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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 559–576.
Published: 08 April 2020
... that more generous parental-leave policies reduce maternal depression in old age. This is particularly relevant in times of demographic change, when many countries aim to increase both female labor supply and birth rates. We also find strong mortality effects among mothers with higher education...
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View articletitled, Double Trouble: The Burden of Child-rearing and Working on <span class="search-highlight">Maternal</span> <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>
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Age and parity influences on maternal mortality: United States, 1919–1969
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 297–310.
Published: 01 August 1977
...Linda G. Berry Abstract Comparisons of crude and standardized rates of maternal mortality show that changes in age and parity distributions of births had some influence on maternal mortality trends for the years 1919–1969 in the United States. Changes in the age and parity distributions of births...
View articletitled, Age and parity influences on <span class="search-highlight">maternal</span> <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span>: United States, 1919–1969
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in Gender and the Politics of Death: Female Representation, Political and Developmental Context, and Population Health in a Cross-National Panel
> Demography
Published: 20 August 2018
Fig. 6 Estimated marginal effects: Predicted maternal mortality ratio by female political representation, extent of democratic institutionalization, and various indicators of economic and social development with other covariates held at their means
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Racial differences in infant mortality by cause of death: The impact of birth weight and maternal age
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Demography (1984) 21 (3): 309–321.
Published: 01 August 1984
... and then explained statistically as a product of the distribution of births by birth weight and maternal age. The impact of birth weight is more pronounced than is the effect of maternal age. The analysis suggests the potential utility of examining infant mortality separately by cause of death. Based on the findings...
View articletitled, Racial differences in infant <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> by cause of death: The impact of birth weight and <span class="search-highlight">maternal</span> age
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1765–1790.
Published: 07 October 2019
... relationship between maternal education and under-5 mortality. To identify such a causal effect, we exploited exogenous variation in maternal education induced by schooling reforms introducing universal primary education in the second half of the 1990s in Malawi and Uganda. Using a two-stage residual inclusion...
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View articletitled, The Causal Effect of <span class="search-highlight">Maternal</span> Education on Child <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment in Malawi and Uganda
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for article titled, The Causal Effect of <span class="search-highlight">Maternal</span> Education on Child <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment in Malawi and Uganda
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Maternal Reading Skills and Child Mortality in Nigeria: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1551–1561.
Published: 17 April 2013
... 4 2013 © Population Association of America 2013 2013 Maternal education Reading skills Child mortality Nigeria Demographers and policy makers agree that mother’s formal schooling—even at the primary level—is associated with lower risk of child mortality. There is less...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Maternal</span> Reading Skills and Child <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in Nigeria: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters
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Estimating Mortality Differences in Developed Countries From Survey Information on Maternal and Paternal Orphanhood
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 607–627.
Published: 17 March 2012
.... In order to overcome these shortcomings, I modify and extend the so-called orphanhood method for indirect estimation of adult mortality from survey information on maternal and paternal survival to allow its application to populations of developed countries. The method is demonstrated and tested with data...
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View articletitled, Estimating <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Differences in Developed Countries From Survey Information on <span class="search-highlight">Maternal</span> and Paternal Orphanhood
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Paradox Revisited: A Further Investigation of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Infant Mortality by Maternal Age
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 495–520.
Published: 10 October 2012
....-born non-Hispanic white and Mexican-origin mothers by maternal age reveals an infant survival advantage at younger maternal ages when compared with non-Hispanic whites, which is consistent with the Hispanic infant mortality paradox. However, this is accompanied by higher infant mortality at older ages...
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View articletitled, Paradox Revisited: A Further Investigation of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Infant <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> by <span class="search-highlight">Maternal</span> Age
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Maternal Education, Birth Weight, and Infant Mortality in the United States
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 615–635.
Published: 17 October 2012
...Timothy B. Gage; Fu Fang; Erin O’Neill; Greg DiRienzo Abstract This research determines whether the observed decline in infant mortality with socioeconomic level, operationalized as maternal education (dichotomized as college or more, versus high school or less), is due to its “indirect” effect...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Maternal</span> Education, Birth Weight, and Infant <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in the United States
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An assessment of methods for estimating adult mortality from two sets of data on maternal orphanhood
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 435–450.
Published: 01 August 1986
... II de Vivienda. 4 de Junio 1972 . Lima, Peru. Palloni , A. , Massagli , M. , & Marcotte , J. ( 1984 ). Estimating adult mortality with maternal orphanhood data: analysis of sensitivity of the techniques . Population Studies , 38 , 255 – 279 . 10.2307/2174076 Pison, G...
View articletitled, An assessment of methods for estimating adult <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> from two sets of data on <span class="search-highlight">maternal</span> orphanhood
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Maternal age and mortality. Estimates are based on a semiparametric lowess ...
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in Maternal Age and Offspring Adult Health: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
> Demography
Published: 28 August 2012
Fig. 5 Maternal age and mortality. Estimates are based on a semiparametric lowess model. Black line corresponds to Model 1 and controls for only demographic characteristics birth year, age, age squared, sex, and race/ethnicity. Gray line corresponds to Model 4 and adds as controls maternal
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Adult Mortality From Sibling Survival Data: A Reappraisal of Selection Biases
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 207–228.
Published: 02 October 2012
... Surveys and are increasingly being relied upon to estimate both general and maternal mortality. Until recently, the use of sibling histories was thought to lead to underestimates of mortality, but a more optimistic view in the literature emerged with the development by Gakidou and King (Demography 43:569...
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A Quiescent Phase in Human Mortality? Exploring the Ages of Least Vulnerability
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
Published: 10 April 2017
...-phase. We show that for cohorts aging during Sweden’s demographic and epidemiological transitions, the Q-phase became longer and more pronounced, reflecting the retreat of infections and maternal mortality as key causes of death. These changes revealed an underlying hazard trajectory that remains...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1713–1737.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., such as fertility rates, maternal mortality, and measures of contraceptive prevalence. The model presented embeds a cohort component projection setup in a Bayesian framework, allowing uncertainty in data and population processes to be taken into account. At a minimum, the model uses data on population and migration...
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View articletitled, A Bayesian Cohort Component Projection Model to Estimate Women of Reproductive Age at the Subnational Level in Data-Sparse Settings
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for article titled, A Bayesian Cohort Component Projection Model to Estimate Women of Reproductive Age at the Subnational Level in Data-Sparse Settings
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1181–1205.
Published: 01 August 2023
... were aged 16‒20 at the start of the conflict) having the highest risk of being HIV positive 10‒20 years after the violence, even after controlling for current socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Women who reported two or more sibling deaths, excluding those related to maternal mortality...
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View articletitled, Exposure to Armed Conflict and HIV Risk Among Rwandan Women
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Estimating the incidence and prevalence of birth orders: A technique using census data
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 447–458.
Published: 01 August 1973
... to a relatively neglected aspect of differential fertility, namely, the child’s perspective as opposed to the mother’s view. Limitations of the technique relating to quality of data, to multiple births, and to differentials in infant and maternal mortality are discussed, and possible applications in demography...
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Standardized birth weight–specific mortalities by maternal education: Europ...
Available to PurchasePublished: 17 October 2012
Fig. 4 Standardized birth weight–specific mortalities by maternal education: European American males, 2001. The solid lines represent low education, and the dashed lines indicate high education. Corresponding fine lines are the bias-adjusted 95 % confidence intervals. Panel a represents
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Marginal effects of maternal IPV history on the probability of child mortal...
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in The Marital Implications of Bereavement: Child Death and Intimate Partner Violence in West and Central Africa
> Demography
Published: 27 January 2020
Fig. 5 Marginal effects of maternal IPV history on the probability of child mortality. N = 118,219 children born more than five years before the survey. Marginal effects convey the difference in the predicted probability of dying before age 5 and are calculated from the results presented
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Death by survey: Estimating adult mortality without selection bias from sibling survival data
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 569–585.
Published: 01 August 2006
... the mortality rate with both greatly reduced potential for bias and increased clarity about the source of necessary assumptions. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2006 2006 Root Mean Square Error Maternal Mortality Female Respondent Standard Estimator Adult Mortality...
View articletitled, Death by survey: Estimating adult <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> without selection bias from sibling survival data
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 51–59.
Published: 01 February 2022
... with relatively slow progress against other types of infant mortality. Copyright © 2021 The Author 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Infant mortality Maternal education Maternal race Sudden unexpected infant death...
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View articletitled, The Epidemic of Despair and Infant <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: A Research Note
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for article titled, The Epidemic of Despair and Infant <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span>: A Research Note
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