1-18 of 18 Search Results for

Preconception environment

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (2): 445–446.
Published: 09 March 2013
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (2): 421–444.
Published: 14 November 2012
... of preconception environmental factors. I estimate and TFE using samples of twins, which allows me to separate out the effects of preconception environment and child biology. To summarize the methodology, the main assumption is that the sex difference in the probability of death for all twins (denoted...
Journal Article
Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2053–2056.
Published: 02 November 2015
... susceptible to premature death (Naeye et al. 1971 ; Waldron 1998 ). In previously published research (Pongou 2013 ), I showed some limitations of this biological hypothesis and proposed the “preconception origins” hypothesis, which holds that some of the preconception and prenatal environmental factors...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Demography (2015) 52 (6): 2051–2052.
Published: 05 October 2015
... . Pongou , R. ( 2013 ). Why is infant mortality higher in boys than girls? A new hypothesis based on preconception environment and evidence from a large sample of twins . Demography , 50 , 421 – 444 . 10.1007/s13524-012-0161-5 . Trivers , R. L. , & Willard , D. E. ( 1973...
Journal Article
Demography (2018) 55 (1): 271–294.
Published: 30 January 2018
... hypothesis based on preconception environment and evidence from a large sample of twins . Demography , 50 , 421 – 444 . Pongou , R. ( 2015 ). Sex differences in early-age mortality: The preconception origins hypothesis . Demography , 52 , 2053 – 2056 . Reardon , S. F...
FIGURES | View All (8)
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2287–2296.
Published: 27 November 2013
... Is Infant Mortality Higher in Boys Than in Girls? A New Hypothesis Based on Preconception Environment and Evidence From a Large Sample of Twins ......................................................421–446 Powers, Daniel A. Paradox Revisited: A Further Investigation of Racial/Ethnic Differences...
Journal Article
Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1693–1715.
Published: 01 November 2016
... at risk of divorce—namely, black women with lower levels of education and who were younger—midpregnancy marriages had the same or lower likelihood of divorce as preconception marriages. Our results suggest an overlooked resiliency in a type of marriage that has only increased in salience. 14 9 2016...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2143–2167.
Published: 25 September 2020
... . Population and Development Review , 41 , 629 – 649 . Pongou , R. ( 2013 ). Why is infant mortality higher in boys than in girls? A new hypothesis based on preconception environment and evidence from a large sample of twins . Demography , 50 , 421 – 444 . Rajan , S. , & Morgan...
FIGURES
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1469–1491.
Published: 01 October 2023
... legislative database of abortion restrictions from 2012–2018 to empirically examine the association between state-level restrictive abortion policies and the subsequent hostile environment toward abortion they create in a state (henceforth referred to as “abortion policy hostility”) and women's pregnancy...
FIGURES
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 525–552.
Published: 28 February 2012
... from the fetus to adolescence, we focus on the fetal environment—“the first environment”—which can be of particular importance in influencing later life (Currie 2009 :116). Several previous studies have found that birth weight affects health, schooling, and labor market outcomes (e.g., Barker 1991...
Journal Article
Demography (2024) 61 (2): 337–361.
Published: 01 April 2024
... was that results from one generation alone could arise from chance outcomes. Chance outcomes are less likely if a grandfather's ex-POW status manifests itself in the longevity of later generations, particularly in an environment where children and grandfathers are not in the same household. Male-line...
FIGURES
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2022) 59 (1): 37–49.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of timing. Second, we expand the scope of outcomes to include a range of maternal pregnancy and postpartum outcomes. Much prior work addressed only infant outcomes at birth, child outcomes, or maternal outcomes directly affecting the in utero environment, such as maternal alcohol or tobacco...
FIGURES
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (1993) 30 (4): 533–549.
Published: 01 November 1993
... 542 496 Population Bulletin 98 106 116 123 Population and Development Review 227 467 467 557 Population and Environment 5 33 43 53 Population Index 56 74 70 76 Population 192 187 210 174 536 Demography, Vol. 30, No.4, November 1993 with its competitors has to be cautious. A book that contains solid...
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1687–1714.
Published: 24 May 2013
.... ( 2003 ). The life course and residential mobility in British housing markets . Environmental and Planning A , 35 , 323 – 339 . 10.1068/a3542 Davies Withers S. ( 1998 ). Linking household transitions and housing transitions: A longitudinal analysis of renters . Environment and Planning...
FIGURES | View All (6)
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2021) 58 (3): 927–950.
Published: 01 June 2021
...—are among the strongest predictors of reproductive behavior and subsequent pregnancy, even net of a wide host of demographic, social environmental, and relationship characteristics ( Bongaarts 1992 ; Hayford and Agadjanian 2019 ; Miller et al. 2013 ; Thomson 1997 ; Weitzman 2020 ). In the United States...
FIGURES | View All (4)
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2021) 58 (3): 951–974.
Published: 01 June 2021
... and disease —has shown that early-life exposure to adverse social and environmental conditions can have a dramatic impact on multiple dimensions of health across the life course ( Haas 2008 ; Hayward and Gorman 2004 ). This work has examined a wide array of early-life conditions, including exposure to armed...
FIGURES
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1423–1449.
Published: 15 July 2014
... the dominant environment of fertility and child rearing in the United States (Kennedy and Bumpass 2007 ), it may be worth extending this type of inquiry to outcomes other than divorce. Extending our approach to apply to nonmarital unions or to investigate outcomes other than union stability—including...
FIGURES | View All (4)
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1451–1475.
Published: 05 July 2017
... help her avoid childbearing, and for the normative environment to which she was exposed. I measure whether the respondent’s family was intact at Wave 1. Because race/ethnicity is associated with women’s likelihood of nonmarital childbearing, I include a measure of respondents’ race/ethnicity. Low...