J E Potter
Biographic Data
| ID | 19544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J E Potter |
| GIVEN NAMES | J E |
| FAMILY NAME | Potter |
| SIGNATURE | POTTER J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8960-813X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Meeting Contraceptive Preferences Among Low‐Income Postpartum Texans
Many people at risk of an undesired pregnancy are not using their preferred contraceptive method. On its own, discordant use is an important indicator of reproductive autonomy. It may also affect reproductive outcomes, although little research has explored the consequences of unsatisfied contraceptive preferences. Using prospective data for the two years following delivery for a cohort of low‐income postpartum women in Texas, many of whom would h…
Meeting Preferences for Specific Contraceptive Methods
Fertility surveys have rarely asked people who are using contraception about the contraceptive method they would like to be using, implicitly assuming that those who are contracepting are using the method they want. In this commentary, we review evidence from a small but growing body of work that oftentimes indicates this assumption is untrue. Discordant contraceptive preferences and use are relatively common, and unsatisfied preferences are asso…
Satisfaction, Resignation, and Dissatisfaction with Long-Acting Reversible Contraception among Low-Income Postpartum Texans
Impact of Clinic Closures on Women Obtaining Abortion Services After Implementation of a Restrictive Law in Texas
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the additional burdens experienced by Texas abortion patients whose nearest in-state clinic was one of more than half of facilities providing abortion that had closed after the introduction of House Bill 2 in 2013. METHODS: In mid-2014, we surveyed Texas-resident women seeking abortions in 10 Texas facilities (n = 398), including both Planned Parenthood-affiliated clinics and independent providers that performed more than …
Justice Reinvestment
In response to the disproportionate rate of Māori within the New Zealand (NZ) criminal justice system, this thesis critically analyses the role of Justice Reinvestment (JR) to redirect state resources and decision-making abilities to local communities. Against the backdrop of settler-colonialism, criminal justice initiatives and policies have failed to provide significant outcomes for Māori communities, given their entrenchment in Western thought…
Patients’ Experiences with an Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Program
Challenging unintended pregnancy as an indicator of reproductive autonomy
Low‐Income Texas Women's Experiences Accessing Their Desired Contraceptive Method at the First Postpartum Visit
Eliminating the various barriers that postpartum women face may improve their access to contraceptives. Further research is needed to improve the understanding of clinic- and provider-level barriers
Prevalence and Predictors of Prenatal and Postpartum Contraceptive Counseling in Two Texas Cities
Gerdts et al. Respond
Gerdts et al. Respond Affiliation Caitlin Gerdts PhD, MHS, Liza Fuentes PhD, MPH, Daniel Grossman MD, Kari White PhD, MPH, Brianna Keefe-Oates MPH, Sarah E. Baum MPH, Kristine Hopkins PhD, Chandler W. Stolp PhD, and Joseph E. Potter PhDCaitlin Gerdts, Brianna Keefe-Oates, and Sarah E. Baum are with Ibis Reproductive Health, Oakland, CA. Liza Fuentes is with the Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY. Daniel Grossman is with Advancing New Standards in…
The Availability and Use of Postpartum Larc in Mexico and Among Hispanics in the United States
Women's Knowledge of and Support for Abortion Restrictions in Texas
Many Texas women of reproductive age are unaware of statewide abortion restrictions, and some support these requirements because of misperceptions about the safety of abortion. Advocates and policymakers should address these knowledge gaps in efforts to protect access to legal abortion
Geographic Variation in Characteristics of Postpartum Women Using Female Sterilization
Women's Experiences Seeking Publicly Funded Family Planning Services in Texas
Women in Texas have long faced challenges in obtaining subsidized family planning services. Legislation that reduced access to family planning services for low-income women and teenagers appears to have added to those challenges
The Impact of Reproductive Health Legislation on Family Planning Clinic Services in Texas
We examined the impact of legislation in Texas that dramatically cut and restricted participation in the state’s family planning program in 2011 using surveys and interviews with leaders at organizations that received family planning funding. Overall, 25% of family planning clinics in Texas closed. In 2011, 71% of organizations widely offered long-acting reversible contraception; in 2012–2013, only 46% did so. Organizations served 54% fewer clien…
The Growth of Protestantism in Brazil and Its Impact on Male Earnings, 1970-2000
Protestantism has expanded rapidly in Brazil in recent decades. The question we tackle in this paper is whether Protestantism has had a positive influence on male earnings in this setting, either through its influence on health and productivity, by way of social networks or employer favor and reduced discrimination, or through other mechanisms. We tackle the problem of the selectivity of religious conversion and affiliation using microdata from t…
Knowledge and Attitudes about Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Among Latina Women Who Desire Sterilization
Knowledge and beliefs about reproductive anatomy and physiology among Mexican-Origin women in the USA
Inherent in many reproductive health and family planning programmes is the problematic assumption that the body, its processes and modifications to it are universally experienced in the same way. This paper addresses contraceptive knowledge and beliefs among Mexican-origin women, based upon data gathered by the qualitative component of the Border Contraceptive Access Study. Open-ended interviews explored the perceived mechanism of action of the p…
Effects of the Age-Education Structure of Female Workers on Male Earnings in Brazil
The main concern of this study is the impact that an increase in female participation within the labor force has on the earnings of males in Brazil. Previous research considered these transitions for male workers, but did not include female workers when estimating various effects on earnings. The 1970, 1980, 1991, and 2000 Brazilian Demographic Censuses were used for this analysis. Results suggest a significant negative impact on male earnings in…
Are Latina Women Ambivalent About Pregnancies They Are Trying to Prevent? Evidence from the Border Contraceptive Access Study
Intentions and happiness appear to be distinct concepts for this sample of Latina women
Changes in Service Delivery Patterns After Introduction of Telemedicine Provision of Medical Abortion in Iowa
Objectives. We assessed the effect of a telemedicine model providing medical abortion on service delivery in a clinic system in Iowa. Methods. We reviewed Iowa vital statistic data and billing data from the clinic system for all abortion encounters during the 2 years prior to and after the introduction of telemedicine in June 2008 (n = 17 956 encounters). We calculated the distance from the patient’s residential zip code to the clinic and to the …
Age, education, and earnings in the course of Brazilian development
BACKGROUND: The impacts of shifts in the age distribution of the working-age population have been studied in relation to the effect of the baby boom generation on the earnings of different cohorts in the U.S. However, this topic has received little attention in the context of the countries of Asia and Latin America, which are now experiencing substantial shifts in their age-education distributions. OBJECTIVE: In this analysis, we estimate the imp…
The impact of outmigration of men on fertility and marriage in the migrant-sending states of Mexico, 1995-2000
Using the 2000 Mexican Census, we examined whether the level of migration was associated with total fertility and the proportion of women married in 314 municipalities from seven traditional sending states. Across these municipalities, we observe lower fertility in higher-migration areas. Municipalities in the quartile with the highest levels of migration have total fertility more than half a child lower than municipalities in the lowest migratio…
Bayes plus Brass
Estimates of fertility in small areas are valuable for analysing demographic change, and important for local planning and population projection. In countries lacking complete vital registration, however, small-area estimates are possible only from sparse survey or census data that are potentially unreliable. In these circumstances estimation requires new methods for old problems: procedures must be automated if thousands of estimates are required…
Patterns of contraceptive use among Mexican-origin women
BACKGROUND: Mexican women in the United States (US) have higher rates of fertility compared to other ethnic groups and women in Mexico. Whether variation in women's access to family planning services or patterns of contraceptive use contributes to this higher fertility has received little attention. OBJECTIVE: We explore Mexican women's contraceptive use, taking into account women's place in the reproductive life course. METHODS: Using nationally…
Fertility and development
Using microdata from the Brazilian demographic censuses of 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1991, aggregated into 518 consistently defined spatial units called microregions, we estimated fertility and mortality and constructed indicators of development and living conditions in the rural and urban areas of the microregions in each census. We then estimated cross-sectional and fixed-effects models to answer questions about the degree to which changes in these…
The Persistence of Outmoded Contraceptive Regimes
Two of the most striking characteristics of contraceptive practice in the world today are the wide variation in patterns of use across countries and the tendency of the distribution of use by method to persist or narrow, even as new methods become available. The argument advanced in this article is that the disposition to commit to a reduced range of methods results from positive feedback in the process of contraceptive choice, and follows the lo…
Mapping the Timing, Pace, and Scale of the Fertility Transition in Brazil
Between 1960 and 2000, fertility fell sharply in Brazil, but this transition was unevenly distributed in space and time. Using Bayesian spatial statistical methods and microdata from five censuses, we develop and apply a procedure for fitting logistic curves to the fertility transitions in more than 500 small regions of Brazil over this 40-year period. Doing so enables us to map the main features of the Brazilian fertility transition in considera…
Are Latina Women Ambivalent About Pregnancies They Are Trying to Prevent? Evidence from the Border Contraceptive Access Study
Intentions and happiness appear to be distinct concepts for this sample of Latina women
Problems in Using Birth-History Analysis to Estimate Trends in Fertility
Maternal Health Care Utilization in Jordan
This article analyzes the patterns and determinants of maternal health care utilization in Jordan, using data from the Jordan Fertility and Family Health Survey of 1983. The study focuses on the 2,949 women who had a child in the five years preceding the survey. Through multivariate analyses of differentials in the utilization of prenatal care and health care at delivery, the study assesses the effect of sociodemographic factors, including reside…
Impact of Clinic Closures on Women Obtaining Abortion Services After Implementation of a Restrictive Law in Texas
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the additional burdens experienced by Texas abortion patients whose nearest in-state clinic was one of more than half of facilities providing abortion that had closed after the introduction of House Bill 2 in 2013. METHODS: In mid-2014, we surveyed Texas-resident women seeking abortions in 10 Texas facilities (n = 398), including both Planned Parenthood-affiliated clinics and independent providers that performed more than …
Empirical bayes estimation of demographic schedules for small areas
In this article, we analyze empirical Bayes (EB) methods for estimating small-area rate schedules. We develop EB methods that treat schedules as vectors and use adaptive neighborhoods to keep estimates appropriately local. This method estimates demographic rates for local subpopulations by borrowing strength not only from similar individuals elsewhere but also from other groups in the same area and from regularities in schedules across locations.…
Politics and Female Sterilization in Northeast Brazil
Brazilian fertility has fallen rapidly in the last three decades, even in the Northeast, the country's poorest region. Female sterilization has become the most common contraceptive method in this region, where 44 percent of married women aged 15-49 years were sterilized as of 1996. While in other regions sterilizations were generally paid for by the patient, politicians and physicians arranged and paid for the large majority of these surgical pro…
Population and Development in Mexico since 1940
In this discussion of population and development in Mexico since 1940 attention is directed initially to the 30-year period of sustained economic growth that began in 1940. After identifying the mainstays of the governments efforts to promote development during the period focus shifts to the ways in which these policies were shaped by and in turn fostered rapid population growth. Turning to the recurrent frustration of Mexican development objecti…
Meeting Preferences for Specific Contraceptive Methods
Fertility surveys have rarely asked people who are using contraception about the contraceptive method they would like to be using, implicitly assuming that those who are contracepting are using the method they want. In this commentary, we review evidence from a small but growing body of work that oftentimes indicates this assumption is untrue. Discordant contraceptive preferences and use are relatively common, and unsatisfied preferences are asso…
La dinámica demográfica y la desigualdad educativa en México / Demographic Dynamics and Educational Inequality in Mexico
En este trabajo se presenta una investigación sobre el vínculo entre los procesos educativos y la dinámica demográfica en México. La tradición del pensamiento sobre población y desarrollo ha partido de la hipótesis de que el ritmo de crecimiento poblacional, el tamaño de las familias y la migración influyen sobre la acumulación de capital humano entre la población en edades escolares. Se explora aquí la relación del desempeño educativo de los jóv…
Women's Knowledge of and Support for Abortion Restrictions in Texas
Many Texas women of reproductive age are unaware of statewide abortion restrictions, and some support these requirements because of misperceptions about the safety of abortion. Advocates and policymakers should address these knowledge gaps in efforts to protect access to legal abortion
Changes in Service Delivery Patterns After Introduction of Telemedicine Provision of Medical Abortion in Iowa
Objectives. We assessed the effect of a telemedicine model providing medical abortion on service delivery in a clinic system in Iowa. Methods. We reviewed Iowa vital statistic data and billing data from the clinic system for all abortion encounters during the 2 years prior to and after the introduction of telemedicine in June 2008 (n = 17 956 encounters). We calculated the distance from the patient’s residential zip code to the clinic and to the …
The impact of outmigration of men on fertility and marriage in the migrant-sending states of Mexico, 1995-2000
Using the 2000 Mexican Census, we examined whether the level of migration was associated with total fertility and the proportion of women married in 314 municipalities from seven traditional sending states. Across these municipalities, we observe lower fertility in higher-migration areas. Municipalities in the quartile with the highest levels of migration have total fertility more than half a child lower than municipalities in the lowest migratio…
Adolescent fertility and religion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the year 2000
Social transformations in Brazil in recent years have included a substantial increase in adolescent fertility, a dramatic rise in membership of Protestant religious denominations, and an accompanying decline in the number of Catholics. We used the 2000 Brazil Census to examine differentials in fertility and family formation among adolescents living in Rio de Janeiro by the following religious denominations: Catholic; Baptist; other mainline Prote…
Modelling the Inverse Association between Breastfeeding and Contraceptive Use
Previous studies of the inverse association between breastfeeding and contraceptive use have relied on current status data on at least one of the variables. In this paper we suggest a new way of modelling the joint temporal association of the adoption of contraception and the termination of breastfeeding over the course of a birth interval. The approach is implemented with survey data from rural Mexico. It involves first estimating a competing-ri…
Does Family Planning Reduce Infant Mortality
Frustrated Demand for Sterilization Among Low‐Income Latinas in El Paso, Texas
Because access to a full range of contraceptive methods is limited for low-income women, researchers and providers should not assume a woman's current method is her method of choice
Clinic Versus Over-the-Counter Access to Oral Contraception
Objectives. As part of the Border Contraceptive Access Study, we interviewed oral contraceptive (OC) users living in El Paso, Texas, to assess motivations for patronizing a US clinic or a Mexican pharmacy with over-the-counter (OTC) pills and to determine which women were likely to use the OTC option. Methods. We surveyed 532 clinic users and 514 pharmacy users about background characteristics, motivations for choosing their OC source, and satisf…
Chain Migration and Residential Segregation of Internal Migrants in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo, Brazil
This paper focuses on the geography of internal migration to and settlement within the metropolitan area of São Paulo. Specifically, the research objectives are to: (1) document the major flows of internal migration into the São Paulo metropolitan area; (2) map both short- and long-term migrant patterns of settlement within the São Paulo metropolitan area; and (3) approximate to what extent particular migrants from specific sending areas spatiall…
Patterns of contraceptive use among Mexican-origin women
BACKGROUND: Mexican women in the United States (US) have higher rates of fertility compared to other ethnic groups and women in Mexico. Whether variation in women's access to family planning services or patterns of contraceptive use contributes to this higher fertility has received little attention. OBJECTIVE: We explore Mexican women's contraceptive use, taking into account women's place in the reproductive life course. METHODS: Using nationally…
Knox meets Cox
Many important questions and theories in demography focus on changes over time, and on how those changes differ over geographic and social space. Space-time analysis has always been important in studying fertility transitions, for example. However, demographers have seldom used formal statistical methods to describe and analyze time series of maps. One formal method, used widely in epidemiology, criminology, and public health, is Knox’s space-tim…
The impact of health care providers on female sterilization among HIV-positive women in Brazil
The Impact of Reproductive Health Legislation on Family Planning Clinic Services in Texas
We examined the impact of legislation in Texas that dramatically cut and restricted participation in the state’s family planning program in 2011 using surveys and interviews with leaders at organizations that received family planning funding. Overall, 25% of family planning clinics in Texas closed. In 2011, 71% of organizations widely offered long-acting reversible contraception; in 2012–2013, only 46% did so. Organizations served 54% fewer clien…
Population Redistribution and Economic Growth
The Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930
Economic Opportunity and White American Fertility Ratios 1800-1860
The Rapid Decline in Colombian Fertility
Problems in Using Birth-History Analysis to Estimate Trends in Fertility
Factores demográficos y distribución del ingreso en América Latina
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Social Science and Development Policy
The authors review and evaluate recommendations made by the International Review Group of Social Science Research on Population and Development for future population policy research in developing countries. (see 46: Title 2735). Differences between basic and policy-oriented research are examined and means of increasing the usefulness of research are considered. Three possible kinds of research to be used in the formulation and implementation of p…
Population Policy
This is the published version of the report of the International Review Groups of Social Science Research on Population and Development (see 46: Title 2735) (ANNOTATION)
Population Policy
Población y desarrollo en México
Se trata de una evaluación de la experiencia mexicana en materia de población y desarrollo. Se examinan los alcances del periodo de rápido crecimiento económico (1940-1970) en el acomodo otorgado a una población también en rápido crecimiento. Se estima que a fines del periodo se produce un agotamiento de los patrones de acomodo demográfico tanto en el medio rural como en el urbano. Se hace un diagnóstico de por qué la fecundidad permaneció elevad…
Population and Development in Mexico since 1940
In this discussion of population and development in Mexico since 1940 attention is directed initially to the 30-year period of sustained economic growth that began in 1940. After identifying the mainstays of the governments efforts to promote development during the period focus shifts to the ways in which these policies were shaped by and in turn fostered rapid population growth. Turning to the recurrent frustration of Mexican development objecti…
The Influence of Maternal Health care on the Prevalence and Duration of Breastfeeding in Rural Mexico
Joseph E. Potter, Octavio Mojarro, Leopoldo Nunez, The Influence of Maternal Health care on the Prevalence and Duration of Breastfeeding in Rural Mexico, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 18, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1987), pp. 309-319
The Influence of Health Care on Contraceptive Acceptance in Rural Mexico
This paper offers two types of evidence in support of the idea that family planning services are most expediently provided as an integral part of the health and medical organization for maternity care. First, prenatal care and medical attention at delivery are found to be closely associated with postpartum contraceptive acceptance in a 1981 survey of family planning in rural Mexico. Second, interviews of a sample of doctors, nurses, and auxiliari…
Birth Spacing and Child Survival
In this paper results recently published in this journal concerning the influence of birthspacing on child survival are reviewed, and two reasons are suggested why the statistical associations observed in the data collected in the World Fertility Survey may be, at least in part, spurious. Where reporting is poor, it is argued that errors may often be responsible for a substantial portion of the association between interval length and mortality, a…
Does Family Planning Reduce Infant Mortality
Modelling the Inverse Association between Breastfeeding and Contraceptive Use
Previous studies of the inverse association between breastfeeding and contraceptive use have relied on current status data on at least one of the variables. In this paper we suggest a new way of modelling the joint temporal association of the adoption of contraception and the termination of breastfeeding over the course of a birth interval. The approach is implemented with survey data from rural Mexico. It involves first estimating a competing-ri…
Maternal Health Care Utilization in Jordan
This article analyzes the patterns and determinants of maternal health care utilization in Jordan, using data from the Jordan Fertility and Family Health Survey of 1983. The study focuses on the 2,949 women who had a child in the five years preceding the survey. Through multivariate analyses of differentials in the utilization of prenatal care and health care at delivery, the study assesses the effect of sociodemographic factors, including reside…
Paediatric care and immunisation among Jordanian children
This paper investigates the behavioural aspects of health care use for Jordanian children from birth to 3 years using data from a national survey. Statistical analysis indicate differences in the determinants of the use of paediatric care and immunisation: whereas immunisation coverage was already good in 1983 (and has improved subsequently), paediatric care is used for fewer than half of the children under 1 year of age. Socioeconomic and demogr…
Death Without Weeping
The Persistence of Outmoded Contraceptive Regimes
Two of the most striking characteristics of contraceptive practice in the world today are the wide variation in patterns of use across countries and the tendency of the distribution of use by method to persist or narrow, even as new methods become available. The argument advanced in this article is that the disposition to commit to a reduced range of methods results from positive feedback in the process of contraceptive choice, and follows the lo…
Unwanted caesarean sections among public and private patients in Brazil
Objective: To assess and compare the preferences of pregnant women in the public and private sector regarding delivery in Brazil. Design: Face to face structured interviews with women who were interviewed early in pregnancy, about one month before the due date, and about one month post partum. Setting: Four cities in Brazil. Participants: 1612 pregnant women: 1093 public patients and 519 private patients. Main outcome measures: Rates of delivery …
Fertility and development
Using microdata from the Brazilian demographic censuses of 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1991, aggregated into 518 consistently defined spatial units called microregions, we estimated fertility and mortality and constructed indicators of development and living conditions in the rural and urban areas of the microregions in each census. We then estimated cross-sectional and fixed-effects models to answer questions about the degree to which changes in these…
Politics and Female Sterilization in Northeast Brazil
Brazilian fertility has fallen rapidly in the last three decades, even in the Northeast, the country's poorest region. Female sterilization has become the most common contraceptive method in this region, where 44 percent of married women aged 15-49 years were sterilized as of 1996. While in other regions sterilizations were generally paid for by the patient, politicians and physicians arranged and paid for the large majority of these surgical pro…
Empirical bayes estimation of demographic schedules for small areas
In this article, we analyze empirical Bayes (EB) methods for estimating small-area rate schedules. We develop EB methods that treat schedules as vectors and use adaptive neighborhoods to keep estimates appropriately local. This method estimates demographic rates for local subpopulations by borrowing strength not only from similar individuals elsewhere but also from other groups in the same area and from regularities in schedules across locations.…
The impact of health care providers on female sterilization among HIV-positive women in Brazil
Population (45 works) · Medicine (38 works) · Demography (34 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (27 works) · Family planning (26 works) · Environmental health (24 works) · Research methodology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (21 works)