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Exploring the meaning of context for health: Community influences on child health in South India
caste child health child nutrition India low birthweight neighborhood effects
2011/2/24
Much research attention has been devoted to community context and health. Communities are often defined as residential spaces, such as neighborhoods, or as social groupings, such as caste in India. Us...
A note on race, ethnicity and nativity differentials in remarriage in the United States
cohabitation divorce ethnicity nativity remarriage
2011/2/24
The objectives of this study are to produce up-to-date estimates of race/ethnic/nativity differentials for remarriage and repartnership among women in the United States and to see if these differences...
Life expectancy: Lower and upper bounds from surviving fractions and remaining life expectancy
inequalities life expectancy life table stationary population
2011/2/24
We give simple upper and lower bounds on life expectancy. In a life-table population, if e(0) is the life expectancy at birth, M is the median length of life, and e(M) is the expected remaining life a...
Should governments in Europe be more aggressive in pushing for gender equality to raise fertility? The first "NO"
governments Europe gender equality fertility
2011/2/24
This paper takes the "no" side in the debate on the question posed in the title. The paper assumes that the dual-earner/dual-carer household model is the most likely aim of policies that push aggressi...
Should governments in Europe be more aggressive in pushing for gender equality to raise fertility? The first "YES"
ethics expert opinion fertility gender equity low fertility population policies
2011/2/24
Together with three colleagues, I have been asked by the MPIDR to debate the following question: “Should governments in Europe be more aggressive in pushing for gender equality to raise fertility? Set...
Out of Sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries
AIDS/HIV DALYS developing countries health injuries non-communicable diseases research priorities
2011/1/20
In this paper, we present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to...
Asking God about the date you will die: HIV testing as a zone of uncertainty in rural Malawi
ambivalence HIV testing Malawi
2010/11/30
Testing for HIV is becoming more available in Africa. Global advocates of testing see it as key to AIDS prevention. However, testing is not always perceived as a good thing by people at risk. Here, we...
Family life in power couples.: Continued childbearing and union stability among the educational elite in Sweden, 1991–2005
education fertility multinomial logit model power couples separation Sweden
2010/11/30
This article studies continued childbearing and union stability among "power couples," or dual-career couples. The determinants of these events are analysed multivariately using longitudinal data on c...
Attrition in heterogeneous cohorts
attrition frailty gamma distribution Gompertz heterogeneity Makeham mortality
2010/10/14
In a heterogeneous cohort, the change with age in the force of mortality or some other kind of hazard or intensity of attrition depends on how the hazard changes with age for the individuals in the co...
Children’s Experiences of Family Disruption in Sweden: Differentials by Parent Education over Three Decades
children cohabitation family dynamics family structure
2010/9/14
This paper examines the living arrangements of Swedish children from 1970 through 1999 using the Level of Living Survey. Sweden, with low levels of economic inequality and a generous welfare state, pr...
Sibship size and status attainment across contexts: Evidence from the Netherlands, 1840-1925
child well-being family size Netherlands nineteenth century resource dilution theory sibship size status attainment
2010/8/11
This paper investigates the effects of sibship size on status attainment across different contexts and subgroups. Resource dilution theory predicts that with larger sibship size, children’s status out...