E Smith-Greenaway
Biographic Data
| ID | 40570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Smith-Greenaway |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith-Greenaway |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH-GREENAWAY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8517-8155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Dead among Us: A Population Pyramid of the Living U.S. Population and Their Deceased Close Relatives, 2020
Sociologists increasingly recognize the significance of social ties with nonhuman entities, including the dead. Nearly one half of Americans report having direct contact with a deceased relative in the past year alone. Yet we lack knowledge of the size and contours of this shadow population that, for some, features significant social actors. The authors generated a population pyramid of deceased relative ties of the currently living population, f…
Sibling Death and Adolescent Mental Health: A Two-Generation Longitudinal Analysis
Bereavement—the loss of a loved one through death—can be a significant mental health risk. Yet, whether and how specific bereavement exposures affect mental health remains underexplored. For instance, little is known about the relationship between sibling death and adolescent mental health and whether any association manifests because of bereaved parents’ poor mental health. We use longitudinal Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study data (n…
War, Gender, and Family Dynamics: A Couple Analysis
A growing demographic literature outlines how war exposure has long‐lasting and far‐reaching impacts on individuals. Yet the nascent literature leaves questions of whether and how the war exposures of key relatives, such as spouses, affect individuals. We use Demographic and Health Survey data ( N = 2,085 couples) to study the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), extending insights into the link between women's childhood exposure to war and their elev…
From Birth to Death: The Marital Consequences of Child Loss for Unmarried Mothers
High levels of premarital childbearing in Africa have spurred considerable interest in its consequences for women. Premarital childbearing corresponds with women's poor health, as well as their subsequent life course outcomes, including their marriage timing and quality. However, this work has not considered the survival of women's premaritally born children, leaving unclear what happens to unmarried mothers when their children do not survive. In…
The biological consequences of grandparental death for children: An analysis of telomere length
Increasingly, health scholars acknowledge bereavement as a determinant of population health. Some research suggests that childhood health is especially affected by the deaths of family members. Although most research has focused on losing a parent or sibling in childhood, more recently, scholarship has established grandparental death as a source of poor mental health. We know less, however, about whether grandparental death affects children biolo…
More Than 1.4 Million US Children Have Lost a Family Member to Drug Overdose
Objectives. To estimate children’s exposure to family overdose in the United States. Methods. We used recent demographic kinship modeling advances and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent underlying cause of death estimates to model how many children aged younger than 18 years in 2019 had lost 1 or more parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts or uncles, or cousins to overdose mortality since birth. We calculated the number …
Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
A burgeoning demographic literature documents the exceedingly high rates at which contemporary cohorts of women across the Global South experience the death of their children—even amid historic declines in child mortality. Yet, the patterning of maternal bereavement remains underinvestigated, as does the extent to which it replicates across generations of the same family. To that end, we ask: Are the surviving daughters of bereaved mothers more l…
The Relationships between Drought Exposure, Fertility Preferences, and Contraceptive Behaviors: A Multicountry Study
The interplay between population dynamics and the environment has long interested demographers. Although studies have explored how climate patterns affect macrolevel population processes, such as mortality and migration, little is known about their impact on individual‐level demographic behaviors. This study fills this research gap by examining the linkages between exposure to drought and women's fertility preferences and contraceptive behaviors …
Child Death and Mothers' Subsequent Mental Health in a High-Mortality African Community
Despite declines in child mortality rates, experiencing a child death remains a common feature of motherhood in many contemporary African populations. Yet, we lack population insights into the consequences of child death for mothers' well-being in the high-mortality regions where it concentrates. Contrasting an extensive psychology literature on the severe and long-lasting consequences of child death for parents in low-mortality settings, a long-…
The Collision of Global Scripts with Local Constraints: Education as a Risk Factor for Unintended Pregnancy
Extensive sociological research concludes that education informs people's desires for their lives and plays an instrumental role in facilitating the fulfillment of those desires. In this article, we ask if societal barriers can leave the most educated to desire outcomes that are unattainable and thus paradoxically place them at highest risk of unwanted outcomes. We answer this question by analyzing societal variation in the potential for educatio…
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health Disadvantage: Can Education Disrupt It
In low-income countries, intergenerational processes can culminate in the replication of extreme forms of health disadvantage between mothers and adult daughters, including experiencing a young child's death. The preventable nature of most child deaths raises questions of whether social resources can protect women from enduring this adversity like their mothers. This study examined whether education-widely touted as a vehicle for social mobility …
Life After Loss: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality Exposure and Unintended Fertility
The relationship between mortality and fertility is a key component of demographic transition theory, placing it at the center of extensive inquiry. Among other linkages, mortality in women's communities and social networks influences their subsequent fertility. Existing demographic research assumes this is principally due to volitional mechanisms, implying that exposure to mortality consolidates women's desire to become pregnant, leading to inte…
Women's Marital Experiences Following Premarital Fertility in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Objective The aim of the study was to offer a descriptive overview of the stability and quality of marriages formed by women following premarital fertility in contemporary sub‐Saharan Africa. Background Premarital sex and fertility rates are high in many sub‐Saharan African countries, yet we know little about how premarital childbirth, or even premarital conception, corresponds with women's subsequent marital outcomes. For instance, it is unknown…
Economic Inequality and Divergence in Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Economic inequality has been rising in many sub-Saharan African countries alongside rapid changes to union and family formation. In high-income countries marked by rising inequality, union and family formation practices have diverged across socioeconomic statuses, with intergenerational social and health consequences for the disadvantaged. In this study, we address whether there is also evidence of demographic divergence in low-income settings. S…
Child Sex Composition, Parental Sex Preferences, and Marital Outcomes: Evidence From a Matrilineal Context
ObjectiveThe authors study matrilineal settings in rural Malawi, a southeast African country, to assess if women experience better marital outcomes in the presence of daughters and if so whether daughter preference plays a role.BackgroundA provocative finding in family sociology is that couples with sons experience better marital outcomes relative to those with daughters. Sociologists contend that these marital benefits are attributable to the ge…
Birth Planning and Women's and Men's Health in Malawi
Despite the frequency with which it occurs, we know little about unintended fertility in sub‐Saharan Africa and even less about its implications for the health of the women and men who experience it. We use longitudinal data from southern Malawi to explore how young adults report on the planning of their births and to identify changes in their self‐rated health and subjective well‐being associated with having more‐ or less‐planned births. Our dat…
Women's Marriage Behavior Following a Premarital Birth in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study examines the relationship between premarital childbearing and the timing of women's entry into their first marriage in sub-Saharan Africa. The study shows that African women who have a premarital birth generally experience later transitions to marriage than do their childless peers. Although the birth of a child precipitates a quicker transition to marriage initially, unmarried mothers, on average, marry at older ages than their childl…
Variation in the link between parental divorce and children’s health disadvantage in low and high divorce settings
Like in other world regions, children with divorced parents in sub-Saharan Africa experience significant heath disadvantages relative to their peers with married parents. Preliminary evidence suggests this disadvantage may not be uniform across the subcontinent's diverse settings. Research from other world regions shows that the childhood health consequences of divorce vary across different contexts. Specifically, we hypothesize that the childhoo…
Recent Trends in Premarital Fertility across Sub‐Saharan Africa
The rising age of first marriage across sub‐Saharan Africa over the past 25 years has led many scholars to predict a concurrent increase in premarital childbearing. We examine whether this anticipated increase has materialized using data from 27 countries. Our results reveal considerable heterogeneity. Although levels of premarital fertility have risen by up to 13 percent in recent years in some African countries, other countries have experienced…
Premarital childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa: Can investing in women’s education offset disadvantages for children
Premarital childbearing is common in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and may become increasingly so with the rise in women's age at first marriage. These trends are concerning given the severe childhood health consequences associated with being born premaritally. However, women's could condition the experience of having a premarital birth in a way that lessens its consequences for children. Extending the large literature on the child health ben…
Recent Trends in Premarital Fertility across Sub‐Saharan Africa
The rising age of first marriage across sub‐Saharan Africa over the past 25 years has led many scholars to predict a concurrent increase in premarital childbearing. We examine whether this anticipated increase has materialized using data from 27 countries. Our results reveal considerable heterogeneity. Although levels of premarital fertility have risen by up to 13 percent in recent years in some African countries, other countries have experienced…
Economic Inequality and Divergence in Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Economic inequality has been rising in many sub-Saharan African countries alongside rapid changes to union and family formation. In high-income countries marked by rising inequality, union and family formation practices have diverged across socioeconomic statuses, with intergenerational social and health consequences for the disadvantaged. In this study, we address whether there is also evidence of demographic divergence in low-income settings. S…
Women's Marriage Behavior Following a Premarital Birth in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study examines the relationship between premarital childbearing and the timing of women's entry into their first marriage in sub-Saharan Africa. The study shows that African women who have a premarital birth generally experience later transitions to marriage than do their childless peers. Although the birth of a child precipitates a quicker transition to marriage initially, unmarried mothers, on average, marry at older ages than their childl…
Life After Loss: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality Exposure and Unintended Fertility
The relationship between mortality and fertility is a key component of demographic transition theory, placing it at the center of extensive inquiry. Among other linkages, mortality in women's communities and social networks influences their subsequent fertility. Existing demographic research assumes this is principally due to volitional mechanisms, implying that exposure to mortality consolidates women's desire to become pregnant, leading to inte…
Birth Planning and Women's and Men's Health in Malawi
Despite the frequency with which it occurs, we know little about unintended fertility in sub‐Saharan Africa and even less about its implications for the health of the women and men who experience it. We use longitudinal data from southern Malawi to explore how young adults report on the planning of their births and to identify changes in their self‐rated health and subjective well‐being associated with having more‐ or less‐planned births. Our dat…
More Than 1.4 Million US Children Have Lost a Family Member to Drug Overdose
Objectives. To estimate children’s exposure to family overdose in the United States. Methods. We used recent demographic kinship modeling advances and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent underlying cause of death estimates to model how many children aged younger than 18 years in 2019 had lost 1 or more parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts or uncles, or cousins to overdose mortality since birth. We calculated the number …
The Relationships between Drought Exposure, Fertility Preferences, and Contraceptive Behaviors: A Multicountry Study
The interplay between population dynamics and the environment has long interested demographers. Although studies have explored how climate patterns affect macrolevel population processes, such as mortality and migration, little is known about their impact on individual‐level demographic behaviors. This study fills this research gap by examining the linkages between exposure to drought and women's fertility preferences and contraceptive behaviors …
Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
A burgeoning demographic literature documents the exceedingly high rates at which contemporary cohorts of women across the Global South experience the death of their children—even amid historic declines in child mortality. Yet, the patterning of maternal bereavement remains underinvestigated, as does the extent to which it replicates across generations of the same family. To that end, we ask: Are the surviving daughters of bereaved mothers more l…
The Collision of Global Scripts with Local Constraints: Education as a Risk Factor for Unintended Pregnancy
Extensive sociological research concludes that education informs people's desires for their lives and plays an instrumental role in facilitating the fulfillment of those desires. In this article, we ask if societal barriers can leave the most educated to desire outcomes that are unattainable and thus paradoxically place them at highest risk of unwanted outcomes. We answer this question by analyzing societal variation in the potential for educatio…
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health Disadvantage: Can Education Disrupt It
In low-income countries, intergenerational processes can culminate in the replication of extreme forms of health disadvantage between mothers and adult daughters, including experiencing a young child's death. The preventable nature of most child deaths raises questions of whether social resources can protect women from enduring this adversity like their mothers. This study examined whether education-widely touted as a vehicle for social mobility …
Premarital childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa: Can investing in women’s education offset disadvantages for children
Premarital childbearing is common in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and may become increasingly so with the rise in women's age at first marriage. These trends are concerning given the severe childhood health consequences associated with being born premaritally. However, women's could condition the experience of having a premarital birth in a way that lessens its consequences for children. Extending the large literature on the child health ben…
Variation in the link between parental divorce and children’s health disadvantage in low and high divorce settings
Like in other world regions, children with divorced parents in sub-Saharan Africa experience significant heath disadvantages relative to their peers with married parents. Preliminary evidence suggests this disadvantage may not be uniform across the subcontinent's diverse settings. Research from other world regions shows that the childhood health consequences of divorce vary across different contexts. Specifically, we hypothesize that the childhoo…
Recent Trends in Premarital Fertility across Sub‐Saharan Africa
The rising age of first marriage across sub‐Saharan Africa over the past 25 years has led many scholars to predict a concurrent increase in premarital childbearing. We examine whether this anticipated increase has materialized using data from 27 countries. Our results reveal considerable heterogeneity. Although levels of premarital fertility have risen by up to 13 percent in recent years in some African countries, other countries have experienced…
Birth Planning and Women's and Men's Health in Malawi
Despite the frequency with which it occurs, we know little about unintended fertility in sub‐Saharan Africa and even less about its implications for the health of the women and men who experience it. We use longitudinal data from southern Malawi to explore how young adults report on the planning of their births and to identify changes in their self‐rated health and subjective well‐being associated with having more‐ or less‐planned births. Our dat…
Women's Marriage Behavior Following a Premarital Birth in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study examines the relationship between premarital childbearing and the timing of women's entry into their first marriage in sub-Saharan Africa. The study shows that African women who have a premarital birth generally experience later transitions to marriage than do their childless peers. Although the birth of a child precipitates a quicker transition to marriage initially, unmarried mothers, on average, marry at older ages than their childl…
Child Sex Composition, Parental Sex Preferences, and Marital Outcomes: Evidence From a Matrilineal Context
ObjectiveThe authors study matrilineal settings in rural Malawi, a southeast African country, to assess if women experience better marital outcomes in the presence of daughters and if so whether daughter preference plays a role.BackgroundA provocative finding in family sociology is that couples with sons experience better marital outcomes relative to those with daughters. Sociologists contend that these marital benefits are attributable to the ge…
Women's Marital Experiences Following Premarital Fertility in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Objective The aim of the study was to offer a descriptive overview of the stability and quality of marriages formed by women following premarital fertility in contemporary sub‐Saharan Africa. Background Premarital sex and fertility rates are high in many sub‐Saharan African countries, yet we know little about how premarital childbirth, or even premarital conception, corresponds with women's subsequent marital outcomes. For instance, it is unknown…
Economic Inequality and Divergence in Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Economic inequality has been rising in many sub-Saharan African countries alongside rapid changes to union and family formation. In high-income countries marked by rising inequality, union and family formation practices have diverged across socioeconomic statuses, with intergenerational social and health consequences for the disadvantaged. In this study, we address whether there is also evidence of demographic divergence in low-income settings. S…
Life After Loss: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality Exposure and Unintended Fertility
The relationship between mortality and fertility is a key component of demographic transition theory, placing it at the center of extensive inquiry. Among other linkages, mortality in women's communities and social networks influences their subsequent fertility. Existing demographic research assumes this is principally due to volitional mechanisms, implying that exposure to mortality consolidates women's desire to become pregnant, leading to inte…
More Than 1.4 Million US Children Have Lost a Family Member to Drug Overdose
Objectives. To estimate children’s exposure to family overdose in the United States. Methods. We used recent demographic kinship modeling advances and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent underlying cause of death estimates to model how many children aged younger than 18 years in 2019 had lost 1 or more parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts or uncles, or cousins to overdose mortality since birth. We calculated the number …
Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
A burgeoning demographic literature documents the exceedingly high rates at which contemporary cohorts of women across the Global South experience the death of their children—even amid historic declines in child mortality. Yet, the patterning of maternal bereavement remains underinvestigated, as does the extent to which it replicates across generations of the same family. To that end, we ask: Are the surviving daughters of bereaved mothers more l…
The Relationships between Drought Exposure, Fertility Preferences, and Contraceptive Behaviors: A Multicountry Study
The interplay between population dynamics and the environment has long interested demographers. Although studies have explored how climate patterns affect macrolevel population processes, such as mortality and migration, little is known about their impact on individual‐level demographic behaviors. This study fills this research gap by examining the linkages between exposure to drought and women's fertility preferences and contraceptive behaviors …
Child Death and Mothers' Subsequent Mental Health in a High-Mortality African Community
Despite declines in child mortality rates, experiencing a child death remains a common feature of motherhood in many contemporary African populations. Yet, we lack population insights into the consequences of child death for mothers' well-being in the high-mortality regions where it concentrates. Contrasting an extensive psychology literature on the severe and long-lasting consequences of child death for parents in low-mortality settings, a long-…
The Collision of Global Scripts with Local Constraints: Education as a Risk Factor for Unintended Pregnancy
Extensive sociological research concludes that education informs people's desires for their lives and plays an instrumental role in facilitating the fulfillment of those desires. In this article, we ask if societal barriers can leave the most educated to desire outcomes that are unattainable and thus paradoxically place them at highest risk of unwanted outcomes. We answer this question by analyzing societal variation in the potential for educatio…
The Intergenerational Transmission of Health Disadvantage: Can Education Disrupt It
In low-income countries, intergenerational processes can culminate in the replication of extreme forms of health disadvantage between mothers and adult daughters, including experiencing a young child's death. The preventable nature of most child deaths raises questions of whether social resources can protect women from enduring this adversity like their mothers. This study examined whether education-widely touted as a vehicle for social mobility …
The biological consequences of grandparental death for children: An analysis of telomere length
Increasingly, health scholars acknowledge bereavement as a determinant of population health. Some research suggests that childhood health is especially affected by the deaths of family members. Although most research has focused on losing a parent or sibling in childhood, more recently, scholarship has established grandparental death as a source of poor mental health. We know less, however, about whether grandparental death affects children biolo…
The Dead among Us: A Population Pyramid of the Living U.S. Population and Their Deceased Close Relatives, 2020
Sociologists increasingly recognize the significance of social ties with nonhuman entities, including the dead. Nearly one half of Americans report having direct contact with a deceased relative in the past year alone. Yet we lack knowledge of the size and contours of this shadow population that, for some, features significant social actors. The authors generated a population pyramid of deceased relative ties of the currently living population, f…
Sibling Death and Adolescent Mental Health: A Two-Generation Longitudinal Analysis
Bereavement—the loss of a loved one through death—can be a significant mental health risk. Yet, whether and how specific bereavement exposures affect mental health remains underexplored. For instance, little is known about the relationship between sibling death and adolescent mental health and whether any association manifests because of bereaved parents’ poor mental health. We use longitudinal Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study data (n…
War, Gender, and Family Dynamics: A Couple Analysis
A growing demographic literature outlines how war exposure has long‐lasting and far‐reaching impacts on individuals. Yet the nascent literature leaves questions of whether and how the war exposures of key relatives, such as spouses, affect individuals. We use Demographic and Health Survey data ( N = 2,085 couples) to study the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), extending insights into the link between women's childhood exposure to war and their elev…
From Birth to Death: The Marital Consequences of Child Loss for Unmarried Mothers
High levels of premarital childbearing in Africa have spurred considerable interest in its consequences for women. Premarital childbearing corresponds with women's poor health, as well as their subsequent life course outcomes, including their marriage timing and quality. However, this work has not considered the survival of women's premaritally born children, leaving unclear what happens to unmarried mothers when their children do not survive. In…
Population (15 works) · Demography (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (10 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Economics (8 works)