Julien O Teitler
Biographic Data
| ID | 105384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julien O Teitler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julien |
| FAMILY NAME | O Teitler |
| SIGNATURE | TEITLER J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 890 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Could Closing the Gap Close the Risk? The Gender Pay Gap and Women's Sexual Health Outcomes
The United States has one of the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among high-income countries, with women—particularly young Black women—bearing the greatest burden. Gendered power dynamics are a driver of women’s STI risk, yet most research has focused on couple relationships, rather than the structural gender inequalities that shape power imbalances. This study investigates the extent to which the gender pay gap, a key in…
Physician networks and the rise of elective obstetric interventions
Introducing the Future of Families Third Generation (FFG3) Study
Objective To describe the research design and sample of the Future of Families Third Generation (FFG3) study, which is collecting data on the third generation of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing (FF) study. Background Research on the intergenerational transmission of health and socioeconomic status (SES) has been limited by a paucity of prospective multigenerational studies with infant health in two generations. Method The FFG3 study is…
Municipal social expenditures and maternal health disparities: A study of linked birth and hospitalisation records
BACKGROUND: Local government expenditures provide services and benefits that can affect health but the extent to which they are associated with narrowing or widening of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health is unknown. We examined race/ethnicity-stratified and education-stratified associations between municipal social expenditures-those on housing, transportation, education, and other society-wide needs-and serious life-threatenin…
Racialized police use of force and birth outcomes
Communication with Kin in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study investigates patterns of communication among non-coresident kin in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the New York City Robin Hood Poverty Tracker. Over half of New Yorkers spoke to their non-coresident family members several times a week during the pandemic, and nearly half increased their communication with non-coresident kin since March 2020. Siblings and extended kin proved to be especially important ties activa…
Generational Shifts in Young Adult Cardiovascular Health? Millennials and Generation X in the United States and England
We expected that Millennial CV risk factors/conditions would be worse than those of Gen X, particularly in the United States, because Millennials came of age during the Great Recession and a period of increasing population obesity. Millennials generally fared worse than their Gen X counterparts in terms of obesity and diabetes risk, especially in the United States, but had lower rates of smoking and high cholesterol in both countries. Secular tre…
Non-monetary poverty and deprivation: A capability approach
Given the continuing interest in multi-dimensional approaches to poverty, the article considers ways in which Senian capability indicators can be used to assess and understand poverty and deprivation. More specifically, we develop novel capability data on 29 dimensions for adults from the US, UK and Italy to explore three core research questions. First, we show that when poverty is seen as capability deprivation, different individuals are identif…
Using Universal Kriging to Improve Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measurement
Ordinary kriging, a spatial interpolation technique, is commonly used in social sciences to estimate neighborhood attributes such as physical disorder. Universal kriging, developed and used in physical sciences, extends ordinary kriging by supplementing the spatial model with additional covariates. We measured physical disorder on 1,826 sampled block faces across four U.S. cities (New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and San Jose) using Google Street…
Darker days? Recent trends in depression disparities among U.S. adults
Depression is the most prevalent mood disorder in the United States, and disparities in depressive symptoms and treatment by socioeconomic status have been well-documented. Recent evidence suggests the prevalence of depression is increasing, but less is known about time trends in disparities. Using nationally representative data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we examined patterns of depressive symptoms (Patient Health …
Ethnic enclaves and birth outcomes of immigrants from India in a diverse U.S. state
Does Life in the United States Take a Toll on Health? Duration of Residence and Birthweight among Six Decades of Immigrants
We used data from the 1998–2009 waves of the National Health Interview Survey to investigate cohort differences in low birthweight among US-born children of mothers arriving in the United States between 1955 and 2009, cohort-adjusted patterns in low birthweight by maternal duration of residence in the United States, and cohort-adjusted patterns in low birthweight by maternal duration of US residence stratified by age at arrival and region of orig…
Low birthweight among immigrants in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Beyond Income Poverty: Measuring Disadvantage in Terms of Material Hardship and Health
Neighborhood physical disorder in New York City
Neighborhood physical disorder, or the deterioration of urban environments, is associated with negative mental and physical health outcomes. Eleven trained raters used CANVAS, a web-based system for conducting reliable virtual street audits, to collect data on nine indicators of physical disorder using Google Street View imagery of 532 block faces in New York City, New York, USA. We combined the block face indicator data into a disorder scale usi…
Income disparities in cardiovascular health across the lifespan
Using data from the 1999-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (n ~ 46,000), this study documents income disparities in the age patterning of cardiovascular conditions across the lifespan in the U.S. The conditions were assessed from laboratory test results, self-reports of medications used to treat specific conditions, and anthropometric measurements, allowing us to capture whether individuals at given ages had developed the vari…
Use of Google Street View to Assess Environmental Contributions to Pedestrian Injury
Objectives. To demonstrate an information technology–based approach to assess characteristics of streets and intersections associated with injuries that is less costly and time-consuming than location-based studies of pedestrian injury. Methods. We used imagery captured by Google Street View from 2007 to 2011 to assess 9 characteristics of 532 intersections within New York City. We controlled for estimated pedestrian count and estimated the relat…
Development and deployment of the Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System (Canvas) to measure health-related neighborhood conditions
Cyclical Cohabitation Among Unmarried Parents in Fragile Families
Building on past research suggesting that cohabitation is an ambiguous family form, the authors examined an understudied residential pattern among unmarried parents: cyclical cohabitation, in which parents have multiple cohabitation spells with each other. Using 9 years of panel data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,084), they found that 10% of all parents with nonmarital births and nearly a quarter of those living toget…
Prenatal Care and Subsequent Birth Intervals
Providers should capitalize on their limited encounters with mothers who initiate prenatal care late or use it sporadically to ensure that these women receive information about family planning
Birthweight of children of immigrants by maternal duration of residence in the United States
Using Google Street View to Audit Neighborhood Environments
Mexican American Birthweight and Child Overweight: Unraveling a Possible Early Life Course Health Transition
Mexican American children have a weight distribution that categorizes them as relatively healthy at birth but relatively unhealthy by age 3. This early life course transition in health based on weight raises the question of whether Mexican American children 'outgrow' the epidemiologic paradox of favorable birth outcomes despite social disadvantage or whether their birthweight distribution places them on trajectory for overweight in childhood. We …
Segregation in Social Networks Based on Acquaintanceship and Trust
Using 2006 General Social Survey data, the authors compare levels of segregation by race and along other dimensions of potential social cleavage in the contemporary United States. Americans are not as isolated as the most extreme recent estimates suggest. However, hopes that "bridging" social capital is more common in broader acquaintanceship networks than in core networks are not supported. Instead, the entire acquaintanceship network is perceiv…
Effects of neighborhood racial composition on birthweight
Fragile Families: Sample and design
Segregation in Social Networks Based on Acquaintanceship and Trust
Using 2006 General Social Survey data, the authors compare levels of segregation by race and along other dimensions of potential social cleavage in the contemporary United States. Americans are not as isolated as the most extreme recent estimates suggest. However, hopes that "bridging" social capital is more common in broader acquaintanceship networks than in core networks are not supported. Instead, the entire acquaintanceship network is perceiv…
Costs and Benefits of Improving Response Rates for a Hard-to-Reach Population
Cet article se penche sur la question des couts et des avantages des moyens utilises pour reduire les taux de non-reponses aux enquetes. A l'occasion d'une etude longitudinale portant sur les familles en difficulte, comprenant en particulier des peres difficiles a contacter, les AA. suggerent que la collecte d'informations venant en complement des donnees manquantes peut permettre de mieux caracteriser les non-repondants et ainsi de mieux cibler …
Reconsidering the Effects of Marital Disruption: What Happens to Children of Divorce in Early Adulthood
This article identifies predivorce individual and family characteristics that explain a portion of the effect of parental separation on the long-term well-being of children. Using longitudinal data from the National Survey of Children (NSC), the authors discuss how much of the relationship between a separation and measures of adult well-being (including educational and economic attainment, patterns of family formation, delinquency, and psychologi…
Contemporaneous Versus Retrospective Reports of Cohabitation in the Fragile Families Survey
We compare contemporaneous and retrospective reports of cohabitation among unmarried mothers in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing survey (N =2,524). We find that (a) many mothers revise their reports of whether they cohabited at the time of the birth of their child and (b) revisions in reports are systematically related to individuals' characteristics and the quality and trajectory of parents' relationships. These results have important im…
Effects of Neighborhood and School Environments on Transitions to First Sexual Intercourse
Using the 1993 wave of the Philadelphia Teen Survey, the authors estimated multilevel binary response models showing how much census tracts and schools, separately and jointly, affect youths' sexual initiation. They found that neighborhood effects on sexual behavior exist only to the extent that they determine the type of school an adolescent attends; school effects are primarily a function of racial composition and school type; and school types …
Sources of Support, Child Care, and Hardship among Unwed Mothers, 1999–2001
Welfare rolls have declined substantially since 1994. However, little is known about the coping strategies that poor mothers use to manage the competing demands of rearing and supporting their children under the new welfare regime. This article uses data from the national Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to describe the sources of support and child‐care arrangements upon which unwed mothers relied, as well as the difficulties they faced…
Trends in Youth Sexual Initiation and Fertility in Developed Countries: 1960-1995
The widespread interest in recent changes in fertility, union formation, and union dissolution has largely focused on adult behaviors. Much less attention has been paid to changes in related youth behaviors that foreshadow and may shape adult behaviors. This article identifies some of the changes that have occurred in the timing of sexual initiation and fertility across Western industrialized countries since 1960. Documenting the similarities and…
Birthweight of children of immigrants by maternal duration of residence in the United States
Tanf Sanctioning and Hardship
This article estimates the effects of being sanctioned, that is, of being subject to a governmental decision to reduce or eliminate welfare benefits, on material hardships and health among mothers on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and their children. Compared to nonsanctioned mothers, those who are sanctioned are at high risk for hunger, homelessness or eviction, utility shutoffs, inadequate medical care, any material hardship, po…
Abstinence-only policies and programs: An overview
Cyclical Cohabitation Among Unmarried Parents in Fragile Families
Building on past research suggesting that cohabitation is an ambiguous family form, the authors examined an understudied residential pattern among unmarried parents: cyclical cohabitation, in which parents have multiple cohabitation spells with each other. Using 9 years of panel data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,084), they found that 10% of all parents with nonmarital births and nearly a quarter of those living toget…
Father involvement, child health and maternal health behavior
Effects of neighborhood racial composition on birthweight
Development and deployment of the Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System (Canvas) to measure health-related neighborhood conditions
Mexican American Birthweight and Child Overweight: Unraveling a Possible Early Life Course Health Transition
Mexican American children have a weight distribution that categorizes them as relatively healthy at birth but relatively unhealthy by age 3. This early life course transition in health based on weight raises the question of whether Mexican American children 'outgrow' the epidemiologic paradox of favorable birth outcomes despite social disadvantage or whether their birthweight distribution places them on trajectory for overweight in childhood. We …
Mental Illness as a Barrier to Marriage Among Unmarried Mothers
This study explores how mental illness shapes transitions to marriage among unwed mothers using augmented data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study (N= 2,351). We estimate proportional hazard models to assess the effects of mental illness on the likelihood of marriage over a 5-year period following a nonmarital birth. Diagnosed mental illness was obtained from the survey respondents' prenatal medical records. We find that mothers w…
Does Life in the United States Take a Toll on Health? Duration of Residence and Birthweight among Six Decades of Immigrants
We used data from the 1998–2009 waves of the National Health Interview Survey to investigate cohort differences in low birthweight among US-born children of mothers arriving in the United States between 1955 and 2009, cohort-adjusted patterns in low birthweight by maternal duration of residence in the United States, and cohort-adjusted patterns in low birthweight by maternal duration of US residence stratified by age at arrival and region of orig…
Paternal Age as a Risk Factor for Low Birthweight
Objectives. We examined associations between paternal age and low birth-weight in the US urban population. Methods. Using a population-based sample of 4621 births, we used multiple logistic regression analysis to estimate associations between paternal age and low birthweight, controlling for maternal age, other demographic factors, and the child’s gender. Results. When the child’s gender and the mother’s race/ethnicity, birthplace, parity, marita…
Non-monetary poverty and deprivation: A capability approach
Given the continuing interest in multi-dimensional approaches to poverty, the article considers ways in which Senian capability indicators can be used to assess and understand poverty and deprivation. More specifically, we develop novel capability data on 29 dimensions for adults from the US, UK and Italy to explore three core research questions. First, we show that when poverty is seen as capability deprivation, different individuals are identif…
Using Universal Kriging to Improve Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measurement
Ordinary kriging, a spatial interpolation technique, is commonly used in social sciences to estimate neighborhood attributes such as physical disorder. Universal kriging, developed and used in physical sciences, extends ordinary kriging by supplementing the spatial model with additional covariates. We measured physical disorder on 1,826 sampled block faces across four U.S. cities (New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and San Jose) using Google Street…
Ethnic enclaves and birth outcomes of immigrants from India in a diverse U.S. state
Low birthweight among immigrants in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Use of Google Street View to Assess Environmental Contributions to Pedestrian Injury
Objectives. To demonstrate an information technology–based approach to assess characteristics of streets and intersections associated with injuries that is less costly and time-consuming than location-based studies of pedestrian injury. Methods. We used imagery captured by Google Street View from 2007 to 2011 to assess 9 characteristics of 532 intersections within New York City. We controlled for estimated pedestrian count and estimated the relat…
Determinants of Tanf Participation: A Multilevel Analysis
This work uses multilevel models to estimate the effects of individual characteristics, local economies, and state policies on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) participation among unmarried mothers with 1‐year‐old children. It also assesses the contributions of the different sets of factors to city variation in rates of TANF participation. Results suggest that the many predictive individual‐level factors account for one‐quarter of t…
Longitudinal Studies of Effects of Divorce on Children in Great Britain and the United States
National, longitudinal surveys from Great Britain and the United States were used to investigate the effects of divorce on children. In both studies, a subsample of children who were in two-parent families during the initial interview (at age 7 in the British data and at ages 7 to 11 in the U.S. data) were followed through the next interview (at age 11 and ages 11 to 16, respectively). At both time points in the British data, parents and teachers…
Reconsidering the Effects of Marital Disruption: What Happens to Children of Divorce in Early Adulthood
This article identifies predivorce individual and family characteristics that explain a portion of the effect of parental separation on the long-term well-being of children. Using longitudinal data from the National Survey of Children (NSC), the authors discuss how much of the relationship between a separation and measures of adult well-being (including educational and economic attainment, patterns of family formation, delinquency, and psychologi…
Effects of Neighborhood and School Environments on Transitions to First Sexual Intercourse
Using the 1993 wave of the Philadelphia Teen Survey, the authors estimated multilevel binary response models showing how much census tracts and schools, separately and jointly, affect youths' sexual initiation. They found that neighborhood effects on sexual behavior exist only to the extent that they determine the type of school an adolescent attends; school effects are primarily a function of racial composition and school type; and school types …
Father involvement, child health and maternal health behavior
Fragile Families: Sample and design
Trends in Youth Sexual Initiation and Fertility in Developed Countries: 1960-1995
The widespread interest in recent changes in fertility, union formation, and union dissolution has largely focused on adult behaviors. Much less attention has been paid to changes in related youth behaviors that foreshadow and may shape adult behaviors. This article identifies some of the changes that have occurred in the timing of sexual initiation and fertility across Western industrialized countries since 1960. Documenting the similarities and…
Effects of Psychosocial Risk Factors and Prenatal Interventions on Birth Weight: Evidence From New Jersey's HealthStart Program
Referrals to WIC services should be a key feature of prenatal care programs for poor women
Costs and Benefits of Improving Response Rates for a Hard-to-Reach Population
Cet article se penche sur la question des couts et des avantages des moyens utilises pour reduire les taux de non-reponses aux enquetes. A l'occasion d'une etude longitudinale portant sur les familles en difficulte, comprenant en particulier des peres difficiles a contacter, les AA. suggerent que la collecte d'informations venant en complement des donnees manquantes peut permettre de mieux caracteriser les non-repondants et ainsi de mieux cibler …
Sources of Support, Child Care, and Hardship among Unwed Mothers, 1999–2001
Welfare rolls have declined substantially since 1994. However, little is known about the coping strategies that poor mothers use to manage the competing demands of rearing and supporting their children under the new welfare regime. This article uses data from the national Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to describe the sources of support and child‐care arrangements upon which unwed mothers relied, as well as the difficulties they faced…
Timing of Enhanced Prenatal Care and Birth Outcomes in New Jersey’s HealthStart Program
Tanf Sanctioning and Hardship
This article estimates the effects of being sanctioned, that is, of being subject to a governmental decision to reduce or eliminate welfare benefits, on material hardships and health among mothers on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and their children. Compared to nonsanctioned mothers, those who are sanctioned are at high risk for hunger, homelessness or eviction, utility shutoffs, inadequate medical care, any material hardship, po…
Paternal Age as a Risk Factor for Low Birthweight
Objectives. We examined associations between paternal age and low birth-weight in the US urban population. Methods. Using a population-based sample of 4621 births, we used multiple logistic regression analysis to estimate associations between paternal age and low birthweight, controlling for maternal age, other demographic factors, and the child’s gender. Results. When the child’s gender and the mother’s race/ethnicity, birthplace, parity, marita…
Contemporaneous Versus Retrospective Reports of Cohabitation in the Fragile Families Survey
We compare contemporaneous and retrospective reports of cohabitation among unmarried mothers in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing survey (N =2,524). We find that (a) many mothers revise their reports of whether they cohabited at the time of the birth of their child and (b) revisions in reports are systematically related to individuals' characteristics and the quality and trajectory of parents' relationships. These results have important im…
Determinants of Tanf Participation: A Multilevel Analysis
This work uses multilevel models to estimate the effects of individual characteristics, local economies, and state policies on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) participation among unmarried mothers with 1‐year‐old children. It also assesses the contributions of the different sets of factors to city variation in rates of TANF participation. Results suggest that the many predictive individual‐level factors account for one‐quarter of t…
Abstinence-only policies and programs: An overview
Mental Illness as a Barrier to Marriage Among Unmarried Mothers
This study explores how mental illness shapes transitions to marriage among unwed mothers using augmented data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study (N= 2,351). We estimate proportional hazard models to assess the effects of mental illness on the likelihood of marriage over a 5-year period following a nonmarital birth. Diagnosed mental illness was obtained from the survey respondents' prenatal medical records. We find that mothers w…
Effects of neighborhood racial composition on birthweight
Effects of Welfare Participation on Marriage
We investigated the widely held premise that welfare participation causes women to refrain from marriage. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,219), we employed an event history approach to study transitions to marriage among mothers who have had a nonmarital birth. We found that welfare participation reduces the likelihood of transitioning to marriage (hazard ratio is 0.67, p <.01), but only while the mother is r…
Using Google Street View to Audit Neighborhood Environments
Mexican American Birthweight and Child Overweight: Unraveling a Possible Early Life Course Health Transition
Mexican American children have a weight distribution that categorizes them as relatively healthy at birth but relatively unhealthy by age 3. This early life course transition in health based on weight raises the question of whether Mexican American children 'outgrow' the epidemiologic paradox of favorable birth outcomes despite social disadvantage or whether their birthweight distribution places them on trajectory for overweight in childhood. We …
Segregation in Social Networks Based on Acquaintanceship and Trust
Using 2006 General Social Survey data, the authors compare levels of segregation by race and along other dimensions of potential social cleavage in the contemporary United States. Americans are not as isolated as the most extreme recent estimates suggest. However, hopes that "bridging" social capital is more common in broader acquaintanceship networks than in core networks are not supported. Instead, the entire acquaintanceship network is perceiv…
Prenatal Care and Subsequent Birth Intervals
Providers should capitalize on their limited encounters with mothers who initiate prenatal care late or use it sporadically to ensure that these women receive information about family planning
Birthweight of children of immigrants by maternal duration of residence in the United States
Cyclical Cohabitation Among Unmarried Parents in Fragile Families
Building on past research suggesting that cohabitation is an ambiguous family form, the authors examined an understudied residential pattern among unmarried parents: cyclical cohabitation, in which parents have multiple cohabitation spells with each other. Using 9 years of panel data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2,084), they found that 10% of all parents with nonmarital births and nearly a quarter of those living toget…
Development and deployment of the Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System (Canvas) to measure health-related neighborhood conditions
Medicine (23 works) · Demography (21 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Demography (17 works) · Population (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Geography (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works)