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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 2107–2146.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale geological formation, we test whether area-level income gains impact birth outcomes (birth weight, gestational length, and preterm birth) and pregnancy health (prepregnancy and prenatal smoking, prepregnancy weight status, gestational weight gain, and the timing...
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View articletitled, The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth Outcomes and Pregnancy-Related Health: Estimates From the Marcellus Shale Boom Economy
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Social Patterning in Body Mass Index (BMI) Among Contemporary Immigrant Groups: The Emergence of a Gradient
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 993–1012.
Published: 04 December 2012
..., particularly those from less-developed countries. We conclude that although certain immigrants appear to be uniquely protected from weight gain, poorer individuals from less-developed countries are doubly disadvantaged; this raises concerns about worsening inequalities in both diet and behavior between...
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The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the “Freshman 15” Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 311–336.
Published: 07 December 2016
... to control for various sources of potential bias, I find that freshman year college attendance is estimated to cause only about a one-pound increase. Supplemental results show that those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds gain more weight during the freshman college year. Longer term, having a college...
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The increasing racial disparity in infant mortality: Respiratory distress syndrome and other causes
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 773–800.
Published: 01 November 2004
...). Maternal weight gain is included as an indicator of the adequacy of nutrition and because of its demonstrated relationship to fetal development (Chomitz et al. 1995). Gestational age and birth weight are the principal risk factors for RDS (British Columbia Reproductive Care Program 1993; Hamvas et al. 1996...
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Change in U.S. birth weight, 1990 to 2013, estimated using OLS regression. ...
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in Worth the Weight? Recent Trends in Obstetric Practices, Gestational Age, and Birth Weight in the United States
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Published: 29 January 2020
Fig. 1 Change in U.S. birth weight, 1990 to 2013, estimated using OLS regression. The baseline model includes single-year fixed effects. The full model includes single-year fixed effects + race, mother’s age, married, months of prenatal care, smoking during pregnancy, weight gain during
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A generalization of life expectancy which incorporates the age distribution of the population and its use in the measurement of the impact of mortality reduction
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 261–274.
Published: 01 May 1986
...+k)(x) - e(x)] ~ [e'rj(x) - e(x)] + [e'rk(x) - e(x)] . (21) It follows from (6) and (8) that G'r(J+k)(X) ~ [G'rj(X) + G'rk(X)] (22) and from (13) that L'r(J+k)(X) ~ [niX) L'rj(X) + nk(X) L'rk(X)] nj+k(X) nj+k(X) where nj+k(X) = niX) + nk(X!' WEIGHTED GAINS IN LIFE EXPECTANCY In the analysis...
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in Do Pregnancy Intentions Matter? A Research Note Revisiting Relationships Among Pregnancy, Birth, and Maternal Outcomes
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Published: 01 February 2022
Fig. 1 Unadjusted and inverse propensity-weighted estimates of associations between pregnancy intentions and pregnancy outcomes, giving odds ratios relative to pregnancies that were wanted then or sooner. Scales on the x -axes vary. The recognition, prenatal care, and weight gain models include
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Predicting adult health and mortality from adolescent facial characteristics in yearbook photographs
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 27–41.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Eric N. Reither; Robert M. Hauser; Karen C. Swallen Abstract Several important longitudinal studies in the social sciences have omitted biomarkers that are routinely recorded today, including height and weight. To account for this shortcoming in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), an 11-point...
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The geometric mean of the age-specific death rates as a summary index of mortality
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 317–324.
Published: 01 August 1970
... produce very different results. While directly standardized rates are widely used, they depend upon the selection of an appropriate standard population and give disproportionately heavy weight to the high ages. Average of relatives indexes give equal weight to all ages, but are infrequently used...
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Birth-interval dynamics in rural Bangladesh and maternal weight
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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 425–437.
Published: 01 August 1989
... will be described under the section giving the results for those analyses. The definitions for maternal nutrition are based on maternal anthropometry: height, preconception weight, weight gain during pregnancy, and weight at termination of preg- nancy. Height is used as an indicator of nutritional deficits...
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A new look at entropy and the life table
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 275–282.
Published: 01 May 1986
... than unity. A re-expression of H as a weighted average of life expectancy at different ages relative to life expectancy at birth demonstrates clearly the conditions under which reductions in mortality by a fixed amount at all ages can result in even greater gains in life expectancy. 9 1 2011...
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Addendum to “The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the ‘Freshman 15’ Myth and Other Effects of College Over the Life Cycle”
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1947.
Published: 03 August 2017
... ). The freshman 15: A critical time for obesity intervention or media myth? . Social Science Quarterly , 92 , 1389 – 1407 . Two additional studies examining education and weight gain during a portion of the life cycle have recently been published. First, Zagorsky and Smith ( 2011 ) used data from...
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Prenatal health investment decisions: Does the child’s sex matter?
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 885–905.
Published: 01 November 2008
... differentially in the health of boys versus girls by actions such as avoid- ing prenatal smoking and drinking, prenatal weight gain, and the frequency and adequacy of prenatal care use. We choose to focus on mothers prenatal investment decisions because they are po- tentially modi able, have utility...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 37–49.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Fig. 1 Unadjusted and inverse propensity-weighted estimates of associations between pregnancy intentions and pregnancy outcomes, giving odds ratios relative to pregnancies that were wanted then or sooner. Scales on the x -axes vary. The recognition, prenatal care, and weight gain models include...
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Worth the Weight? Recent Trends in Obstetric Practices, Gestational Age, and Birth Weight in the United States
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 99–121.
Published: 29 January 2020
...Fig. 1 Change in U.S. birth weight, 1990 to 2013, estimated using OLS regression. The baseline model includes single-year fixed effects. The full model includes single-year fixed effects + race, mother’s age, married, months of prenatal care, smoking during pregnancy, weight gain during...
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View articletitled, Worth the <span class="search-highlight">Weight</span>? Recent Trends in Obstetric Practices, Gestational Age, and Birth <span class="search-highlight">Weight</span> in the United States
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in Polygenic Prediction of Education and Its Role in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Cohort Changes Among Finnish Men and Women Born in 1925–1989
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Published: 01 October 2023
. Weight parameters are the product of three components ( atrisk × differentiate × gain ), which are presented in Figure A3 in the online appendix . The total contributions of each transition (i.e., effect × weight ) are found in Figure A2 . Shaded areas are 95% confidence intervals.
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Mothers' Social Status and Children's Health: Evidence From Joint Households in Rural India
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1981–2002.
Published: 01 October 2022
... mass and poor weight gain in pregnancy increase the chances that a baby will be born at a low birth weight ( Rasmussen and Yaktine 2009 ). Low-birth-weight babies are more likely to die in the neonatal period and grow up shorter, on average, than babies born at higher birth weights ( Adair 2007...
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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
... of weight gain in Pound of Prevention study . International Journal of Obesity , 24 , 395 – 403 . 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801169 Stauss , J. , & Thomas , D. ( 1998 ). Health, nutrition, and economic development . Journal of Economic Literature , 36 , 766 – 817 . Steckel , R. H...
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Continuous and robust measures of the overweight epidemic: 1971–2000
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 303–314.
Published: 01 May 2004
... the choice to model a continuous health outcome, such as BMI, as a binary or discrete outcome cre- ates conceptually difficult measurement issues. A shift in the overweight threshold, or a small weight gain, can result in reclassifying someone from healthy to overweight with- out any significant change...
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The relation of psychological, social, and economic variables to fertility-related decisions
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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 329–338.
Published: 01 August 1976
... leads to weight gain, others believe it probably leads to weight gain, and still others be- lieve that it does not lead to weight gain. Second, the individual has some type of evaluation of the consequence that the be- havior is seen as leading or not leading to. For example, some women might think...
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