David P Lindstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 103763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David P Lindstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | David P |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindstrom |
| SIGNATURE | LINDSTROM D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4453-3506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 326 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–2008
This article examines how severe food insecurity and other shocks impact internal and international migration in southwestern Ethiopia using longitudinal survey data collected between 2005 and 2008 from a random sample of urban and rural households. We found an elevated risk of internal and international migration among sons and daughters in households that experienced severe food insecurity or farm loss. A household member's illness or death als…
Migration, Family Formation and Fertility in the Americas
In many low- and medium-income countries that are the traditional sources of international migrants, total fertility rates have dropped to levels at or near replacement. In this context of low fertility, we expect migration’s effects on fertility to operate primarily through marital timing and marital stability. We examine the effects of international migration on age at first marriage, union dissolution, timing of first birth, and completed fert…
Mexican Migrant Integration in the United States, 1965-2015
This article uses 20 years of survey data from the Mexican Migration Project to describe how the experiences of Mexico-U.S. migrants have changed over time. I use survey questions about migrants' experiences on their last U.S. trip to develop composite indices of six integration domains, and then estimate random intercept linear regression models with individual-, family-, and community-level characteristics to explain variations in Mexican migra…
The Role of Parents and Family Networks in Adolescent Health-Seeking in Ethiopia
Objective: This study examines the roles of parents, extended kin, and exchange networks in adolescent health-seeking behavior in Ethiopia.Background: Prior studies highlight the role of mothers in children's health, whereas fathers, extended kin, and other network partners remain largely unexamined. The gender intensification hypothesis suggests that adolescents gravitate toward same-gender parents for advice and assistance with health-related i…
How Representative Are Snowball Samples? Using the Ethnosurvey to Study Guatemala-U.S. Migration
This analysis draws on binational data from an ethnosurvey conducted in Guatemala and in the United States in Providence, Rhode Island, to develop a refinement of the weighting scheme that the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) uses. The alternative weighting procedure distinguishes between temporary and settled migrants by using a question on household location in the Guatemala questionnaire that is not used in the MMP. Demographic characteristics …
El regreso a la escuela
El regreso a la escuela es una transición que forma parte de las trayectorias escolares de una parte de la población mexicana. Puede ser un punto de inflexión en la vida de las personas y una estrategia de avance socioeconómico. Los factores positivamente asociados con este retorno son: ser joven, tener una escolaridad previa de secundaria o más, no estar casado, haber vivido en zonas urbanas, tener experiencia migratoria previa, tener padres pro…
Nonmarital Sex and Condom Knowledge among Ethiopian Young People
The accurate assessment of risky sexual behaviors and barriers to condom use is essential to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. This study tests a new nonverbal response‐card method for obtaining more accurate responses to sensitive questions in the context of face‐to‐face interviewer‐administered questionnaires in a survey of 1,269 Ethiopian young people aged 13–24. Comparisons of responses between a control group that provided verbal responses and …
Pioneers and Followers
The authors present a method for dividing the historical development of community migration streams into an initial period and a subsequent takeoff stage with the purpose of systemically differentiating pioneer migrants from follower migrants. The analysis is organized around five basic research questions. First, can we empirically identify a juncture point in the historical development of community-based migration that marks the transition from …
The interrelationship of fertility, family maintenance and Mexico-U.S. Migration
This study examines the interrelationship between migration and marital fertility, using a bi-national sample of retrospective life histories collected in Mexican origin communities and U.S. destination areas. We treat couples as the unit of analysis a
The impact of infant and child death on subsequent fertility in Ethiopia
Migration and maternal health services utilization in rural Guatemala
Migration and the Diffusion of Modern Contraceptive Knowledge and Use in Rural Guatemala
This article uses the concept of social networks as it is employed in the research literature on family planning and migration to explore the impact of out-migration on modern contraceptive knowledge and use in rural Guatemala. Data for this study come from the 1995 Guatemalan Survey of Family Health. Results from multilevel regression models indicate that urban migration experience, having migrant kin in urban or international destinations, and …
Rural-Urban Migration and Reproductive Behavior in Guatemala
The Proximate Determinants of the Decline to Below‐replacement Fertility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Between 1990 and 2000, the total fertility rate (TFR) in Ethiopia declined moderately from 6.4 to 5.9 children per woman of reproductive age. During the same period, the TFR in the capital city of Addis Ababa declined from 3.1 to 1.9 children per woman. Even more striking than the magnitude of this decline is that it occurred in the absence of a strong and effective national family planning program. In this study, the components of this fertility…
Fragmented Ties
One of the most important recent developments in migration scholarship is the increased attention given to immigrant networks. Studies of immigrants consistently identify social ties to other immigrants as playing an instrumental role in the migration and settlement process. For recently arrived immigrants, informal networks of family and friends in the place of destination provide financial, emotional, and social support that eases the process o…
Local Economic Opportunity and the Competing Risks of Internal and U.S. Migration in Zacatecas, Mexico
This article uses a competing risks model to examine the effects of origin economic conditions on the probability of temporary U.S. and internal labor migration in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. We measure origin economic conditions with municipal-level indices of employment and small-scale investment opportunities that we constructed from population and economic census data. The results of our analysis demonstrate the important influence of loc…
Alternative theories of the relationship of schooling and work to family formation
Role incompatibility, education as an investment in human capital, and schooling as a transformative experience are three mechanisms that link women's education to the timing of marriage and first birth. We simultaneously evaluate these different explanations using retrospective life history data for two cohorts of Mexican women collected in a nationally representative sample. Our analyses provide evidence in support of all three hypotheses. Whil…
The effects of breastfeeding and birth spacing on infant and early childhood mortality in Ethiopia
Research conducted in developing countries clearly demonstrates the positive effects of breastfeeding and widely spaced births on infant survival. The evidence is less clear as to whether these beneficial effects extend into early childhood, and under what conditions. In this paper we examine the effects of breastfeeding and birth spacing on neonatal, post-neonatal, and early childhood mortality in Ethiopia using data from the 1990 National Famil…
The impact of war, famine, and economic decline on marital fertility in ethiopia
We examine recent fertility trends in Ethiopia for evidence of short- and long-term responses to famine, political events, and economic decline. We use retrospective data on children ever born from the 1990 National Family and Fertility Survey to estimate trends in annual marital conception probabilities, controlling for women’s demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. The results of our analysis provide evidence of significant short-term d…
The Role of Contraceptive Supply and Demand in Mexican Fertility Decline
This paper uses retrospective life history data to assess the impact of family planning services on contraceptive use in a rural Mexican township. Between 1960 and 1990 contraceptive use rose and fertility declined dramatically. Both contraceptive supply and demand factors were influential in these trends. The start of the government-sponsored family planning programme in the late 1970s was associated with a sharp rise in female sterilization and…
The Fertility Transition in Latin America
Economic opportunity in mexico and return migration from the United States
I analyze the influence of the economic characteristics of origin area on trip duration for Mexican migrants in the United States. I argue that migrants from economically dynamic areas in Mexico with favorable opportunities for employment and small capital investment have a larger incentive to stay in the United States longer and to withstand the psychic costs of separation from family and friends than do migrants from economically stagnant areas…
New Immigrants, Old Unions
Selective Emigration, Cohort Quality, and Models of Immigrant Assimilation
Economic opportunity in mexico and return migration from the United States
I analyze the influence of the economic characteristics of origin area on trip duration for Mexican migrants in the United States. I argue that migrants from economically dynamic areas in Mexico with favorable opportunities for employment and small capital investment have a larger incentive to stay in the United States longer and to withstand the psychic costs of separation from family and friends than do migrants from economically stagnant areas…
The impact of war, famine, and economic decline on marital fertility in ethiopia
We examine recent fertility trends in Ethiopia for evidence of short- and long-term responses to famine, political events, and economic decline. We use retrospective data on children ever born from the 1990 National Family and Fertility Survey to estimate trends in annual marital conception probabilities, controlling for women’s demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. The results of our analysis provide evidence of significant short-term d…
Local Economic Opportunity and the Competing Risks of Internal and U.S. Migration in Zacatecas, Mexico
This article uses a competing risks model to examine the effects of origin economic conditions on the probability of temporary U.S. and internal labor migration in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. We measure origin economic conditions with municipal-level indices of employment and small-scale investment opportunities that we constructed from population and economic census data. The results of our analysis demonstrate the important influence of loc…
Selective Emigration, Cohort Quality, and Models of Immigrant Assimilation
Pioneers and Followers
The authors present a method for dividing the historical development of community migration streams into an initial period and a subsequent takeoff stage with the purpose of systemically differentiating pioneer migrants from follower migrants. The analysis is organized around five basic research questions. First, can we empirically identify a juncture point in the historical development of community-based migration that marks the transition from …
Migration and maternal health services utilization in rural Guatemala
Rural-Urban Migration and Reproductive Behavior in Guatemala
The impact of infant and child death on subsequent fertility in Ethiopia
The Proximate Determinants of the Decline to Below‐replacement Fertility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Between 1990 and 2000, the total fertility rate (TFR) in Ethiopia declined moderately from 6.4 to 5.9 children per woman of reproductive age. During the same period, the TFR in the capital city of Addis Ababa declined from 3.1 to 1.9 children per woman. Even more striking than the magnitude of this decline is that it occurred in the absence of a strong and effective national family planning program. In this study, the components of this fertility…
Migration, Family Formation and Fertility in the Americas
In many low- and medium-income countries that are the traditional sources of international migrants, total fertility rates have dropped to levels at or near replacement. In this context of low fertility, we expect migration’s effects on fertility to operate primarily through marital timing and marital stability. We examine the effects of international migration on age at first marriage, union dissolution, timing of first birth, and completed fert…
Migration and the Diffusion of Modern Contraceptive Knowledge and Use in Rural Guatemala
This article uses the concept of social networks as it is employed in the research literature on family planning and migration to explore the impact of out-migration on modern contraceptive knowledge and use in rural Guatemala. Data for this study come from the 1995 Guatemalan Survey of Family Health. Results from multilevel regression models indicate that urban migration experience, having migrant kin in urban or international destinations, and …
Nonmarital Sex and Condom Knowledge among Ethiopian Young People
The accurate assessment of risky sexual behaviors and barriers to condom use is essential to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. This study tests a new nonverbal response‐card method for obtaining more accurate responses to sensitive questions in the context of face‐to‐face interviewer‐administered questionnaires in a survey of 1,269 Ethiopian young people aged 13–24. Comparisons of responses between a control group that provided verbal responses and …
The Role of Contraceptive Supply and Demand in Mexican Fertility Decline
This paper uses retrospective life history data to assess the impact of family planning services on contraceptive use in a rural Mexican township. Between 1960 and 1990 contraceptive use rose and fertility declined dramatically. Both contraceptive supply and demand factors were influential in these trends. The start of the government-sponsored family planning programme in the late 1970s was associated with a sharp rise in female sterilization and…
Mexican Migrant Integration in the United States, 1965-2015
This article uses 20 years of survey data from the Mexican Migration Project to describe how the experiences of Mexico-U.S. migrants have changed over time. I use survey questions about migrants' experiences on their last U.S. trip to develop composite indices of six integration domains, and then estimate random intercept linear regression models with individual-, family-, and community-level characteristics to explain variations in Mexican migra…
The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–2008
This article examines how severe food insecurity and other shocks impact internal and international migration in southwestern Ethiopia using longitudinal survey data collected between 2005 and 2008 from a random sample of urban and rural households. We found an elevated risk of internal and international migration among sons and daughters in households that experienced severe food insecurity or farm loss. A household member's illness or death als…
Alternative theories of the relationship of schooling and work to family formation
Role incompatibility, education as an investment in human capital, and schooling as a transformative experience are three mechanisms that link women's education to the timing of marriage and first birth. We simultaneously evaluate these different explanations using retrospective life history data for two cohorts of Mexican women collected in a nationally representative sample. Our analyses provide evidence in support of all three hypotheses. Whil…
How Representative Are Snowball Samples? Using the Ethnosurvey to Study Guatemala-U.S. Migration
This analysis draws on binational data from an ethnosurvey conducted in Guatemala and in the United States in Providence, Rhode Island, to develop a refinement of the weighting scheme that the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) uses. The alternative weighting procedure distinguishes between temporary and settled migrants by using a question on household location in the Guatemala questionnaire that is not used in the MMP. Demographic characteristics …
El regreso a la escuela
El regreso a la escuela es una transición que forma parte de las trayectorias escolares de una parte de la población mexicana. Puede ser un punto de inflexión en la vida de las personas y una estrategia de avance socioeconómico. Los factores positivamente asociados con este retorno son: ser joven, tener una escolaridad previa de secundaria o más, no estar casado, haber vivido en zonas urbanas, tener experiencia migratoria previa, tener padres pro…
The effects of breastfeeding and birth spacing on infant and early childhood mortality in Ethiopia
Research conducted in developing countries clearly demonstrates the positive effects of breastfeeding and widely spaced births on infant survival. The evidence is less clear as to whether these beneficial effects extend into early childhood, and under what conditions. In this paper we examine the effects of breastfeeding and birth spacing on neonatal, post-neonatal, and early childhood mortality in Ethiopia using data from the 1990 National Famil…
New Immigrants, Old Unions
Selective Emigration, Cohort Quality, and Models of Immigrant Assimilation
Economic opportunity in mexico and return migration from the United States
I analyze the influence of the economic characteristics of origin area on trip duration for Mexican migrants in the United States. I argue that migrants from economically dynamic areas in Mexico with favorable opportunities for employment and small capital investment have a larger incentive to stay in the United States longer and to withstand the psychic costs of separation from family and friends than do migrants from economically stagnant areas…
The Role of Contraceptive Supply and Demand in Mexican Fertility Decline
This paper uses retrospective life history data to assess the impact of family planning services on contraceptive use in a rural Mexican township. Between 1960 and 1990 contraceptive use rose and fertility declined dramatically. Both contraceptive supply and demand factors were influential in these trends. The start of the government-sponsored family planning programme in the late 1970s was associated with a sharp rise in female sterilization and…
The Fertility Transition in Latin America
The impact of war, famine, and economic decline on marital fertility in ethiopia
We examine recent fertility trends in Ethiopia for evidence of short- and long-term responses to famine, political events, and economic decline. We use retrospective data on children ever born from the 1990 National Family and Fertility Survey to estimate trends in annual marital conception probabilities, controlling for women’s demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. The results of our analysis provide evidence of significant short-term d…
The effects of breastfeeding and birth spacing on infant and early childhood mortality in Ethiopia
Research conducted in developing countries clearly demonstrates the positive effects of breastfeeding and widely spaced births on infant survival. The evidence is less clear as to whether these beneficial effects extend into early childhood, and under what conditions. In this paper we examine the effects of breastfeeding and birth spacing on neonatal, post-neonatal, and early childhood mortality in Ethiopia using data from the 1990 National Famil…
Local Economic Opportunity and the Competing Risks of Internal and U.S. Migration in Zacatecas, Mexico
This article uses a competing risks model to examine the effects of origin economic conditions on the probability of temporary U.S. and internal labor migration in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. We measure origin economic conditions with municipal-level indices of employment and small-scale investment opportunities that we constructed from population and economic census data. The results of our analysis demonstrate the important influence of loc…
Alternative theories of the relationship of schooling and work to family formation
Role incompatibility, education as an investment in human capital, and schooling as a transformative experience are three mechanisms that link women's education to the timing of marriage and first birth. We simultaneously evaluate these different explanations using retrospective life history data for two cohorts of Mexican women collected in a nationally representative sample. Our analyses provide evidence in support of all three hypotheses. Whil…
Fragmented Ties
One of the most important recent developments in migration scholarship is the increased attention given to immigrant networks. Studies of immigrants consistently identify social ties to other immigrants as playing an instrumental role in the migration and settlement process. For recently arrived immigrants, informal networks of family and friends in the place of destination provide financial, emotional, and social support that eases the process o…
Rural-Urban Migration and Reproductive Behavior in Guatemala
The Proximate Determinants of the Decline to Below‐replacement Fertility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Between 1990 and 2000, the total fertility rate (TFR) in Ethiopia declined moderately from 6.4 to 5.9 children per woman of reproductive age. During the same period, the TFR in the capital city of Addis Ababa declined from 3.1 to 1.9 children per woman. Even more striking than the magnitude of this decline is that it occurred in the absence of a strong and effective national family planning program. In this study, the components of this fertility…
Migration and the Diffusion of Modern Contraceptive Knowledge and Use in Rural Guatemala
This article uses the concept of social networks as it is employed in the research literature on family planning and migration to explore the impact of out-migration on modern contraceptive knowledge and use in rural Guatemala. Data for this study come from the 1995 Guatemalan Survey of Family Health. Results from multilevel regression models indicate that urban migration experience, having migrant kin in urban or international destinations, and …
Migration and maternal health services utilization in rural Guatemala
The interrelationship of fertility, family maintenance and Mexico-U.S. Migration
This study examines the interrelationship between migration and marital fertility, using a bi-national sample of retrospective life histories collected in Mexican origin communities and U.S. destination areas. We treat couples as the unit of analysis a
The impact of infant and child death on subsequent fertility in Ethiopia
Nonmarital Sex and Condom Knowledge among Ethiopian Young People
The accurate assessment of risky sexual behaviors and barriers to condom use is essential to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. This study tests a new nonverbal response‐card method for obtaining more accurate responses to sensitive questions in the context of face‐to‐face interviewer‐administered questionnaires in a survey of 1,269 Ethiopian young people aged 13–24. Comparisons of responses between a control group that provided verbal responses and …
Pioneers and Followers
The authors present a method for dividing the historical development of community migration streams into an initial period and a subsequent takeoff stage with the purpose of systemically differentiating pioneer migrants from follower migrants. The analysis is organized around five basic research questions. First, can we empirically identify a juncture point in the historical development of community-based migration that marks the transition from …
El regreso a la escuela
El regreso a la escuela es una transición que forma parte de las trayectorias escolares de una parte de la población mexicana. Puede ser un punto de inflexión en la vida de las personas y una estrategia de avance socioeconómico. Los factores positivamente asociados con este retorno son: ser joven, tener una escolaridad previa de secundaria o más, no estar casado, haber vivido en zonas urbanas, tener experiencia migratoria previa, tener padres pro…
How Representative Are Snowball Samples? Using the Ethnosurvey to Study Guatemala-U.S. Migration
This analysis draws on binational data from an ethnosurvey conducted in Guatemala and in the United States in Providence, Rhode Island, to develop a refinement of the weighting scheme that the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) uses. The alternative weighting procedure distinguishes between temporary and settled migrants by using a question on household location in the Guatemala questionnaire that is not used in the MMP. Demographic characteristics …
Mexican Migrant Integration in the United States, 1965-2015
This article uses 20 years of survey data from the Mexican Migration Project to describe how the experiences of Mexico-U.S. migrants have changed over time. I use survey questions about migrants' experiences on their last U.S. trip to develop composite indices of six integration domains, and then estimate random intercept linear regression models with individual-, family-, and community-level characteristics to explain variations in Mexican migra…
The Role of Parents and Family Networks in Adolescent Health-Seeking in Ethiopia
Objective: This study examines the roles of parents, extended kin, and exchange networks in adolescent health-seeking behavior in Ethiopia.Background: Prior studies highlight the role of mothers in children's health, whereas fathers, extended kin, and other network partners remain largely unexamined. The gender intensification hypothesis suggests that adolescents gravitate toward same-gender parents for advice and assistance with health-related i…
Migration, Family Formation and Fertility in the Americas
In many low- and medium-income countries that are the traditional sources of international migrants, total fertility rates have dropped to levels at or near replacement. In this context of low fertility, we expect migration’s effects on fertility to operate primarily through marital timing and marital stability. We examine the effects of international migration on age at first marriage, union dissolution, timing of first birth, and completed fert…
The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–2008
This article examines how severe food insecurity and other shocks impact internal and international migration in southwestern Ethiopia using longitudinal survey data collected between 2005 and 2008 from a random sample of urban and rural households. We found an elevated risk of internal and international migration among sons and daughters in households that experienced severe food insecurity or farm loss. A household member's illness or death als…
Economics (17 works) · Geography (15 works) · Population (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Demography (14 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Fertility (9 works)