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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 125–144.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Mariaelisa Graff; Kathryn M. Yount; Usha Ramakrishnan; Reynaldo Martorell; Aryeh D. Stein Abstract Better childhood nutrition is associated with earlier physical maturation during adolescence and increased schooling attainment. However, as earlier onset of puberty and increased schooling can have...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Rohini P. Pande Abstract This article examines the role of the sex composition of surviving older siblings on gender differences in childhood nutrition and immunization, using data from the National Family Health Survey, India (1992–1993). Logit and ordered logit models were used for severe...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Barry M. Popkin; David K. Guilkey; John S. Akin; Linda S. Adair; J. Richard Udry; Wilhelm Flieger Abstract The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey is used to examine the roles of women’s nutrition and infant feeding in determining time from birth to menses and time from menses...
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Demography (1983) 20 (2): 197–212.
Published: 01 May 1983
... insight into the expected timing of events. We combine these results with empirical research on the effects of nutrition on fertility and mortality, research in medical biometeorology, and French historical demograhic and economic research to formulate our model. The resultant distributed lag system...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 707–728.
Published: 28 January 2019
... of exposure to genuinely seasonal shocks. The phenomena we describe could arise in any survey, but we confine our analysis to DHS data for several reasons. First, the DHS are the single largest source of nationally representative nutritional data in the developing world, widely used for nutrition...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 945–966.
Published: 12 May 2015
... implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current nutritional conditions is body weight. After controlling for height, I find that African American and white weights decreased throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Farmers had greater average weights than workers...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 307–336.
Published: 01 April 2024
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 251–267.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Research Council 1999). *Sajeda Amin, Senior Associate, Population Council, Policy Research Division, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017; E-mail: [email protected]. Alaka Malwade Basu, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University. Rob Stephenson, Carolina Population Center...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 157–171.
Published: 01 May 1999
... ). Who is Breast-feeding? Implications of the Associated Social and Biological Variables for Research on the Consequences of Method of Infant Feeding . American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 52 , 451 – 56 . Giugliani , E.R. , Caiaffa , W.T. , Vogelhut , J. , Witter , F.R...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 319–333.
Published: 01 August 1995
... Department of Economics University of Delaware Laura Shrestha Population, Health, and Nutrition Department The World Bank This paper draws on new data on intergenerational transfers of time and money that were collected in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We use these data to examine the effects...
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 143–160.
Published: 01 May 1986
... of infant mortality (DaVanzo, Habicht, and Butz 1984). That is, short birthspacing is most detrimental when the mother is malnourished (which is likelier in the poorer, early period) and therefore more likely to be nutritionally depleted by a recent previous pregnancy. Finally, the influence of Indian...
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Demography (2018) 55 (2): 643–668.
Published: 21 March 2018
..., instead of their school attainment and tests scores. Although our IV models control for the 2001 remoteness index and some conditions when young women were 10 years old, it is plausible that some community socioeconomic conditions and programs, such as health and nutrition interventions, at a very young...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 167–180.
Published: 01 May 1996
... of exclusivity of breast-feeding, categorized as immunologically exclusively breast-fed (that is, nothing but the breast), nutritionally exclusively breast-fed (that is, breast milk and nonnutritive liquids only), mixed fed, or not breast-fed at all. 2.Whether the infant was fed on demand or according to a fixed...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1259–1283.
Published: 10 October 2012
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 625–651.
Published: 14 April 2011
... of Clinical Nutrition , 80 , 569 – 575 . Greenland S. ( 2004 ). Model-based estimation of relative risks and other epidemiologic measures in studies of common outcomes and in case-control studies . American Journal of Epidemiology , 160 , 301 – 305 . 10.1093/aje/kwh221 Hagenaars J...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 241–267.
Published: 04 January 2016
...Matthias Rieger; Sofia Karina Trommlerová Abstract Growth faltering describes a widespread phenomenon that height- and weight-for-age of children in developing countries collapse rapidly in the first two years of life. We study age-specific correlates of child nutrition using Demographic and Health...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 729–752.
Published: 28 February 2019
... impacts on diarrhea and other symptoms of infection but weak and varying impacts on child nutrition. In contrast, observational research exploiting cross-sectional variation in water and sanitation access is much more sanguine, finding strong associations with diarrhea prevalence, mortality, and stunting...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 913–938.
Published: 03 July 2012
... an important role in the intergenerational transmission. Using data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, I document the extent to which childhood human capital accounts for the intergenerational SES correlation. My results imply that childhood health and nutrition, cognitive and noncognitive...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 535–561.
Published: 25 March 2014
...–2008, we examined how declining total fertility and women’s increasing median age at first birth were associated with changes in girls’ well-being and gender gaps in children’s well-being, as reflected in their survival, nutrition, and access to preventive healthcare. In adjusted random-effects models...
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Published: 05 September 2017
Fig. 4 PET curve of education association with log odds of mothers (ages 15–49). Overweight in nine Latin America/Caribbean countries across population exposure to the nutritional transition (complete primary or less versus some secondary or more). Source on national nutritional status: Food More