A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from a rural population in Senegal [0.03%]
非洲撒哈拉以南社交网络互动分类学:塞内加尔农村地区的证据
Véronique Deslauriers,Simona Bignami,John Sandberg
Véronique Deslauriers
Social isolation/marginalization in sub-Saharan Africa is under-researched, despite increasing evidence of weakening traditional community-based social support. This paper aims to develop a typology of social networks capable of accounting ...
Multimorbid life expectancy across race, socio-economic status, and sex in South Africa [0.03%]
南非种族、经济社会地位和性别多病共存的预期寿命
Anastasia Lam,Katherine Keenan,Mikko Myrskylä et al.
Anastasia Lam et al.
Multimorbidity is increasing globally as populations age. However, it is unclear how long individuals live with multimorbidity and how it varies by social and economic factors. We investigate this in South Africa, whose apartheid history fu...
Daniel Ciganda,Angelo Lorenti,Lars Dommermuth
Daniel Ciganda
The disappearance of the social gradient in fertility represents a paradigm shift that has called into question the validity of theories that predicted a decline in fertility with increased access to education and resources. Emerging theori...
Pavel Grigoriev,Florian Bonnet,Elsa Perdrix
Pavel Grigoriev
Analysis of causes of death is crucial for monitoring an epidemiological situation and for developing adequate policy responses. However, the comparability of cause-specific mortality data depends on the proportion of ill-defined deaths. To...
Fatherhood timing and men's midlife earnings: A within-family study of Finnish cohorts born in 1938-50 [0.03%]
父亲的育儿时间与其中年的收入之间的关系——来自1938年至1950年出生的芬兰人群的研究证据
Hanna Remes,Elina Einiö,Kaarina Korhonen et al.
Hanna Remes et al.
Fathers tend to achieve higher earnings than childless men, but there is limited evidence on the associations between fatherhood timing and men's later earnings. Using a longitudinal census-based sample of Finnish men, including a subsample...
Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher,Paola Vázquez-Castillo,Trifon I Missov
Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher
Recent studies have shown that there are some advantages to forecasting mortality with indicators other than age-specific death rates. The mean, median, and modal ages at death can be directly estimated from the age-at-death distribution, a...
Jean Christophe Fotso,John G Cleland,Elihou O Adje
Jean Christophe Fotso
We interrogate the proposition that men's attitudes have constrained the fertility transition in Cameroon, where fertility remains high and contraceptive use low despite much socio-economic progress. We use five Demographic and Health Surve...
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Unequal before death: The effect of paternal education on children's old-age mortality in the United States [0.03%]
死亡前的不平等:父亲教育对在美国孩子年老时死亡率的影响
Hamid Noghanibehambari,Jason Fletcher
Hamid Noghanibehambari
A growing body of research documents the relevance of parental education as a marker of family socio-economic status for children's later-life health outcomes. A strand of this literature evaluates how the early-life environment shapes mort...
Change in the perceived reproductive age window and delayed fertility in Europe [0.03%]
感知的生育年龄窗口的变化和欧洲的推迟生育现象
Ester Lazzari,Marie-Caroline Compans,Eva Beaujouan
Ester Lazzari
While extensive literature documents the massive fertility delay of recent decades, knowledge about whether and how attitudes towards the timing of births have changed in Europe remains limited. Using data from two rounds of the European So...