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Fertility and Child Mortality in Urban West Africa: Leveraging geo-referenced data to move beyond the urban/rural dichotomy.

Population, space and place

Corker J.
PMID: 28943812
Popul Space Place. 2017 Apr;23(3). doi: 10.1002/psp.2009. Epub 2016 Jan 04.

Demographic research in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has long relied on a blunt urban/rural dichotomy that may obscure important inter-urban fertility and mortality differentials. This paper uses Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) geo-referenced data to look beyond the simple urban/rural...

Measure for Measure: How Proficiency-Based Accountability Systems Affect Inequality in Academic Achievement.

Sociology of education

Jennings J, Sohn H.
PMID: 27122642
Sociol Educ. 2014 Apr;87(2):125-141. doi: 10.1177/0038040714525787. Epub 2014 Mar 10.

How do proficiency-based accountability systems affect inequality in academic achievement? This paper reconciles mixed findings in the literature by demonstrating that three factors jointly determine accountability's impact. First, by analyzing student-level data from a large urban school district, we...

IS THERE CONVERGENCE ACROSS COUNTRIES? A SPATIAL APPROACH.

Journal of international business studies

Berry H, Guillen MF, Hendi AS.
PMID: 25580035
J Int Bus Stud. 2014;45:387-404. doi: 10.1057/jibs.2013.72.

We analyze convergence across countries over the last half century as a result of globalizing forces. Drawing on theories of modernization, dependency, the world-system, political trade blocs, and the world-society, we consider economic, demographic, knowledge, financial, and political dimensions...

Ethnicity, Russification, and Excess Mortality in Kazakhstan.

Vienna yearbook of population research

Sharygin EJ, Guillot M.
PMID: 26207118
Vienna Yearb Popul Res. 2013 Jan 01;11:219-246. doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2013s219.

Russians experience higher adult mortality than Central Asians despite higher socioeconomic status. This study exploits Kazakhstan's relatively heterogeneous population and geographic diversity to study ethnic differences in cause-specific mortality. In multivariate regression, all-cause mortality rates for Russian men is...

Overestimating HIV infection: The construction and accuracy of subjective probabilities of HIV infection in rural Malawi.

Demographic research

Anglewicz P, Kohler HP.
PMID: 19672478
Demogr Res. 2009;20(6):65-96. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.6.

In the absence of HIV testing, how do rural Malawians assess their HIV status? In this paper, we use a unique dataset that includes respondents' HIV status as well as their subjective likelihood of HIV infection. These data show...

Geographic Divergence in Mortality in the United States.

Population and development review

Fenelon A.
PMID: 25067863
Popul Dev Rev. 2013 Dec 01;39(4):611-634. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00630.x.

No abstract available.

Population Change among the Elderly: International Patterns.

Population and development review

Stokes A, Preston SH.
PMID: 24634548
Popul Dev Rev. 2013 Feb 19;38:309-321. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00566.x.

No abstract available.

Stereotype Threat and College Academic Performance: A Latent Variables Approach.

Social science research

Owens J, Massey DS.
PMID: 23950616
Soc Sci Res. 2011 Jan;40(1):150-166. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.09.010.

Stereotype threat theory has gained experimental and survey-based support in helping explain the academic underperformance of minority students at selective colleges and universities. Stereotype threat theory states that minority students underperform because of pressures created by negative stereotypes about...

Do People Who Believe in God Report More Meaning in Their Lives? The Existential Effects of Belief.

Journal for the scientific study of religion

Cranney S.
PMID: 24729632
J Sci Study Relig. 2013 Sep 01;52(3):638-646. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12046.

I conduct the first large-N study explicitly exploring the association between belief in God and sense of purpose in life. This relationship, while often discussed informally, has received little empirical attention. Here I use the General Social Survey to...

Hispanic Familism Reconsidered: Ethnic Differences in Perceived Value of Children and Fertility Intentions.

The Sociological quarterly

Hartnett CS, Parrado EA.
PMID: 24068847
Sociol Q. 2012;53(4):636-653. doi: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01252.x.

Familism has been described as a cultural trait that might explain why the fertility of Hispanic women remains higher than non-Hispanic White women. Still, few studies have analyzed group differences in childbearing attitudes. This paper focuses on two dimensions...

Contemporary Use of Traditional Contraception in sub-Saharan Africa.

Population and development review

Rossier C, Corker J.
PMID: 29307923
Popul Dev Rev. 2017 May;43:192-215. doi: 10.1111/padr.12008. Epub 2017 Jan 20.

No abstract available.

Physical attractiveness and women's HIV risk in rural Malawi.

Demographic research

Frye M, Chae S.
PMID: 29242708
Demogr Res. 2017;37:251-294. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.10. Epub 2017 Aug 08.

BACKGROUND: Qualitative evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, where a generalized AIDS epidemic exists, suggests that attractiveness may play a role in shaping individual-level HIV risk. Attractive women, who are often blamed for the epidemic and stigmatized, are believed to pose...

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