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Published: 09 March 2017
Fig. 1 Causal directed acyclic graph, showing the age effect (α*), cohort effect (θ*), and the period effect (the β*s). The bold arrows represent deterministic relationships, and the nonbold arrows represent stochastic relationships More
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Published: 09 March 2017
Fig. 3 Causal directed acyclic graph when the age effect (δ 1 ) and cohort effect (δ 2 ) are estimated directly, and the period effect is estimated using mediators as per Pearl’s front-door criterion, while one period mediator is unmeasured. Left: effect estimates if M 2 is measured, and P More
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Published: 13 June 2019
Fig. 3 Estimated region fixed-effect and year-effect coefficients. We fit separate regressions for each period, allowing the year effect to differ across regions. The regression outcome is logged, age-standardized infectious mortality, representing the logged ratio of actual to expected More
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Published: 17 August 2020
Fig. 5 Joint effect on educational reproduction (high – low) and mobility effect (joint – mobility = fertility effect) More
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Published: 01 December 2021
Fig. 1 Illustration of the additive effect and multiplicative effect of parental divorce More
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., it is inevitable that for at least a few individuals who appear in the base sample, there will be a failure to match the death to administrative death records. This form of measurement error creates the Methuselah effect, so named because it produces a set of respondents who appear to live forever...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1317–1341.
Published: 07 June 2018
... in this study is based on the so-called marriage bar, the legal requirement that women leave paid employment upon getting married, which took effect in Ireland in the 1930s and was abolished only in the 1970s. The IV regression estimates, along with formal statistical tests, provide no evidence in support...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 991–998.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Dierk Herzer Abstract Very few studies have examined the effect of religiosity on fertility at the macro level. This note extends these studies by using a larger data set and more advanced econometric techniques. In addition, this note estimates the macro-level effect of religiosity on fertility...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 345–365.
Published: 03 January 2019
... advantaged upbringing that is also correlated with these outcomes. In fact, the few studies that have used more sophisticated identification methods than comparing teenage mothers with those who delayed childbearing have found that the effect of teenage childbearing on economic outcomes is small (Ashcraft et...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1173–1194.
Published: 17 July 2019
... that the person is a citizen. We predict the effect on self-response to the entire survey by comparing mail response rates in the 2010 ACS, which included a citizenship question, with those of the 2010 census, which did not have a citizenship question, among households in both surveys. We compare the actual ACS...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1303–1326.
Published: 17 June 2019
... whether policy-induced expansions to the EITC affect the housing and living arrangements of single mothers. Results suggest that a $1,000 increase in the EITC improves housing by reducing housing cost burdens, but it has no effect on eviction or homelessness. Increases in the EITC also reduce doubling up...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1283–1318.
Published: 13 September 2016
... Japan, we investigate whether changes in never-married adults’ residential status lead to alterations in their marital aspirations, courtship behaviors, romantic opportunities, and perceived obstacles to marrying. Our estimation of fixed-effects models helps address potential bias caused by single...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 23–44.
Published: 28 December 2016
...Sara Cools; Rannveig Kaldager Hart Abstract Although fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children’s experience with larger sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. With the sex composition of the two firstborn children...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 85–116.
Published: 11 January 2016
... effects, and different methodological approaches provide some support for each perspective. We reconcile this ongoing debate by drawing on two heuristics: (1) each methodological strategy emphasizes different women in estimation procedures, and (2) the effects of teenage fertility likely vary...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1135–1168.
Published: 08 July 2016
... exploiting a twin fixed-effects design to control for the influence of genetics and shared family background. This result is robust to controlling for within-twin-pair differences in early-life health and cognitive ability, as proxied by birth weight and height, as well as to restricting the sample to MZ...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 955–978.
Published: 15 June 2016
... toward career and family, and expectations about how childbearing can affect their subjective well-being. These differences impact fertility decisions and the effect of parenthood on an individual’s life satisfaction. We define three groups of people based on their family orientations: Traditional, Mixed...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 51–74.
Published: 01 February 2021
... both intervals. However, by systematically applying our framework to digital trace data, we can produce many intermediate estimates and empirically investigate the cumulative effect of exposure to the risk of migration for different populations and geographies. This kind of approach is novel...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 1–31.
Published: 30 November 2017
...Andrew L. Hicks; Mark S. Handcock; Narayan Sastry; Anne R. Pebley Abstract Prior research has suggested that children living in a disadvantaged neighborhood have lower achievement test scores, but these studies typically have not estimated causal effects that account for neighborhood choice. Recent...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1693–1721.
Published: 06 August 2019
...—interventions that bypass individuals’ unequal access and ability to employ flexible resources to avoid health hazards—have an effect on educational inequalities in health behaviors. We test theoretically informed but competing hypotheses that these policies either amplify or attenuate the association between...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1765–1790.
Published: 07 October 2019
... relationship between maternal education and under-5 mortality. To identify such a causal effect, we exploited exogenous variation in maternal education induced by schooling reforms introducing universal primary education in the second half of the 1990s in Malawi and Uganda. Using a two-stage residual inclusion...
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