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Demography (2006) 43 (1): 165–183.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of America 2006 2006 Ordinary Little Square Allostatic Load Primary Mediator Pure Type Medical Exam References N.E. Adler , M. Marmot , B.S. McEwen , & J. Stewart ( 1999 ). Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrialized Nations: Social, Psychological...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1221–1250.
Published: 26 July 2017
...Jeremy Pais Abstract Advances in mediation analysis are used to examine the legacy effects of racial residential segregation in the United States on neighborhood attainments across two familial generations. The legacy effects of segregation are anticipated to operate through two primary pathways...
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View articletitled, Intergenerational Neighborhood Attainment and the Legacy of Racial Residential Segregation: A Causal <span class="search-highlight">Mediation</span> Analysis
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2229–2255.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and a similar-sized reduction in behavior problems. Coefficients are generally as large for additional years between the first and given birth. Results are fairly robust to the inclusion of cousin and sibling fixed effects, which attempt to address some omitted variable concerns. Our mediational analyses show...
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View articletitled, Maternal Age and Child Development
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 769–790.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Guy Stecklov; Paul Winters; Marco Stampini; Benjamin Davis Abstract Prior research on Mexican migration has shown that social networks and economic incentives play an important role in determining migration outcomes. We use experimental data from PROGRESA, Mexico’s primary poverty-reduction program...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2085–2111.
Published: 29 October 2020
... Studies (CFPS), this study improves on previous research by using direct measures of parental investment, including monetary and nonmonetary investment, and distinguishing household-level from child-specific resources. It also exploits the longitudinal nature of the CFPS to mediate the bias arising from...
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View articletitled, Parental Investment After the Birth of a Sibling: The Effect of Family Size in Low-Fertility China
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1853–1882.
Published: 21 November 2016
... readiness. Hypothesis 3: Developmental ecology is a primary pathway through which demographic disadvantages shape children’s kindergarten readiness. I do not expect developmental ecology to fully mediate links between demographic characteristics and child outcomes or to perfectly predict...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1653–1676.
Published: 28 July 2017
... living in this advantaged neighborhood rather than the level of primary school poverty that they would experience living in a disadvantaged neighborhood 1 standard deviation below the national mean. Substantively, ATE t measures the effect of neighborhood context operating through all mediating...
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View articletitled, Neighborhoods, Schools, and Academic Achievement: A Formal <span class="search-highlight">Mediation</span> Analysis of Contextual Effects on Reading and Mathematics Abilities
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Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 6 Alternative mediators of the association between childhood poverty and young adult poverty. See Eqs. (3a) and (3b) . Controls are included for age, Hispanic status, and year effects. Benchmarks represent education, employment, and family structure benchmarks used in the primary
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2295–2319.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Fig. 6 Alternative mediators of the association between childhood poverty and young adult poverty. See Eqs. (3a) and (3b) . Controls are included for age, Hispanic status, and year effects. Benchmarks represent education, employment, and family structure benchmarks used in the primary...
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View articletitled, Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 615–635.
Published: 17 October 2012
... mortality. Overall, our results are consistent with the view that the decrease in infant death by socioeconomic level is not mediated by improved birth weight. Interventions targeting birth weight may not result in lower infant mortality. For i = s and p , is given by (8) (9) (10) (11...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1667–1698.
Published: 01 October 2024
... is the child. Results presented are for a causal mediation analysis of the ITT results on HAZ and CREDI z scores. Maternal and child controls include woman-level controls, such as the total number of children alive, educational attainment (primary or less vs. secondary and higher), age, religion (Christian...
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View articletitled, Family Planning and Children's Human Capital: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1275–1298.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and test a theoretical model of neighborhood effects on cognitive development during early childhood that highlights the mediating role of exposure to neurotoxic lead. To evaluate this model, we follow 1,266 children in Chicago from birth through school entry and track both their areal risk of lead...
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View articletitled, Toxic Neighborhoods: The Effects of Concentrated Poverty and Environmental Lead Contamination on Early Childhood Development
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1771–1800.
Published: 25 October 2016
... not provide support for the theory that the presence of social (nonbiological) fathers increases mothers’ risk for engaging in child abuse or neglect. In Model 2 of Tables 2 and 3 , I test Hypothesis 2 by including potential mediators (mothers’ mental health, resources, or economic well-being...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 315–336.
Published: 13 January 2012
... the education continuum if, for example, the primary mediators through which education is associated with reduced mortality risk vary along the way. For instance, each year of education prior to a high school diploma may reduce mortality risk by X% through improved cognitive function, sense of control...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 895–920.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of up to 2.5 years. Mediation analyses reveal what explains the relationship between baseline religiosity and young women's subsequent reproductive behaviors, with consideration for their normative environments, moral order and learned competencies, attitudes, and anticipated guilt after sex. Results...
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View articletitled, Religiosity and Young Unmarried Women's Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior: New Evidence From a Longitudinal Panel of Young Adult Women
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1729–1753.
Published: 12 September 2014
... across the health impairment trajectories is, however, significant and noteworthy: nearly one-third of blacks (28 %) in the United States experience some form of impairment during their prime working years compared with 18.8 % of whites. Second, racial differences in childhood background mediate...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 393–424.
Published: 25 January 2012
... Americans. More generally, although a wide range of mental health problems among immigrants has been identified, the potential causal or mediating mechanisms underlying these problems remain elusive. This latter substantive shortcoming is related to a key methodological challenge involving the potentially...
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View articletitled, Mental Health Consequences of International Migration for Vietnamese Americans and the <span class="search-highlight">Mediating</span> Effects of Physical Health and Social Networks: Results From a Natural Experiment Approach
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1743–1770.
Published: 07 November 2016
...-old children in Burkina Faso, Thiombiano et al. ( 2013 ) showed that recent parental divorce (i.e., within the past two years) reduced the odds of starting primary school. In Malawi, Carling and Tonnessen ( 2013 ) demonstrated that parental divorce is negatively associated with current school...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 769–795.
Published: 01 June 2024
... reported that with male spousal migration, women gain household and financial decision-making power. On the other hand, men can still retain primary household control because they oversee household resources and dynamics ( Brink 1991 ; Rao 2014 ), resulting in null effects on women's empowerment...
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View articletitled, Migration, Gender, and Families: The Effects of Spousal Migration on Women's Empowerment
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 125–144.
Published: 01 February 2010
... the relative strengths of two mediating factors: (1) adolescent growth and maturation and (2) schooling. We use a remarkable data set for this analysis, namely a series of stud- ies carried out in rural Guatemala by investigators at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP...
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