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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 927–951.
Published: 19 May 2020
... migration issues. 20 3 2020 19 5 2020 © Population Association of America 2020 2020 Son preference Fertility decisions Potential outcomes Decisions favoring sons within a family can take various forms. First, parents may invest less time and resources in daughters. Parents...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1667–1698.
Published: 01 October 2024
.... 2012 ; Conde-Agudelo et al. 2006 ; Fink et al. 2014 ; Miller and Karra 2020 ; Rutstein 2006 ). This literature has identified potential physiological channels linking family planning and interpartum spacing to birth outcomes and child health. In particular, the role of maternal nutritional...
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Demography (1995) 32 (1): 111–131.
Published: 01 February 1995
... in demographic research. This paper helps to fill this gap. It describes a simple analytic framework for estimating the effects of explanatory variables on discrete outcomes, which controls for the potential endogeneity of explanatory variables. It also discusses tests for exogeneity and joint determination...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 499–526.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and consider local weather and environmental conditions associated with the three most frequently posited potential drivers of adverse health outcomes: disease (malaria), heat stress, and food insecurity. We focus this study on Mali, where seasonal trends facilitate the use of measures specifically designed...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 393–424.
Published: 25 January 2012
... City and in New Orleans between 2003 and 2005. The study investigates the long-term impact of international migration on Vietnamese mental health, and the potential mediating effects of social networks and physical health on these migration-related outcomes. The results reveal both mental health...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 233–257.
Published: 21 January 2015
... on the relationship between migration and health. Our study addresses this challenge in two ways. To control for potential effects of prior health status on post-migration health outcomes, we employ a longitudinal approach. To control for static unobserved characteristics that can affect migration propensity as well...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 37–49.
Published: 01 February 2022
... pregnancies has little empirical support, but that policy focused on increasing reproductive autonomy and maternal well-being has the potential to improve outcomes. Copyright © 2022 The Authors 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1631–1654.
Published: 01 October 2022
... 2021 ). Some studies on the effect of extreme heat on birth outcomes investigated potential variation across population subgroups. For example, in their seminal work, Deschênes et al. (2009) found differences across racial groups in the United States. Other studies found differences...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 351–377.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jason M. Fletcher; Michal Engelman; Norman J. Johnson; Jahn Hakes; Alberto Palloni Abstract A rich literature shows that early-life conditions shape later-life outcomes, including health and migration events. However, analyses of geographic disparities in mortality outcomes focus almost exclusively...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1817–1841.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Michael J. Thomas; Lars Dommermuth Abstract Past research has found that relations to nonresident family can influence individual fertility and migration behaviors separately. However, fertility and migration outcomes may also be interrelated, suggesting potential links across all three demographic...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 591–617.
Published: 01 August 2008
..., and recipients, migrant social capital leads to differential migration outcomes for individuals and divergent cumulative migration patterns in communities. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2008 2008 Social Capital Potential Migrant Migration Decision Destination Diversity...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2229–2254.
Published: 08 November 2014
... euphemism in Accra for induced abortion, was asked only if the outcome of the pregnancy was indicated as a lost birth. However, stigma of abortion is quite high in Ghana, resulting in potentially large measurement error owing to reporting bias. We thus also combine miscarriage and abortion for one estimate...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 2024
.... However, the extent to which this issue is problematic depends on the study's aims and, for studies comparing outcomes by only-child status, the age at which the outcome is measured. Finally, we examine potential variation in the prevalence and characteristics of the group across derivations...
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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 (2023) 60 (4): 1139–1161.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of receiving the treatment given R i —but not necessarily a jump from 0 to 1, as in a sharp RD. Let Y i ( 1 ) and Y i ( 0 ) denote the potential cognitive outcomes experienced in the presence and absence of the treatment, respectively. Let Z i denote exposure...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1283–1292.
Published: 01 October 2024
... from previous studies, we found null effects on occupational fatal injuries, as well as on all other health outcomes. Overall, our results indicate that findings from previous studies are based on very thin empirical evidence, with potentially underestimated standard errors and unobserved confounders...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2265–2289.
Published: 01 December 2021
... stratifying dimensions such as health or where they live, the ability of college to equalize later life outcomes may have been overstated by prior work. Future research that identifies the mechanisms responsible for the findings presented here and explores other potential stratifying outcomes will help us...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 3–25.
Published: 12 December 2013
...Christine A. Bachrach Abstract Demography and culture have had a long but ambivalent relationship. Cultural influences are widely recognized as important for demographic outcomes but are often “backgrounded” in demographic research. I argue that progress toward a more successful integration...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1023–1041.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Eric T. Klopack; Eileen M. Crimmins Abstract Past research suggests that resilience to health hazards increases with age, potentially because less resilient individuals die at earlier ages, leaving behind their more resilient peers. Using lifetime cigarette smoking as a model health hazard, we...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 773–784.
Published: 01 April 2021
... methods to estimate causal effects are based on two components: (1) a model for the outcomes based on covariates that characterize potential exposures, and (2) a model for the selectivity of the potential exposures based on the covariates. Selectivity processes are complex and generally are poorly...
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