Joseph Molitoris
Biographic Data
| ID | 308134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Molitoris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Molitoris |
| SIGNATURE | MOLITORIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6038-8332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Global Perspective on Trends in the Use of Withdrawal and Periodic Abstinence for Pregnancy Prevention
Periodic abstinence and withdrawal (the dominant methods in the “traditional methods” category) have been used to prevent pregnancy in both historical and contemporary contexts and, in some countries, continue to be used despite increased availability and use of modern methods. Yet research on family planning programs and contraceptive methods often focuses solely on modern contraceptive methods, thereby overlooking trends and patterns of traditi…
World Contraceptive Use: A Global Compilation of Survey‐Based Estimates on Contraceptive Use by Method, Age, and Marital Status
Every two years, the United Nations publishes World Contraceptive Use , a harmonized data compilation of survey‐based estimates of contraceptive use by method, age, and marital status. These data are used by the United Nations for the global monitoring of the progress towards achieving internationally agreed goals, including Sustainable Development Goal 3, and are aimed as a resource for policymakers, advocates, and researchers. The goal of the d…
Undesired Births, Contraception, and Abortion Before and After the Cairo Consensus: Trends in Conditional Undesired Birth Rates and the Impact of Contraception and Abortion
The Programme of Action adopted after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and later the Beijing Declaration, affirmed commitments to the human right to decide on the number and spacing of one's children and have the information and means to do so. In this study, we estimate trends related to this component of reproductive agency—undesired births per thousand women who want to avoid pregnancy, the conditional undesir…
A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa: A probabilistic approach
BACKGROUND: Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa has been slower than in other regions, with the periods of extremely slow transitions frequently described as stalled. Lack of investment in family planning programs has been proposed as a key contributing factor. However, while there is a large literature on fertility transition stalls, similar phenomena in contraceptive prevalence trends have received less attention. OBJECTIVE: We propose a pr…
Early Childbearing and Child Marriage: An Update
Eliminating child marriage is seen by policy makers and advocates as a path toward reducing births to girls below age 18, as most early births have been previously found to occur within marriage. There has been little recent evidence, however, of the marital context in which early childbearing occurs or how this relationship varies across space and levels of development. Using survey and vital registration data covering approximately 95 percent o…
Family Size and Educational Attainment: Cousins, Contexts, and Compensation
Breast‐feeding During Pregnancy and the Risk of Miscarriage
Exclusive BDP is associated with an elevated risk of miscarriage, but it remains unclear whether and how the practice is associated with health outcomes for the mother and breast-fed child. Research is needed to further explore these outcomes to inform recommendations regarding BDP
When and Where Birth Spacing Matters for Child Survival: An International Comparison Using the DHS
A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk of infant mortality in developing countries, but recent work on other perinatal outcomes from highly developed countries has called these claims into question, arguing that previous studies have failed to adequately control for unobserved heterogeneity. Our study addresses this issue by estimating within-family models on a sample of 4.5 million births fro…
Heterogeneous Effects of Birth Spacing on Neonatal Mortality Risks in Bangladesh
The negative relationship between birth interval length and neonatal mortality risks is well documented, but heterogeneity in this relationship has been largely ignored. Using the Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey 2010, this study investigates how the effect of birth interval length on neonatal mortality risks varies by maternal age at birth and maternal education. There is significant variation in the effect of interval length…
Socio-economic status and fertility decline: Insights from historical transitions in Europe and North America
The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by demographers, but much less is known regarding their specific features and causes. In the study reported in this paper, we used longitudinal micro-level data for five local populations in Europe and North America to analyse the relationship between socio-economic status and fertility during the fertility transition. Using comparable analytical models and c…
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The Effect of Birth Spacing on Child Mortality in Sweden, 1878-1926
A negative association between interval length and infant and child mortality has been consistently identified in modern developing countries. The reasons for this association are unclear, however. Leading hypotheses explain these differences as a result of sibling competition, maternal depletion, infection transmission, or unobserved maternal factors, but none has received overwhelming support. Using data from Stockholm between 1878 and 1926, th…
Disparities in death: Inequality in cause-specific infant and child mortality in Stockholm, 1878-1926
The decline of child mortality during the late 19th century is one of the most significant demographic changes in human history. However, there is evidence suggesting that the substantial reductions in mortality during the era did little to reduce mortalit
Ready to stop: Socioeconomic status and the fertility transition in Stockholm, 1878-1926
The western fertility decline is arguably the most significant demographic change to have occurred in the past 200 years, yet its causes and processes are still shrouded in ambiguity due to a lack of individual-level longitudinal data. A growing body of research has helped improve our understanding of the decline's causes by examining the development of socioeconomic differences in fertility using historical micro-data, but these have largely onl…
When and Where Birth Spacing Matters for Child Survival: An International Comparison Using the DHS
A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk of infant mortality in developing countries, but recent work on other perinatal outcomes from highly developed countries has called these claims into question, arguing that previous studies have failed to adequately control for unobserved heterogeneity. Our study addresses this issue by estimating within-family models on a sample of 4.5 million births fro…
Socio-economic status and fertility decline: Insights from historical transitions in Europe and North America
The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by demographers, but much less is known regarding their specific features and causes. In the study reported in this paper, we used longitudinal micro-level data for five local populations in Europe and North America to analyse the relationship between socio-economic status and fertility during the fertility transition. Using comparable analytical models and c…
The Effect of Birth Spacing on Child Mortality in Sweden, 1878-1926
A negative association between interval length and infant and child mortality has been consistently identified in modern developing countries. The reasons for this association are unclear, however. Leading hypotheses explain these differences as a result of sibling competition, maternal depletion, infection transmission, or unobserved maternal factors, but none has received overwhelming support. Using data from Stockholm between 1878 and 1926, th…
Family Size and Educational Attainment: Cousins, Contexts, and Compensation
Ready to stop: Socioeconomic status and the fertility transition in Stockholm, 1878-1926
The western fertility decline is arguably the most significant demographic change to have occurred in the past 200 years, yet its causes and processes are still shrouded in ambiguity due to a lack of individual-level longitudinal data. A growing body of research has helped improve our understanding of the decline's causes by examining the development of socioeconomic differences in fertility using historical micro-data, but these have largely onl…
Heterogeneous Effects of Birth Spacing on Neonatal Mortality Risks in Bangladesh
The negative relationship between birth interval length and neonatal mortality risks is well documented, but heterogeneity in this relationship has been largely ignored. Using the Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey 2010, this study investigates how the effect of birth interval length on neonatal mortality risks varies by maternal age at birth and maternal education. There is significant variation in the effect of interval length…
Early Childbearing and Child Marriage: An Update
Eliminating child marriage is seen by policy makers and advocates as a path toward reducing births to girls below age 18, as most early births have been previously found to occur within marriage. There has been little recent evidence, however, of the marital context in which early childbearing occurs or how this relationship varies across space and levels of development. Using survey and vital registration data covering approximately 95 percent o…
Disparities in death: Inequality in cause-specific infant and child mortality in Stockholm, 1878-1926
The decline of child mortality during the late 19th century is one of the most significant demographic changes in human history. However, there is evidence suggesting that the substantial reductions in mortality during the era did little to reduce mortalit
Breast‐feeding During Pregnancy and the Risk of Miscarriage
Exclusive BDP is associated with an elevated risk of miscarriage, but it remains unclear whether and how the practice is associated with health outcomes for the mother and breast-fed child. Research is needed to further explore these outcomes to inform recommendations regarding BDP
Ready to stop: Socioeconomic status and the fertility transition in Stockholm, 1878-1926
The western fertility decline is arguably the most significant demographic change to have occurred in the past 200 years, yet its causes and processes are still shrouded in ambiguity due to a lack of individual-level longitudinal data. A growing body of research has helped improve our understanding of the decline's causes by examining the development of socioeconomic differences in fertility using historical micro-data, but these have largely onl…
Socio-economic status and fertility decline: Insights from historical transitions in Europe and North America
The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by demographers, but much less is known regarding their specific features and causes. In the study reported in this paper, we used longitudinal micro-level data for five local populations in Europe and North America to analyse the relationship between socio-economic status and fertility during the fertility transition. Using comparable analytical models and c…
Authors for This Issue
The Effect of Birth Spacing on Child Mortality in Sweden, 1878-1926
A negative association between interval length and infant and child mortality has been consistently identified in modern developing countries. The reasons for this association are unclear, however. Leading hypotheses explain these differences as a result of sibling competition, maternal depletion, infection transmission, or unobserved maternal factors, but none has received overwhelming support. Using data from Stockholm between 1878 and 1926, th…
Disparities in death: Inequality in cause-specific infant and child mortality in Stockholm, 1878-1926
The decline of child mortality during the late 19th century is one of the most significant demographic changes in human history. However, there is evidence suggesting that the substantial reductions in mortality during the era did little to reduce mortalit
Heterogeneous Effects of Birth Spacing on Neonatal Mortality Risks in Bangladesh
The negative relationship between birth interval length and neonatal mortality risks is well documented, but heterogeneity in this relationship has been largely ignored. Using the Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey 2010, this study investigates how the effect of birth interval length on neonatal mortality risks varies by maternal age at birth and maternal education. There is significant variation in the effect of interval length…
Breast‐feeding During Pregnancy and the Risk of Miscarriage
Exclusive BDP is associated with an elevated risk of miscarriage, but it remains unclear whether and how the practice is associated with health outcomes for the mother and breast-fed child. Research is needed to further explore these outcomes to inform recommendations regarding BDP
When and Where Birth Spacing Matters for Child Survival: An International Comparison Using the DHS
A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk of infant mortality in developing countries, but recent work on other perinatal outcomes from highly developed countries has called these claims into question, arguing that previous studies have failed to adequately control for unobserved heterogeneity. Our study addresses this issue by estimating within-family models on a sample of 4.5 million births fro…
Family Size and Educational Attainment: Cousins, Contexts, and Compensation
Early Childbearing and Child Marriage: An Update
Eliminating child marriage is seen by policy makers and advocates as a path toward reducing births to girls below age 18, as most early births have been previously found to occur within marriage. There has been little recent evidence, however, of the marital context in which early childbearing occurs or how this relationship varies across space and levels of development. Using survey and vital registration data covering approximately 95 percent o…
A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa: A probabilistic approach
BACKGROUND: Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa has been slower than in other regions, with the periods of extremely slow transitions frequently described as stalled. Lack of investment in family planning programs has been proposed as a key contributing factor. However, while there is a large literature on fertility transition stalls, similar phenomena in contraceptive prevalence trends have received less attention. OBJECTIVE: We propose a pr…
World Contraceptive Use: A Global Compilation of Survey‐Based Estimates on Contraceptive Use by Method, Age, and Marital Status
Every two years, the United Nations publishes World Contraceptive Use , a harmonized data compilation of survey‐based estimates of contraceptive use by method, age, and marital status. These data are used by the United Nations for the global monitoring of the progress towards achieving internationally agreed goals, including Sustainable Development Goal 3, and are aimed as a resource for policymakers, advocates, and researchers. The goal of the d…
Undesired Births, Contraception, and Abortion Before and After the Cairo Consensus: Trends in Conditional Undesired Birth Rates and the Impact of Contraception and Abortion
The Programme of Action adopted after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and later the Beijing Declaration, affirmed commitments to the human right to decide on the number and spacing of one's children and have the information and means to do so. In this study, we estimate trends related to this component of reproductive agency—undesired births per thousand women who want to avoid pregnancy, the conditional undesir…
A Global Perspective on Trends in the Use of Withdrawal and Periodic Abstinence for Pregnancy Prevention
Periodic abstinence and withdrawal (the dominant methods in the “traditional methods” category) have been used to prevent pregnancy in both historical and contemporary contexts and, in some countries, continue to be used despite increased availability and use of modern methods. Yet research on family planning programs and contraceptive methods often focuses solely on modern contraceptive methods, thereby overlooking trends and patterns of traditi…
Population (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Fertility (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Developing country (4 works)