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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
...Andrea M. Tilstra; Ryan K. Masters Abstract Birth weight in the United States declined substantially during the 1990s and 2000s. We suggest that the declines were likely due to shifts in gestational age resulting from changes in obstetric practices. Using restricted National Vital Statistics System...
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Ethnic and Birth Weight Differences in Cause-Specific Infant Mortality
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 335–343.
Published: 01 May 1989
... of ethnicity, birth weight, maternal age, and plurality on birth outcomes—that is, on infant survival and deaths due to perinatal, congenital, and respiratory diseases and to sudden infant death syndrome. The results confirm the pronounced impact of birth weight on infant mortality and identify similarities...
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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
...Kathleen Ford; Sandra L. Huffman; A. K. M. A. Chowdhury; Stan Becker; Hubert Allen; Jane Menken Abstract This article reports on the results of a study conducted in rural Bangladesh on the influence of maternal weight on the components of birth intervals, including gestation and intrauterine...
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Racial differences in infant mortality by cause of death: The impact of birth weight and maternal age
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Demography (1984) 21 (3): 309–321.
Published: 01 August 1984
... and then explained statistically as a product of the distribution of births by birth weight and maternal age. The impact of birth weight is more pronounced than is the effect of maternal age. The analysis suggests the potential utility of examining infant mortality separately by cause of death. Based on the findings...
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Social determinants of low birth weight in a high-risk population
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 207–215.
Published: 01 May 1984
...Elwood D. Carlson Abstract Over ninety low-weight infants were born per thousand live births in South Carolina, based on 96,000 birth records from 1975 and 1979. Higher incidence of low birth weight for black infants cannot be explained away as a result of black/white differences in age...
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A step in another direction: Looking for maternal genetic and environmental effects on racial differences in birth weight
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 573–576.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Edwin J.C.G. Van Den Oord; David C. Rowe Abstract To advance research on birth weight differences between black and white infants, it may be useful to study maternal effects. These effects present a set of risk factors that are largely unrelated to those that are presently under investigation...
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One step back in understanding racial differences in birth weight
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 569–571.
Published: 01 November 2001
... and demographic processes researchers must be vigilant not to commit the errors of the past by misusing race as a variable. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2001 2001 Birth Weight Skin Color Causal Effect Racial Difference Causal Inference References J. Adams...
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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
... the Peabody Individual Achievement Tests of Mathematics and Reading Recognition as our outcome variables, we also evaluated the dynamic nature of biological and social risk factors from ages 6 to 14. We found the following: (1) birth weight is significantly related to developmental outcomes, net of important...
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Race, intervening variables, and two components of low birth weight
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 489–506.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Jeffrey E. Kallan Abstract The low birth weight (LBW) gap between blacks and whites has remained largely unexplained in past research. Most previous research on the topic has focused on LBW as a single entity, and without using a causal framework for. analysis. The present study examines...
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Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight and Differential Parental Treatment
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1385–1405.
Published: 03 August 2012
...Amy Hsin Abstract Time diaries of sibling pairs from the PSID-CDS are used to determine whether maternal time investments compensate for or reinforce birth-weight differences among children. The findings demonstrate that the direction and degree of differential treatment vary by mother’s education...
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As low birth weight babies grow, can well-educated parents buffer this adverse factor? A research note
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 335–343.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Ming-Jen Lin; Jin-Tan Liu; Shin-Yi Chou Abstract This research note combines two national Taiwanese data sets to investigate the relationships among low birth weight (LBW) babies, their parents’ educational levels, and their future academic outcomes. We find that LBW is negatively correlated...
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An investigation of racial and ethnic disparities in birth weight in Chicago neighborhoods
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 701–725.
Published: 01 November 2003
...Narayan Sastry; Jon M. Hussey Abstract We examine differences in the mean birth weights of infants born to non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Mexican-origin Hispanic mothers (of any race) in Chicago in 1990 using linear regression models with neighborhood fixed effects. Our pooled models...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 499–526.
Published: 01 April 2021
... different aspects of climate/weather variability to different time periods of in utero exposure. The measures are designed to capture the complexities of climate-related risks and isolate their impacts based on the timing and duration of exposure. Specifically, we focus on infant birth weight in Mali...
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View articletitled, Exploring Strategies for Investigating the Mechanisms Linking Climate and Individual-Level Child Health Outcomes: An Analysis of Birth <span class="search-highlight">Weight</span> in Mali
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Body Weight, Eating Patterns, and Physical Activity: The Role of Education
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1225–1249.
Published: 01 July 2014
... for the endogeneity of education. Unobservable traits or abilities of individuals are likely to determine their choices in terms of schooling as well as lifestyles and body weight. Thus, exploring the effect of better education on healthy BMI provides only a correlation, with the causal impact lying in a third...
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Maternal Education, Birth Weight, and Infant Mortality in the United States
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 615–635.
Published: 17 October 2012
... (operating through birth weight) and/or to its “direct” effect (independent of birth weight). The data used are the 2001 U.S. national African American, Mexican American, and European American birth cohorts by sex. The analysis explores the birth outcomes of infants undergoing normal and compromised fetal...
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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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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
...Charles L. Baum, II Abstract This study examines the effects of college on weight over much of the life cycle. I compare weights for college students with their weights before and after college and with the weights of noncollege peers using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY...
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Do Children Carry the Weight of Divorce?
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 785–811.
Published: 11 June 2019
... parents may have less time to establish and observe routines and eating schedules, and they may be more likely to serve their children restaurant food, ready meals, or processed food. However, the changes in the weight of the children might be observed only after they have been exposed to a post...
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in Adverse Infant Health Outcomes Increased After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Among Non-White U.S.-born and Foreign-born Mothers
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Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 1 Percentage of low birth weight births by mothers’ racialized group and nativity. Hollow circles are average observed outcomes for each month. Solid lines are linear time trends in the pre– and post–Trump election periods. API = Asian and Pacific Islander. Source: National Center
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Published: 01 February 2022
Fig. 2 Predicted birth weight as a function of the level of heteropatriarchy. The shaded area represents the 95% confidence interval.
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