M S Rendall
Biographic Data
| ID | 46024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M S Rendall |
| GIVEN NAMES | M S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rendall |
| SIGNATURE | RENDALL M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8541-1033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 479 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
An Ongoing Gender Revolution in Europe
The literature on the micro-level gendered associations between employment and fertility in couples has presented a mixed picture, contrasting a uniformly positive association of employment and first birth for men with negative, zero, or positive associations for women. Differences in period, country context, and women’s educational level have been proposed as explanations for the ambiguous findings. We attempted to resolve these differences and …
Birth-Intention Time Horizon as a Predictor of Contraceptive Method Effectiveness
Addressing Abortion Underreporting in Surveys with the List Experiment
Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc) and Early Childbearing Revisited
Objectives. To analyze births and birth intendedness after long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) removal among Medicaid-insured women. Methods. We linked all Delaware women with a Medicaid-covered LARC removal in 2012 to 2020 (n = 8047) to birth records and to Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) pregnancy intendedness survey responses (n = 241). Results. Births within 3 years of a Medicaid-covered LARC removal were much more…
Socioeconomic Differences in Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use for Achieving U.S. Women's Family Planning Goals
Steep increases in the use of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) have occurred during the past two decades in the United States, driven in part by LARC-focused contraceptive access programs and policies designed to reduce early and unintended pregnancies and births. These outcomes have long been concentrated among women of lower socioeconomic status (SES). LARC use has been positively associated with subsequent intended fertility, but …
Gender Asymmetry in the Fertility of Racially and Ethnically Exogamous U.S. Couples
Hypotheses explaining fertility levels in unions of women and men with different racial and ethnic origins (exogamous union fertility)—including stigma, in-between, pronatal, and assimilative fertility—apply equally when the minority group partner is the woman or the man. As an alternative, we propose a gendered theorizing of exogamous union fertility in which the fertility preferences of either the woman's or the man's racial and ethnic group mi…
Desire for Sterilization Reversal in Delaware, US
Objective To investigate the pathways that may elevate risks of desire for sterilization reversal, specifically through nonuse of long‐acting reversible contraception (LARC), viewing abortion as unacceptable for oneself, and being economically disadvantaged. Methods We used chi‐squared tests and binary logistic models to analyze data on 3422 women, including 299 sterilized women, from a population‐representative sample of Delaware women aged 18–4…
Acquisition of disability after age 50 following extreme urban coastal flooding events in India
Association of the Delaware Contraceptive Access Now Initiative with Postpartum Larc Use
The DelCAN initiative was associated with increased LARC use among postpartum women in Delaware. During the first 3 years of the initiative, LARC use increased progressively and to a greater extent among Medicaid-enrolled women. Comprehensive initiatives that combine Medicaid payment reforms, provider training, free contraceptive services, and public awareness efforts may reduce unmet demand for highly effective contraceptives in the postpartum m…
Are Births More Likely to be Intended Following Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives? An Analysis of U.S. Births in 2003–2015
Family and household sources of poverty for Black, Hispanic, and White newborns
Objective To understand the importance of family and household structure, including cohabiting partners and nonkin adults, in explaining Black‐White versus Hispanic‐White newborn poverty disparities in the United States. Background The official poverty measure (OPM) has typically been used in scholarly studies of newborn and childhood poverty, but this measure excludes cohabitors' and nonkin household members' presence and income. Both are likely…
Contraceptive Consistency and Poverty After Birth
Women's Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception for Birth Timing and Birth Stopping
The use of long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods—intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants—has recently expanded rapidly in the United States, and these methods together approach the contraceptive pill in current prevalence. Research on LARCs has analyzed their use to reduce unintended pregnancies but not their use to enable intended pregnancies. Knowledge of both is necessary to understand LARCs’ potential impacts on the reproductiv…
Changes to Contraceptive Method Use at Title X Clinics Following Delaware Contraceptive Access Now, 2008–2017
Objectives. To measure changes in the contraceptive methods used by Title X clients after implementation of Delaware Contraceptive Access Now, a public–private initiative that aims to increase access to contraceptives, particularly long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs). Methods. Using administrative data from the 2008–2017 Family Planning Annual Reports and a difference-in-differences design, we compared changes in contraceptive method us…
Intentionally or Ambivalently Risking a Short Interpregnancy Interval
A focus of research on short interpregnancy intervals (IPI) has been on young disadvantaged women whose births are likely to be unintended. Later initiation of family formation in the United States and other high-income countries points to the need to also consider a woman’s attributes indicative of readiness for purposefully accelerated family formation achieved through short IPIs. We test for whether factors indicating “reproductive readiness”—…
First Birth before First Stable Employment and Subsequent Single-Mother “Disconnection” before and after the Welfare Reform and Great Recession
We analyze data from two nationally-representative U.S. surveys that include cohorts of young women before and after the 1996 Welfare Reform. Women were more likely to have their first birth precede their first stable employment after than before the reform. Women with this life-course sequence were at higher risk of single motherhood and, as single mothers, were at higher risk of 'disconnection' simultaneously from earned income and public cash …
Retrospective Reporting of First Employment in the Life-courses of U.S. Women
The authors investigate the accuracy of young women’s retrospective reporting on their first substantial employment in three major, nationally representative U.S. surveys, examining hypotheses that longer recall duration, employment histories with lower salience and higher complexity, and an absence of “anchoring” biographical details will adversely affect reporting accuracy. The authors compare retrospective reports to benchmark panel survey est…
Multiple imputation for demographic hazard models with left-censored predictor variables
A common problem when using panel data is that an individual's history is incompletely known at the first wave. We show that multiple imputation, the method commonly used for data that are missing due to non-response, may also be used to impute these data that are "missing by design." Our application is to a woman's duration of fulltime employment as a predictor of her risk of first birth. We multiply-impute employment status two years earlier to…
Epidemiological Paradox or Immigrant Vulnerability? Obesity Among Young Children of Immigrants
According to the “immigrant epidemiological paradox,” immigrants and their children enjoy health advantages over their U.S.-born peers—advantages that diminish with greater acculturation. We investigated child obesity as a potentially significant deviation from this paradox for second-generation immigrant children. We evaluated two alternate measures of mother’s acculturation: age at arrival in the United States and English language proficiency. …
J. Dreby, Divided by Borders
Evaluation of Bias in Estimates of Early Childhood Obesity From Parent-Reported Heights and Weights
Objectives. We evaluated bias in estimated obesity prevalence owing to error in parental reporting. We also evaluated bias mitigation through application of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s biologically implausible value (BIV) cutoffs. Methods. We simulated obesity prevalence of children aged 2 to 5 years in 2 panel surveys after counterfactually substituting parameters estimated from 1999–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examinatio…
Two Decades of Negative Educational Selectivity of Mexican Migrants to the United States
Immigration is commonly considered to be selective of more educated individuals. Previous US studies comparing the educational attainment of Mexican immigrants in the United States to that of the Mexican resident population support this characterization. Upward educational-attainment biases in both coverage and measurement, however, may be substantial in US data sources. Moreover, differences in educational attainment by place size are very large…
Multiple Imputation for Combined-survey Estimation With Incomplete Regressors in One but Not Both Surveys
Within-survey multiple imputation (MI) methods are adapted to pooled-survey regression estimation where one survey has more regressors, but typically fewer observations, than the other. This adaptation is achieved through (1) larger numbers of imputations to compensate for the higher fraction of missing values, (2) model-fit statistics to check the assumption that the two surveys sample from a common universe, and (3) specifying the analysis mode…
Prenatal, Perinatal, Early Life, and Sociodemographic Factors Underlying Racial Differences in the Likelihood of High Body Mass Index in Early Childhood
Objectives. We investigated early childhood disparities in high body mass index (BMI) between Black and White US children. Methods. We compared differences in Black and White children’s prevalence of sociodemographic, prenatal, perinatal, and early life risk and protective factors; fit logistic regression models predicting high BMI (≥ 95th percentile) at age 4 to 5 years to 2 nationally representative samples followed from birth; and performed se…
The Quality of Male Fertility Data in Major U.S. Surveys
Researchers continue to question fathers’ willingness to report their biological children in surveys and the ability of surveys to adequately represent fathers. To address these concerns, this study evaluates the quality of men’s fertility data in the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79 and NLSY97) and in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Comparing fertility rates in each survey with populati…
Incomplete reporting of men’s fertility in the united states and britain
We evaluate men;s retrospective fertility histories from the British Household Panel Survey and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Further, we analyze the PSID men’s panel-updated fertility histories for their possible superiority over retrospective collection. One third to one half of men’s nonmarital births and births within previous marriages are missed in estimates from retrospective histories. Differential survey underrepresenta…
The Quality of Male Fertility Data in Major U.S. Surveys
Researchers continue to question fathers’ willingness to report their biological children in surveys and the ability of surveys to adequately represent fathers. To address these concerns, this study evaluates the quality of men’s fertility data in the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79 and NLSY97) and in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Comparing fertility rates in each survey with populati…
Lifetime Inheritances of Three Generations of Whites and Blacks
This article estimates lifetime inheritances by combining survey self‐reports of inheritances received with forecasts of prospective inheritances. These estimates encompass whites and blacks of the baby boom generation and the two preceding generations. The white‐black gap in lifetime inheritances is found to increase both absolute and relative racial wealth inequality. The gap is estimated to be much larger for the baby boom generation than for …
Two Decades of Negative Educational Selectivity of Mexican Migrants to the United States
Immigration is commonly considered to be selective of more educated individuals. Previous US studies comparing the educational attainment of Mexican immigrants in the United States to that of the Mexican resident population support this characterization. Upward educational-attainment biases in both coverage and measurement, however, may be substantial in US data sources. Moreover, differences in educational attainment by place size are very large…
Declining Return Migration From the United States to Mexico in the Late-2000s Recession
Researchers in the United States and Mexico have variously asserted that return migration from the United States to Mexico increased substantially, remained unchanged, or declined slightly in response to the 2008–2009 U.S. recession and fall 2008 global financial crisis. The present study addresses this debate using microdata from 2005 through 2009 from a large-scale, quarterly Mexican household survey, the National Survey of Occupation and Emplo…
Increasingly heterogeneous ages at first birth by education in Southern European and Anglo-American family-policy regimes
According to the 'reproductive polarization' hypothesis, family-policy regimes unfavourable to the combination of employment with motherhood generate greater socio-economic differentials in fertility than other regimes. This hypothesis has been tested mainly for 'liberal' Anglo-American regimes. To investigate the effects elsewhere, we compared education differentials in age at first birth among native-born women of 1950s and 1960s birth cohorts …
Universal versus Economically Polarized Change in Age at First Birth
France and Britain in the 1980s and 1990s represented two contrasting institutional models for the integration of employment and motherhood: the "universalistic" regime in France offered subsidized childcare and maternity-leave benefits at all income levels; the "means-tested" regime in Britain mainly offered income-tested benefits for single mothers. Comparing the two countries, we test the hypothesis that the socioeconomic gradient of fertility…
Contrasting Trajectories of Labor-Market Integration Between Migrant Women in Western and Southern Europe
The fertility contribution of Mexican immigration to the United States
Crucial to the long-term contribution of immigration to a receiving country’s population is the extent to which the immigrants reproduce themselves in subsequent, native-born generations. Using conventional projection methodologies, this fertility contribution may be poorly estimated primarily because of problems in projecting the number of immigrants who are at risk of childbearing. We propose an alternative method that obviates the need to proj…
Cohort Trends in the Lifetime Distribution of Female Family Headship in the United States, 1968–1985
We use the PSID Relationship File to estimate cohort trends in the lifetime incidence and duration of female family headship. Hazard (event-history) techniques are used to estimate movements into and out of headship, accounting for duration dependence and left-censored spells. The mean number of years spent in headship between ages 14 and 59 rose dramatically over the period. The increase arose from an increased number of headship spells, includi…
An Old-Age Security Motive for Fertility in the United States
This study reviewed the literature on the old age security motive for childbearing and estimates the poverty alleviating contributions of a coresident family to the elderly in the US. Data were obtained from the 1984 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPPS) of the US Census Bureau the National Survey of Informal Caregivers and the 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey. In 1984 poverty among the elderly dropped below the overa…
Multiple Imputation for Combined-survey Estimation With Incomplete Regressors in One but Not Both Surveys
Within-survey multiple imputation (MI) methods are adapted to pooled-survey regression estimation where one survey has more regressors, but typically fewer observations, than the other. This adaptation is achieved through (1) larger numbers of imputations to compensate for the higher fraction of missing values, (2) model-fit statistics to check the assumption that the two surveys sample from a common universe, and (3) specifying the analysis mode…
Elderly poverty alleviation through living with family
Retrospective Reporting of First Employment in the Life-courses of U.S. Women
The authors investigate the accuracy of young women’s retrospective reporting on their first substantial employment in three major, nationally representative U.S. surveys, examining hypotheses that longer recall duration, employment histories with lower salience and higher complexity, and an absence of “anchoring” biographical details will adversely affect reporting accuracy. The authors compare retrospective reports to benchmark panel survey est…
Fertility, Timing of Births and Socio-economic Status in France and Britain
Heather Joshi, Kevin Lynch, , Michael Rendall, David Shapiro, Fertility, Timing of Births and Socio-economic Status in France and Britain: Social Policies and Occupational Polarization, Population (English Edition, 2002-), Vol. 57, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2002), pp. 475-507
Combining registration-system and survey data to estimate birth probabilities
With the widespread availability of event-history data, demographers have increasingly eschewed registration-system data in favor of survey data. We propose instead using survey and registration-system data in combination, via a constrained maximum-likelihood framework for demographic hazard modeling. As an application, we combine panel survey data and birth registration data to estimate annual birth probabilities by parity. The general fertility…
Fecondite, calendrier des naissances et milieu social en France et en Grande-Bretagne
Ekert-Jaffé O., Joshi H., Lynch K., Mougin R., Rendall M. Fécondité, calendrier des naissances et milieu social en France et en Grande-Bretagne : politiques sociales et polarisation socioprofessionnelle. In: Population, 57e année, n°3, 2002. pp. 485-518
Epidemiological Paradox or Immigrant Vulnerability? Obesity Among Young Children of Immigrants
According to the “immigrant epidemiological paradox,” immigrants and their children enjoy health advantages over their U.S.-born peers—advantages that diminish with greater acculturation. We investigated child obesity as a potentially significant deviation from this paradox for second-generation immigrant children. We evaluated two alternate measures of mother’s acculturation: age at arrival in the United States and English language proficiency. …
Emigration and Schooling among Second-Generation Mexican-American Children
In this Research Note, we investigate the prevalence and patterns of second-generation Mexican-American children's migration to and return from Mexico during childhood and consider the consequences of this migration for their schooling. Around one in ten second-generation Mexican-American children live in Mexico for some of their childhood. Strong patterns of return to the U.S. through childhood argue for their being considered as part of the Mex…
Women's Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception for Birth Timing and Birth Stopping
The use of long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods—intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants—has recently expanded rapidly in the United States, and these methods together approach the contraceptive pill in current prevalence. Research on LARCs has analyzed their use to reduce unintended pregnancies but not their use to enable intended pregnancies. Knowledge of both is necessary to understand LARCs’ potential impacts on the reproductiv…
Changes to Contraceptive Method Use at Title X Clinics Following Delaware Contraceptive Access Now, 2008–2017
Objectives. To measure changes in the contraceptive methods used by Title X clients after implementation of Delaware Contraceptive Access Now, a public–private initiative that aims to increase access to contraceptives, particularly long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs). Methods. Using administrative data from the 2008–2017 Family Planning Annual Reports and a difference-in-differences design, we compared changes in contraceptive method us…
Breakup of New Orleans Households After Hurricane Katrina
Theory and evidence on disaster-induced population displacement have focused on individual and population-subgroup characteristics. Less is known about impacts on households. I estimate excess incidence of household break-up due to Hurricane Katrina by comparing a probability sample of pre-Katrina New Orleans resident adult household heads and non-household heads (N = 242), traced just over a year later, with a matched sample from a nationally re…
Prenatal, Perinatal, Early Life, and Sociodemographic Factors Underlying Racial Differences in the Likelihood of High Body Mass Index in Early Childhood
Objectives. We investigated early childhood disparities in high body mass index (BMI) between Black and White US children. Methods. We compared differences in Black and White children’s prevalence of sociodemographic, prenatal, perinatal, and early life risk and protective factors; fit logistic regression models predicting high BMI (≥ 95th percentile) at age 4 to 5 years to 2 nationally representative samples followed from birth; and performed se…
Bayesian estimation of hispanic fertility hazards from survey and population data
Previous studies have demonstrated both large gains in efficiency and reductions in bias by incorporating population information in regression estimation with sample survey data. These studies, however, assumed that the population values are exact. This assumption is relaxed here through a Bayesian extension of constrained maximum likelihood estimation applied to U.S. Hispanic fertility. The Bayesian approach allows for the use of both auxiliary …
Multiple imputation for demographic hazard models with left-censored predictor variables
A common problem when using panel data is that an individual's history is incompletely known at the first wave. We show that multiple imputation, the method commonly used for data that are missing due to non-response, may also be used to impute these data that are "missing by design." Our application is to a woman's duration of fulltime employment as a predictor of her risk of first birth. We multiply-impute employment status two years earlier to…
Elderly poverty alleviation through living with family
Cohort Trends in the Lifetime Distribution of Female Family Headship in the United States, 1968–1985
We use the PSID Relationship File to estimate cohort trends in the lifetime incidence and duration of female family headship. Hazard (event-history) techniques are used to estimate movements into and out of headship, accounting for duration dependence and left-censored spells. The mean number of years spent in headship between ages 14 and 59 rose dramatically over the period. The increase arose from an increased number of headship spells, includi…
Aggregating Poor and Near-Poor Elderly under Different Resource Definitions
The large number of near-poor relative to poor elderly persons in the United States may be recharacterized as a high-prevalence, low-intensity type of poverty. The present study investigates how this characterization is affected by accounting for assets and non-cash transfers in addition to cash income in resources available for current-year consumption. The Foster, Greer, Thorbecke (FGT) poverty index is used to separately and jointly analyze pr…
Regional Household Differentials
An Old-Age Security Motive for Fertility in the United States
This study reviewed the literature on the old age security motive for childbearing and estimates the poverty alleviating contributions of a coresident family to the elderly in the US. Data were obtained from the 1984 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPPS) of the US Census Bureau the National Survey of Informal Caregivers and the 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey. In 1984 poverty among the elderly dropped below the overa…
Entry or exit? A transition-probability approach to explaining the high prevalence of single motherhood among black women
I analyze the prevalence of single motherhood among black and non-Hispanic white women in terms of differences in entry and exit. Higher initial entry rates among black women, especially through unpartnered childbearing, account for slightly more than half the difference between blacks and whites in the prevalence of single motherhood. The remainder of the difference is due to black single mothers’ much lower rates of exit through union formation…
Incomplete reporting of men’s fertility in the united states and britain
We evaluate men;s retrospective fertility histories from the British Household Panel Survey and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Further, we analyze the PSID men’s panel-updated fertility histories for their possible superiority over retrospective collection. One third to one half of men’s nonmarital births and births within previous marriages are missed in estimates from retrospective histories. Differential survey underrepresenta…
Combining registration-system and survey data to estimate birth probabilities
With the widespread availability of event-history data, demographers have increasingly eschewed registration-system data in favor of survey data. We propose instead using survey and registration-system data in combination, via a constrained maximum-likelihood framework for demographic hazard modeling. As an application, we combine panel survey data and birth registration data to estimate annual birth probabilities by parity. The general fertility…
Comparing the Childrearing Lifetimes of Britain's Divorce-Revolution Men and Women
Fertility, Timing of Births and Socio-economic Status in France and Britain
Comparison of family growth and the timing of births in France and Britain calls for consideration of the role of family policy and women’s economic conditions in determining their demographic behaviour. The study relies on data from the Longitudinal Study of England and Wales and the Permanent Demographic Sample in France, that link birth registrations to 1971-1991 and 1968-1990 census data, respectively. Over the period studied, the 1970s throu…
Fertility, Timing of Births and Socio-economic Status in France and Britain
Heather Joshi, Kevin Lynch, , Michael Rendall, David Shapiro, Fertility, Timing of Births and Socio-economic Status in France and Britain: Social Policies and Occupational Polarization, Population (English Edition, 2002-), Vol. 57, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2002), pp. 475-507
Fecondite, calendrier des naissances et milieu social en France et en Grande-Bretagne
Ekert-Jaffé O., Joshi H., Lynch K., Mougin R., Rendall M. Fécondité, calendrier des naissances et milieu social en France et en Grande-Bretagne : politiques sociales et polarisation socioprofessionnelle. In: Population, 57e année, n°3, 2002. pp. 485-518
Lifetime Inheritances of Three Generations of Whites and Blacks
This article estimates lifetime inheritances by combining survey self‐reports of inheritances received with forecasts of prospective inheritances. These estimates encompass whites and blacks of the baby boom generation and the two preceding generations. The white‐black gap in lifetime inheritances is found to increase both absolute and relative racial wealth inequality. The gap is estimated to be much larger for the baby boom generation than for …
The fertility contribution of Mexican immigration to the United States
Crucial to the long-term contribution of immigration to a receiving country’s population is the extent to which the immigrants reproduce themselves in subsequent, native-born generations. Using conventional projection methodologies, this fertility contribution may be poorly estimated primarily because of problems in projecting the number of immigrants who are at risk of childbearing. We propose an alternative method that obviates the need to proj…
Improved Regression Estimation of a Multivariate Relationship with Population Data on the Bivariate Relationship
Regression coefficients specify the partial effect of a regressor on the dependent variable. Sometimes the bivariate or limited multivariate relationship of that regressor variable with the dependent variable is known from population-level data. We show here that such population-level data can be used to reduce variance and bias about estimates of those regression coefficients from sample survey data. The method of constrained MLE is used to achi…
Improved Regression Estimation of A Multivariate Relationship with Population Data on the Bivariate Relationship
Regression coefficients specify the partial effect of a regressor on the dependent variable.Sometimes the bivariate or limited multivariate relationship of that regressor variable with the dependent variable is known from population-level data.We show here that such population-level data can be used to reduce variance and bias about estimates of those regression coefficients from sample survey data.The method of constrained MLE is used to achieve…
Emigration and Schooling among Second-Generation Mexican-American Children
In this Research Note, we investigate the prevalence and patterns of second-generation Mexican-American children's migration to and return from Mexico during childhood and consider the consequences of this migration for their schooling. Around one in ten second-generation Mexican-American children live in Mexico for some of their childhood. Strong patterns of return to the U.S. through childhood argue for their being considered as part of the Mex…
Bayesian estimation of hispanic fertility hazards from survey and population data
Previous studies have demonstrated both large gains in efficiency and reductions in bias by incorporating population information in regression estimation with sample survey data. These studies, however, assumed that the population values are exact. This assumption is relaxed here through a Bayesian extension of constrained maximum likelihood estimation applied to U.S. Hispanic fertility. The Bayesian approach allows for the use of both auxiliary …
Universal versus Economically Polarized Change in Age at First Birth
France and Britain in the 1980s and 1990s represented two contrasting institutional models for the integration of employment and motherhood: the "universalistic" regime in France offered subsidized childcare and maternity-leave benefits at all income levels; the "means-tested" regime in Britain mainly offered income-tested benefits for single mothers. Comparing the two countries, we test the hypothesis that the socioeconomic gradient of fertility…
Contrasting Trajectories of Labor-Market Integration Between Migrant Women in Western and Southern Europe
Increasingly heterogeneous ages at first birth by education in Southern European and Anglo-American family-policy regimes
According to the 'reproductive polarization' hypothesis, family-policy regimes unfavourable to the combination of employment with motherhood generate greater socio-economic differentials in fertility than other regimes. This hypothesis has been tested mainly for 'liberal' Anglo-American regimes. To investigate the effects elsewhere, we compared education differentials in age at first birth among native-born women of 1950s and 1960s birth cohorts …
The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival
The theory that marriage has protective effects for survival has itself lived for more than 100 years since Durkheim’s groundbreaking study of suicide (Durkheim 1951 [1897]). Investigations of differences in this protective effect by gender, by age, and in contrast to different unmarried statuses, however, have yielded inconsistent conclusions. These investigations typically either use data in which marital status and other covariates are observe…
Declining Return Migration From the United States to Mexico in the Late-2000s Recession
Researchers in the United States and Mexico have variously asserted that return migration from the United States to Mexico increased substantially, remained unchanged, or declined slightly in response to the 2008–2009 U.S. recession and fall 2008 global financial crisis. The present study addresses this debate using microdata from 2005 through 2009 from a large-scale, quarterly Mexican household survey, the National Survey of Occupation and Emplo…
Breakup of New Orleans Households After Hurricane Katrina
Theory and evidence on disaster-induced population displacement have focused on individual and population-subgroup characteristics. Less is known about impacts on households. I estimate excess incidence of household break-up due to Hurricane Katrina by comparing a probability sample of pre-Katrina New Orleans resident adult household heads and non-household heads (N = 242), traced just over a year later, with a matched sample from a nationally re…
Prenatal, Perinatal, Early Life, and Sociodemographic Factors Underlying Racial Differences in the Likelihood of High Body Mass Index in Early Childhood
Objectives. We investigated early childhood disparities in high body mass index (BMI) between Black and White US children. Methods. We compared differences in Black and White children’s prevalence of sociodemographic, prenatal, perinatal, and early life risk and protective factors; fit logistic regression models predicting high BMI (≥ 95th percentile) at age 4 to 5 years to 2 nationally representative samples followed from birth; and performed se…
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