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Causes and consequences of early-life health
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S65–S85.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Population Association of America 2010 2010 Twin Pair Teen Mother Adult Outcome Tall Individual Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test References Adler N.E. , Boyce T. , Chesney M.A. , Cohen S. , Folkman S. , Kahn R.L. , & Syme S.L. ( 1994 ). Socioeconomic...
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Marital protection and marital selection: Evidence from a historical-prospective sample of American men
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 511–521.
Published: 01 November 2000
... the subjects net nu- tritional status, genetic influences at the individual level, which would wash out in aggregated data, increase standard errors in the statistical analysis. Individual-level observations may also be confounded by cultural standards of male beauty (e.g., tall, dark, and handsome which...
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Improving the accuracy of migration age detail in multiple-area population forecasts
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Demography (1983) 20 (2): 235–248.
Published: 01 May 1983
... slope of the curve as defined by the rate for age group 40-44. Thirty- six patterns were created for the present application. For each of three slope cate- gories, there are three amplitudes at the peak (short, tall, and extreme), and four timings of the peak ("college," "early "intermediate," and "late...
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A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 49–66.
Published: 01 February 1997
... of the reported figures for c. 1790 are about ±I 0%. One implication of these estimates is that mature adults of the late eighteenth century must have been very small by current standards. Today the typical American male in his early thirties is about 177 em (70 in.) tall and weighs about 78 kg (172 lb) (U.S...
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Adult height and childhood disease
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 647–669.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Height . Journal of Biosocial Science , 35 , 263 – 85 . 10.1017/S0021932003002633 Steckel R.H. ( 1995 ). Stature and the Standard of Living . Journal of Economic Literature , 33 , 1903 – 40 . Steckel R.H. ( 2004 ). New Light on the Dark Ages: The Remarkably Tall Stature...
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Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1185–1206.
Published: 12 September 2012
... is that the characteristics that enabled men to survive captivity hurt their survival chances at older ages. One potential candidate for such a characteristic is height. The tall were less likely to survive POW camps because all men received the same size ration, and the tall need more food (Costa and Kahn 2007b ). In very...
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in U.S. Census Omission Rates
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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 285–302.
Published: 01 May 1990
... blacksdiller from unweighted ns in Table 1 because these groups were randomly subsampled. Parameter and standard error couldnot be estimated becauseof an emptycontingency table cell. Significantly different from zero at the 10% level for a two-talled t test. Significantly differentfrom zero at the 5...
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Demography (2019) 56 (2): 707–728.
Published: 28 January 2019
... in the year (e.g., January), she is actually younger than reported to be and therefore likely to be short for the reported age. If she is recorded as born later (e.g., December), she is actually older and likely to be tall for the reported age. Such errors provide a ready explanation for the anomaly shown...
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View articletitled, Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries
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The Genome-Wide Influence on Human BMI Depends on Physical Activity, Life Course, and Historical Period
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1651–1670.
Published: 29 August 2015
... composition interpretation: Contributions of the fat-free mass index and the body fat mass index . Nutrition , 19 , 597 – 604 . 10.1016/S0899-9007(03)00061-3 . Lazar , M. A. ( 2005 ). How obesity causes diabetes: Not a tall tale . Science , 307 , 373 – 375 . 10.1126/science.1104342...
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A Weighty Issue: Diminished Net Nutrition Among the U.S. Working Class in the Nineteenth Century
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 945–966.
Published: 12 May 2015
..., and average white height was 67.47 inches. 5 However, weights for blacks in the nineteenth century are not necessarily a sign of superior net nutrition because blacks were short and heavy, while whites were tall and thin (Carson 2009a , 2012a ; Herbert et al. 1993 ; Margo and Steckel 1982 ). Average...
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Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap: A Decomposition Analysis of Proximal Causes
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1429–1450.
Published: 27 September 2011
... female in our analysis sample—45 years old, 1.64 m tall, weighing 76.8 kg (BMI = 28.6), and exercising little or not at all—would require approximately 1,800 calories per day to maintain her current weight. 8 Figure 1 also demonstrates that the correlation between BMI and EI using all observations...
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Putting people into place
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Demography (2007) 44 (4): 687–703.
Published: 01 November 2007
..., and statistical machinery in use now were mostly in place 20 years ago. A critical need is to incorporate agency into theories of neighborhoods and health. This is a tall order, but clearly an important piece is to embed a theory of migration and residential mobility into theory of health and context. People...
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Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor, and Spatial Aptitudes
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1749–1775.
Published: 14 September 2018
....0b013e3181425869 . Zhou , L. , Leng , O. T. , & He , Z. J. ( 2016 ). Intrinsic spatial knowledge about terrestrial ecology favors the tall for judging distance . Science Advances , 2 ( 8 ), e1501070 . https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501070 . ...
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Height and the normal distribution: evidence from italian military data
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 2009
... suffered mortality exceed- ing the national average. Every region of the North and Center had a death rate below the national level, with the exception of Lombardy. Anomalously tall but poor Veneto appears healthy on this measure as well, with a rate of 75 per thousand, almost 20 points below the national...
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The Relationship of the Crude Birth Rate and its Components to Social and Economic Development
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Demography (1974) 11 (3): 457–472.
Published: 01 August 1974
... not explain the intercorrelations, as can be seen in Table 3. The predicted correlation between any two components x and y is the product of the correlations rurall, where rail} equals the correlation between agricultural de- velopment and x and Tall equals the cor- relation between agricultural develop- ment...
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Gender Differences in Self-assessed Measures of Health: How Does the Structure of Self-rated Health Compare Across Transgender and Cisgender Groups?
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2147–2175.
Published: 01 December 2024
... smoke cigarettes every day, some days, or not at all?” 1 = current smoker (every day or some days); 0 = not a current smoker (not at all) Obesity “About how much do you weigh without shoes?” “About how tall are you without shoes?” 1 = body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m 2 ; 0 = body mass index <30 kg/m...
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Childhood Circumstances and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 913–938.
Published: 03 July 2012
.... Less than 10% of children were wasted (not shown in the table). 5 At 2 years old, boys weighed, on average, 10.1 kilos and were 80 cm tall; girls weighed, on average, 9.4 kilos and measured 78.3 cm. At 24 months, 67.9% of children were stunted and 37.3% were wasted. The 1994–1995 survey round...
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The political ecology of disaster: An analysis of factors influencing U.S. tornado fatalities and injuries, 1998–2000
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 669–685.
Published: 01 August 2007
... of preparedness among residents, along with the prolif- eration of skepticism about tornado risks. An additional interpretation of this coef cient is possible: the presence of tall buildings and other visual obstructions in urban communities may make it dif cult in such settings to visually con rm the presence...
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Age-Specific Correlates of Child Growth
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 241–267.
Published: 04 January 2016
... characteristics, such as mother’s height and education? According to the top panel of Fig. 4 , children of tall mothers are taller and heavier already at birth, and this difference is not substantially higher for older age cohorts. On the other hand, maternal education, an often-cited strong correlate of child...
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The association of childhood socioeconomic conditions with healthy longevity at the oldest-old ages in China
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 497–518.
Published: 01 August 2007
... at younger ages than were tall men. Hayward and Gorman (2004) showed that men s adult mortality is associated with a variety of childhood conditions related to socioeconomic status. Beebe- Dimmer et al. (2004) found that childhood conditions in terms of father s occupation and education are correlated...
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