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A Social History of Disease: Contextualizing the Rise and Fall of Social Inequalities in Cause-Specific Mortality
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1631–1656.
Published: 16 August 2016
...Sean A. P. Clouston; Marcie S. Rubin; Jo C. Phelan; Bruce G. Link Abstract Fundamental cause theory posits that social inequalities in health arise because of unequal access to flexible resources, including knowledge, money, power, prestige, and beneficial social connections, which allow people...
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The Molecular Reinscription of Race: A Comment on “Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States”
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2333–2336.
Published: 31 October 2014
... on identity studies” (p. 169) by providing racial classification categories with a concrete, “measurable,” and “logical” basis against which social construction should be analyzed. Instead, I argue that their main accomplishment is the “molecular reinscription of race” (Duster 2011 :104). In this article, I...
View articletitled, The Molecular Reinscription of Race: A Comment on “Genetic Bio-Ancestry and <span class="search-highlight">Social</span> Construction of Racial Classification in <span class="search-highlight">Social</span> Surveys in the Contemporary United States”
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Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 141–172.
Published: 10 September 2013
...Guang Guo; Yilan Fu; Hedwig Lee; Tianji Cai; Kathleen Mullan Harris; Yi Li Abstract Self-reported race is generally considered the basis for racial classification in social surveys, including the U.S. census. Drawing on recent advances in human molecular genetics and social science perspectives...
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Average exposure to social resources in the school districts of lower- and ...
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in The Segregation of Opportunity: Social and Financial Resources in the Educational Contexts of Lower- and Higher-Income Children, 1990–2014
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Published: 10 September 2019
Fig. 1 Average exposure to social resources in the school districts of lower- and higher-income students, 1990–2014
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Conceptual framework on migratory experience, social networks, and mental h...
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in Mental Health Consequences of International Migration for Vietnamese Americans and the Mediating Effects of Physical Health and Social Networks: Results From a Natural Experiment Approach
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Published: 25 January 2012
Fig. 1 Conceptual framework on migratory experience, social networks, and mental health outcomes
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SEM paths diagram of migration, social networks, physical health, and menta...
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in Mental Health Consequences of International Migration for Vietnamese Americans and the Mediating Effects of Physical Health and Social Networks: Results From a Natural Experiment Approach
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Published: 25 January 2012
Fig. 2 SEM paths diagram of migration, social networks, physical health, and mental health associations
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The accuracy of survey-reported marital status: Evidence from survey records matched to social security records
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 395–399.
Published: 01 August 2000
...David A. Weaver Abstract Researchers have concluded that divorced persons often fail to report accurate marital information in surveys. I revisit this issue using surveys matched exactly to Social Security data. Older divorced persons frequently misreport their marital status, but there is evidence...
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The density of social networks and fertility decisions: Evidence from South Nyanza district, Kenya
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 43–58.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Hans-Peter Kohler; Jere R. Behrman; Susan C. Watkins Abstract Demographers have argued increasingly that social interaction is an important mechanism for understanding fertility behavior. Yet it is still quite uncertain whether social learning or social influence is the dominant mechanism through...
View articletitled, The density of <span class="search-highlight">social</span> networks and fertility decisions: Evidence from South Nyanza district, Kenya
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Demography and the social contract
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 587–616.
Published: 01 November 2002
... of the contemporary diversification of the population, provides several lessons about how to prepare for that future within a framework of social justice and how to realign recent demographic trends with cherished democratic principles. A review of historical and contemporary controversies about the representation...
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Social networks and changes in contraceptive use over time: Evidence from a longitudinal study in rural Kenya
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 713–738.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Jere R. Behrman; Hans-Peter Kohler; Susan Cotts Watkins Abstract The impacts of social networks on changes in contraception in rural Kenya are investigated using special data from a longitudinal household survey. An analytic model, informed by detailed knowledge of the setting, yielded estimates...
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Social security, age of retirement, and economic well-being: Intertemporal and demographic patterns among retired-worker beneficiaries
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 369–394.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Robert Haveman; Karen Holden; Kathryn Wilson; Barbara Wolfe Abstract We examine the economic status of a sample of new recipients of social security retired-worker benefits shortly after their first receipt of benefits (1982) and 10 years later (1991). The probability that these retired-worker...
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Social inequalities in disability-free life expectancy in the french male population, 1980–1991
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 513–524.
Published: 01 November 2001
... Disability Prevalence Life Table Model References Bebbington , A.C. ( 1993 ). Regional and Social Variations in Disability-Free Life Expectancy in Great Britain . In J.M. Robine , C.D. Mathers , M.R. Bone , & I. Romieu (Eds.), Calculation of Health Expectancies...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Social</span> inequalities in disability-free life expectancy in the french male population, 1980–1991
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Low birth weight, social factors, and developmental outcomes among children in the United States
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 353–368.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Jason D. Boardman; Daniel A. Powers; Yolanda C. Padilla; Robert A. Hummer Abstract We used six waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Data (1986–1996) to assess the relative impact of adverse birth outcomes vis-à-vis social risk factors on children’s developmental outcomes. Using...
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Mortality rates of elderly Asian American populations based on medicare and social security data
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 529–540.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Diane S. Lauderdale; Bert Kestenbaum Abstract We present sex- and age-specific death probabilities for the elderly of six Asian American subgroups— Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese—based on data from Social Security Administration files. We determined ethnicity...
View articletitled, Mortality rates of elderly Asian American populations based on medicare and <span class="search-highlight">social</span> security data
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Going to extremes: Family structure, children’s well-being, and social science
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 421–428.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Andrew J. Cherlin Abstract In this article I argue that public discussions of demographic issues are often conducted in a troubling pattern in which one extreme position is debated in relation to the opposite extreme. This pattern impedes our understanding of social problems and is a poor guide...
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Stop, in the Name of COVID! Using Social Media Data to Estimate the Effects of COVID-19-Related Travel Restrictions on Migration
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 493–511.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., this decline is not testable with migration data from traditional sources. Key migration stakeholders have called for using data from alternative sources, including social media, to fill these gaps. Building on previous work using social media data to analyze migration responses to external shocks, we test...
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Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 849–878.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Tate Kihara Abstract The impact of immigrant parents’ premigration family background on their second-generation children residing in destination countries remains underexplored in the literature on historical social mobility. Using multigenerational historical survey records from the Japanese...
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in The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad
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Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 3 Social circumstances and migration intentions in Venezuela, 2012–2016. Data are from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), also known as the AmericasBarometer ( https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/ ). *** p < .001.
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Length of residence, social ties, and economic opportunities
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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 297–309.
Published: 01 August 1976
... is found to be longer where previous familial and personal contacts existed. Overall, the results provide additional evidence of the importance of social, as opposed to strictly economic, variables in the migration process. 15 2 2011 © Population Association of America 1976 1976 Economic...
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