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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 163–180.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Kathleen Beegle; Joachim De Weerdt; Stefan Dercon Abstract This article presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes in a region of northwestern Tanzania. We study a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991–1994 who were traced...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 607–627.
Published: 17 March 2012
... on the mortality of relatives . Bulletin of the World Health Organization , 83 , 812 – 819 . 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...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 483–508.
Published: 01 August 2004
... poorer households, then the children who are selected into orphanhood may have experienced, on average, more deprivation in early childhood or be in worse health than nonorphans. Orphans may also be more likely than nonorphans to have HIV/ AIDS because of maternal-child transmission, which could...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 757–772.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Ian M. Timæus; Momodou Jasseh Abstract This article reports levels, trends, and age patterns of adult mortality in 23 sub-Saharan Africa countries, based on the sibling histories and orphanhood data collected by the countries’ Demographic and Health Surveys. Adult mortality has risen sharply since...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1121–1146.
Published: 29 July 2015
... dynamics: Impact of orphanhood, parental absence, and children’s living arrangements on education in South Africa . Global Public Health , 7 , 42 – 57 . 10.1080/17441692.2011.574147 Clark , S. , & Hamplová , D. ( 2013 ). Single motherhood and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 517–537.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and in panel d of Figure B.1 . Once again, I find no noticeable change contemporaneously to paternal death. If anything, I find a slight but nonsignificant improvement in health. Importantly, parallel trends are also present. In a formal test of whether orphanhood has an impact on school enrollment...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 213–227.
Published: 01 May 1991
... the groups, this approach makes it possible to apply the method to data collected in surveys such as those conducted by the Demographic and Health Surveys program, in which only women aged 15 to 49 are asked about orphanhood. Estimation of Mortality from Orphanhood 215 It is possible to construct...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1827–1854.
Published: 16 August 2019
... 2001 ). These considerable inconsistencies in studies on long-term effects of early parental death on health and labor market outcomes have led researchers to suggest that moderating factors, such as the child’s age at bereavement and the sex of the deceased parent, play an important role in explaining...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 205–228.
Published: 10 September 2013
.... ( 2007 ). The effects of high HIV prevalence on orphanhood and living arrangements of children in Malawi, Tanzania, and South Africa . Population Studies , 61 , 327 – 336 . 10.1080/00324720701524292 ICF Macro and National Statistics Office (NSO) . ( 2010 ). Malawi Demographic and Health Survey...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2045–2070.
Published: 15 October 2018
...Iñaki Permanyer; Jeroen Spijker; Amand Blanes; Elisenda Renteria Abstract For a long time, studies of socioeconomic gradients in health have limited their attention to between-group comparisons. Yet, ignoring the differences that might exist within groups and focusing on group-specific life...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 401–420.
Published: 01 August 2006
... results for the DSA with those for other parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Case et al. (2004) examined the association between orphanhood and school enroll- ment in 19 Demographic and Health Surveys run in 10 other sub-Saharan African countries from 1990 to 2000. They estimated negative effects of maternal...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 725–750.
Published: 10 October 2012
...-associated orphanhood and children’s psychosocial distress: Theoretical framework tested with data from Zimbabwe . American Journal of Public Health , 98 , 133 – 141 . Operario , D. , Pettifor , A. , Cluver , L. , MacPhail , C. , & Rees , H. ( 2007 ). Prevalence of parental...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 569–585.
Published: 01 August 2006
... Sibling Histories. Health Transition Review 7(S2):7 22. 584 Demography, Volume 43-Number 3, August 2006 Brass, W. and K. Hill. 1973. Estimating Adult Mortality in Africa From Orphanhood. Pp. 111 23 in Proceedings of the International Population Conference, Liege. Liege: International Union...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 757–768.
Published: 01 November 2005
... ). The Psychological Effect of Orphanhood: A Study of Orphans in the Rakai District . Health Transition Review , 7 , 105 – 24 . Africa’s Orphaned Generations . ( 2003 ). New York : United Nations Children’s Fund . Van der Waal , C.S. ( 1996 ). Rural Children and Residential Instability...
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 207–228.
Published: 02 October 2012
... and Health Surveys . Demography , 41 , 757 – 772 . 10.1353/dem.2004.0037 Timæus , I. , & Nunn , A. ( 1997 ). Measurement of adult mortality in populations affected by AIDS: An assessment of the orphanhood method . Health Transition Review , 7 , 23 – 43 . Timæus , I...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1519–1540.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Heeju Sohn Abstract Parents are increasingly supporting their children well into adulthood and often serve as a safety net during periods of economic and marital instability. Improving life expectancies and health allows parents to provide for their children longer, but greater union dissolution...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 437–457.
Published: 27 February 2014
... that are measured in the surveys collected both before and after the tsunami. Parental death potentially affects other indicators of well-being, such as psychosocial health and aspirations for the future, but because those measures are not available in the baseline data, we do not examine those outcomes. We...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 255–279.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Björn Quanjer; Ingrid K. van Dijk; Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge Abstract We investigate how experiencing parental death in infancy, childhood, or adolescence affected individuals' health using two distinct measures: mortality before age 20 and young adult height. Using two complementary indicators...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1553–1558.
Published: 20 October 2012
...: Differences by Race and Education.........................................................................................1433–1452 Luy , Marc . Estimating Mortality Differences in Developed Countries From Survey Information on Maternal and Paternal Orphanhood...
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 419–430.
Published: 01 November 1977
... for their surviving widows. In a later publication, I plan to provide estimates of paternal orphanhood and of the economic burden of survivorship. These initial demographic results for the population may stimulate discussion about the investment of re- sources in alternative health-improving strategies and about...
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