Albert I Hermalin
Biographic Data
| ID | 82313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert I Hermalin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert I |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermalin |
| SIGNATURE | HERMALIN A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 314 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Family planning impact evaluation: The evolution of techniques
This paper is a slightly revised version of a paper prepared for the seminar on methods for impact evaluation of family planning programs held in Jaco, Costa Rica, May 14-16, 1997. The seminar was sponsored by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina, and the Central American Population …
The Decline of Smoking Among Female Birth Cohorts in China in the 20th Century: A Case of Arrested Diffusion
Future Characteristics of the Elderly in Developing Countries and Their Implications for Policy
Many countries in the developing world are experiencing rapid population aging, prompting concerns that this will have adverse effects on their socioeconomic advancement and on the well-being of older populations. How these forces play out in the coming years is subject to many unknowns, including world and country specific economic conditions, social changes related to family dynamics, urbanization and education, and the policies and programs ad…
Commentary: Using our data resources efficiently
Short-term Trends in Functional Limitation and Disability Among Older Asians: A Comparison of Five Asian Settings
Levels of Support from Children in Taiwan: Expectations versus Reality, 1965-99
Both population aging and the socioeconomic changes that often accompany it have effects on intergenerational arrangements. As a result, assessing the evolving social contract among family members is a key part of the research agenda. Studies monitoring these effects and other consequences are relatively new. Another way to gain insight is through a historical analysis that (a) traces how expectations for old-age support have changed over recent …
Whose Education Counts? The Added Impact of Adult-Child Education on Physical Functioning of Older Taiwanese
This implies that models ignoring social network characteristics in determining health outcomes of older adults may be misspecified, at least in some non-Western societies, and calls for further testing in other societies as well
Changes in Subjective and Objective Measures of Economic Well-Being and Their Interrelationship among the Elderly in Singapore and Taiwan
Challenges to Comparative Research on Intergenerational Transfers
The Effect of Education on Mortality among Older Taiwanese and its Pathways
The present research examines the impact of education on the mortality of older Taiwanese during a 4-year interval from April 1989 to April 1993. Data used for this study come from the Taiwan Survey of Health & Living Status of the Elderly (1989). The research decomposes the effect of education into the direct effect and the indirect effects by means of health status, health behaviors, and social relationships. We have shown that, of the total ef…
Educational attainment and transitions in functional status among older Taiwanese
Despite considerable research examining the influence of socioeconomic status on health, few studies have considered this relationship as it pertains to older adults in non-Western societies. We attempt to ascertain the influence of education on changes in physical functioning in a rapidly developing country. Data come from the 1989 Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan and a follow-up interview in 1993 (N = 4,049, age = 60+…
Reweighting DHS Data to Serve Multiple Perspectives
Information about health and family planning infrastructures is collected through the service availability module (SAM), an important feature of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in many developing countries. The DHS samples were designed to provide a representative sample of households and women of reproductive age. Using the weights routinely provided with DHS data sets, service accessibility can be described straightforwardly …
Ageing in East and South-East Asia
Fertility and Family Planning among the Elderly in Taiwan, or Integrating the Demography of Aging into Population Studies
Demographic aging is occurring rather rapidly in industrialized countries posing a challenge for demographers to develop research strategies to conduct research on aging. Demographers can trace the effects of change onto population structure but research on aging should examine the social and economic consequences of significant precipitating events leading to a change in living and support arrangements. These events range from disability to wido…
A new look at the determinants of nonnumeric response to desired family size: The case of Costa Rica
Artículo científico -- universidad de Costa Rica, Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud.1993. Debido a las políticas de publicación de la revista no es posible distribuir la versión del editor/PDF
Convergent Issues in Genetics and Demography
J.Adams: Introduction: Genetics and demography and historical information M.Livi-Bacci: Macro versus micro E. Thompson: From history to genes: from genes to history E.E. Castilla & J. Adams: Migration and genetic structure in an isolated population in Argentina: Aicuna P.W. Leslie: Demographic behavior, mating patterns and the distribution of inbreeding A. Piazza: Migration and genetic differentiation in Italy D. Lam & P.E. Smouse: Heterogenous f…
Birth spacing and infant mortality: Evidence for eighteenth and nineteenth century German villages
Data from an historical population in which fertility control was minimal and modern health services were mostly unavailable are used to show that there appears to have been a strong association between previous birth interval length and infant mortality, especially when the previous child survived. Although only imperfect proxies for breast-feeding practices and other potentially confounding factors are available for this population, the results…
A demographic decomposition of elderly living arrangements with a Mexican example
Gauging the Validity of Responses to Questions on Family Size Preferences in China
The article discusses the issue of the accuracy of survey data on family size preferences in China. Concern about poor sampling design non-response errors and response errors is heightened by Chinas firm policy on low fertility and the adverse repercussions when the policy is challenged. A comparison of 2 concurrent studies conducted on the same population in and around Shanghai indicates that Shanghai women underreport their desired family size …
Limiting Population Growth and the Ford Foundation Contribution
This book provides a comprehensive historical review of the Ford Foundations investment in the development of graduate education in the field of population. Academic population programs were established in several US universities in the early 1960s in time to address the critical need for the establishment of new population/family planning programs in Third World countries. The Ford Foundations lack of enforced direction of funding meant that hig…
The multilevel dependence of contraceptive use on socioeconomic development and family planning program strength
Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education and location of childhood residence. All of the coefficients of this equation, including the intercept, vary over countries. Analysis based on new methodology shows that the intercept and education effects vary as a functi…
Effects of Birth Rank, Maternal Age, Birth Interval, and Sibship Size on Infant and Child Mortality: Evidence from 18th and 19th Century Reproductive Histories
There has been long-standing interest in the effects of maternal age, birth rank, and birth spacing on infant and child mortality. Contradictory inferences about the role of these factors have arisen on occasion because of the absence of adequate controls, the use of cross-sectional or incomplete reproductive histories, and inattention to the effect of family size goals and birth limitation practices. This study analyzes completed reproductive hi…
Effects of birth rank, maternal age, birth interval, and sibship size on infant and child mortality: Evidence from 18th and 19th century reproductive histories
There has been long-standing interest in the effects of maternal age, birth rank, and birth spacing on infant and child mortality. Contradictory inferences about the role of these factors have arisen on occasion because of the absence of adequate controls, the use of cross-sectional or incomplete reproductive histories, and inattention to the effect of family size goals and birth limitation practices. This study analyzes completed reproductive hi…
A multilevel model of family planning availability and contraceptive use in rural Thailand
This paper assesses the ways in which the availability of family planning program outlets influences the likelihood of contraceptive use in rural Thailand. It focuses on a village-level measure of actual availability of sources rather than respondent perceptions of availability. Individuallevel and village-level data collected as part of the second Thailand Contraceptive Prevalence Survey are used to test three hypotheses about the effects of act…
Measuring Accessibility to Family Planning Services in Rural Thailand
There are a variety of ways to conceptualize and measure accessibility to contraceptive services and supplies. Using detailed data for rural Thailand, a multiplicity of reasonable measures are developed that reflect time and/or distance to various government program outlets. Many of these are only moderately correlated with one another, and to an important extent, different measures show different associations with levels of contraceptive prevale…
The Potential for Residential Integration in Cities and Suburbs: Implications for the Busing Controversy
Whose Education Counts? The Added Impact of Adult-Child Education on Physical Functioning of Older Taiwanese
This implies that models ignoring social network characteristics in determining health outcomes of older adults may be misspecified, at least in some non-Western societies, and calls for further testing in other societies as well
Do statements about desired family size predict fertility? the case of Taiwan, 1967–1970
The predictive accuracy of respondents' statements about their future fertility is examined, using interview data from a longitudinal study conducted in Taiwan. Two measures of preference are found to be highly intercorrelated; and regardless of which one is used, Taiwanese women are shown to predict their subsequent fertility at least as well as U.S. women. The preference measures are also predictive of rates of contraceptive use and abortion. W…
Effects of birth rank, maternal age, birth interval, and sibship size on infant and child mortality: Evidence from 18th and 19th century reproductive histories
There has been long-standing interest in the effects of maternal age, birth rank, and birth spacing on infant and child mortality. Contradictory inferences about the role of these factors have arisen on occasion because of the absence of adequate controls, the use of cross-sectional or incomplete reproductive histories, and inattention to the effect of family size goals and birth limitation practices. This study analyzes completed reproductive hi…
Family Stability: A Comparison of Trends Between Blacks and Whites
The Effect of Education on Mortality among Older Taiwanese and its Pathways
The present research examines the impact of education on the mortality of older Taiwanese during a 4-year interval from April 1989 to April 1993. Data used for this study come from the Taiwan Survey of Health & Living Status of the Elderly (1989). The research decomposes the effect of education into the direct effect and the indirect effects by means of health status, health behaviors, and social relationships. We have shown that, of the total ef…
Changes in Subjective and Objective Measures of Economic Well-Being and Their Interrelationship among the Elderly in Singapore and Taiwan
Educational attainment and transitions in functional status among older Taiwanese
Despite considerable research examining the influence of socioeconomic status on health, few studies have considered this relationship as it pertains to older adults in non-Western societies. We attempt to ascertain the influence of education on changes in physical functioning in a rapidly developing country. Data come from the 1989 Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan and a follow-up interview in 1993 (N = 4,049, age = 60+…
A multilevel model of family planning availability and contraceptive use in rural Thailand
This paper assesses the ways in which the availability of family planning program outlets influences the likelihood of contraceptive use in rural Thailand. It focuses on a village-level measure of actual availability of sources rather than respondent perceptions of availability. Individuallevel and village-level data collected as part of the second Thailand Contraceptive Prevalence Survey are used to test three hypotheses about the effects of act…
The multilevel dependence of contraceptive use on socioeconomic development and family planning program strength
Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education and location of childhood residence. All of the coefficients of this equation, including the intercept, vary over countries. Analysis based on new methodology shows that the intercept and education effects vary as a functi…
Do Intentions Predict Fertility? The Experience in Taiwan, 1967-74
Are responses to survey questions about desire for additional children useful in predicting future fertility? Data from Taiwan covering the years 1967--74, a period of rapid fertility decline and increasing contraceptive practice, indicate that reproductive intentions and contraceptive use were very good predictors of subsequent fertility. Whether more children were wanted was itself the most important determinant of contraceptive use. Aggregate …
The 1960s: A decade of progress for blacks
Between 1960 and 1970 blacks, as well as whites, improved their socioeconomic status. Among both races, educational attainment increased, the occupational distribution was upgraded, and real purchasing power rose markedly. In almost every comparison, the gains were somewhat greater among blacks than among whites and thus most indicators of racial differentiation declined. Nevertheless, the changes of this decade failed to eliminate racial differe…
Levels of Support from Children in Taiwan: Expectations versus Reality, 1965-99
Both population aging and the socioeconomic changes that often accompany it have effects on intergenerational arrangements. As a result, assessing the evolving social contract among family members is a key part of the research agenda. Studies monitoring these effects and other consequences are relatively new. Another way to gain insight is through a historical analysis that (a) traces how expectations for old-age support have changed over recent …
Gauging the Validity of Responses to Questions on Family Size Preferences in China
The article discusses the issue of the accuracy of survey data on family size preferences in China. Concern about poor sampling design non-response errors and response errors is heightened by Chinas firm policy on low fertility and the adverse repercussions when the policy is challenged. A comparison of 2 concurrent studies conducted on the same population in and around Shanghai indicates that Shanghai women underreport their desired family size …
Short-term Trends in Functional Limitation and Disability Among Older Asians: A Comparison of Five Asian Settings
A new look at the determinants of nonnumeric response to desired family size: The case of Costa Rica
Artículo científico -- universidad de Costa Rica, Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud.1993. Debido a las políticas de publicación de la revista no es posible distribuir la versión del editor/PDF
Challenges to Comparative Research on Intergenerational Transfers
Measuring Accessibility to Family Planning Services in Rural Thailand
There are a variety of ways to conceptualize and measure accessibility to contraceptive services and supplies. Using detailed data for rural Thailand, a multiplicity of reasonable measures are developed that reflect time and/or distance to various government program outlets. Many of these are only moderately correlated with one another, and to an important extent, different measures show different associations with levels of contraceptive prevale…
Fertility and Family Planning among the Elderly in Taiwan, or Integrating the Demography of Aging into Population Studies
Demographic aging is occurring rather rapidly in industrialized countries posing a challenge for demographers to develop research strategies to conduct research on aging. Demographers can trace the effects of change onto population structure but research on aging should examine the social and economic consequences of significant precipitating events leading to a change in living and support arrangements. These events range from disability to wido…
The Decline of Smoking Among Female Birth Cohorts in China in the 20th Century: A Case of Arrested Diffusion
Future Characteristics of the Elderly in Developing Countries and Their Implications for Policy
Many countries in the developing world are experiencing rapid population aging, prompting concerns that this will have adverse effects on their socioeconomic advancement and on the well-being of older populations. How these forces play out in the coming years is subject to many unknowns, including world and country specific economic conditions, social changes related to family dynamics, urbanization and education, and the policies and programs ad…
A demographic decomposition of elderly living arrangements with a Mexican example
Empirical Research in Taiwan on Factors Underlying Differences in Fertility
Measuring the Effect of Family Planning Programs on Fertility
Taiwan: An Area Analysis of the Effect of Acceptances on Fertility
This study examines the impact of a family planning program on fertility in 282 urban and rural areas of Taiwan. The areas that had higher acceptance rates had higher fertility declines between 1963 and 1965. The ratio of health workers and doctors to 100 married women aged 22-44 and the percent of women who had graduated from primary school were negatively associted with fertility in 1965. The 1963 fertility rate and crude death rate are the onl…
Birth Order and College Attendance: A Comment
Taiwan: An Area Analysis of the Effect of Acceptances on Fertility
This study examines the impact of a family planning program on fertility in 282 urban and rural areas of Taiwan. The areas that had higher acceptance rates had higher fertility declines between 1963 and 1965. The ratio of health workers and doctors to 100 married women aged 22-44 and the percent of women who had graduated from primary school were negatively associted with fertility in 1965. The 1963 fertility rate and crude death rate are the onl…
Motivational Factors in IUD Termination: Data from the Second Taiwan IUD Follow-Up Survey
The Second Taiwan IUD Follow-up Survey, reported on here, is a representative sample of all IUD acceptors in Taiwan up to the middle of 1966. The data show that 30 months after insertion, 36% of acceptors are continuing users, on a first segment basis, and that if reinsertions are taken into account, the proportion increases to 45%. Compared with extensive clinic data from the city of Taichung, the island-wide termination rates are about 5% highe…
Fertility after insertion of an Iucd in Taiwan's family‐planning program
In a sample of 4648 women who had an IUCD insertion by July 1, 1966 in Taiwan's family planning program, the postinsertion fertility was low in relation to fecundity potential. For those who used IUCDs for limiting family size, only 8% had borne a child 30 months after insertion. Of those who had wanted anotherchild, 40% had borne at least 1 child within 30 months. The postinsertion fertility decline was 65-80% compared with the expected values w…
Family Stability: A Comparison of Trends Between Blacks and Whites
The 1960s: A decade of progress for blacks
Between 1960 and 1970 blacks, as well as whites, improved their socioeconomic status. Among both races, educational attainment increased, the occupational distribution was upgraded, and real purchasing power rose markedly. In almost every comparison, the gains were somewhat greater among blacks than among whites and thus most indicators of racial differentiation declined. Nevertheless, the changes of this decade failed to eliminate racial differe…
The Methods and Materials of Demography. Henry S. Shryock , Jacob S. Siegel
The Potential for Residential Integration in Cities and Suburbs: Implications for the Busing Controversy
Empirical Research in Taiwan on Factors Underlying Differences in Fertility
Do statements about desired family size predict fertility? the case of Taiwan, 1967–1970
The predictive accuracy of respondents' statements about their future fertility is examined, using interview data from a longitudinal study conducted in Taiwan. Two measures of preference are found to be highly intercorrelated; and regardless of which one is used, Taiwanese women are shown to predict their subsequent fertility at least as well as U.S. women. The preference measures are also predictive of rates of contraceptive use and abortion. W…
The Civil Code and Nuptiality: Empirical Investigation of a Hypothesis
Measuring the Effect of Family Planning Programs on Fertility
Measuring the Effect of Family Planning Programs on Fertility
Measuring the Effect of Family Planning Programs on Fertility
Do Intentions Predict Fertility? The Experience in Taiwan, 1967-74
Are responses to survey questions about desire for additional children useful in predicting future fertility? Data from Taiwan covering the years 1967--74, a period of rapid fertility decline and increasing contraceptive practice, indicate that reproductive intentions and contraceptive use were very good predictors of subsequent fertility. Whether more children were wanted was itself the most important determinant of contraceptive use. Aggregate …
Effects of birth rank, maternal age, birth interval, and sibship size on infant and child mortality: Evidence from 18th and 19th century reproductive histories
There has been long-standing interest in the effects of maternal age, birth rank, and birth spacing on infant and child mortality. Contradictory inferences about the role of these factors have arisen on occasion because of the absence of adequate controls, the use of cross-sectional or incomplete reproductive histories, and inattention to the effect of family size goals and birth limitation practices. This study analyzes completed reproductive hi…
A multilevel model of family planning availability and contraceptive use in rural Thailand
This paper assesses the ways in which the availability of family planning program outlets influences the likelihood of contraceptive use in rural Thailand. It focuses on a village-level measure of actual availability of sources rather than respondent perceptions of availability. Individuallevel and village-level data collected as part of the second Thailand Contraceptive Prevalence Survey are used to test three hypotheses about the effects of act…
Measuring Accessibility to Family Planning Services in Rural Thailand
There are a variety of ways to conceptualize and measure accessibility to contraceptive services and supplies. Using detailed data for rural Thailand, a multiplicity of reasonable measures are developed that reflect time and/or distance to various government program outlets. Many of these are only moderately correlated with one another, and to an important extent, different measures show different associations with levels of contraceptive prevale…
Effects of Birth Rank, Maternal Age, Birth Interval, and Sibship Size on Infant and Child Mortality: Evidence from 18th and 19th Century Reproductive Histories
There has been long-standing interest in the effects of maternal age, birth rank, and birth spacing on infant and child mortality. Contradictory inferences about the role of these factors have arisen on occasion because of the absence of adequate controls, the use of cross-sectional or incomplete reproductive histories, and inattention to the effect of family size goals and birth limitation practices. This study analyzes completed reproductive hi…
The multilevel dependence of contraceptive use on socioeconomic development and family planning program strength
Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education and location of childhood residence. All of the coefficients of this equation, including the intercept, vary over countries. Analysis based on new methodology shows that the intercept and education effects vary as a functi…
Limiting Population Growth and the Ford Foundation Contribution
This book provides a comprehensive historical review of the Ford Foundations investment in the development of graduate education in the field of population. Academic population programs were established in several US universities in the early 1960s in time to address the critical need for the establishment of new population/family planning programs in Third World countries. The Ford Foundations lack of enforced direction of funding meant that hig…
Gauging the Validity of Responses to Questions on Family Size Preferences in China
The article discusses the issue of the accuracy of survey data on family size preferences in China. Concern about poor sampling design non-response errors and response errors is heightened by Chinas firm policy on low fertility and the adverse repercussions when the policy is challenged. A comparison of 2 concurrent studies conducted on the same population in and around Shanghai indicates that Shanghai women underreport their desired family size …
Birth spacing and infant mortality: Evidence for eighteenth and nineteenth century German villages
Data from an historical population in which fertility control was minimal and modern health services were mostly unavailable are used to show that there appears to have been a strong association between previous birth interval length and infant mortality, especially when the previous child survived. Although only imperfect proxies for breast-feeding practices and other potentially confounding factors are available for this population, the results…
A demographic decomposition of elderly living arrangements with a Mexican example
Convergent Issues in Genetics and Demography
J.Adams: Introduction: Genetics and demography and historical information M.Livi-Bacci: Macro versus micro E. Thompson: From history to genes: from genes to history E.E. Castilla & J. Adams: Migration and genetic structure in an isolated population in Argentina: Aicuna P.W. Leslie: Demographic behavior, mating patterns and the distribution of inbreeding A. Piazza: Migration and genetic differentiation in Italy D. Lam & P.E. Smouse: Heterogenous f…
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