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US regional and national cause-specific mortality and trends in income inequality: descriptive findings
NNN1Lynch, FFF1John; Smith, FFF2George NNN2Davey; … - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 8, pp. 183-228
We examined the concordance of income inequality trends with 30-year US regional trends in cause-specific mortality and … 100-year trends in heart disease and infant mortality. The evidence suggests that any effects of income inequality on … income inequality does indeed drive population health, it implies that income inequality would have to be linked and de …
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Does income inequality really influence individual mortality?
Kravdal, Øystein - In: Demographic Research 18 (2008) 7, pp. 205-232
There is still much uncertainty about the impact of income inequality on health and mortality. Some studies have … is that there are many factors that may affect both income inequality and individual mortality but that cannot be … mortality net of individual income, the results from the models that included such dummies were more mixed. Adverse effects …
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Unobserved population heterogeneity
Vaupel, James W.; Missov, Trifon I. - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 22, pp. 659-686
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Is the Previously Reported Increase in Second- and Higher-order Birth Rates in Norway and Sweden from the mid-1970s Real or a Result of Inadequate Estimation Methods?
Kravdal, Øystein - In: Demographic Research 6 (2002) 9, pp. 241-262
According to models estimated separately for second-, third-, and fourth-birth rates in Norway, an increase took place from the mid-1970s to about 1990, given age and duration since last previous birth. A similar rise in the birth rates was seen in Sweden, except that the upturn at short...
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The negative educational gradients in Romanian fertility
Muresan, Cornelia; Hoem, Jan M. - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 4, pp. 95-114
In Western countries, rates of second and third births typically increase with educational attainment, a feature that usually disappears if unobserved heterogeneity is brought into the event-history analysis. By contrast, in a country like Romania, second and third birth rates have been found to...
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Interdependence between sexual debut and church attendance in Italy
Caltabiano, Marcantonio; Zuanna, Gianpiero Dalla; … - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 19, pp. 453-484
The influence of religion on an individual’s life-course in general – and on sexual behaviour in particular – has long been recognised by social scientists, although few studies have explored the reciprocal causal interdependence between religiosity and sexual debut, mainly...
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The High Fertility of College Educated Women in Norway
Kravdal, Øystein - In: Demographic Research 5 (2001) 6, pp. 187-216
College education has a positive impact on birth rates, net of age and duration since previous birth, according to models estimated separately for second and third births. There are also indications of such effects on first-birth rates, in the upper 20s and 30s. Whereas a high fertility among...
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Correlated mortality risks of siblings in Kenya
Omariba, Walter Rasugu; Rajulton, Fernando; Beaujot, Roderic - In: Demographic Research 18 (2008) 11, pp. 311-336
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data for Kenya. We find that mortality risks of adjacent siblings are dependent: a child whose … child accounts for 40% of child death clustering. Further, eliminating state dependence would reduce infant mortality among …
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Multistate event history analysis with frailty
Bijwaard, Govert - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 58, pp. 1591-1620
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Language-group Differences in Very Early Retirement in Finland
Saarela, Jan; Finnäs, Fjalar - In: Demographic Research 7 (2002) 3, pp. 49-66
models. As expected from previous studies of mortality differences, the rate of retirement is lower among Swedish …
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