Deborah S Degraff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1632233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah S Degraff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah S |
| FAMILY NAME | Degraff |
| SIGNATURE | DEGRAFF D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6493-9461 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Patrilocal residence and young women’s status
Children’s work in environmental chores
The standard approach for collecting sociodemographic data about children in developing countries is to elicit information from adults. While using proxy respondents is appropriate for very young children or for questions likely beyond children’s knowledge, it is less clear that it is better for older children and topics within their experience. Several arguments can be made that children could provide better or equally valid information on their…
Economic Resources and Health
Objectives: The paper offers an expanded framework for conducting empirical research on resilient aging. Methods: We review the conceptual frameworks for resilient aging and incorporate the role of economic factors as resources that contribute to resilience, in addition to social and psychological factors emphasized in the existing literature. Moreover, the idea of reinforcing cycles of resilience is incorporated in the framework. Existing empiri…
Health Shocks and Economic Well-Being of the Aging Population
Dynamics of Economic Security Among the Aging in Mexico
Implications of Environmental Chores for Schooling
Unmet Need for Family Planning in Sri Lanka
CONTEXT: Family planning efforts achieved considerable success in Sri Lanka during the late 20th century; however, overall levels and trends may mask relatively high levels of unmet need under certain conditions. METHODS: Data from the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey of Sri Lanka (DHS-SL) were used to estimate unmet need for limiting and spacing births among ever-married women aged 15-49, overall and by key characteristics. Twelve definitions …
A Pace of Its Own
Children’s Work and Mothers’ Work––What is the Connection
Child labor and mothers' work in Brazil
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore associations between children's and mothers” work. Design/methodology/approach Brazilian household survey data are used to examine characteristics of children's and mothers' work in tandem. Findings Children are more likely to be in the labor force if their mothers are working, especially girls, younger children and rural children. There are strong connections between mothers' and children's employm…
Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women's Employment in Developing Countries
Opinions differ about whether family structure, especially fertility, should be considered endogenous in models of behavior in developing countries. Faced with a dearth of good instruments, mainstream researchers often urge working in reduced form and, therefore, losing variables of policy interest or limiting the type of questions they ask to those where good instruments are available. Rather than treating endogeneity as a yes or no characterist…
Kids at Work
Connelly, DeGraff, and Willis chronicle the trends in the growth in on-site child care programs and perform analyses that shed light on the value of employer-sponsored child care to employees. The authors note that employees may not be the only ones to benefit. Employers may be able to gain wage savings for the firm.
If you build it, they will come
Entry versus success in the labor force
Community-level determinants of contraceptive use in the Philippines
We use household and community data from the Philippines to estimate a multilevel model of contraceptive use. We go beyond previous efforts in this field by developing a structural model that recognizes joint endogeneity and the temporal ordering of variables, by considering a wider range of community influences on fertility behavior, and by employing an econometric procedure allowing for a multilevel error structure. The results suggest that the…
Children's education in the Phillipines
Women's Employment and Child Care in Brazil
Female-headed households and family welfare in rural Ecuador
Increasing Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh
This article analyzes the determinants of contraceptive use in Bangladesh, focusing on the roles of demand for additional children and of family planning service supply. Data from the Matlab Family Planning Health Services Project are used to examine the contributions of these factors to the difference in prevalence of modern contraceptive use between the project area and a control area served by the government family planning and health programs…
Integrating Health Services into an MCH-FP Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
This is a follow-up to a 1984 study that analyzed the relationship between areal variation in the contraceptive prevalence time series and in the intensity of maternal and child health (MCH) services of the Matlab Family Planning Health Services Project. Results based on 69 months of observation suggested that the addition of MCH components to a program with basic MCH and comprehensive family planning services had no incremental impact on family …
Community-level determinants of contraceptive use in the Philippines
We use household and community data from the Philippines to estimate a multilevel model of contraceptive use. We go beyond previous efforts in this field by developing a structural model that recognizes joint endogeneity and the temporal ordering of variables, by considering a wider range of community influences on fertility behavior, and by employing an econometric procedure allowing for a multilevel error structure. The results suggest that the…
Entry versus success in the labor force
Women's Employment and Child Care in Brazil
Children's education in the Phillipines
Female-headed households and family welfare in rural Ecuador
Implications of Environmental Chores for Schooling
Children’s Work and Mothers’ Work––What is the Connection
Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women's Employment in Developing Countries
Opinions differ about whether family structure, especially fertility, should be considered endogenous in models of behavior in developing countries. Faced with a dearth of good instruments, mainstream researchers often urge working in reduced form and, therefore, losing variables of policy interest or limiting the type of questions they ask to those where good instruments are available. Rather than treating endogeneity as a yes or no characterist…
Dynamics of Economic Security Among the Aging in Mexico
If you build it, they will come
Integrating Health Services into an MCH-FP Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
This is a follow-up to a 1984 study that analyzed the relationship between areal variation in the contraceptive prevalence time series and in the intensity of maternal and child health (MCH) services of the Matlab Family Planning Health Services Project. Results based on 69 months of observation suggested that the addition of MCH components to a program with basic MCH and comprehensive family planning services had no incremental impact on family …
Child labor and mothers' work in Brazil
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore associations between children's and mothers” work. Design/methodology/approach Brazilian household survey data are used to examine characteristics of children's and mothers' work in tandem. Findings Children are more likely to be in the labor force if their mothers are working, especially girls, younger children and rural children. There are strong connections between mothers' and children's employm…
Integrating Health Services into an MCH-FP Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
This is a follow-up to a 1984 study that analyzed the relationship between areal variation in the contraceptive prevalence time series and in the intensity of maternal and child health (MCH) services of the Matlab Family Planning Health Services Project. Results based on 69 months of observation suggested that the addition of MCH components to a program with basic MCH and comprehensive family planning services had no incremental impact on family …
Increasing Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh
This article analyzes the determinants of contraceptive use in Bangladesh, focusing on the roles of demand for additional children and of family planning service supply. Data from the Matlab Family Planning Health Services Project are used to examine the contributions of these factors to the difference in prevalence of modern contraceptive use between the project area and a control area served by the government family planning and health programs…
Female-headed households and family welfare in rural Ecuador
Children's education in the Phillipines
Women's Employment and Child Care in Brazil
Entry versus success in the labor force
Community-level determinants of contraceptive use in the Philippines
We use household and community data from the Philippines to estimate a multilevel model of contraceptive use. We go beyond previous efforts in this field by developing a structural model that recognizes joint endogeneity and the temporal ordering of variables, by considering a wider range of community influences on fertility behavior, and by employing an econometric procedure allowing for a multilevel error structure. The results suggest that the…
If you build it, they will come
Kids at Work
Connelly, DeGraff, and Willis chronicle the trends in the growth in on-site child care programs and perform analyses that shed light on the value of employer-sponsored child care to employees. The authors note that employees may not be the only ones to benefit. Employers may be able to gain wage savings for the firm.
Tackling the Endogeneity of Fertility in the Study of Women's Employment in Developing Countries
Opinions differ about whether family structure, especially fertility, should be considered endogenous in models of behavior in developing countries. Faced with a dearth of good instruments, mainstream researchers often urge working in reduced form and, therefore, losing variables of policy interest or limiting the type of questions they ask to those where good instruments are available. Rather than treating endogeneity as a yes or no characterist…
A Pace of Its Own
Children’s Work and Mothers’ Work––What is the Connection
Child labor and mothers' work in Brazil
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore associations between children's and mothers” work. Design/methodology/approach Brazilian household survey data are used to examine characteristics of children's and mothers' work in tandem. Findings Children are more likely to be in the labor force if their mothers are working, especially girls, younger children and rural children. There are strong connections between mothers' and children's employm…
Unmet Need for Family Planning in Sri Lanka
CONTEXT: Family planning efforts achieved considerable success in Sri Lanka during the late 20th century; however, overall levels and trends may mask relatively high levels of unmet need under certain conditions. METHODS: Data from the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey of Sri Lanka (DHS-SL) were used to estimate unmet need for limiting and spacing births among ever-married women aged 15-49, overall and by key characteristics. Twelve definitions …
Implications of Environmental Chores for Schooling
Dynamics of Economic Security Among the Aging in Mexico
Health Shocks and Economic Well-Being of the Aging Population
Children’s work in environmental chores
The standard approach for collecting sociodemographic data about children in developing countries is to elicit information from adults. While using proxy respondents is appropriate for very young children or for questions likely beyond children’s knowledge, it is less clear that it is better for older children and topics within their experience. Several arguments can be made that children could provide better or equally valid information on their…
Economic Resources and Health
Objectives: The paper offers an expanded framework for conducting empirical research on resilient aging. Methods: We review the conceptual frameworks for resilient aging and incorporate the role of economic factors as resources that contribute to resilience, in addition to social and psychological factors emphasized in the existing literature. Moreover, the idea of reinforcing cycles of resilience is incorporated in the framework. Existing empiri…
Patrilocal residence and young women’s status
Economics (16 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Population (10 works) · Developing country (9 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (9 works) · Demography (8 works)