John Sandberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Sandberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandberg |
| SIGNATURE | SANDBERG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6975-1932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 537 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Diffusion of innovation in family size ideation and acceptability of contraceptive use between migrants and non-migrants in rural Senegal
BACKGROUNDUrban-rural diffusion of family-building ideals, beliefs, and behaviors has long been hypothesized to drive fertility transitions.Though the idea is supported on the aggregate level, little prior research has addressed individual-level diffusion.Understanding such mechanisms may be especially important in the high-fertility context of sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVEWe estimate the association of exposure of rural residents in a small Sene…
Rural-Urban Migration and Fertility Ideation in Senegal
In low- and middle-income countries, significant differences in fertility beliefs between rural and urban areas arise from the differential timing and pace of fertility declines. Demographers have long hypothesized about the diffusion of these beliefs and behaviors from urban to rural areas, potentially via temporary rural-urban labor migration. In this paper, we investigate the association between temporary internal migration from rural Senegal …
A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa
Social isolation/marginalization in sub-Saharan Africa is under-researched, despite increasing evidence of weakening traditional community-based social support. This paper aims to develop a typology of social networks capable of accounting for social marginalization in a rural community in Western Senegal and to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of network profiles. Building on prior qualitative work, we carry out a latent profile an…
L'isolement social dans une société de solidarité. Le cas des Sereer Siin au Sénégal
Bien que l'Afrique subsaharienne soit le terrain de mutations sociales importantes, notamment quant au rôle de soutien que jouent les familles, le phénomène de l'isolement social y demeure peu abordé. Cet article a pour objectif d'identifier un cadre théorique pour étudier l'isolement social dans les sociétés de solidarité d'Afrique subsaharienne et de décrire comment cet isolement se manifeste chez les Sereer Siin au Sénégal. L'analyse s'appuie …
Parental Migration and Children’s Early Childhood Development
Who Matters Most? Migrant Networks, Tie Strength, and First Rural–Urban Migration to Dakar
Social networks' influence on migration has long been explored largely through the lenses of cumulative causation and social capital theory. This article aims to reconceptualize elements of these theories for the case of rural–urban migration and test their utility in explaining first-migration timing. We use a uniquely extensive social network survey linked to prospectively collected migration data in rural Senegal. We decompose migrant networks…
The relationship between armed conflict and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition status and services in northeastern Nigeria
It is assumed that armed conflict would have a negative impact on the health status of the affected population, but pre-conflict indicators can be so depressed that this effect is difficult to measure. When this is the case, health sector intervention by the international community can often result in marked improvements in the accessible population. What might happen upon the departure of the humanitarian organizations cannot be predicted with a…
Left‐behind villages, left‐behind children
Although the potential effects of migration on the cognitive development of children in origin communities reflect both household‐ and community‐level processes, few studies have examined how community‐level migration affects child cognitive development. By applying multilevel methods to nationally representative data of 2,248 children from 427 villages in China, we examine whether village migration intensity influences child cognitive ability an…
Social learning, influence, and ethnomedicine
Refining the Conceptualization and Measurement of Women's Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Data from the 2013 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey
Family Size, Cognitive Outcomes, and Familial Interaction in Stable, Two-Parent Families
Measures of children’s time use, particularly with parents and siblings, are used to evaluate three hypotheses in relation to the vocabulary and mathematical skills development: (1) the resource dilution hypothesis, which argues that parental and household resources are diluted in larger families; (2) the confluence hypothesis, which suggests that the intellectual milieu of families is lowered with additional children; and (3) the admixture (“no …
Measurement models of women’s autonomy using the 1998/1999 India DHS
Social learning about levels of perinatal and infant mortality in Niakhar, Senegal
The Structure of Material Hardship in U.S. Households
Motivated by the growing interest in and the usage of measures of material hardship, together with the lack of a comprehensive theoretical understanding of the how indicators of material hardship relate to one another, we develop and test five conceptual models of the structural coherence of material hardship. While many previous analyses have relied on a unidimensional model of hardship, we argue that this is not conceptually and empirically suf…
Infant Mortality, Social Networks, and Subsequent Fertility
The research presented here addresses a longstanding but previously unsupported theoretical proposition related to social learning in the demographic literature. This is that individuals should respond to lower (higher) infant mortality of socially proximate others with decreased (increased) fertility. On a more general level this problem directly concerns the translation of the effects of macro-demographic forces such as mortality into micro-lev…
The influence of network mortality experience on nonnumeric response concerning expected family size
This article investigates the effects of sociometric network members’ self-reported experiences with infant mortality on nonnumeric responses regarding expected family size among women in a small Nepalese community. The hypotheses tested include (1) that uncertainty about child survival, measured as average infant mortality across social networks, increases the likelihood of a non numeric response and (2) that this effect will be stronger when th…
Changes in Children's Time with Parents
In this paper we examine changes in the time American children spent with their parents between 1981 and 1997, and the contribution to these changes made by shifting patterns of female labor force participation, family structure, and parental education. We decompose changes into the parts attributable to changes in demographic characteristics and the parts probably due to changes in behavior. In general, children's time with parents did not decre…
Changes in children’s time with parents
In this paper we examine changes in the time American children spent with their parents between 1981 and 1997, and the contribution to these changes made by shifting patterns of female labor force participation, family structure, and parental education. We decompose changes into the parts attributable to changes in demographic characteristics and the parts probably due to changes in behavior. In general, children’s time with parents did not decre…
How American Children Spend Their Time
The purpose of this article is to examine how American children under age 13 spend their time, sources of variation in time use, and associations with achievement and behavior. Data come from the 1997 Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The results suggest that parents' characteristics and decisions regarding marriage, family size, and employment affect the time children spend in educational, structured, and family…
Children's Time With Fathers in Intact Families
This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine children's involvement with their fathers in intact families as measured through time spent together. Our findings suggest that although mothers still shoulder the lion's share of the parenting, fathers' involvement relative to that of mothers appears to be on the increase. A "new father" role is emerging on weekends in intact families. Different determinants of fathers' involvement we…
Training in Teacher Education Colleges
Children's Time With Fathers in Intact Families
This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine children's involvement with their fathers in intact families as measured through time spent together. Our findings suggest that although mothers still shoulder the lion's share of the parenting, fathers' involvement relative to that of mothers appears to be on the increase. A "new father" role is emerging on weekends in intact families. Different determinants of fathers' involvement we…
How American Children Spend Their Time
The purpose of this article is to examine how American children under age 13 spend their time, sources of variation in time use, and associations with achievement and behavior. Data come from the 1997 Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The results suggest that parents' characteristics and decisions regarding marriage, family size, and employment affect the time children spend in educational, structured, and family…
Changes in children’s time with parents
In this paper we examine changes in the time American children spent with their parents between 1981 and 1997, and the contribution to these changes made by shifting patterns of female labor force participation, family structure, and parental education. We decompose changes into the parts attributable to changes in demographic characteristics and the parts probably due to changes in behavior. In general, children’s time with parents did not decre…
The Structure of Material Hardship in U.S. Households
Motivated by the growing interest in and the usage of measures of material hardship, together with the lack of a comprehensive theoretical understanding of the how indicators of material hardship relate to one another, we develop and test five conceptual models of the structural coherence of material hardship. While many previous analyses have relied on a unidimensional model of hardship, we argue that this is not conceptually and empirically suf…
Infant Mortality, Social Networks, and Subsequent Fertility
The research presented here addresses a longstanding but previously unsupported theoretical proposition related to social learning in the demographic literature. This is that individuals should respond to lower (higher) infant mortality of socially proximate others with decreased (increased) fertility. On a more general level this problem directly concerns the translation of the effects of macro-demographic forces such as mortality into micro-lev…
The influence of network mortality experience on nonnumeric response concerning expected family size
This article investigates the effects of sociometric network members’ self-reported experiences with infant mortality on nonnumeric responses regarding expected family size among women in a small Nepalese community. The hypotheses tested include (1) that uncertainty about child survival, measured as average infant mortality across social networks, increases the likelihood of a non numeric response and (2) that this effect will be stronger when th…
Family Size, Cognitive Outcomes, and Familial Interaction in Stable, Two-Parent Families
Measures of children’s time use, particularly with parents and siblings, are used to evaluate three hypotheses in relation to the vocabulary and mathematical skills development: (1) the resource dilution hypothesis, which argues that parental and household resources are diluted in larger families; (2) the confluence hypothesis, which suggests that the intellectual milieu of families is lowered with additional children; and (3) the admixture (“no …
Measurement models of women’s autonomy using the 1998/1999 India DHS
Refining the Conceptualization and Measurement of Women's Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Data from the 2013 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey
L'isolement social dans une société de solidarité. Le cas des Sereer Siin au Sénégal
Bien que l'Afrique subsaharienne soit le terrain de mutations sociales importantes, notamment quant au rôle de soutien que jouent les familles, le phénomène de l'isolement social y demeure peu abordé. Cet article a pour objectif d'identifier un cadre théorique pour étudier l'isolement social dans les sociétés de solidarité d'Afrique subsaharienne et de décrire comment cet isolement se manifeste chez les Sereer Siin au Sénégal. L'analyse s'appuie …
Left‐behind villages, left‐behind children
Although the potential effects of migration on the cognitive development of children in origin communities reflect both household‐ and community‐level processes, few studies have examined how community‐level migration affects child cognitive development. By applying multilevel methods to nationally representative data of 2,248 children from 427 villages in China, we examine whether village migration intensity influences child cognitive ability an…
Rural-Urban Migration and Fertility Ideation in Senegal
In low- and middle-income countries, significant differences in fertility beliefs between rural and urban areas arise from the differential timing and pace of fertility declines. Demographers have long hypothesized about the diffusion of these beliefs and behaviors from urban to rural areas, potentially via temporary rural-urban labor migration. In this paper, we investigate the association between temporary internal migration from rural Senegal …
Parental Migration and Children’s Early Childhood Development
Who Matters Most? Migrant Networks, Tie Strength, and First Rural–Urban Migration to Dakar
Social networks' influence on migration has long been explored largely through the lenses of cumulative causation and social capital theory. This article aims to reconceptualize elements of these theories for the case of rural–urban migration and test their utility in explaining first-migration timing. We use a uniquely extensive social network survey linked to prospectively collected migration data in rural Senegal. We decompose migrant networks…
A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa
Social isolation/marginalization in sub-Saharan Africa is under-researched, despite increasing evidence of weakening traditional community-based social support. This paper aims to develop a typology of social networks capable of accounting for social marginalization in a rural community in Western Senegal and to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of network profiles. Building on prior qualitative work, we carry out a latent profile an…
Training in Teacher Education Colleges
Changes in Children's Time with Parents
In this paper we examine changes in the time American children spent with their parents between 1981 and 1997, and the contribution to these changes made by shifting patterns of female labor force participation, family structure, and parental education. We decompose changes into the parts attributable to changes in demographic characteristics and the parts probably due to changes in behavior. In general, children's time with parents did not decre…
Changes in children’s time with parents
In this paper we examine changes in the time American children spent with their parents between 1981 and 1997, and the contribution to these changes made by shifting patterns of female labor force participation, family structure, and parental education. We decompose changes into the parts attributable to changes in demographic characteristics and the parts probably due to changes in behavior. In general, children’s time with parents did not decre…
How American Children Spend Their Time
The purpose of this article is to examine how American children under age 13 spend their time, sources of variation in time use, and associations with achievement and behavior. Data come from the 1997 Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The results suggest that parents' characteristics and decisions regarding marriage, family size, and employment affect the time children spend in educational, structured, and family…
Children's Time With Fathers in Intact Families
This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine children's involvement with their fathers in intact families as measured through time spent together. Our findings suggest that although mothers still shoulder the lion's share of the parenting, fathers' involvement relative to that of mothers appears to be on the increase. A "new father" role is emerging on weekends in intact families. Different determinants of fathers' involvement we…
The influence of network mortality experience on nonnumeric response concerning expected family size
This article investigates the effects of sociometric network members’ self-reported experiences with infant mortality on nonnumeric responses regarding expected family size among women in a small Nepalese community. The hypotheses tested include (1) that uncertainty about child survival, measured as average infant mortality across social networks, increases the likelihood of a non numeric response and (2) that this effect will be stronger when th…
Infant Mortality, Social Networks, and Subsequent Fertility
The research presented here addresses a longstanding but previously unsupported theoretical proposition related to social learning in the demographic literature. This is that individuals should respond to lower (higher) infant mortality of socially proximate others with decreased (increased) fertility. On a more general level this problem directly concerns the translation of the effects of macro-demographic forces such as mortality into micro-lev…
The Structure of Material Hardship in U.S. Households
Motivated by the growing interest in and the usage of measures of material hardship, together with the lack of a comprehensive theoretical understanding of the how indicators of material hardship relate to one another, we develop and test five conceptual models of the structural coherence of material hardship. While many previous analyses have relied on a unidimensional model of hardship, we argue that this is not conceptually and empirically suf…
Social learning about levels of perinatal and infant mortality in Niakhar, Senegal
Measurement models of women’s autonomy using the 1998/1999 India DHS
Family Size, Cognitive Outcomes, and Familial Interaction in Stable, Two-Parent Families
Measures of children’s time use, particularly with parents and siblings, are used to evaluate three hypotheses in relation to the vocabulary and mathematical skills development: (1) the resource dilution hypothesis, which argues that parental and household resources are diluted in larger families; (2) the confluence hypothesis, which suggests that the intellectual milieu of families is lowered with additional children; and (3) the admixture (“no …
Refining the Conceptualization and Measurement of Women's Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Data from the 2013 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey
Left‐behind villages, left‐behind children
Although the potential effects of migration on the cognitive development of children in origin communities reflect both household‐ and community‐level processes, few studies have examined how community‐level migration affects child cognitive development. By applying multilevel methods to nationally representative data of 2,248 children from 427 villages in China, we examine whether village migration intensity influences child cognitive ability an…
Social learning, influence, and ethnomedicine
The relationship between armed conflict and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition status and services in northeastern Nigeria
It is assumed that armed conflict would have a negative impact on the health status of the affected population, but pre-conflict indicators can be so depressed that this effect is difficult to measure. When this is the case, health sector intervention by the international community can often result in marked improvements in the accessible population. What might happen upon the departure of the humanitarian organizations cannot be predicted with a…
Parental Migration and Children’s Early Childhood Development
Who Matters Most? Migrant Networks, Tie Strength, and First Rural–Urban Migration to Dakar
Social networks' influence on migration has long been explored largely through the lenses of cumulative causation and social capital theory. This article aims to reconceptualize elements of these theories for the case of rural–urban migration and test their utility in explaining first-migration timing. We use a uniquely extensive social network survey linked to prospectively collected migration data in rural Senegal. We decompose migrant networks…
L'isolement social dans une société de solidarité. Le cas des Sereer Siin au Sénégal
Bien que l'Afrique subsaharienne soit le terrain de mutations sociales importantes, notamment quant au rôle de soutien que jouent les familles, le phénomène de l'isolement social y demeure peu abordé. Cet article a pour objectif d'identifier un cadre théorique pour étudier l'isolement social dans les sociétés de solidarité d'Afrique subsaharienne et de décrire comment cet isolement se manifeste chez les Sereer Siin au Sénégal. L'analyse s'appuie …
Rural-Urban Migration and Fertility Ideation in Senegal
In low- and middle-income countries, significant differences in fertility beliefs between rural and urban areas arise from the differential timing and pace of fertility declines. Demographers have long hypothesized about the diffusion of these beliefs and behaviors from urban to rural areas, potentially via temporary rural-urban labor migration. In this paper, we investigate the association between temporary internal migration from rural Senegal …
A typology of social network interactions in sub-Saharan Africa
Social isolation/marginalization in sub-Saharan Africa is under-researched, despite increasing evidence of weakening traditional community-based social support. This paper aims to develop a typology of social networks capable of accounting for social marginalization in a rural community in Western Senegal and to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of network profiles. Building on prior qualitative work, we carry out a latent profile an…
Diffusion of innovation in family size ideation and acceptability of contraceptive use between migrants and non-migrants in rural Senegal
BACKGROUNDUrban-rural diffusion of family-building ideals, beliefs, and behaviors has long been hypothesized to drive fertility transitions.Though the idea is supported on the aggregate level, little prior research has addressed individual-level diffusion.Understanding such mechanisms may be especially important in the high-fertility context of sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVEWe estimate the association of exposure of rural residents in a small Sene…
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