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Socioeconomic pathways to depressive symptoms in adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979

Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie; Taylor, Miles - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 5, pp. 734-743

and indirect pathways linking early SEP, respondents' education and adult household income, with a particular focus on … growth curves of household income and depressive symptoms. We found that the effect of parents' education was entirely … mediated by respondent's education. In turn, the effect of respondent's education was largely mediated by household income. In …

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Secondhand Effects of Student Alcohol Use Reported by Neighbors of Colleges: The Role of Alcohol Outlets

Wechsler, Henry; Lee, Jae Eun; Hall, John; Wagenaar, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2002

This is a study of the secondhand effects of student alcohol use experienced by residents of neighborhoods near college campuses. We examined the relationship of a college's level of binge drinking and the number of alcohol outlets in the immediate area, to lowered quality of neighborhood life...

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USING LATENT PROFILE MODELS AND UNSTRUCTURED GROWTH MIXTURE MODELS TO ASSESS THE NUMBER OF LATENT CLASSES IN GROWTH MIXTURE MODELING

Liu, Min - 2011

Growth mixture modeling has gained much attention in applied and methodological social science research recently, but the selection of the number of latent classes for such models remains a challenging issue. This problem becomes more serious when one of the key assumptions of this model, proper...

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Regularized Finite Mixture Models for Probability Trajectories

Shedden, Kerby; Zucker, Robert - In: Psychometrika 73 (2008) 4, pp. 625-646

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Robust growth mixture models with non-ignorable missingness: Models, estimation, selection, and application

Lu, Zhenqiu; Zhang, Zhiyong - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 71 (2014) C, pp. 220-240

Challenges in the analyses of growth mixture models include missing data, outliers, estimation, and model selection. Four non-ignorable missingness models to recover the information due to missing data, and three robust models to reduce the effect of non-normality are proposed. A full Bayesian...

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Socioeconomic inequality in birth weight and gestational age in Denmark 1996–2007: Using a family-based approach to explore alternative explanations

Mortensen, Laust H. - In: Social Science & Medicine 76 (2013) C, pp. 1-7

cousin. We examined parental educational attainment and household income in relation to preterm birth and small for … gestational age using Cox regression. Household income was only weakly related to these outcomes. Paternal education was strongly …

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Sociodemographic and cultural determinants of sleep deficiency: Implications for cardiometabolic disease risk

Knutson, Kristen L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 79 (2013) C, pp. 7-15

Sleep is a biological imperative associated with cardiometabolic disease risk. As such, a thorough discussion of the sociocultural and demographic determinants of sleep is warranted, if not overdue. This paper begins with a brief review of the laboratory and epidemiologic evidence linking sleep...

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Socioeconomic Position and Low Birth Weight: Evaluating Multiple and Alternative Measures Across Race in Michigan

Taylor, Cedric A. L.; Sarathchandra, Dilshani - In: Social Sciences 3 (2014) 3, pp. 549-564

conventional SEP measures, such as income and education, without regard to how other indicators could influence findings. This …

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Health Measurement in Population Surveys: Combining Information from Self-reported and Observer-Measured Health Indicators

Ploubidis, George; Grundy, Emily - In: Demography 48 (2011) 2, pp. 699-724

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Race, life course socioeconomic position, racial discrimination, depressive symptoms and self-rated health

Hudson, Darrell L.; Puterman, Eli; Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 7-14

Greater levels of socioeconomic position (SEP) are generally associated with better health. However results from previous studies vary across race/ethnicity and health outcomes. Further, the majority of previous studies do not account for the effects of life course SEP on health nor the effects...

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