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Published: 21 June 2012
Fig. 1 Log odds of miscarriage (smoothed). The sample includes 24,544 pregnancies to U.S. females aged 13–25
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Published: 21 June 2012
Fig. 2 Log odds of miscarriage by timing (smoothed). The sample includes 24,544 pregnancies to U.S. females aged 13–25
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Published: 21 June 2012
Fig. 3 Miscarriage rate estimates: Vital Statistics Reports, 1967–2004. Note that the y -axis begins at 12
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 989–1009.
Published: 21 June 2012
...Fig. 1 Log odds of miscarriage (smoothed). The sample includes 24,544 pregnancies to U.S. females aged 13–25 ...
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Yong Cai; Wang Feng Abstract Relying on half a million pregnancy histories collected from Chinese women in the late 1980s, we studied nearly a quarter century of self-reported miscarriages and stillbirths in China. Our results suggest that these two forms of involuntary fetal loss are affected...
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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 129–141.
Published: 01 February 1975
...R. G. Potter; K. Ford; B. Moots Abstract Because of their similar timing in pregnancy, spontaneous and induced abortions can be viewed as competing outcomes. Some intended abortion operations are anticipated by earlier miscarriages while some potential miscarriages are forestalled by earlier...
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 115–132.
Published: 01 February 1994
... in 1991 were asked about recent abortions as part of a survey about women’s health. More than 80% of the respondents reported having a recent abortion. Some respondents misreported their abortion as a miscarriage. Moreover, some variation in reporting was associated with respondents’ characteristics...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2147–2168.
Published: 11 November 2019
...Devon Gorry Abstract This study finds heterogeneous effects of teen childbearing on education and labor market outcomes across socioeconomic status and race. Using miscarriages to put bounds on the causal effects of teen childbearing, results show that teen childbearing leads to lower educational...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2229–2254.
Published: 08 November 2014
.... This gap seems to be largely explained by an increased risk of miscarriage or abortion among recent migrants. Increasing access to contraceptives for recent migrants has the potential to reduce the incidence of unwanted pregnancies, lower the prevalence of unsafe abortion, and contribute to improved...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1739–1764.
Published: 03 May 2013
... of pregnancy termination, and the effects of many of these explanatory variables are stronger in more recent years. Women are less likely to terminate a pregnancy if they don’t have any living sons or recently experienced a miscarriage, a stillbirth, or the death of a child. The higher the woman’s level...
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1647–1680.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Marcos A. Rangel; Jenna Nobles; Amar Hamoudi Abstract Zika virus epidemics have potential large-scale population effects. Controlled studies of mice and nonhuman primates indicate that Zika affects fecundity, raising concerns about miscarriage in human populations. In regions of Brazil, Zika risk...
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 65–82.
Published: 01 February 1976
... of observation, (ii) the distribution of initial abortions within this period, and (iii) the probability of a concurrent sterilization and, failing that, the monthly risk of terminating exposure thereafter. Also important is the competition be- tween spontaneous miscarriage and re- peat abortion. More accidental...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 61–82.
Published: 14 January 2015
... such as stress amenorrhea and prenatal starvation leading to infecundity or infections leading to miscarriage would be more common among the frailest women. This frailty suggests that we should look for higher rates of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infecundity among the women who say “Don’t want.” Miscarriages...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2151–2171.
Published: 25 July 2013
... after job losses counteract some of these effects in the medium term. Concordant with our other findings, we observe no change in the composition of white teens giving birth. An alternate explanation for declines in teen births is increased miscarriage. We believe this is unlikely to be the correct...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1775–1796.
Published: 05 September 2014
... hypothesis has not been previously investigated, studies have documented a negative link between episodes of eating disorders and future pregnancy outcomes. Bulik et al. ( 1999 ), for instance, found that women with a history of anorexia nervosa had significantly more miscarriages and were more likely...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 125–149.
Published: 14 December 2011
... provided by the NSFG to ensure that the results are population-representative. 20 The coefficient on medical help to get pregnant has a 95% confidence interval of [0.009, 0.072], which excludes the point estimate for medical help to prevent miscarriage. Similarly, the upper bound for the 95...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 693–717.
Published: 01 August 2008
... a major practical problem with using twins as instruments: twinning is a rare event and one that is dif cult to capture in sample surveys. In this paper, I use an alternative instrument that relies on women s report of miscarriages, which are more common events and are widely available in survey data. I...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 459–484.
Published: 13 February 2017
... the upper track of secondary school after 1980 was not primarily due to the exogenous policy shift that resulted in shorter birth intervals. Buckles and Munnich ( 2012 ) also used an IV approach, using the experience of miscarriage as a source of exogenous variation in the length of intervals between...
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Demography (1976) 13 (4): 495–505.
Published: 01 November 1976
...., the probability that a fecund woman will con- ceive in a given month; (b) outcome of pregnancy, including live birth, stillbirth, miscarriage, and induced abortion; (c) length of gestation period; and (d) the period of anovulation following a termi- nation of pregnancy (Potter and Sakoda, 1966, p. 451...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 301–310.
Published: 01 May 1989
... and Schultz, 1985; Wolpin, 1984). Supply influences on fertility include factors that affect fecundity, such as a woman's propensity to have miscarriages or premature births, factors that affect child survival rates, and factors that affect the couple's likelihood of using modern contraceptives. It is easy...
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