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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 353–368.
Published: 01 May 2002
... social and economic controls; (2) the effect associated with adverse birth outcomes is significantly more pronounced at very low birth weights (< 1,500 grams) than at moderately low birth weights (1,500–2,499 grams); (3) whereas the relative effect of very low-birth-weight status is large, the effect...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 489–506.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Jeffrey E. Kallan Abstract The low birth weight (LBW) gap between blacks and whites has remained largely unexplained in past research. Most previous research on the topic has focused on LBW as a single entity, and without using a causal framework for. analysis. The present study examines...
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 207–215.
Published: 01 May 1984
...Elwood D. Carlson Abstract Over ninety low-weight infants were born per thousand live births in South Carolina, based on 96,000 birth records from 1975 and 1979. Higher incidence of low birth weight for black infants cannot be explained away as a result of black/white differences in age...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 335–343.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Ming-Jen Lin; Jin-Tan Liu; Shin-Yi Chou Abstract This research note combines two national Taiwanese data sets to investigate the relationships among low birth weight (LBW) babies, their parents’ educational levels, and their future academic outcomes. We find that LBW is negatively correlated...
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in Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts
> Demography
Published: 01 February 2018
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in Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998–2017
> Demography
Published: 01 October 2022
Fig. 3 Predicted percentage of low birth weight births by social spending and maternal education, 1998–2017. HS = high school. BA = bachelor's.
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in Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998–2017
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Published: 01 October 2022
Fig. 3 Predicted percentage of low birth weight births by social spending and maternal education, 1998–2017. HS = high school. BA = bachelor's.
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in Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998–2017
> Demography
Published: 01 October 2022
Fig. 3 Predicted percentage of low birth weight births by social spending and maternal education, 1998–2017. HS = high school. BA = bachelor's.
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in Adverse Infant Health Outcomes Increased After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Among Non-White U.S.-born and Foreign-born Mothers
> Demography
Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 1 Percentage of low birth weight births by mothers’ racialized group and nativity. Hollow circles are average observed outcomes for each month. Solid lines are linear time trends in the pre– and post–Trump election periods. API = Asian and Pacific Islander. Source: National Center
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in Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts
> Demography
Published: 01 February 2018
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 145–162.
Published: 01 February 2010
..., and preschool attendance. Our results indicate that normal-birth-weight children are 5%–11% more likely to receive early childhood parental investments than their low-birth-weight siblings. Moreover, the presence of additional low-birth-weight siblings in the household increases the likelihood of investments...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 423–444.
Published: 25 March 2020
... that resulted from the introduction of multiparty democracy in Kenya as an exogenous source of shock, using a difference-in-differences method and a mother fixed-effects model. We find that prenatal exposure to the violence increased the probabilities of low birth weight and a child being of very small size...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1631–1654.
Published: 01 October 2022
... capitals between 1990 and 2016 with precise meteorological data on the temperatures children experienced throughout their gestation. The outcomes are preterm birth, low birth weight, and very low birth weight. Socioeconomic status is assessed using parents' highest occupational level. We find...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 975–985.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of the upper age cutoff for DACA eligibility and using a difference-in-differences design, we find that DACA was associated with improvements in the rates of low birth weight and very low birth weight, birth weight in grams, and gestational age among Mexican immigrant mothers. Copyright © 2021 The Authors...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 399–409.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Kathryn A. Sowards Abstract Linked death and birth records from San Antonio, Texas reveal that infectious infant mortality is increasingly a function of premature birth and low birth weight. Between 1935 and 1944, 4% of infectious infant deaths had associated causes involving prematurity...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2089–2115.
Published: 01 December 2021
... for the United States as a whole). However, in at least nine states, differences in birth weight–specific mortality make a notable contribution. This pattern is observed even among those from advantaged sociodemographic backgrounds and is driven by differences in mortality among very low birth weight neonates...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 425–433.
Published: 01 November 1969
..., to be due to underregistration of low birth weight infants in other countries. In this paper, distributions of live births by birth weight for Denmark, England and Wales, New Zealand, and the United States, and infant mortality data for Denmark and the United States are examined. The data do not support...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 83–111.
Published: 09 January 2015
... than intended births to be of low birth weight. Relative to births at the highest level of the desire scale, all other births were significantly less likely to be recognized early in pregnancy and to receive early prenatal care. 5 12 2014 9 1 2015 © The Author(s) 2015 2015 Open...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1473–1491.
Published: 26 August 2011
... and an increase in the proportion of low birth weight. This effect is focused on the first trimester of gestation, and it is mediated by reduced gestational age rather than by factors affecting the intrauterine growth of term infants. The findings highlight the relevance of understanding the early emergence...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1979–2004.
Published: 21 November 2016
... health at birth and employ only within-family variations in the extent of assimilation. I find that a second-generation Hispanic woman married to a non-Hispanic man is 9 % more likely to have a child with low birth weight relative to a second-generation woman married to another Hispanic. These results...
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