Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 2947
Search Results for Selection/selectivity
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1819–1843.
Published: 10 July 2013
... are members. These results, however, may be attributable to selection bias because members might differ from nonmembers in ways that make them more susceptible to violence to begin with. Using a sample of currently married women from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) ( N = 4,195), we use...
View articletitled, Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: An Exploration of <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Bias Influences
View
PDF
for article titled, Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: An Exploration of <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Bias Influences
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2018) 55 (3): 979–1007.
Published: 27 April 2018
...Philip Anglewicz; Mark VanLandingham; Lucinda Manda-Taylor; Hans-Peter Kohler Abstract Despite its importance in studies of migrant health, selectivity of migrants—also known as migration health selection —has seldom been examined in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This neglect is problematic because...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2005–2030.
Published: 15 November 2016
... be partially attributable to selective return migration among less healthy migrants—often referred to as “salmon bias.” Our study takes advantage of a rare opportunity to observe the health status of Mexican-origin males as they cross the Mexican border. To assess whether unhealthy migrants...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Demography (2017) 54 (1): 175–200.
Published: 13 January 2017
...Fernando Riosmena; Randall Kuhn; Warren C. Jochem Abstract Despite being newcomers, immigrants often exhibit better health relative to native-born populations in industrialized societies. We extend prior efforts to identify whether self-selection and/or protection explain this advantage. We examine...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Explaining the Immigrant Health Advantage: Self-<span class="search-highlight">selection</span> and Protection in Health-Related Factors Among Five Major National-Origin Immigrant Groups in the United States
View
PDF
for article titled, Explaining the Immigrant Health Advantage: Self-<span class="search-highlight">selection</span> and Protection in Health-Related Factors Among Five Major National-Origin Immigrant Groups in the United States
Journal Article
Demography (2017) 54 (1): 119–144.
Published: 11 January 2017
... from the literature. We argue that the inconsistency of findings for men is due to the fact that the selection process involved in union formation has been disregarded in earlier studies. We hypothesize that men’s educational attainment consistently and positively affects the transition to fatherhood...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Into Union
View
PDF
for article titled, Education and the Transition to Fatherhood: The Role of <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Into Union
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2011) 48 (2): 783–811.
Published: 19 May 2011
... through initiatives that provide financial compensation to parents with daughters. Other scholars have advocated a relaxation of the one-child policy to allow more parents to have a son without engaging in sex selection. In this article, I present a model of fertility choice when parents have access...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Estimating a Dynamic Model of Sex <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> in China
View
PDF
for article titled, Estimating a Dynamic Model of Sex <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> in China
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1315–1339.
Published: 12 April 2013
...Kasey S. Buckles; Joseph Price Abstract Previous research has found a positive relationship between marriage and infant health, but it is unclear whether this relationship is causal or a reflection of positive selection into marriage. We use multiple empirical approaches to address this issue...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 651–675.
Published: 14 February 2012
... Population Association of America 2012 2012 Endogamy Ethnicity Immigration Mate selection Racial boundaries Social scientists use intermarriage patterns as a key indicator of the social distance among groups. The extent to which immigrant and ethnic minorities marry members of the dominant...
Journal Article
Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1185–1206.
Published: 12 September 2012
...Dora L. Costa Abstract Debilitating events could leave either more frail or more robust survivors, depending on the extent of scarring and mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find more frail survivors. I find heterogeneous effects. Among severely stressed former Union Army...
View articletitled, Scarring and Mortality <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up
View
PDF
for article titled, Scarring and Mortality <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up
Journal Article
Demography (2012) 49 (2): 425–447.
Published: 16 March 2012
... of smoking and heavy alcohol use compared with U.S.-born whites. We further investigate disability by period of arrival among FSU immigrants. Changes in Soviet emigration policies conceivably altered the level of health selectivity among émigrés. We find evidence that FSU immigrants who emigrated during...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Demography (1999) 36 (4): 445–460.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Catherine E. Ross; John Mirowsky Abstract We refine the established association between education and health by distinguishing three aspects of a person s education (quantity, credential, and selectivity) and by examining the mechanisms through which they may correlate with health. Data are from...
View articletitled, Refining the association between education and health: The effects of quantity, credential, and <span class="search-highlight">selectivity</span>
View
PDF
for article titled, Refining the association between education and health: The effects of quantity, credential, and <span class="search-highlight">selectivity</span>
Journal Article
Demography (2014) 51 (1): 51–71.
Published: 03 January 2014
... of the cohort is frail; (2) multiple decelerations are possible; and (3) mortality selection can produce acceleration as well as deceleration. Simulations show that these patterns are plausible in model cohorts that in the aggregate resemble cohorts in the Human Mortality Database. I argue that these results...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
View articletitled, Mortality Deceleration and Mortality <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span>: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model
View
PDF
for article titled, Mortality Deceleration and Mortality <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span>: Three Unexpected Implications of a Simple Model
Includes: Supplementary data
Journal Article
Demography (2013) 50 (1): 207–228.
Published: 02 October 2012
...–585, 2006 ) of corrections for selection biases. Based on microsimulations, this article shows that Gakidou and King’s weighting scheme has been incorrectly applied to survey data, leading to overestimates of mortality, especially for males. The evidence for an association between mortality...
FIGURES
| View All (4)
Journal Article
Demography (2008) 45 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Robert J. Sampson; Patrick Sharkey Abstract In this paper, we consider neighborhood selection as a social process central to the reproduction of racial inequality in neighborhood attainment. We formulate a multilevel model that decomposes multiple sources of stability and change in longitudinal...
Journal Article
Demography (2007) 44 (3): 649–668.
Published: 01 August 2007
... States are of significantly higher educational level and experience significantly faster rates of earnings assimilation in their new destination than their counterparts who immigrated to Israel. We present evidence that patterns of self-selection in immigration to Israel and the United States—on both...
View articletitled, Self-<span class="search-highlight">selection</span> and earnings assimilation: Immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel and the United States
View
PDF
for article titled, Self-<span class="search-highlight">selection</span> and earnings assimilation: Immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel and the United States
Journal Article
Demography (2006) 43 (3): 569–585.
Published: 01 August 2006
... this assumption is violated so that the mortality rate varies with sib ship size, mortality estimates can be massively biased. By using insights from work on the statistical analysis of selection bias, survey weighting, and extrapolation problems, we propose a new and relatively simple method of recovering...
View articletitled, Death by survey: Estimating adult mortality without <span class="search-highlight">selection</span> bias from sibling survival data
View
PDF
for article titled, Death by survey: Estimating adult mortality without <span class="search-highlight">selection</span> bias from sibling survival data
Journal Article
Demography (2005) 42 (2): 215–241.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Katherine J. Curtis White; Kyle Crowder; Stewart E. Tolnay; Robert M. Adelman Abstract Using historical census microdata, we present a unique analysis of racial and gender disparities in destination selection and an exploration ofhypotheses regarding tied migration in the historical context ofthe...
Journal Article
Demography (2005) 42 (1): 131–152.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Cynthia Feliciano Abstract Current immigration research has revealed little about how immigrants compare to those who do not migrate. Although most scholars agree that migrants are not random samples of their home countries’ populations, the direction and degree of educational selectivity...
View articletitled, Educational <span class="search-highlight">selectivity</span> in U.S. Immigration: How do immigrants compare to those left behind?
View
PDF
for article titled, Educational <span class="search-highlight">selectivity</span> in U.S. Immigration: How do immigrants compare to those left behind?
Journal Article
Demography (2006) 43 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., and Achievement in Young Adulthood . Journal of Family Psychology , 7 , 91 – 103 . 10.1037/0893-3200.7.1.91 Residential Father Family Type and Child Well-being 53 C Demography, Volume 43-Number 1, February 2006: 53 77 53 RESIDENTIAL FATHER FAMILY TYPE AND CHILD WELL-BEING: INVESTMENT VERSUS SELECTION...
Journal Article
Demography (2015) 52 (1): 61–82.
Published: 14 January 2015
...David Bishai; Abdur Razzaque; Susan Christiansen; A. H. M. Golam Mustafa; Michelle Hindin Abstract We examine the potential effects of selection bias on the association between unwanted births and child mortality from 7,942 women from Matlab, Bangladesh who declared birth intentions in 1990 prior...
FIGURES
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Bias in the Link Between Child Wantedness and Child Survival: Theory and Data From Matlab, Bangladesh
View
PDF
for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Selection</span> Bias in the Link Between Child Wantedness and Child Survival: Theory and Data From Matlab, Bangladesh
1
