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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1295–1320.
Published: 26 June 2015
... on the prospects of this “new” second generation (Farley and Alba 2002 ; Kao and Tienda 1995 ; Perlmann and Waldinger 1997 ), several indicators point to major vulnerabilities. These include high levels of both poverty (Borjas 2011 ) and unauthorized immigrant status among parents (Passel 2011 ), the latter...
View articletitled, Epidemiological Paradox or Immigrant <span class="search-highlight">Vulnerability</span>? Obesity Among Young Children of Immigrants
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Demography (2017) 54 (3): 1097–1118.
Published: 10 April 2017
... are least vulnerable to the force of mortality, and consider its features in both evolutionary and historical perspectives. We define this quiescent phase (Q-phase) formally, estimate its bounds using life tables for Swedish cohorts born between 1800 and 1920, and describe changes in the morphology of the Q...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2291–2314.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Schythe for excellent research assistance. We acknowledge institutional support from ANID of the Government of Chile in funding the Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Life Course and Vulnerability (MLIV) (grant NCS17_062). The authors gratefully acknowledge FONDECYT Chile for financial support (grant...
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View articletitled, Access to the Emergency Contraceptive Pill and Women's Reproductive Health: Evidence From Public Reform in Chile
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 957–978.
Published: 04 June 2018
... breakdown of the hump into contributions from particular ages and causes of death. Results isolate excess mortality associated with the transition to adulthood, which would otherwise remain invisible and may be useful to inform theory and policy relating to vulnerability in this phase of the life course...
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View articletitled, A Cause-of-Death Decomposition of Young Adult Excess Mortality
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 627–642.
Published: 01 June 2024
...John Anders; Craig Wesley Carpenter; Katherine Ann Willyard; Bethany DeSalvo Abstract In this research note, we describe the results of the first validation study of the U.S. Census Bureau's new Community Resilience Estimates (CRE), which uses Census microdata to develop a tract-level vulnerability...
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View articletitled, A Research Note on Community Resilience Estimates: New U.S. Census Bureau Data With an Application to Excess Deaths From COVID-19
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2031–2043.
Published: 21 November 2016
..., considering an outcome with competing evidence about immigrants’ vulnerability versus risk: childhood obesity. More specifically, we investigate obesity among three generations of Mexican-origin youth relative to one another and to U.S.-born whites. We posit that risk is dependent on the intersection...
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View articletitled, One Size May Not Fit All: How Obesity Among Mexican-Origin Youth Varies by Generation, Gender, and Age
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for article titled, One Size May Not Fit All: How Obesity Among Mexican-Origin Youth Varies by Generation, Gender, and Age
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Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S87–S109.
Published: 01 March 2010
... by increasing involvement with community and kin networks. Despite these social assets, older adults remain vulnerable to mistreatment. Overall, these findings yield a mixed picture of gender-differentiated vulnerabilities balanced by proactive adaptation and maintenance of social and dyadic assets. 27 1...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2113–2141.
Published: 16 October 2020
... and their probability of recent childbearing. Many of these effects are heterogeneous between demographic groups and across contexts, which suggests systematic differences in women’s vulnerability or preferred responses to armed conflict. Additional analyses suggest that conflict-related fertility declines may...
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View articletitled, Exposure to Armed Conflict and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 653–674.
Published: 13 March 2020
... and acute natural hazard—severe tornadoes—to focus conceptually on social vulnerability and to empirically assess local net demographic change. Using matching techniques and a difference-in-difference estimator, I find that severe tornadoes result in no net change in local population size but lead...
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View articletitled, Natural Hazards, Disasters, and Demographic Change: The Case of Severe Tornadoes in the United States, 1980–2010
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for article titled, Natural Hazards, Disasters, and Demographic Change: The Case of Severe Tornadoes in the United States, 1980–2010
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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 61–85.
Published: 01 February 2025
... disaster exposure but increased the likelihood of disaster preparedness and evacuation. This article offers insights into the climate–health nexus empirically by using a causal framework to improve credibility and conceptually by demonstrating how an underexamined dimension of vulnerability—sociospatial...
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View articletitled, Flooding, Sociospatial Risk, and Population Health
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1023–1041.
Published: 01 August 2024
... the most vulnerable individuals and intervene before adverse health outcomes, such as chronic disease morbidity or mortality, manifest. Corresponding author: [email protected] Copyright © 2024 The Authors 2024 Resilience Mortality Frailty Epigenetic aging Aging Cognitive...
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View articletitled, Epigenetic Aging Helps Explain Differential Resilience in Older Adults
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Demography (1977) 14 (4): 431–453.
Published: 01 November 1977
... is evaluated. The main finding about aggregate prediction is that 1970 intentions overestimated 1971–1975 fertility to the same extent as the conventional 1970 total fertility rate. The conclusion is that intentions suffer all of the same vulnerabilities as other period measures. At the individual level...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 449–459.
Published: 01 November 2000
... pertains only to blacks. These findings suggest that blacks are vulnerable in the process of urban redevelopment. 8 2 2011 © Population Association of America 2000 2000 Census Tract Poverty Rate Spatial Separation Residential Segregation Visible Minority References Abramson...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 575–584.
Published: 01 November 1994
... policy, with potentially remedial effects for vulnerable children. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1994 1994 Family Structure School Dropout Residential Mobility School Achievement Intact Family References Astone N.M. , & McLanahan S.S. ( 1991...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 461–483.
Published: 01 April 2022
... with women's wealth holdings. These findings underscore the fact that Japanese women are potentially in a financially vulnerable position even after marriage, which is at least partly driven by married women's career disruptions arising from their family responsibilities. Other aspects of Japanese society...
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View articletitled, Are Married Women Really Wealthier Than Unmarried Women? Evidence From Japan
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1953–1979.
Published: 01 October 2022
... factors such as segregation, implementation of nonpharmaceutical interventions, racial differences in exposure to the milder spring 1918 “herald wave,” and racial differences in early-life influenza exposures, resulting in differential immunological vulnerability to the 1918 flu. While we find little...
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View articletitled, Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1815–1841.
Published: 01 December 2023
...: PhenoAge, Klemera–Doubal biological age, and homeostatic dysregulation. It also examines the contributions of racial differences in life course socioeconomic and stress exposures and vulnerability to those exposures to Black–White disparities in biological aging. Across the outcomes, Black individuals...
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View articletitled, Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1817–1841.
Published: 01 October 2021
... for unobserved heterogeneity and selection, we observe a small positive effect of proximity to family on first migrations undertaken after age 18. Significant cross-process residual correlations exist across all three outcomes, suggesting that separately estimated model estimates may be vulnerable to bias...
View articletitled, Interrelationships Among Fertility, Internal Migration,and Proximity to Nonresident Family:A Multilevel Multiprocess Analysis
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 201–226.
Published: 01 February 2023
... with foreign degrees, are more vulnerable to vertical and horizontal mismatch and suffer higher wage penalties from mismatched employment than similarly educated native-born workers. Auxiliary analyses show that the disadvantage foreign-educated skilled immigrants experience is largely concentrated among...
View articletitled, Education–Occupation Mismatch and Nativity Inequality Among Highly Educated U.S. Workers
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 127–145.
Published: 01 February 2009
... and were away from home for only a few days. Using logistic regression analysis, we found that the strength of the hurricane and the vulnerability of the housing unit had the greatest impact on evacuation behavior; additionally, several demographic variables had significant effects on the probability...
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