The persistent southern disadvantage in US early life mortality, 1965-2014 [0.03%]
美国1965-2014年南方地区婴幼儿死亡率持续处于劣势的现象分析
Nathan T Dollar,Iliya Gutin,Elizabeth M Lawrence et al.
Nathan T Dollar et al.
Background: Recent studies of US adult mortality demonstrate a growing disadvantage among southern states. Few studies have examined long-term trends and geographic patterns in US early life (ages 1 to 24) mortality, ages...
Assimilation and ethnic marriage squeeze in early 20th century America: A gender perspective [0.03%]
性别视角下的二十世纪初美国同化与民族婚姻挤压政策
Inbar Weiss,Guy Stecklov
Inbar Weiss
Background: During the 19th and early 20th centuries, large waves of international immigrants, often heterogeneous in terms of age and sex structure, arrived in the United States. Within a relatively short time, many of t...
Hana Ševčíková,Adrian E Raftery,Patrick Gerland
Hana Ševčíková
Background: We consider the problem of probabilistic projection of the total fertility rate (TFR) for subnational regions. Objective: W...
Prospective versus retrospective measurement of unwanted fertility: Strengths, weaknesses, and inconsistencies assessed for a cohort of US women [0.03%]
前瞻性与回顾性测量无意怀孕：对美国女性群体的评估结果及其优缺点分析
Heather M Rackin,S Philip Morgan
Heather M Rackin
Background: Unwanted fertility is the key concept necessary to assess the potential impact of more perfect fertility control. Measuring this continues to be a significant challenge, with several plausible competing measur...
Using census data to measure maternal mortality: A review of recent experience [0.03%]
利用人口普查数据衡量产妇死亡率：最近经验的回顾性研究
Kenneth Hill,Peter Johnson,Kavita Singh et al.
Kenneth Hill et al.
Background: The Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 (United Nations 2015) set national targets for reducing maternal mortality, putting pressure on governments of countries...
Human capital on the move: Education as a determinant of internal migration in selected INDEPTH surveillance populations in Africa [0.03%]
人力资本的迁徙：在非洲选定INDEPTH监测人群中教育成为国内移民决定因素
Carren Ginsburg,Philippe Bocquier,Donatien Béguy et al.
Carren Ginsburg et al.
Background: Education, as a key indicator of human capital, is considered one of the major determinants of internal migration, with previous studies suggesting that human capital accumulates in urban areas at the expense ...
A cohort comparison of trends in first cohabitation duration in the United States [0.03%]
美国首次同居关系持续时间的变化趋势：世代对比分析
Sara E Mernitz
Sara E Mernitz
Objective: This study investigates U.S. first cohabitation duration between young adults born in the 1950s and young adults born in the 1980s, and how socioeconomic resources contribute to cohabitation duration by cohort....
Jennifer Manlove,Suzanne Ryan,Elizabeth Wildsmith et al.
Jennifer Manlove et al.
Using Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort data, we present estimates of nonmarital births in the United States in 2001, both within and outside of cohabiting unions. We additionally examine how mother and father characteristics ...
Andrea Verhulst,Hiram Beltran-Sanchez,Alberto Palloni
Andrea Verhulst
Background: There is growing empirical evidence supporting theories of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). However, the implications of DOHaD conjectures for aggregate population patterns of human disease...
Stella Babalola,Neetu John,Bolanle Ajao et al.
Stella Babalola et al.
Background: Contraceptive use remains low to moderate in most African countries. Ideation or the ideas and views that people hold has been advanced as a possible explanation for differences in contraceptive use within and...