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How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1887–1903.
Published: 03 August 2018
...Marcus Ebeling Abstract In contrast to the upper boundary of mortality, the lower boundary has so far largely been neglected. Based on the three key features—location, sex-specific difference, and level—I analyze past and present trends in the lower boundary of human mortality. The analysis...
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View articletitled, How Has the Lower <span class="search-highlight">Boundary</span> of Human <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
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Family Planning and Women’s and Children’s Health: Long-Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 149–180.
Published: 05 December 2012
... in comparison areas, but this spillover effect is nonetheless only two-fifths of the direct effect of the program in treatment villages. They do not, however, experience reductions in child mortality or more frequent use of preventive health inputs in the boundary villages. These side effects of the program...
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Integrating Space With Place in Health Research: A Multilevel Spatial Investigation Using Child Mortality in 1880 Newark, New Jersey
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 811–834.
Published: 25 April 2014
... inference and misleading results. In this article, we propose an integrated multilevel spatial approach for Poisson models of discrete responses. In an empirical example of child mortality in 1880 Newark, New Jersey, we compare this multilevel spatial approach with the more typical aspatial multilevel...
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View articletitled, Integrating Space With Place in Health Research: A Multilevel Spatial Investigation Using Child <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> in 1880 Newark, New Jersey
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Mortality Increase in Late-Middle and Early-Old Age: Heterogeneity in Death Processes as a New Explanation
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1563–1591.
Published: 07 June 2013
... and Fraser 2001 ). This process is characterized by three parameters ( v 0 , r , and s ), but the distribution of the first arrival time to zero boundary, which regulates the mortality function, is determined by only two dimensions (Aalen and Gjessing 2001 ). Therefore, we need to normalize the process...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Increase in Late-Middle and Early-Old Age: Heterogeneity in Death Processes as a New Explanation
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1713–1737.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that the current geographic boundaries of counties were established. Another advantage of the Bayesian model is that the population estimates also have an associated uncertainty level, and that estimating not only population counts but also mortality and migration rates allows us to better understand the drivers...
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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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Quantifying Intrinsic and Extrinsic Contributions to Human Longevity: Application of a Two-Process Vitality Model to the Human Mortality Database
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2105–2119.
Published: 11 November 2016
... mortalities. 2 In panel a of the figure, the intersection of individual stochastically declining vitality paths with a zero boundary marks intrinsic death. Adult extrinsic death occurs when a challenge exceeds a measure of deterministic age-dependent vitality. 3 Juvenile extrinsic death occurs when...
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View articletitled, Quantifying Intrinsic and Extrinsic Contributions to Human Longevity: Application of a Two-Process Vitality Model to the Human <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Database
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Comment on “compromised birth outcomes and infant mortality among racial and ethnic groups”
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 509–517.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Willem Jan Van Der Veen Abstract Frisbie, Forbes, and Pullum (1996) show that it is meaningful to account for low birth weight, preterm delivery, and intrauterine growth-retardation when analyzing differences in compromised birth outcomes and infant mortality among racial and ethnic groups. I...
View articletitled, Comment on “compromised birth outcomes and infant <span class="search-highlight">mortality</span> among racial and ethnic groups”
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Comparison of Information on Death Certificates and Matching 1960 Census Records: Age, Marital Status, Race, Nativity and Country of Origin
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 413–423.
Published: 01 November 1969
... of the comparisons yielded small discrepancies of inconsequential effect on the mortality rates. Some large inconsistencies, however, of potentially serious impact on the death rates were observed. The comparisons are examined and the implications of the results for the relevant mortality rates are discussed...
View articletitled, Comparison of Information on Death Certificates and Matching 1960 Census Records: Age, Marital Status, Race, Nativity and Country of Origin
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The effect of piped water on early childhood mortality in Urban Brazil, 1970 to 1976
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Demography (1985) 22 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 February 1985
...Thomas W. Merrick Abstract The effects of access to piped water on the trends in child mortality and on differentials by income class are analyzed using data on surviving children and other variables in samples of urban mothers aged 20–29 in 1970 and 1976. Path analytic regression techniques...
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Active life expectancy estimates for the U.S. elderly population: A multidimensional continuous-mixture model of functional change applied to completed Cohorts, 1982–1996
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 253–265.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Kenneth G. Manton; Kenneth C. Land Abstract An increment-decrement stochastic-process life table model that continuously mixes measures of functional change is developed to represent age transitions among highly refined disability states interacting simultaneously with mortality. The model...
View articletitled, Active life expectancy estimates for the U.S. elderly population: A multidimensional continuous-mixture model of functional change applied to completed Cohorts, 1982–1996
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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
... that social, psychological, and economic factors operate in conjunction with biological ones is also increasingly integrated into evolutionary explanations of mortality and reproduction (Lee 2003 ). In trying to interpret the Q-phase and the implications that its changing boundaries have for our...
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Slum Residence and Child Health in Developing Countries
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1175–1197.
Published: 04 June 2014
..., and access to health services across residential areas. After we control for these characteristics, children growing up in the slums and better-off neighborhoods of towns show levels of morbidity and mortality that are not statistically different from those of children living in rural areas. Compared...
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Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 507–530.
Published: 21 April 2011
... of these variations by zygosity and by early-life conditions. Our estimates for MZ twins are not very informative in this respect because they are at the boundary of the parameter space. The estimates for DZ twins imply that shared genetic and environmental factors are more important for CV mortality...
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View articletitled, Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular <span class="search-highlight">Mortality</span> Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle
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More Than One Million New American Indians in 2000: Who Are They?
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1101–1130.
Published: 10 April 2014
... weighted long-form counts in the sample selection adjustments of the full-count data described later. To calculate the expected number of American Indian responses in the 2000 full-count data, we begin with the 1990 full-count microdata and adjust for mortality, immigration, and other factors...
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The Sisters’ Riddle and the Importance of Variance when Guessing Demographic Rates from Kin Counts
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Demography (1980) 17 (1): 103–114.
Published: 01 February 1980
... analytically. Our recourse is to four simulation experiments. The first batch of 100 independent simulation runs takes fertility and mortality rates for 1962 Ceylon from Keyfitz and Flieger (1968), one of the cases included by Goldman in her 490 point regression. The second batch of 395 simulation runs employs...
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Inequality in Place: Effects of Exposure to Neighborhood-Level Economic Inequality on Mortality
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2041–2063.
Published: 01 December 2021
... measures of income inequality in the United States, we estimate the effects of differential exposure to income inequality during three decades of the life course on mortality. Our study is among the first to consider the implications of income inequality within U.S. tracts for mortality using longitudinal...
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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1585–1611.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Nicolas Büttner; Michael Grimm; Isabel Günther; Kenneth Harttgen; Stephan Klasen Abstract Despite recent economic growth and reductions in child mortality in many African countries, the region has experienced a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the slow structural...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 865–890.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of the relationship between vital rates and changes in aggregate population structures. The boundaries of the field have since shifted. Demography has morphed into a multidisciplinary field concerned with interpreting and explaining the individual- and macro-level causes and consequences of population change...
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View articletitled, Demography's Changing Intellectual Landscape: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Leading Anglophone Journals, 1950–2020
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Revisiting the Fertility Transition in England and Wales: The Role of Social Class and Migration
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1543–1569.
Published: 01 July 2020
... outcome of changes in the RSD geography, we ran a sensitivity analysis using a consistent geography across all census years. This was based on the 588 amalgamated registration districts used by Hinde and Harris ( 2019 ) to study mortality decline in the same period. The results are presented in Fig. A1...
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Changes in racial identification and the educational attainment of American Indians, 1970–1990
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Demography (1998) 35 (1): 35–43.
Published: 01 February 1998
... of Sociology , 9 , 397 – 423 . 10.1146/annurev.so.09.080183.002145 Kitagawa , E. , & Hauser , P. M. ( 1973 ). Differential Mortality in the United States . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . Kominski , R. , & Siegel , P. A. ( 1993 ). Measuring Education...
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