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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 8 COVID vaccine coverage, COVID skepticism, vaccine skepticism, and health care provision. The figure reports OLS coefficient estimates (weighted by the regional population size) and the 95% confidence intervals. The red bars refer to estimates of uptake measured in the first 6 (dark red
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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 2 The evolution of Twitter COVID skepticism and excess mortality in Italy in 2020. The blue line shows the OLS coefficient estimates of Twitter COVID skepticism, along with the 95% confidence intervals, weighted by population size (on the right-hand axis). The model is constructed
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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 3 COVID skepticism in the first COVID wave and municipality-level characteristics. COVID skepticism is the municipality-level average over the pandemic's first wave (February to July 2020). The other time-varying covariates (e.g., excess mortality, mobility, and Twitter metrics) are also
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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 4 The impact of economic lockdown on COVID skepticism. The top panel presents predicted values of COVID skepticism based on a distributed lags DiD design. The graph compares local average COVID skepticism coefficient estimates for treated (dash-dot line) and control municipalities (solid
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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 5 The impact of economic lockdown on COVID skepticism and alternative treatment definitions. The colored circles represent the DiD coefficients between treated and control municipalities, adopting alternatives to the treatment threshold: the mean (baseline), the median, and the 75th
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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 6 The impact of economic lockdown on COVID skepticism and robustness checks. The colored circles represent the DiD coefficients between treated and control municipalities, based on specifications introducing (1) interaction terms between municipal income, unemployment, low education
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1613–1636.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Fig. 8 COVID vaccine coverage, COVID skepticism, vaccine skepticism, and health care provision. The figure reports OLS coefficient estimates (weighted by the regional population size) and the 95% confidence intervals. The red bars refer to estimates of uptake measured in the first 6 (dark red...
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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 7 The impact of economic lockdown and anti-vaccine views pre-COVID on COVID skepticism. COVID skepticism is the municipality-level average over the pandemic's first wave (February to July 2020). The treatment is defined as for municipalities where the share of suspended workers was greater
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 387–403.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., there is legitimate skepticism about the ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they had during childhood. The evidence presented in this article suggests that this view is too negative. Respondents appear to remember salient childhood events about themselves, such as the illnesses...
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 211–234.
Published: 01 May 1970
... is that the contention that fertility reduction is crucial to short term economic development is not substantiated empirically and represents a distorted view of the economic development process. Nor is there good evidence that demographic modernization can move far ahead of other aspects of modernization. Skepticism...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1247–1272.
Published: 08 July 2019
...Shelley Clark; Caroline W. Kabiru; Sonia Laszlo; Stella Muthuri Abstract Despite evidence from other regions, researchers and policy-makers remain skeptical that women’s disproportionate childcare responsibilities act as a significant barrier to women’s economic empowerment in Africa...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 539–540.
Published: 01 June 1968
... various. A few have voiced great optimism that the omi- nous predictions of demographic calamity could now be averted. Others have re- mained highly skeptical and pessimistic. In characteristic demographic style, the vast majority have perhaps suspended judgment awaiting availability of more facts. "Hard...
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 325–327.
Published: 01 August 1970
... and the ab- out. sence of television might have contrib- Mount Sinai Hospital, which aver- uted to the phenomenon. Christopher ages 11 births daily, had 28 births on Tietze was more cautious in his opinion: Monday, This was arecord for the "I am skeptical until I see the data from hospital; its previous one...
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1215–1219.
Published: 28 April 2017
...Isaac Sasson 17 4 2017 28 4 2017 © Population Association of America 2017 2017 Replication studies are commendable: no single study should be taken at face value. Nevertheless, replications should be approached with an equal amount of healthy skepticism. I turned...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2377–2381.
Published: 19 November 2020
..., and there are important reasons why one might be skeptical about it given other evidence showing a rise in income underreporting and, more generally, a decline in survey quality over time (for a summary, see Meyer et al. 2015 ). In addition to the upward bias due to underreported earnings, estimates of extreme...
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Demography (1994) 31 (1): 159–175.
Published: 01 February 1994
... problems among the old (Crimmins and Ingegneri 1992; Manton, Corder, and Stallard 1993; Yeas 1987). Early reports of increasing disability were met with skepticism. At first glance, it seemed implausible that the health of the older population could deteriorate while life expectancy increased. Recent...
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 481–492.
Published: 01 August 1991
... association), or because growth is itself a stimulus for investment in producer services (Speare's interpretation)? Speare's bivariate tabulations may seem meaningful to one whose theory anticipates positive effects of growth, but they are unconvincing to a skeptic. And my understanding of science is that we...
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An assessment of methods for estimating adult mortality from two sets of data on maternal orphanhood
Demography (1986) 23 (3): 435–450.
Published: 01 August 1986
... and, on the basis of this and other evidence (see, for example, Hill 1984), are rather skeptical about the performance of the orphanhood method. Blacker (1984) is not convinced by their skepticism. He believes that age exaggeration is the more important explanation of downward biases in estimates of adult mortality...
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Challenges in Measuring the Sequencing of Life Events Among Adolescents in Malawi: A Cautionary Note
Demography (2014) 51 (1): 277–285.
Published: 08 January 2014
... adolescent surveys in Africa to maintain a healthy skepticism about their data and the ability to draw definitive conclusions regarding the timing and sequencing of transitions to adulthood. As is the case for others who have examined age at sexual initiation and age at first marriage with longitudinal...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 727–739.
Published: 01 November 2003
... of the Soviet Union and in Ecuador (Vilcabamba) eventually aroused much skepticism (Bennett and Garson 1986; Mazess and Forman 1979). Researchers concluded that in these isolated areas, supercentenarian ages were incorrect; in fact, in many instances, the century mark had not been passed (Bennett and Garson...
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