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Separating Scarring Effect and Selection of Early-Life Exposures With Genetic Data
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 363–392.
Published: 01 April 2024
... with (quasi-)randomized early-life exposures, these associations may reflect not only causation (“scarring”) but also selection (i.e., which members are included in data assessing later life). Investigating this selection and its impacts on estimated effects of early-life conditions has, however, often been...
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Sex selection with biased technologies and its effect on the population sex ratio
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 285–296.
Published: 01 August 1977
... of bearing their desired number of sons and daughters. Second, the effect of the widespread use of sex-selection techniques on the population sex ratio is explored. It is shown that even if populations have unbiased sex preferences, or sex preferences biased towards daughters, the use of biased sex-selection...
View articletitled, Sex <span class="search-highlight">selection</span> with biased technologies and its <span class="search-highlight">effect</span> on the population sex ratio
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Refining the association between education and health: The effects of quantity, credential, and selectivity
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 445–460.
Published: 01 November 1999
.... Of the three aspects of education, years of schooling has the largest effect. Most of that association appears attributable to its correlation with work and economic conditions, social psychological resources, and health lifestyle. A large portion of the net association of college selectivity with physical...
View articletitled, Refining the association between education and health: The <span class="search-highlight">effects</span> of quantity, credential, and <span class="search-highlight">selectivity</span>
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Effects of the immigration act of 1965 on selected population characteristics of immigrants to the United States
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Demography (1971) 8 (2): 157–169.
Published: 01 May 1971
... and for Other Purposes. Report No. 745, 89th Congress, 1st Session. U. S. Senate. 1965. Amending the Immigration and Nationality Act and for Other Purposes. Report No. 748, 89th Congress, 1st Session. DEMOGRAPHY Volume 8, Number 2 May 1971 EFFECTS OF THE IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1965 ON SELECTED POPULATION...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Effects</span> of the immigration act of 1965 on <span class="search-highlight">selected</span> population characteristics of immigrants to the United States
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Effects of various factors on selection for family planning status and natural fecundability: A simulation study
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Demography (1978) 15 (1): 87–98.
Published: 01 February 1978
...John C. Barrett Abstract The effect of various factors on selection for family planning status and for natural fecund ability is studied in a simulation that incorporates a beta distribution of fecundability among women. The mean fecundabilities of current spacers, current limiters, current...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Effects</span> of various factors on <span class="search-highlight">selection</span> for family planning status and natural fecundability: A simulation study
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1335–1357.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Michel Guillot; Myriam Khlat; Romeo Gansey; Matthieu Solignac; Irma Elo Abstract The migrant mortality advantage (MMA) has been observed in many immigrant-receiving countries, but its underlying factors remain poorly understood. This article examines the role of return migration selection effects...
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View articletitled, Return Migration <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> and Its Impact on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data
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Competing effects of birth selection on hypothesis testing. The upper panel...
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in Selection Bias in the Link Between Child Wantedness and Child Survival: Theory and Data From Matlab, Bangladesh
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Published: 14 January 2015
Fig. 1 Competing effects of birth selection on hypothesis testing. The upper panel shows separate distributions of fitness, H , for unwanted children on the left and wanted children on the right. A is mean fitness for unwanted children, and B is mean fitness for wanted children
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Response to Ermisch, Martin, and Wu
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 211–219.
Published: 01 February 2009
.... In this response we argue that the analysis and evidence of our 2006 paper have withstood the scrutiny of EMW. In particular, we find that a substantial part of the rising share of nonmarital births since 1970 is due to a selection effect associated with marriage. This same selection effect also explains how birth...
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Marital status and mortality: The role of health
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 313–327.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Lee A. Lillard; Constantijn W. A. Panis Abstract Prior literature has shown that married men live longer than unmarried men. Possible explanations are that marriage protects its incumbents or that healthier men select themselves into marriage. Protective effects, however, introduce the possibility...
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Urbanization and fertility: An event-history analysis of Coastal Ghana
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 803–816.
Published: 01 November 2008
... by parity. Differences in urban population traits would augment the effects of urban adaptation itself. Extensions of the analysis point to the operation of a selection effect in rural-to-urban mobility but provide limited evidence for disruption effects. The possibility of further selection of urbanward...
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Refusal Bias in the Estimation of HIV Prevalence
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1131–1157.
Published: 02 May 2014
... of randomly assigned interviewers to identify the participation effect and estimate HIV prevalence rates corrected for unobservable characteristics with a Heckman selection model. The analysis is based on a survey of 1,992 individuals in urban Namibia, which included an HIV test. We find that the bias...
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Heterogeneity and selection in multistate population analysis
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 31–38.
Published: 01 February 1992
..., for example, all should focus on patterns of recurrent events among interacting populations (that is, multistate populations). Selection arising from heterogeneity will occur, but the consequences for average measures become unpredictable a priori. This paper explores such aspects of the selection effects...
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How does the age gap between partners affect their survival?
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 313–326.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., mainly because of methodological drawbacks and insufficiency of the data. The most common explanations refer to selection effects, caregiving in later life, and some positive psychological and sociological effects of having a younger spouse. The present study extends earlier work by using longitudinal...
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Different Reasons, Different Results: Implications of Migration by Gender and Family Status
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 197–217.
Published: 23 November 2011
... of job-related moves that we find are reduced substantially in the fixed-effects models, indicating strong selection effects. Married women who moved for family reasons experience significant and substantial earnings declines. Consistent with conventional models of migration, we find that household...
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Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform: Discrimination and Hispanic Employment
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 617–628.
Published: 01 November 1995
... IRCA-related discrimination but did not link reported discriminatory practices to discriminatory employment behavior. We analyze the GAO’s random survey and, controlling for selectivity effects, demonstrate that employers who report discriminatory practices actually employ fewer Hispanics. Although...
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Unilateral Divorce Law on Marital Stability
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2103–2126.
Published: 30 October 2014
... for unobserved heterogeneity over countries and cohorts. We find that UDL in total increased the incidence of marital breakdown by about 20 %. This finding, however, neglects potential selection effects into marriage. Accordingly, the estimated effect of unilateral divorce laws becomes much larger when we...
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Exposure to Childhood Poverty and Racial Differences in Economic Opportunity in Young Adulthood
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2295–2319.
Published: 01 December 2022
...–White poverty gaps for three reasons. First, childhood poverty is negatively associated with benchmark attainment, generating strong selection effects into the behavioral characteristics associated with lower poverty. Second, benchmark attainment does not equalize poverty rates among Black and White men...
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Explaining the Gender Wealth Gap
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1155–1176.
Published: 21 December 2012
... that a gender wealth gap remains between married men and women that we speculate may be related to gender differences in investment strategies and selection effects. 15 11 2012 21 12 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 Gender Net worth Wealth gap Wisconsin Longitudinal...
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Migration and Pacific Mortality: Estimating Migration Effects on Pacific Mortality Rates Using Bayesian Models
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2053–2073.
Published: 01 August 2013
... for more than 25 years. This result may arise from a combination of processes operating over time, including health selection effects from variations in New Zealand’s immigration policy, the location of Pacific migrants within the social, political, and cultural environment of the host community...
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Examining Ethnic Variation in Life Expectancy Among Asians in the United States, 2012–2016
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1631–1654.
Published: 01 October 2021
... life expectancy for Asians in the West was significantly lower than all other regions. These findings suggest the presence of underlying selection effects associated with settlement patterns among new and traditional destinations. Our results underline the necessity of studying the experiences...
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