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Social determinants of low birth weight in a high-risk population
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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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Low birth weight, social factors, and developmental outcomes among children in the United States
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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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Race, intervening variables, and two components of low birth weight
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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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As low birth weight babies grow, can well-educated parents buffer this adverse factor? A research note
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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...
View articletitled, As <span class="search-highlight">low</span> <span class="search-highlight">birth</span> <span class="search-highlight">weight</span> babies grow, can well-educated parents buffer this adverse factor? A research note
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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
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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 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
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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
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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 Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts
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Published: 01 February 2018
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in Health Endowment at Birth and Variation in Intergenerational Economic Mobility: Evidence From U.S. County Birth Cohorts
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Published: 01 February 2018
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Endowments and parental investments in infancy and early childhood
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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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Ethnic Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Exposure to the 1992 Conflict in Kenya
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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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View articletitled, Extreme Heat, <span class="search-highlight">Birth</span> Outcomes, and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity
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DACA's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States
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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. References Abrego L. J...
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View articletitled, DACA's Association With <span class="search-highlight">Birth</span> Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States
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Premature birth and the changing composition of newborn infectious disease mortality: Reconsidering “exogenous” mortality
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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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Cross-State Differences in the Processes Generating Black–White Disparities in Neonatal Mortality
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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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View articletitled, Cross-State Differences in the Processes Generating Black–White Disparities in Neonatal Mortality
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2107–2146.
Published: 01 December 2024
... preboom district poverty rates. Using instrumented difference-in-differences models, we find that plausibly exogenous income gains increase the likelihood of having adequate prenatal care in the full sample. In the sibling sample, income gains decrease the likelihood of low birth weight but increase...
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View articletitled, The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on <span class="search-highlight">Birth</span> Outcomes and Pregnancy-Related Health: Estimates From the Marcellus Shale Boom Economy
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Registration Completeness and International Comparisons of Infant Mortality
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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. 3 There is some implied gradation of wantedness in the conventional...
View articletitled, Pregnancy Intentions, Maternal Behaviors, and Infant Health: Investigating Relationships With New Measures and Propensity Score Analysis
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Assimilation and Health: Evidence From Linked Birth Records of Second- and Third-Generation Hispanics
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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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