Paula Sheppard
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3771017 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paula Sheppard |
| NOMBRES | Paula |
| APELLIDO | Sheppard |
| FIRMA | SHEPPARD P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4979-2064 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Using discrete choice modeling to understand the drivers of reproductive delay in the United Kingdom
The ideal family size in the UK is, on average, two children. However, there is a fertility gap, the difference between wanted and achieved family size, of around one in three children, which is largely caused by extended delays to reproduction. Standard quantitative methods used to identify what causes these delays have limitations, often relying on macro-level data which conveys little about individual needs, or applying longitudinal methods th…
Fertility Decision-Making in the UK
Scholars are interested in better understanding the low fertility observed in higher income countries. While some people are choosing to have smaller families, countries also report a ‘fertility gap’, which is the proportion of people who end up with fewer children than originally desired. This paper investigates some causes of the fertility gap in the UK. We amassed qualitative data from seven focus groups conducted among men and women of reprod…
Father-Toddler Bonding during the Covid-19 Lockdown
The UK lockdowns brought about many domestic changes. One was that many families with young children found themselves in the largely unique situation where fathers who normally worked away and saw little of their children during the day were now at home full-time. This was coupled with the fact that grandparents were now unavailable as lockdown rules prohibited visits and travel and many elderly were especially vulnerable. This study aimed to exp…
Behavioral Ecology of the Family
Researchers across the social sciences have long been interested in families. How people make decisions such as who to marry, when to have a baby, how big or small a family to have, or whether to stay with a partner or stray are questions that continue to interest economists, sociologists, demographers, and anthropologists. Human families vary across the globe; different cultures have different marriage practices, different ideas about who raises…
What the percentage of births in facilities does not measure
Introduction: Increases in facility deliveries in sub-Saharan Africa have not yielded expected declines in maternal mortality, raising concerns about the quality of care provided in facilities. The readiness of facilities at different health system levels to provide both emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) as well as referral is unknown. We describe this combined readiness by facility level and region in Senegal. Methods: For this cross-…
When does family size matter? Sibship size, socioeconomic status and education in England
Using sequence analysis to test if human life histories are coherent strategies
Becoming a First-Time Grandparent and Subjective Well-Being
Objective: In this study, the authors examined how individuals are affected by the change in status to grandparenthood for the first time.Background: Being a grandparent, especially an active and involved grandparent, is positively linked to the well-being of individuals with grandchildren; however, little is known about how becoming a grandparent affects well-being.Method: Longitudinal data pooled from 15 countries in Europe (Survey of Health, A…
Fatherhood, Biosocial Perspectives on
Paternal investment is a defining feature of human reproductive behavior; it is substantial compared with other primates and ubiquitous across cultures. However, given the trade‐offs that men face between mating and parenting effort, paternal investment is also a highly facultative trait both across and within cultures—and even within individuals. Ecological variability, between and within cultures, influences fathers' parental decision making an…
Grandparent Effects on Educational Outcomes
The Additive Advantage of Having Educated Grandfathers for Children’s Education
Until recently, research on intergenerational processes of social mobility has focused on two generational processes and paid little attention to the role of the grand-parental generation. An increasing number of studies have started to address this shortfall, but they report inconsistent findings. This may be due to design and measurement differences across studies and to substantive heterogeneity in the association. We use data from the Survey …
How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development
OBJECTIVES: In high-income populations, evidence suggests that socioeconomic disadvantage early in life is correlated with reproductive strategy. Children growing up in unfavorable rearing environments tend to experience earlier sexual maturity and first births. Earlier first births may be associated with higher fertility, but links between socioeconomic disadvantage and larger family size have rarely been tested. The pathways through which early…
What students want
Higher education institutions operate in an increasingly competitive global market, and require precise knowledge regarding the preferences of potential students. Traditional methods for evaluating what potential students look for in a degree tend to be descriptive, and while informative, do not assess the strength of students' preferences; how important they are relative to each other, and hence where efforts and investments may best be targeted…
Fostering relations
Kinship fostering is generally preferred to non-kin fostering by policy makers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Researchers and policy makers alike tend to provide several proximate reasons for why this may be, generally neglecting an ultimate evolutionary framework. However, kin selection theory predicts that in the absence of genetically related parents, care from kin will result in the most similar life history outcomes. In low-fertility settings, p…
Father Absence and Reproduction-Related Outcomes in Malaysia, a Transitional Fertility Population
Father absence is consistently associated with children's reproductive outcomes in industrialized countries. It has been suggested that father absence acts as a cue to particular environmental conditions that influence life history strategies. Much less is known, however, about the effects of father absence on such outcomes in lower-income countries. Using data from the 1988 Malaysian Family Life Survey (n = 567), we tested the effect of father a…
Becoming a First-Time Grandparent and Subjective Well-Being
Objective: In this study, the authors examined how individuals are affected by the change in status to grandparenthood for the first time.Background: Being a grandparent, especially an active and involved grandparent, is positively linked to the well-being of individuals with grandchildren; however, little is known about how becoming a grandparent affects well-being.Method: Longitudinal data pooled from 15 countries in Europe (Survey of Health, A…
Father Absence and Reproduction-Related Outcomes in Malaysia, a Transitional Fertility Population
Father absence is consistently associated with children's reproductive outcomes in industrialized countries. It has been suggested that father absence acts as a cue to particular environmental conditions that influence life history strategies. Much less is known, however, about the effects of father absence on such outcomes in lower-income countries. Using data from the 1988 Malaysian Family Life Survey (n = 567), we tested the effect of father a…
The Additive Advantage of Having Educated Grandfathers for Children’s Education
Until recently, research on intergenerational processes of social mobility has focused on two generational processes and paid little attention to the role of the grand-parental generation. An increasing number of studies have started to address this shortfall, but they report inconsistent findings. This may be due to design and measurement differences across studies and to substantive heterogeneity in the association. We use data from the Survey …
When does family size matter? Sibship size, socioeconomic status and education in England
Using sequence analysis to test if human life histories are coherent strategies
Using discrete choice modeling to understand the drivers of reproductive delay in the United Kingdom
The ideal family size in the UK is, on average, two children. However, there is a fertility gap, the difference between wanted and achieved family size, of around one in three children, which is largely caused by extended delays to reproduction. Standard quantitative methods used to identify what causes these delays have limitations, often relying on macro-level data which conveys little about individual needs, or applying longitudinal methods th…
Father-Toddler Bonding during the Covid-19 Lockdown
The UK lockdowns brought about many domestic changes. One was that many families with young children found themselves in the largely unique situation where fathers who normally worked away and saw little of their children during the day were now at home full-time. This was coupled with the fact that grandparents were now unavailable as lockdown rules prohibited visits and travel and many elderly were especially vulnerable. This study aimed to exp…
Behavioral Ecology of the Family
Researchers across the social sciences have long been interested in families. How people make decisions such as who to marry, when to have a baby, how big or small a family to have, or whether to stay with a partner or stray are questions that continue to interest economists, sociologists, demographers, and anthropologists. Human families vary across the globe; different cultures have different marriage practices, different ideas about who raises…
What students want
Higher education institutions operate in an increasingly competitive global market, and require precise knowledge regarding the preferences of potential students. Traditional methods for evaluating what potential students look for in a degree tend to be descriptive, and while informative, do not assess the strength of students' preferences; how important they are relative to each other, and hence where efforts and investments may best be targeted…
Fostering relations
Kinship fostering is generally preferred to non-kin fostering by policy makers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Researchers and policy makers alike tend to provide several proximate reasons for why this may be, generally neglecting an ultimate evolutionary framework. However, kin selection theory predicts that in the absence of genetically related parents, care from kin will result in the most similar life history outcomes. In low-fertility settings, p…
Father Absence and Reproduction-Related Outcomes in Malaysia, a Transitional Fertility Population
Father absence is consistently associated with children's reproductive outcomes in industrialized countries. It has been suggested that father absence acts as a cue to particular environmental conditions that influence life history strategies. Much less is known, however, about the effects of father absence on such outcomes in lower-income countries. Using data from the 1988 Malaysian Family Life Survey (n = 567), we tested the effect of father a…
How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development
OBJECTIVES: In high-income populations, evidence suggests that socioeconomic disadvantage early in life is correlated with reproductive strategy. Children growing up in unfavorable rearing environments tend to experience earlier sexual maturity and first births. Earlier first births may be associated with higher fertility, but links between socioeconomic disadvantage and larger family size have rarely been tested. The pathways through which early…
What students want
Higher education institutions operate in an increasingly competitive global market, and require precise knowledge regarding the preferences of potential students. Traditional methods for evaluating what potential students look for in a degree tend to be descriptive, and while informative, do not assess the strength of students' preferences; how important they are relative to each other, and hence where efforts and investments may best be targeted…
Fatherhood, Biosocial Perspectives on
Paternal investment is a defining feature of human reproductive behavior; it is substantial compared with other primates and ubiquitous across cultures. However, given the trade‐offs that men face between mating and parenting effort, paternal investment is also a highly facultative trait both across and within cultures—and even within individuals. Ecological variability, between and within cultures, influences fathers' parental decision making an…
Grandparent Effects on Educational Outcomes
The Additive Advantage of Having Educated Grandfathers for Children’s Education
Until recently, research on intergenerational processes of social mobility has focused on two generational processes and paid little attention to the role of the grand-parental generation. An increasing number of studies have started to address this shortfall, but they report inconsistent findings. This may be due to design and measurement differences across studies and to substantive heterogeneity in the association. We use data from the Survey …
Becoming a First-Time Grandparent and Subjective Well-Being
Objective: In this study, the authors examined how individuals are affected by the change in status to grandparenthood for the first time.Background: Being a grandparent, especially an active and involved grandparent, is positively linked to the well-being of individuals with grandchildren; however, little is known about how becoming a grandparent affects well-being.Method: Longitudinal data pooled from 15 countries in Europe (Survey of Health, A…
What the percentage of births in facilities does not measure
Introduction: Increases in facility deliveries in sub-Saharan Africa have not yielded expected declines in maternal mortality, raising concerns about the quality of care provided in facilities. The readiness of facilities at different health system levels to provide both emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) as well as referral is unknown. We describe this combined readiness by facility level and region in Senegal. Methods: For this cross-…
When does family size matter? Sibship size, socioeconomic status and education in England
Using sequence analysis to test if human life histories are coherent strategies
Behavioral Ecology of the Family
Researchers across the social sciences have long been interested in families. How people make decisions such as who to marry, when to have a baby, how big or small a family to have, or whether to stay with a partner or stray are questions that continue to interest economists, sociologists, demographers, and anthropologists. Human families vary across the globe; different cultures have different marriage practices, different ideas about who raises…
Fertility Decision-Making in the UK
Scholars are interested in better understanding the low fertility observed in higher income countries. While some people are choosing to have smaller families, countries also report a ‘fertility gap’, which is the proportion of people who end up with fewer children than originally desired. This paper investigates some causes of the fertility gap in the UK. We amassed qualitative data from seven focus groups conducted among men and women of reprod…
Father-Toddler Bonding during the Covid-19 Lockdown
The UK lockdowns brought about many domestic changes. One was that many families with young children found themselves in the largely unique situation where fathers who normally worked away and saw little of their children during the day were now at home full-time. This was coupled with the fact that grandparents were now unavailable as lockdown rules prohibited visits and travel and many elderly were especially vulnerable. This study aimed to exp…
Using discrete choice modeling to understand the drivers of reproductive delay in the United Kingdom
The ideal family size in the UK is, on average, two children. However, there is a fertility gap, the difference between wanted and achieved family size, of around one in three children, which is largely caused by extended delays to reproduction. Standard quantitative methods used to identify what causes these delays have limitations, often relying on macro-level data which conveys little about individual needs, or applying longitudinal methods th…
Psychology (10 obras) · Developmental psychology (8 obras) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (8 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Biology (6 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 obras) · Demography (5 obras) · Population (5 obras) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 obras) · Demography (4 obras)