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Is Child Schooling A Poor Proxy for Child Quality?
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
...Jere R. Behrman 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Inequality Aversion Parental Preference Child Quality Parental Welfare Poor Proxy References Arrow , K. J. ( 1971 ). A utilitarian approach to the concept of equality in public expenditure...
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Estimating wealth effects without expenditure data—or tears: An application to educational enrollments in states of India
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 115–132.
Published: 01 February 2001
..., we use data sets from Indonesia, Pakistan, and Nepal that contain information on both expenditures and assets. The results show large, variable wealth gaps in children’s enrollment across Indian states. On average a “rich” child is 31 percentage points more likely to be enrolled than a “poor” child...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1655–1681.
Published: 01 October 2022
... by examining how immigrants' mortality risk—a relatively unambiguous measure tied to poor health—changes over time compared to natives' mortality risk. Our analysis uses the National Health Interview Survey (1992–2009) with linked mortality data through 2011 ( n = 875,306). We find a survival advantage for U.S...
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View articletitled, Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time
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Grandchildren's Longevity and Their Grandfathers’ POW Trauma in the U.S. Civil War
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 337–361.
Published: 01 April 2024
... at exposure and the grandson's education, as well as the son's and the grandson's poor late gestational conditions (proxied by season of birth), mediate this relationship. I rule out socioeconomic status, marriage and mortality selection, and cultural or psychological transmission from grandfathers...
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Demography (1976) 13 (1): 153–155.
Published: 01 February 1976
... used, is pirical justification for including mortality a poor proxy for the desired measure, it in an analysis of the kind in question (see appears to be superior to the percent of Hicks, 1974, pp. 410, 417). The exclu- the population reporting income over sion of mortality from the analysis may 1,500...
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Marital Fertility Decline in the Netherlands: Child Mortality, Real Wages, and Unemployment, 1860–1939
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 965–988.
Published: 20 June 2012
.... Period dummy variables are a poor proxy for some set of contemporaneous influences, and cohort dummy variables are an equally poor proxy for influences in the past. When these influences can themselves be directly measured, there is no reason to probe for period or cohort effects (Hobcraft et al. 1982...
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Childhood Circumstances and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 913–938.
Published: 03 July 2012
... there are no weight-for-height standards to compute Z scores for children in this age range. 9 One reason why height-for-age and weight-for-age may not be predictive of children’s schooling is that these were measured when children were 6–11 years old, rendering them poor proxies for health because...
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Social security, economic growth, and the rise in elderly widows’ independence in the twentieth century
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 221–236.
Published: 01 May 2000
... of eco- nomic status; this variable is likely to be a poor proxy for economic status, especially for widows whose economic po- sition is likely to be correlated more strongly with their de- ceased husbands occupation. The analysis is hampered fur- ther in that the occupation variable is missing...
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Determinants of Cumulative Fertility in Ghana
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 1984
..., while Christian women registered the highest fertility. Respondents were asked merely to state their religious affil- iation, and the statement of religious affiliation may be a poor proxy for inten- sity of religious beliefs and practices. However, the factors conducive to the low fertility...
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The Determinants of Neighborhood Satisfaction: Racial Proxy Revisited
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1203–1229.
Published: 25 June 2011
... support for the racial proxy perspective, or the idea that residents’ dissatisfaction in neighborhoods with a higher proportion of minority residents is driven by poor social conditions in those places. Whites report lower levels of satisfaction in neighborhoods with a higher proportion of minorities...
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Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
...-thirds of female household heads are not single mothers. In short, we contend that female headship is a poor proxy measure of single motherhood and should not be used in studies examining the effects of family structure on children’s well-being. Using measures of women’s marital status would require...
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The association of childhood socioeconomic conditions with healthy longevity at the oldest-old ages in China
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 497–518.
Published: 01 August 2007
... was asked, How do you rate your health at present with possible answers of excellent, good, fair, poor, and not able to answer; no proxy answers were allowed. Responses were dichotomized into good/fair versus poor. Respondents who were unable to answer the question on self-rated health due to health...
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Education and the Gender Gaps in Health and Mortality
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1157–1183.
Published: 11 August 2012
... with socioeconomic disadvantage, such as poorly paying jobs, economic hardship, routine and oppressive work, and low household income, all of which contribute to poor health. However, men may engage in more dangerous and destructive habits, such as smoking, heavy drinking, using guns, getting in fights, or drinking...
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Measuring living standards with proxy variables
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 155–174.
Published: 01 May 2000
... expenditures? In poor countries, no single em- pirical measure can be expected to display all the facets of the concept of long-term income. We believe that consump- tion per adult is the most appropriate measure of the con- cept among the measures that are collected in cross-sec- tional surveys. Nevertheless...
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Does Culture Affect Divorce? Evidence From European Immigrants in the United States
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1013–1038.
Published: 16 January 2013
... quite dramatically in Europe in the past century, making home-country fertility rates in the year 2000 a poor proxy for fertility rates of immigrants who arrived in the United States many years prior. To address this, we ran regressions using home-country total fertility rates at the time of migration...
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Reconstructing childhood health histories
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 387–403.
Published: 01 May 2009
...: Author s calculations using the PSID 2007 childhood health retrospective designed by the author. *Statistically significant difference between proxy and own responses at the 5% level. even see their childhood health as worse than it really was. They then may retrospectively attribute their current poor...
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Assessing Asset Indices
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 359–392.
Published: 02 December 2011
...) to target cash transfers to poor households (Schady and Araujo 2008 ). Analogous proxy-means targeting approaches have been applied in other countries, such as Armenia, Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia (see discussion in Coady et al. 2004 ). The fact that expenditure data are expensive and time...
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Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight and Differential Parental Treatment
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1385–1405.
Published: 03 August 2012
... ). Additionally, previous studies have not examined whether investment strategies vary by socioeconomic status. 1 The use of indirect and poor proxies for children’s endowments and parental investment may, in part, explain why results have been so mixed. 2 This study seeks to contribute to this body...
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The racial crossover in comorbidity, disability, and mortality
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 267–283.
Published: 01 August 2000
... in North Carolina and Georgia (Land et al. 1994; Wing et al. 1985) increased the likelihood that these crossovers were not simply artifacts of poor data on age at death. The Variation in Experience Explanation The second explanation of the racial crossover in mortality is that it is not caused...
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Simulating the Effects of Acculturation and Return Migration on the Maternal and Infant Health of Mexican Immigrants in the United States: A Research Note
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 425–436.
Published: 30 April 2011
... hypothesized a positive health selection. They found that pregnant mothers of poor health may be less likely to return to Mexico prior to giving birth if they believe they have access to better healthcare in the United States. The present study examines the effect of acculturation and selective return...
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