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Pregnancy Intentions, Maternal Behaviors, and Infant Health: Investigating Relationships With New Measures and Propensity Score Analysis

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Kathryn Kost, Laura Lindberg
Demography (2015) 52 (1): 83–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0359-9
Published: 09 January 2015
... in the characteristics of mothers within intention status groups. Third, we account for the association of mothers’ background characteristics with their pregnancy intentions and with the outcomes by employing propensity score weighting. We find that weighting eliminated statistical significance of many observed...
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Mind the “Happiness” Gap: The Relationship Between Cohabitation, Marriage, and Subjective Well-being in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Norway

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Brienna Perelli-Harris, Stefanie Hoherz, Trude Lappegård, Ann Evans
Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1219–1246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00792-4
Published: 09 July 2019
.... In this study, we examine differences in subjective well-being between cohabiting and married men and women in midlife, comparing the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Norway. We apply propensity score–weighted regression analyses to examine selection processes into marriage and differential treatment...
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Does Parental Consent for Birth Control Affect Underage Pregnancy Rates? The Case of Texas

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Sourafel Girma, David Paton
Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2105–2128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0225-1
Published: 14 June 2013
... . American Journal of Public Health , 95 , 192 10.2105/AJPH.2004.005723 17 5 2013 14 6 2013 © Population Association of America 2013 2013 Propensity score weights Parental consent Birth control Teen pregnancy Abortion Policy discussions on the appropriate level...
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The Location of Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Year After Hurricane Katrina

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Narayan Sastry, Jesse Gregory
Demography (2014) 51 (3): 753–775.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0284-y
Published: 06 March 2014
... and is necessary to maximize the sample size for the analysis; stratifying the sample (even into two groups) by date of interview to examine differences in displacement locations over time leads to loss of precision in the estimates. We constructed propensity score weights (DiNardo et al. 1996 ; Rosenbaum...
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Orphanhood and human capital destruction: Is there persistence into adulthood?

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Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt, Stefan Dercon
Demography (2010) 47 (1): 163–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0094
Published: 01 February 2010
.../j.1365-3156.2002.00889.x Hirano K. , &amp; Imbens G. ( 2001 ). Estimation of Causal Effects Using Propensity Score Weighting: An Application to Data on Right Heart Catheterization . Health Services and Outcomes Research and Methodology , 2 , 259 – 78 . 10.1023/A:1020371312283...
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Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of marital birth among college women with and without student debt, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects

Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of marital birth among college wom...

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in Racial and Ethnic Variation in the Relationship Between Student Loan Debt and the Transition to First Birth > Demography
Published: 08 January 2018
Fig. 1 Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of marital birth among college women with and without student debt, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects More
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Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of nonmarital birth among college women with and without student debt, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects

Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of nonmarital birth among college ...

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in Racial and Ethnic Variation in the Relationship Between Student Loan Debt and the Transition to First Birth > Demography
Published: 08 January 2018
Fig. 2 Predicted Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard of nonmarital birth among college women with and without student debt, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects More
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Estimated hazard rates of marital and nonmarital first birth by student loan debt and years since college graduation, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects

Estimated hazard rates of marital and nonmarital first birth by student loa...

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in Racial and Ethnic Variation in the Relationship Between Student Loan Debt and the Transition to First Birth > Demography
Published: 08 January 2018
Fig. 3 Estimated hazard rates of marital and nonmarital first birth by student loan debt and years since college graduation, weighted by propensity score. Results are adjusted for marginal treatment effects More
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Family Planning and Children's Human Capital: Experimental Evidence From Urban Malawi

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Daniel Maggio, Mahesh Karra, David Canning
Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1667–1698.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11581796
Published: 01 October 2024
...) by employing propensity score weighting and Heckman selection models ( Heckman 1979 ) to correct for potential bias due to nonmeasurement; and (3) by presenting bounds in the tradition of Kling et al. (2007) to explore the severity with which nonmeasurement may impact our estimates. Using these three methods...
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Better for Baby? The Retreat From Mid-Pregnancy Marriage and Implications for Parenting and Child Well-being

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Jessica Houston Su, Rachel Dunifon, Sharon Sassler
Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1167–1194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0410-5
Published: 01 July 2015
... deviation differences between treatment and control Whites Blacks Mean SD Mean SD Sampling Weight 0.14 0.02 0.17 0.06 ATE Weight 0.01 0.06 0.05 0.12 ATT Weight 0.03 0.04 0.03 0.12 ATC Weight 0.02 0.07 0.05 0.12 Table 5 Propensity score models...
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Choosing Plan B Over Plan A: Risk Compensation Theory and Contraceptive Choice in India

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Pallavi Shukla, Hemant Kumar Pullabhotla, Mary Arends-Kuenning
Demography (2021) 58 (1): 273–294.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-8932007
Published: 01 February 2021
... a weighted regression in first differences ( Khandker et al. 2009 ). However, integrating propensity score matching in difference-in-differences under a repeated cross-section setting is different owing to the fact that we effectively have four groups—treatment pre ( G 1 ), treatment post ( G 2...
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A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship Between Fertility Timing and Schooling

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Kevin Stange
Demography (2011) 48 (3): 931–956.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0050-3
Published: 30 June 2011
... estimators performed well (in an efficiency sense) relative to pair matching, k -nearest-neighbor matching (of which stratification is a variant), and inverse propensity score weighting, particularly when the number of controls was large. 17 Based on this evidence, Sanders et al. ( 2007 ) employed...
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Wealth, Race, and Place: How Neighborhood (Dis)advantage From Emerging to Middle Adulthood Affects Wealth Inequality and the Racial Wealth Gap

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Brian L. Levy
Demography (2022) 59 (1): 293–320.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9710284
Published: 01 February 2022
... problems and permit adjustment for time-varying covariates ( Robins 1998 ; Robins et al. 2000 ). IPT-weighted MSMs use two-stage propensity score techniques, which regress treatment status at each wave on theoretically informed controls in the first-stage regression. By weighting observations...
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Sequential Neighborhood Effects: The Effect of Long-Term Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage on Children’s Reading and Math Test Scores

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Andrew L. Hicks, Mark S. Handcock, Narayan Sastry, Anne R. Pebley
Demography (2018) 55 (1): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0636-5
Published: 30 November 2017
.... Comparing the results from the two modeling approaches, the IPTW models show significant negative effects of observed duration-weighted exposure to neighborhood disadvantage on children’s math scores and marginally significant negative effects on reading scores. Results from the propensity function approach...
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Early Childbearing, School Attainment, and Cognitive Skills: Evidence From Madagascar

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Catalina Herrera Almanza, David E. Sahn
Demography (2018) 55 (2): 643–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0664-9
Published: 21 March 2018
... ). Estimating the effect of adolescent fertility on educational attainment in Cape Town using a propensity score weighted regression . Paper presented at the fifth annual PopPov Conference on Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development, Marseille, France . Ribar D. C. ( 1994 ). Teenage...
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The Impact of College Education on Fertility: Evidence for Heterogeneous Effects

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Jennie E. Brand, Dwight Davis
Demography (2011) 48 (3): 863–887.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0034-3
Published: 07 July 2011
... of college on fertility with each one-unit change to a higher propensity score stratum). 5 We use variance-weighted least squares to estimate Eq.  5 , and thus we do not assume homogeneity of variances across the δs. Variances across the δs come from two sources: sampling variation (due to different...
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Polygenic Scores for Plasticity: A New Tool for Studying Gene–Environment Interplay

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Rebecca Johnson, Ramina Sotoudeh, Dalton Conley
Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1045–1070.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9957418
Published: 01 June 2022
... in the construction of the vPGS weights using the UK Biobank, we control for these covariates in the regression. We find no substantive differences with these additional covariates. The first question that arises when using plasticity scores for G×E research is whether the plasticity score simply captures...
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A Note on “Sequential Neighborhood Effects” by Hicks et al. (2018)

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Mark S. Handcock, Andrew L. Hicks, Narayan Sastry, Anne R. Pebley
Demography (2021) 58 (2): 773–784.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9000711
Published: 01 April 2021
... . Demography , 55 , 1 – 31 . Imai K. , &amp; van Dyk D. A. ( 2004 ). Causal inference with general treatment regimes: Generalizing the propensity score . Journal of the American Statistical Association , 99 , 854 – 866 . Naimi A. I. , Cole S. R. , &amp; Kennedy E. H...
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The Educational Consequences of Teen Childbearing

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Jennifer B. Kane, S. Philip Morgan, Kathleen Mullan Harris, David K. Guilkey
Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2129–2150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0238-9
Published: 27 September 2013
... strategies: ordinary least squares regression; propensity score matching; and parametric and semiparametric maximum likelihood estimation. Results demonstrate educational consequences of teen childbearing, with estimated effects between 0.7 and 1.9 fewer years of schooling among teen mothers. We select our...
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Do Pregnancy Intentions Matter? A Research Note Revisiting Relationships Among Pregnancy, Birth, and Maternal Outcomes

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Nicholas D. E. Mark, Sarah K. Cowan
Demography (2022) 59 (1): 37–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9710311
Published: 01 February 2022
... probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies . Statistics in Medicine , 34 , 3661 – 3679 . Barber J. S. , Axinn W. G. , &amp; Thornton A. ( 1999 ). Unwanted childbearing, health, and mother-child...
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