Barbara Entwisle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 80533 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barbara Entwisle |
| NOMBRES | Barbara |
| APELLIDO | Entwisle |
| FIRMA | ENTWISLE B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0131-1022 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 786 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2027 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Do coupled population, economic, and land use dynamics explain household energy transitions in Malawi?
In sub-Saharan Africa, population growth coupled with weak or missing markets for clean energy means that the absolute number of people relying on woodfuels for cooking is growing. Charcoal, which has distinctly different environmental and economic implications from firewood, has become one of the most consumed fuels in the region. However, among rural populations, the drivers and consequences of charcoal use remain under-studied. We examine rura…
How representative are electronic health records? A record linkage study using individual-level census data
Race and Ethnicity Data in the Electronic Health Records
Assessing Electronic Health Records for Describing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
The use of data derived from electronic health records (EHRs) to describe racial and ethnic health disparities is increasingly common, but there are challenges. While the number of patients covered by EHRs can be quite large, such patients may not be representative of a source population. One way to evaluate the extent of this limitation is by linking EHRs to an external source, in this case with the American Community Survey (ACS). Relying on a …
The Social Forces that Shape Families
Linking Electronic Health Records to the American Community Survey
Objectives. To assess linkages of patient data from a health care system in the southeastern United States to microdata from the American Community Survey (ACS) with the goal of better understanding health disparities and social determinants of health in the population. Methods. Once a data use agreement was in place, a stratified random sample of approximately 200 000 was drawn of patients aged 25 to 74 years with at least 2 visits between Janua…
Life Course Events and Migration in the Transition to Adulthood
Do life course events stimulate migration during the transition to adulthood? We identify nine specific life events in the family, education, and employment domains and test whether they lead to migration in the short term, using fixed-effects models that remove the influence of all stable individual-level characteristics and controlling for age. Marital and school completion events have substantively large effects on migration compared with indi…
Migration and fuel use in rural Zambia
What is the effect of migration on fuel use in rural Zambia? Opportunities to increase income can be scarce in this setting; in response, households may pursue a migration strategy to increase resources as well as to mitigate risk. Migrant remittances may make it possible for households to shift from primary reliance on firewood to charcoal, and the loss of productive labor through migration may reinforce this shift. This paper uses four waves of…
Population responses to environmental change
Climate Change and Migration
In popular accounts, stories of environmental refugees convey a bleak picture of the impacts of climate change on migration. Scholarly research is less conclusive, with studies finding varying effects. This paper uses an agent-based model (ABM) of land use, social networks, and household dynamics to examine how extreme floods and droughts affect migration in Northeast Thailand. The ABM explicitly models the dynamic and interactive pathways throug…
Quilting a Time-Place Mosaic
Social science is at a pivotal moment. The advent of “big data” from the Internet, social media, and smartphones as well as newly available administrative data from electronic sources has opened the door to new understandings of people and society. That said, realizing this promise requires a vision for the future and a practical plan for reaching it. The articles in this volume begin this work. Each addresses some aspect of data linkage. Each ca…
Climate shocks and migration
Migrant remittances and the web of family obligations
Exchanges of money, goods, and assistance among family/kin members are influenced by the intertwined lives of individuals and their family/kin. As people pass through the young adulthood years, acquiring obligations as spouses and parents, and migrating in search of economic opportunities, tensions can arise over existing obligations. Using rich longitudinal data from Northeast Thailand, we examined the role of family networks (origin and destina…
Social and spatial networks
Residential Clustering among Nang Rong Migrants in Urban Settings of Thailand
This study examines the residential patterns of rural-urban migrants in Thailand. The analysis takes advantage of a rich dataset that followed migrants from rural Nang Rong, a district in the Isan region, to the Bangkok metropolitan area and the Eastern Seaboard. Findings document substantial residential clustering: almost half of the migrants interviewed in 2000 and 2001 lived in neighborhoods where 80 percent or more of their neighbors came fro…
Putting people into place
Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of empirical research on neighborhoods and health. However, although the data and approaches owe much to the early contributions of demographers and population scientists, this debt is largely unrecognized. Likewise, challenges posed in the early literature remain largely unanswered. I argue that just as demographers and population scientists were pioneers in the study of neighborhoods and he…
Population growth and its spatial distribution as factors in the deforestation of Nang Rong, Thailand
Frontier Land Use Change
Profound social, economic, and environmental changes that include new land management practices are often associated with advancing agricultural frontiers. We argue that existing approaches to case studies do not allow for clear generalization or the systematic testing of hypotheses. As an alternative, our study uses Mill's method of agreement approach to synthesize results from seven long-term case studies of land cover change in frontier areas.…
Networks and Contexts
A core axiom of sociology is that social structure affects and is affected by human behavior. The term “social structure” conveys two quite different meanings. One meaning is relational, involving networks of ties between individuals or groups of individuals. A second meaning refers to the contexts containing these individuals. Studies of neighborhood and community effects depend on variability in both types of social structure. Using data from m…
Residential Segregation and Interracial Friendship in Schools
This article uses social network and spatial data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the effect of racial residential segregation on school friendship segregation in the United States. The use of hierarchical models allows the authors to simultaneously estimate the effects of race, within‐school residential segregation, and school diversity on friendship choice using the Add Health data. The authors …
Population and Upland Crop Production in Nang Rong, Thailand
Through Thick and Thin
A unique longitudinal and prospective approach is used to analyze the social embeddedness of rural-urban Thai migrants and their subsequent migration. More than any one particular social tie, it is the configuration of social ties at multiple levels that influences whether migrants experience their destination as integrative and a place for settlement or not. Social ties at multiple levels and from multiple sources weave into a social fabric that…
Diversity in Everyday Research Practice
How should social science researchers deal with data inaccuracies? This article uses Web-based survey data collected from faculty members in three social science disciplines to document variation in views about data editing. Through an analysis of qualitative responses to a hypothetical vignette, the authors demonstrate that a wide range of opinion surrounds the 'proper' use of data. Reactions are to some extent contingent on discipline and exper…
Employment Transitions in an Era of Change in Thailand
The last three decades offer much evidence of greater access to new avenues of employment with globalization and rapid economic development in Southeast Asia, including a trend toward employment-related migration out of rural areas.This article considers the implications of globalization in Thailand from a rural perspective by examining the direct impact on employment of rural residents who migrate to urban areas, and the indirect impact on rural…
Work Patterns Following a Birth in Urban and Rural China
Residential Segregation and Interracial Friendship in Schools
This article uses social network and spatial data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to examine the effect of racial residential segregation on school friendship segregation in the United States. The use of hierarchical models allows the authors to simultaneously estimate the effects of race, within‐school residential segregation, and school diversity on friendship choice using the Add Health data. The authors …
Through Thick and Thin
A unique longitudinal and prospective approach is used to analyze the social embeddedness of rural-urban Thai migrants and their subsequent migration. More than any one particular social tie, it is the configuration of social ties at multiple levels that influences whether migrants experience their destination as integrative and a place for settlement or not. Social ties at multiple levels and from multiple sources weave into a social fabric that…
Putting people into place
Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of empirical research on neighborhoods and health. However, although the data and approaches owe much to the early contributions of demographers and population scientists, this debt is largely unrecognized. Likewise, challenges posed in the early literature remain largely unanswered. I argue that just as demographers and population scientists were pioneers in the study of neighborhoods and he…
Villages as Contexts for Contraceptive Behavior in Rural Egypt
This research joins sociological and demographic traditions in a study of villages as contexts for contraceptive behavior in rural Egypt. Using survey data collected in the early 1980s the authors explore the effects of village household and individual characteristics on contraceptive use and expectations about future use. Primary interest centers on the effects of the village variables including the structure of the village economy modernization…
Community and contraceptive choice in rural Thailand
This paper blends quantitative with qualitative data in an investigation of community and contraceptive choice in Nang Rong, Thailand. Specifically, it develops an explanation of 1) method dominance within villages, coupled with 2) marked differences between villages in the popularity of particular methods. The quantitative analysis demonstrates the importance of village location and placement of family planning services for patterns of contracep…
The impact of grandparental proximity on maternal childcare in China
Gender and Family Businesses in Rural China
The authors investigate the roles played by women and men in the emerging private sector in rural China. Specifically the authors explore gender and the allocation of labor in household-run businesses in the rural areas of eight provinces. Data collected in the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1989) indicate that households with a large pool of female labor are at no advantage in starting and running a small business; rather business involvemen…
Multilevel Effects of Socioeconomic Development and Family Planning Programs on Children Ever Born
This article describes an approach to an explanation of fertility that is sensitive to the dependence of the behavior of individuals or couples on social context and sets forth hypotheses about micro and macro determinants of children ever born (CEB). Data from 15 World Fertility Survey countries are used in a multilevel test of these hypotheses. The findings are that per capita GNP and family planning program effort affect not only country-speci…
Networks and Contexts
A core axiom of sociology is that social structure affects and is affected by human behavior. The term “social structure” conveys two quite different meanings. One meaning is relational, involving networks of ties between individuals or groups of individuals. A second meaning refers to the contexts containing these individuals. Studies of neighborhood and community effects depend on variability in both types of social structure. Using data from m…
Maternal Work and Child Care in China
The majority of women in China, including mothers of young children, are in the labor force. This article investigates the relationship between mothers' work and child care and explores how type of work affects level of involvement in children's care. Substantive understandings of the relationship between mothers' work and child care may well depend on the way work is conceptualized and measured, especially nonwage work. Nearly two-thirds of wome…
Climate Change and Migration
In popular accounts, stories of environmental refugees convey a bleak picture of the impacts of climate change on migration. Scholarly research is less conclusive, with studies finding varying effects. This paper uses an agent-based model (ABM) of land use, social networks, and household dynamics to examine how extreme floods and droughts affect migration in Northeast Thailand. The ABM explicitly models the dynamic and interactive pathways throug…
Contextual Analysis through the Multilevel Linear Model
A general linear multilevel model and its estimation are described and illustrated empirically. The specification of a multilevel linear model within the covariance component framework was rendered. This model is appropriate for a wide range of applications in contextual analysis because it allows for macro as well as micro errors. Then an estimation procedure the restricted maximum likelihood/Bayes (REML/Bayes) was proposed and described for thi…
Frontier Land Use Change
Profound social, economic, and environmental changes that include new land management practices are often associated with advancing agricultural frontiers. We argue that existing approaches to case studies do not allow for clear generalization or the systematic testing of hypotheses. As an alternative, our study uses Mill's method of agreement approach to synthesize results from seven long-term case studies of land cover change in frontier areas.…
Geographic information systems, spatial network analysis, and contraceptive choice
How does family planning accessibility affect contraceptive choice? In this paper we use techniques of spatial analysis to develop measures of family planning accessibility, and evaluate the effects of these geographically derived measures in a multilevel statistical model of temporary method choice in Nang Rong, Thailand. In our analyses we combine spatial data obtained from maps and Global Positioning System (GPS) readings with sociodemographic…
A multilevel model of family planning availability and contraceptive use in rural Thailand
This paper assesses the ways in which the availability of family planning program outlets influences the likelihood of contraceptive use in rural Thailand. It focuses on a village-level measure of actual availability of sources rather than respondent perceptions of availability. Individuallevel and village-level data collected as part of the second Thailand Contraceptive Prevalence Survey are used to test three hypotheses about the effects of act…
The multilevel dependence of contraceptive use on socioeconomic development and family planning program strength
Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education and location of childhood residence. All of the coefficients of this equation, including the intercept, vary over countries. Analysis based on new methodology shows that the intercept and education effects vary as a functi…
Work Patterns Following a Birth in Urban and Rural China
Climate shocks and migration
Migrant remittances and the web of family obligations
Exchanges of money, goods, and assistance among family/kin members are influenced by the intertwined lives of individuals and their family/kin. As people pass through the young adulthood years, acquiring obligations as spouses and parents, and migrating in search of economic opportunities, tensions can arise over existing obligations. Using rich longitudinal data from Northeast Thailand, we examined the role of family networks (origin and destina…
Population growth and its spatial distribution as factors in the deforestation of Nang Rong, Thailand
Diversity in Everyday Research Practice
How should social science researchers deal with data inaccuracies? This article uses Web-based survey data collected from faculty members in three social science disciplines to document variation in views about data editing. Through an analysis of qualitative responses to a hypothetical vignette, the authors demonstrate that a wide range of opinion surrounds the 'proper' use of data. Reactions are to some extent contingent on discipline and exper…
Population and Upland Crop Production in Nang Rong, Thailand
Population responses to environmental change
The family building life course and contraceptive use
Fertility and Pension Programs in LDCs
Mortality Patterns in National Populations
CBR Versus TFR in Cross-National Fertility Research
This paper addresses the question of whether the crude birth rate (CBR) can be used as a proxy for more refined fertility measures in cross-national models of fertility determinants. It responds to a recent claim that the CBR represents an inappropriate fertility measure for these purposes. In the analysis, several strategies are used to assess the degree to which results based on the CBR are sensitive to lack of adjustment for age structure. The…
Demographic Behavior
Child-Spacing in Tropical Africa
Contextual Analysis through the Multilevel Linear Model
A general linear multilevel model and its estimation are described and illustrated empirically. The specification of a multilevel linear model within the covariance component framework was rendered. This model is appropriate for a wide range of applications in contextual analysis because it allows for macro as well as micro errors. Then an estimation procedure the restricted maximum likelihood/Bayes (REML/Bayes) was proposed and described for thi…
The Role of Surveys in the Analysis of Family Planning Programmes
For many years family planning programmes were seen by a large body of demographers as virtually itrelevant to fertility. Birth control was termed an intermediate variable by convention rather than from conviction. Fertility declines, particularly those occurring during demographic transitions, were held to be the proximate effects of changes in motivation generated by social and economic developments. This view was in part based on the belief th…
A multilevel model of family planning availability and contraceptive use in rural Thailand
This paper assesses the ways in which the availability of family planning program outlets influences the likelihood of contraceptive use in rural Thailand. It focuses on a village-level measure of actual availability of sources rather than respondent perceptions of availability. Individuallevel and village-level data collected as part of the second Thailand Contraceptive Prevalence Survey are used to test three hypotheses about the effects of act…
Fertility and Pension Programs in LDCs
Multilevel Effects of Socioeconomic Development and Family Planning Programs on Children Ever Born
This article describes an approach to an explanation of fertility that is sensitive to the dependence of the behavior of individuals or couples on social context and sets forth hypotheses about micro and macro determinants of children ever born (CEB). Data from 15 World Fertility Survey countries are used in a multilevel test of these hypotheses. The findings are that per capita GNP and family planning program effort affect not only country-speci…
The multilevel dependence of contraceptive use on socioeconomic development and family planning program strength
Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education and location of childhood residence. All of the coefficients of this equation, including the intercept, vary over countries. Analysis based on new methodology shows that the intercept and education effects vary as a functi…
Too Many Women? The Sex Ratio Question . Marcia Guttentag , Paul F. Secord
Fertility and Mortality
This book contains 19 papers by various authors prepared in conjunction with a seminar on Society and Population Dynamics held in Tirupati India in January 1984. The focus is on the dynamics of fertility and mortality. Papers are divided into five sections: theories of fertility; culture and fertility; social change and fertility; analytical framework models and mortality; and a profile of Dr. C. Chandrasekaran to whom the volume is dedicated. Am…
Fertility and Family Planning in the Third World
Measuring components of family planning program effort
The measures of family planning program effort developed by Lapham and Mauldin have played a key role in family planning program analysis, but surprisingly little is known about them. This article investigates the measurement of family planning program effort based on data reflecting conditions circa 1982 in 100 developing countries. Using confirmatory factor analytic techniques, it tests some hypotheses implicit in the work of Mauldin and Lapham…
Villages as Contexts for Contraceptive Behavior in Rural Egypt
This research joins sociological and demographic traditions in a study of villages as contexts for contraceptive behavior in rural Egypt. Using survey data collected in the early 1980s the authors explore the effects of village household and individual characteristics on contraceptive use and expectations about future use. Primary interest centers on the effects of the village variables including the structure of the village economy modernization…
Demographic Surveys and Nigerian Women
Distributional Aspects of Human Fertility
On the Importance of Context
Gender and Family Businesses in Rural China
The authors investigate the roles played by women and men in the emerging private sector in rural China. Specifically the authors explore gender and the allocation of labor in household-run businesses in the rural areas of eight provinces. Data collected in the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1989) indicate that households with a large pool of female labor are at no advantage in starting and running a small business; rather business involvemen…
The family building life course and contraceptive use
Community and contraceptive choice in rural Thailand
This paper blends quantitative with qualitative data in an investigation of community and contraceptive choice in Nang Rong, Thailand. Specifically, it develops an explanation of 1) method dominance within villages, coupled with 2) marked differences between villages in the popularity of particular methods. The quantitative analysis demonstrates the importance of village location and placement of family planning services for patterns of contracep…
Reweighting DHS Data to Serve Multiple Perspectives
Information about health and family planning infrastructures is collected through the service availability module (SAM), an important feature of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in many developing countries. The DHS samples were designed to provide a representative sample of households and women of reproductive age. Using the weights routinely provided with DHS data sets, service accessibility can be described straightforwardly …
Geographic information systems, spatial network analysis, and contraceptive choice
How does family planning accessibility affect contraceptive choice? In this paper we use techniques of spatial analysis to develop measures of family planning accessibility, and evaluate the effects of these geographically derived measures in a multilevel statistical model of temporary method choice in Nang Rong, Thailand. In our analyses we combine spatial data obtained from maps and Global Positioning System (GPS) readings with sociodemographic…
New Estimates of Induced Abortion in Russia
This article describes findings from a new source of data for estimating the incidence of induced abortion in the Russian Federation, the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS). According to RLMS data, the abortion rate in 1994 was 56 per 1,000 women aged 15-44, with a 95 percent confidence interval of plus or minus 12 per 1,000, an estimate that varies from that advanced by official sources and other studies. The sensitivity of this estim…
A note from the editors
Each issue will display a graphic from one ofthe articles appearing in that issue.We will select a graph or chart that is thought-provoking and of broad interest, and that can stand alone.In our first issue, the graphic comes from the Hayward and Heron article.Also, readers might like to know that the colors on the cover have significance: The dark blue is Duke's color, the light blue UNC's color.We plan to continue most other policies of the pre…
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