facilitate the use of measures specifically designed...
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View articletitled, Exploring Strategies for Investigating the Mechanisms Linking Climate and Individual-Level Child Health Outcomes: An Analysis of Birth Weight in Mali
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