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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 253–265.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Elizabeth Frankenberg; Duncan Thomas Abstract We use data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to investigate the impact of a major expansion in access to midwifery services on health and pregnancy outcomes for women of reproductive age. Between 1990 and 1998 Indonesia trained some 50,000 midwives...
View articletitled, Women’s health and <span class="search-highlight">pregnancy</span> <span class="search-highlight">outcomes</span>: Do services make a difference?
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 519–527.
Published: 01 November 1998
.... 's method arise from their particular use of a postnatal standard for the assessment of intrauterine growth.” Our critic misunderstands our objective: He fails to realize our interest in birth outcome, not pregnancy process, and does not perceive that our intent was to extend the research extant...
View articletitled, Birth <span class="search-highlight">outcome</span>, not <span class="search-highlight">pregnancy</span> process: Reply to van der Veen
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 37–49.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Nicholas D. E. Mark; Sarah K. Cowan Abstract The prevention of unplanned or unintended pregnancies continues to be a cornerstone of U.S. reproductive health policy, but the evidence that such pregnancies cause adverse maternal and child outcomes is limited. In this research note, we examine...
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View articletitled, Do <span class="search-highlight">Pregnancy</span> Intentions Matter? A Research Note Revisiting Relationships Among <span class="search-highlight">Pregnancy</span>, Birth, and Maternal <span class="search-highlight">Outcomes</span>
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for article titled, Do <span class="search-highlight">Pregnancy</span> Intentions Matter? A Research Note Revisiting Relationships Among <span class="search-highlight">Pregnancy</span>, Birth, and Maternal <span class="search-highlight">Outcomes</span>
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2107–2146.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Molly A. Martin; Tiffany L. Green; Alexander Chapman Abstract Income is positively correlated with pregnancy health and birth outcomes, but the causal evidence for this association is limited. Leveraging a natural experiment based on the Pennsylvania boom economy created by the extraction...
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View articletitled, The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth <span class="search-highlight">Outcomes</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Pregnancy</span>-Related Health: Estimates From the Marcellus Shale Boom Economy
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for article titled, The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth <span class="search-highlight">Outcomes</span> and <span class="search-highlight">Pregnancy</span>-Related Health: Estimates From the Marcellus Shale Boom Economy
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1775–1796.
Published: 05 September 2014
... pregnancy outcomes. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey (MHSS), we find that women who were pregnant during the famine were less likely to have male children. Moreover, children who were in utero during the most severe period of the Bangladesh famine were 32 % more likely to die within one...
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View articletitled, The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility <span class="search-highlight">Outcomes</span>: Evidence From the 1974 Bangladesh Famine
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 489–506.
Published: 01 August 1993
..., first, through what intervening variables do race and other exogenous sociodemographic variables operate to raise the risk of these adverse pregnancy outcomes? Second, what are the determinants of the two components of LBW when all explanatory variables are included in the model? The findings reveal...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2229–2254.
Published: 08 November 2014
... and abortion in particular. In this article, we use detailed pregnancy and migration histories collected as part of the Household and Welfare Study of Accra (HAWS) to examine the association between migration and pregnancy outcomes among women residing in the urban slums of Accra, Ghana. We find...
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View articletitled, Impact of Migration on Fertility and Abortion: Evidence From the Household and Welfare Study of Accra
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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 (1992) 29 (3): 409–429.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Barbara Mensch; Denise B. Kandel Abstract The relationship between adolescent drug use and premarital teen pregnancy and abortion as a pregnancy outcome among sexually active women is investigated in a sample of white women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Event history analysis...
View articletitled, Drug use as a risk factor for premarital teen <span class="search-highlight">pregnancy</span> and abortion in a National Sample of Young White Women
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 67–77.
Published: 01 February 1986
...Arleen Leibowitz; Marvin Eisen; Winston K. Chow Abstract In this paper, we model unmarried teenagers’ decisions about their pregnancy outcome by considering that the teenager contrasts her expected utility (1) as a married mother, (2) as an unmarried mother, or (3) after abortion. We use...
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Demography (1977) 14 (2): 223–238.
Published: 01 May 1977
... and allocates total exposure time to the known pregnancy outcomes of live birth, spontaneous abortion, and induced abortion. The population at risk is defined to exclude women who are known to be sterile or sexually inactive. Early fetal loss, premarital conception, and contraceptive use are taken into account...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 566–573.
Published: 01 June 1966
... on previous pregnancy outcome and on child-spacing. The recording of state file numbers for mates born alive and dead in the same delivery will make it easier to match live birth and fetal death certificates for the preparation of detailed tabulations on multiple births. Several new items related to maternal...
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Demography (1969) 6 (2): 161–183.
Published: 01 May 1969
... on renewal theory and allowing for several pregnancy outcomes or for variability in parameters are briefly described, followed by generalized models which allow parameters to vary with time. Applications of family building models are summarized. 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1969...
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Published: 08 November 2014
Fig. 4 Risk of fertility outcome by residential duration as compared with those who never moved. Point estimates and 95 % confidence intervals for risk of pregnancy or pregnancy outcome for movers compared with those who had never moved (linear probability models). The dark horizontal line
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 207–218.
Published: 01 May 1990
...Elizabeth C. Cooksey Abstract This article examines the effect of family background factors on first premarital pregnancy resolution for adolescents in the United States. Teenage fertility constitutes a sizable percentage of total fertility, and each outcome has a potentially different type...
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1469–1491.
Published: 01 October 2023
... % or Mean (SD) Outcome Measure Unintended pregnancy that results in live birth 28.0 Intended pregnancy that results in live birth 57.8 Ambivalent pregnancy that results in live birth 14.2 Age ≤19 5.3 20–24 19.9 25–29 29.4 30–34 28.7 35+ 16.8 Race...
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View articletitled, State-Level Abortion Policy Hostility and Unplanned Births in the Pre- Dobbs Era
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 393–418.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., these results are consistent with small to negligible effects of birth spacing behavior on (non-pregnancy-related) parental health outcomes. References Ahrens K. A. , Hutcheon J. A. , Ananth C. V. , Basso O. , Briss P. A. , Ferré C. D. , . . . Moskosky S. ( 2019...
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View articletitled, Birth Spacing and Parents’ Physical and Mental Health: An Analysis Using Individual and Sibling Fixed Effects
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 85–98.
Published: 01 February 1989
.... The influence on the change in adolescent fertility outcomes of the decreased likelihood of marriage following a nonmarital pregnancy was compensated for by the increased use of abortion to ter-minate the pregnancy. 7 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1989 1989 Sexual Intercourse...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 525–552.
Published: 28 February 2012
... ). In general, behaviors (such as smoking) as well as health and psychosocial conditions (e.g., infections and psychosocial stress) before and after pregnancy have more explanatory power. However, as with health disparities in general, the importance of these factors depends on the outcome. For example, Kramer...
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 405–417.
Published: 01 April 2025
.... In this research note, we provide new experimental evidence of the causal impact of a monthly unconditional cash transfer on fertility-related outcomes for U.S. families with at least one young child and low incomes. We find trends of increased pregnancy after three years but no corresponding impacts on births...
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View articletitled, A Research Note on Unconditional Cash Transfers and Fertility in the United States: New Causal Evidence
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