L J Marteleto
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 17951 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L J Marteleto |
| PRENOMES | L J |
| SOBRENOME | Marteleto |
| ASSINATURA | MARTELETO L J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4234-0129 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 266 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Childbearing attitudes amid successive novel infectious disease epidemics
Amid novel infectious disease epidemics, societal norms regarding when or whether women should or should not have children are highly prone to change as social life is severely disrupted. We argue that, in periods of exacerbated uncertainty such as during the emerging months of a novel infectious disease pandemic, women use memory of another recent epidemic as an anchor to define how to go about their lives. We combine unique experimental data fr…
Dynamic Family Size Preferences During the Covid-19 Mortality Crisis
In this research note, we examine how family size preferences evolved for women with and without children in response to changing COVID-19 mortality exposure during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. We leverage spatiotemporal variation in COVID-19 deaths occurring during panel surveys in 2020 and 2021 with a population-based sample of 2,520 women, aged 18–34, across 94 municipalities in Pernambuco, Brazil. We use individual fixed-effe…
Evidence of Abortion Attitude Flexibility during Covid‐19 in Pernambuco, Brazil
This study examines changes in women's attitudes toward abortion in Brazil during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic, focusing on the role of religious affiliation. Brazil provides a unique context for examining abortion attitudes because of its strict abortion policies, changing religious landscape, and back‐to‐back Zika and COVID‐19 crises. We used data from a population‐based sample of 2335 women ages 18–34 in Pernambuco, Brazil, collecte…
Who Can Have a Baby? Social Norms and the Right to Reproduce
Childbearing norms and discourse influence social interactions and policy priorities, reflecting and reinforcing social stratification. We propose a theoretical framework that systematically explains stratification and discrimination in childbearing norms. The theory of socially sanctioned reproduction (TSSR) emphasizes how childbearing and reproductive norms are shaped by individual and intersectional attributes of both evaluators and those eval…
Fertility Intentions During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Recognizing the prolonged, uneven, and evolving nature of the Covid-19 pandemic, this study provides one of the first dynamic, multilevel perspectives of women's fertility intentions in response to the pandemic and its multifaceted impacts. We examine how evolving individual- and community-level Covid-19 risk mechanisms and socioeconomic and life-course conditions are associated with continuity and change in women's fertility intentions. We combi…
Income loss and fertility intentions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil
The study aims to examine how pandemic-induced income loss shaped fertility intentions at the pandemic's onset, examining differences in this association between mothers and non-mothers, and whether effects are similar for intentions to postpone versus forgo childbearing. The research employs a mixed-method approach, combining population-level probabilistic survey data from 1,524 fecund partnered women aged 18-34 with qualitative insights gathere…
Scars from a Previous Epidemic
We examine whether women’s social proximity to Zika during the Zika epidemic predicts intentions to avoid a pregnancy because of the COVID-19 pandemic either directly or indirectly via subjective assessments of the pandemic. We apply path models on unique microdata from Brazil, the country most affected by Zika and an epicenter of COVID-19, to understand whether a novel infectious disease outbreak left lasting imprints shaping fertility intention…
Women’s Attitudes Towards Abortion in Response to the Zika and Covid-19 Outbreaks in Brazil
Can the Content of Social Networks Explain Epidemic Outbreaks
Measuring Fertility Intentions During Times of Crisis
Fertility intentions—intentions regarding whether and when to have children—predict reproductive health outcomes. Measuring fertility intentions is difficult, particularly during macrostructural shocks, for at least two reasons: (1) fertility intentions may be especially volatile during periods of uncertainty and (2) macrostructural shocks may constrain data collection. We propose a set of indicators that capture how a macrostructural shock direc…
Climate and fertility amid a public health crisis
One line of enquiry in demographic research assesses whether climate affects fertility. We extend this literature by examining the ramifications of climate conditions on fertility over a period of public health crisis in a highly unequal, urban middle-income country. We use monthly data for Brazil's 5,564 municipalities and apply spatial fixed-effects models to account for unobserved municipal heterogeneity and spatial dependence. Findings sugges…
Parent involvement and children's academic achievement
In order to broaden findings beyond high-income countries, this study used path models to test associations between parent involvement and student achievement in Brazil using a 2017 census of public school students in fifth grade (N = 2,167,729, Mage = 11, 49 % female, 44% Parda, 29% White, 11% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Indigenous) and ninth grade (N = 1,782,899, Mage = 15, 51% female, 46% Parda, 29% White, 12% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Indigenous). Parent i…
Fertility trends during successive novel infectious disease outbreaks
This study aims to estimate fertility trends in Brazil in the 2010s and early 2020s during a period of back-to-back novel infectious disease outbreaks - Zika virus and COVID-19. We use Brazilian Ministry of Health and Association of Civil Registrar data from 2011-2021 to measure general fertility rates at the national and state levels. We also used seasonal ARIMA model to forecast fertility rates by month and state in 2021 and compared these fore…
Intersections of Adolescent Well-Being
Socioeconomic and health disadvantages can emerge early in the life course, making adolescence a key period to examine the association between socioeconomic status and health. Past research on obesity in adolescence has focused on family measures of socioeconomic status, overlooking the role of individual-level nascent indicators of socioeconomic disadvantage. Using measured height and weight from nationally representative data from Brazil, we es…
Navigating women’s reproductive health and childbearing during public health crises
Live Births and Fertility Amid the Zika Epidemic in Brazil
In late 2015, the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization classified the increase in congenital malformations associated with the Zika virus (ZIKV) as a public health emergency. The risk of ZIKV-related congenital syndrome poses a threat to reproductive outcomes that could result in declining numbers of live births and potentially fertility. Using monthly microdata on live births from the Brazilian Information System…
The Educational Consequences of Adolescent Childbearing and Union Formation in Brazil
While Brazil has high rates of adolescent fertility for its below‐replacement total fertility rate, we know little about the causal effects of adolescent childbearing and adolescent union formation for women's education. In this paper, we examine unique data from the 2013 School‐to‐Work Transitions Survey to address the consequences of adolescent childbearing and adolescent union formation on educational outcomes of Brazilian young women. We appl…
Why social perception matters during disease outbreaks
Por que a percepção social é importante durante os surtos de doenças: observando como os indivíduos entendem o Zika vírus por história de infecção autorreferida Por qué la percepción social es importante durante los brotes de enfermedades: cómo los individuos entienden el virus del Zika por una historia autoinformada de infección
Signifying Zika
Despite having been broadly advertised by the mass media, many negative consequences of the Zika virus have been less significant than originally predicted. It is likely that after a few months from the epidemic's onset, personal experience with the virus has altered the person's way to deal with the disease. This study explores the relation between exposure to Zika virus and the social representation of the epidemic. More specifically, one analy…
Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Diet Behaviors within Brazilian Families
Existing literature documents the key role that parents play in transmitting diet behaviors to their children; however, less is known about differences by parent and child gender within families, especially with attention to household socioeconomic status (SES). We use nationally representative household data from Brazil and ask how parent-child associations of diet behavior differ by gender within lower- and higher-SES households. Results indica…
The Weight of Inequality
The high rate of obesity among adolescents is a global public health problem that has recently expanded to affect middle- and low-income countries. Brazil, which is undergoing a relatively rapid nutrition transition and has inadequate health systems, is currently experiencing the consequences of increasing rates of overweight and obesity concomitantly with the consequences of generations of malnourishment. Given this scenario, Brazil is an ideal …
Maternal Household Decision-Making Autonomy and Adolescent Education in Honduras
Women's Reproductive Intentions and Behaviors during the Zika Epidemic in Brazil
Educational stratification after a decade of reforms on higher education access in Brazil
Racial Inequality in Education in Brazil
Racial disparities in education in Brazil (and elsewhere) are well documented. Because this research typically examines educational variation between individuals in different families, however, it cannot disentangle whether racial differences in education are due to racial discrimination or to structural differences in unobserved neighborhood and family characteristics. To address this common data limitation, we use an innovative within-family tw…
Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007
Despite overwhelming improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, educational disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil. Using the nationally representative Pesquisa Nacional de Amostra por Domicílio (PNAD) data from 1982 and 1987 to 2007, this study investigates educational inequalities between white, pardo (mixed-race), and black Brazilians over the 25-year period. Although the educational a…
Women's Reproductive Intentions and Behaviors during the Zika Epidemic in Brazil
The Changing Impact of Family Size on Adolescents’ Schooling
Researchers have long been interested in the influence of family size on children’s educational outcomes. Simply put, theories have suggested that resources are diluted within families that have more children. Although the empirical literature on developed countries has generally confirmed the theoretical prediction that family size is negatively related to children’s education, studies focusing on developing societies have reported heterogeneity…
Family Ties and Young Fathers' Engagement in Cape Town, South Africa
Young South African fathers are often engaged in their children's lives even if they do not live together. Using longitudinal data on children (n = 1,209) from the Cape Town area, the authors show that although only 26% of young fathers live with their children, 66% of nonresidential fathers maintain regular contact, and 61% provide financial support. The father-child relationship, however, is embedded in broader family ties. The type of father-m…
Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, and Schooling Among Young People in Urban South Africa
This study examines transitions in schooling, sexual activity, and pregnancy among adolescents and young adults in urban South Africa. Data are analyzed from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), a recently collected longitudinal survey of young adults and their families in metropolitan Cape Town. We find that teen pregnancy is not entirely inconsistent with continued schooling, especially for African (black) women. More than 50 percent of African wo…
Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child's Perspective
This article provides a new characterization of stages of the demographic transition from the perspective of children competing for resources within families and cohorts. In Stage 1 falling mortality increases the size of both families and birth cohorts. In Stage 2 falling fertility overtakes falling mortality to reduce family size, but population momentum causes continued growth in cohort size. In Stage 3 falling fertility overtakes population m…
The Educational Achievement of Brazilian Adolescents
Most studies find a positive correlation between family cultural capital and educational achievement. As compelling as the evidence on the advantages of family cultural capital for educational achievement is, most studies have focused on countries characterized by having a large middle class and high levels of income, not addressing societies with high levels of social inequality. Importantly, few studies have examined whether schools interact wi…
Educational stratification after a decade of reforms on higher education access in Brazil
Educational Inequalities among Latin American Adolescents
Live Births and Fertility Amid the Zika Epidemic in Brazil
In late 2015, the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization classified the increase in congenital malformations associated with the Zika virus (ZIKV) as a public health emergency. The risk of ZIKV-related congenital syndrome poses a threat to reproductive outcomes that could result in declining numbers of live births and potentially fertility. Using monthly microdata on live births from the Brazilian Information System…
Instability in Parent–Child Coresidence and Adolescent Development in Urban South Africa
There is widespread recognition of the importance of family stability for child development. South Africa presents an interesting context in which to study the consequences of family instability because of the traditionally fluid nature of household composition due to labor migration, child fostering, and non‐marital fertility. More recently, the HIV pandemic has added another source of instability. Within South Africa, however, patterns of insta…
Racial Inequality in Education in Brazil
Racial disparities in education in Brazil (and elsewhere) are well documented. Because this research typically examines educational variation between individuals in different families, however, it cannot disentangle whether racial differences in education are due to racial discrimination or to structural differences in unobserved neighborhood and family characteristics. To address this common data limitation, we use an innovative within-family tw…
The Influence of Older Classmates on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Cape Town, South Africa
This study examines the influence of exposure to older within‐grade peers on sexual behavior among students in urban South Africa. Data are drawn from the Cape Area Panel Study, a longitudinal survey of young people conducted in metropolitan Cape Town from 2002 to 2006. The combination of early sexual debut, high rates of school enrollment into the late teens, and grade repetition create an environment in which young people who progress through s…
Maternal age at first birth and adolescent education in Brazil
BACKGROUND: Brazil has witnessed dramatic changes in its fertility patterns in recent decades. The decline to below-replacement fertility has been accompanied by increases in the proportion of children born to young mothers. Yet we know little about the well-being of children born to young mothers in Brazil. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: and a quasi-natural experimental approach, this study examines the implications of maternal age at first birth for th…
Measuring Fertility Intentions During Times of Crisis
Fertility intentions—intentions regarding whether and when to have children—predict reproductive health outcomes. Measuring fertility intentions is difficult, particularly during macrostructural shocks, for at least two reasons: (1) fertility intentions may be especially volatile during periods of uncertainty and (2) macrostructural shocks may constrain data collection. We propose a set of indicators that capture how a macrostructural shock direc…
The Educational Consequences of Adolescent Childbearing and Union Formation in Brazil
While Brazil has high rates of adolescent fertility for its below‐replacement total fertility rate, we know little about the causal effects of adolescent childbearing and adolescent union formation for women's education. In this paper, we examine unique data from the 2013 School‐to‐Work Transitions Survey to address the consequences of adolescent childbearing and adolescent union formation on educational outcomes of Brazilian young women. We appl…
Fertility Intentions During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Recognizing the prolonged, uneven, and evolving nature of the Covid-19 pandemic, this study provides one of the first dynamic, multilevel perspectives of women's fertility intentions in response to the pandemic and its multifaceted impacts. We examine how evolving individual- and community-level Covid-19 risk mechanisms and socioeconomic and life-course conditions are associated with continuity and change in women's fertility intentions. We combi…
Navigating women’s reproductive health and childbearing during public health crises
Family size, adolescents' schooling and the Demographic Transition
The goal of this paper is to address whether and how the changing family sizes of cohorts of adolescents born pre- and post-demographic transition are associated with increasing schooling of Brazilian adolescents. Decomposition analyses of nationally r
Signifying Zika
Despite having been broadly advertised by the mass media, many negative consequences of the Zika virus have been less significant than originally predicted. It is likely that after a few months from the epidemic's onset, personal experience with the virus has altered the person's way to deal with the disease. This study explores the relation between exposure to Zika virus and the social representation of the epidemic. More specifically, one analy…
Desigualdades de oportunidades educacionais dos adolescentes no Brasil e no México
O objetivo desse artigo é examinar tendências recentes da estratificação educacional para adolescentes do Brasil e México em três períodos distintos: a década de 1980, de severa recessão; os anos 1990, um período de ajustes estruturais; e os anos 2000, década de crescimento. Além de matrículas escolares e probabilidades de transições educacionais, é examinada também a matrícula em escolas particulares, um aspecto importante da desigualdade educac…
Climate and fertility amid a public health crisis
One line of enquiry in demographic research assesses whether climate affects fertility. We extend this literature by examining the ramifications of climate conditions on fertility over a period of public health crisis in a highly unequal, urban middle-income country. We use monthly data for Brazil's 5,564 municipalities and apply spatial fixed-effects models to account for unobserved municipal heterogeneity and spatial dependence. Findings sugges…
Maternal Household Decision-Making Autonomy and Adolescent Education in Honduras
Dynamic Family Size Preferences During the Covid-19 Mortality Crisis
In this research note, we examine how family size preferences evolved for women with and without children in response to changing COVID-19 mortality exposure during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. We leverage spatiotemporal variation in COVID-19 deaths occurring during panel surveys in 2020 and 2021 with a population-based sample of 2,520 women, aged 18–34, across 94 municipalities in Pernambuco, Brazil. We use individual fixed-effe…
Scars from a Previous Epidemic
We examine whether women’s social proximity to Zika during the Zika epidemic predicts intentions to avoid a pregnancy because of the COVID-19 pandemic either directly or indirectly via subjective assessments of the pandemic. We apply path models on unique microdata from Brazil, the country most affected by Zika and an epicenter of COVID-19, to understand whether a novel infectious disease outbreak left lasting imprints shaping fertility intention…
Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, and Schooling Among Young People in Urban South Africa
This study examines transitions in schooling, sexual activity, and pregnancy among adolescents and young adults in urban South Africa. Data are analyzed from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), a recently collected longitudinal survey of young adults and their families in metropolitan Cape Town. We find that teen pregnancy is not entirely inconsistent with continued schooling, especially for African (black) women. More than 50 percent of African wo…
Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child's Perspective
This article provides a new characterization of stages of the demographic transition from the perspective of children competing for resources within families and cohorts. In Stage 1 falling mortality increases the size of both families and birth cohorts. In Stage 2 falling fertility overtakes falling mortality to reduce family size, but population momentum causes continued growth in cohort size. In Stage 3 falling fertility overtakes population m…
Family size, adolescents' schooling and the Demographic Transition
The goal of this paper is to address whether and how the changing family sizes of cohorts of adolescents born pre- and post-demographic transition are associated with increasing schooling of Brazilian adolescents. Decomposition analyses of nationally r
Educational Inequalities among Latin American Adolescents
The Changing Impact of Family Size on Adolescents’ Schooling
Researchers have long been interested in the influence of family size on children’s educational outcomes. Simply put, theories have suggested that resources are diluted within families that have more children. Although the empirical literature on developed countries has generally confirmed the theoretical prediction that family size is negatively related to children’s education, studies focusing on developing societies have reported heterogeneity…
Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007
Despite overwhelming improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, educational disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil. Using the nationally representative Pesquisa Nacional de Amostra por Domicílio (PNAD) data from 1982 and 1987 to 2007, this study investigates educational inequalities between white, pardo (mixed-race), and black Brazilians over the 25-year period. Although the educational a…
Desigualdades de oportunidades educacionais dos adolescentes no Brasil e no México
O objetivo desse artigo é examinar tendências recentes da estratificação educacional para adolescentes do Brasil e México em três períodos distintos: a década de 1980, de severa recessão; os anos 1990, um período de ajustes estruturais; e os anos 2000, década de crescimento. Além de matrículas escolares e probabilidades de transições educacionais, é examinada também a matrícula em escolas particulares, um aspecto importante da desigualdade educac…
The Implications of Family Size for Adolescents' Education and Work in Brazil
Numerous studies have found a negative association between family size and children’s outcomes, particularly education. The main theoretical frameworks that explain these negative associations posit that family resources mediate the relationship between family size and children’s outcomes, and children are resource receivers only. However, societies in which adolescents often work inside and outside the household and family resources are transfer…
The Influence of Older Classmates on Adolescent Sexual Behavior in Cape Town, South Africa
This study examines the influence of exposure to older within‐grade peers on sexual behavior among students in urban South Africa. Data are drawn from the Cape Area Panel Study, a longitudinal survey of young people conducted in metropolitan Cape Town from 2002 to 2006. The combination of early sexual debut, high rates of school enrollment into the late teens, and grade repetition create an environment in which young people who progress through s…
Maternal age at first birth and adolescent education in Brazil
BACKGROUND: Brazil has witnessed dramatic changes in its fertility patterns in recent decades. The decline to below-replacement fertility has been accompanied by increases in the proportion of children born to young mothers. Yet we know little about the well-being of children born to young mothers in Brazil. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: and a quasi-natural experimental approach, this study examines the implications of maternal age at first birth for th…
The Educational Achievement of Brazilian Adolescents
Most studies find a positive correlation between family cultural capital and educational achievement. As compelling as the evidence on the advantages of family cultural capital for educational achievement is, most studies have focused on countries characterized by having a large middle class and high levels of income, not addressing societies with high levels of social inequality. Importantly, few studies have examined whether schools interact wi…
Family Ties and Young Fathers' Engagement in Cape Town, South Africa
Young South African fathers are often engaged in their children's lives even if they do not live together. Using longitudinal data on children (n = 1,209) from the Cape Town area, the authors show that although only 26% of young fathers live with their children, 66% of nonresidential fathers maintain regular contact, and 61% provide financial support. The father-child relationship, however, is embedded in broader family ties. The type of father-m…
Educational stratification after a decade of reforms on higher education access in Brazil
Racial Inequality in Education in Brazil
Racial disparities in education in Brazil (and elsewhere) are well documented. Because this research typically examines educational variation between individuals in different families, however, it cannot disentangle whether racial differences in education are due to racial discrimination or to structural differences in unobserved neighborhood and family characteristics. To address this common data limitation, we use an innovative within-family tw…
Instability in Parent–Child Coresidence and Adolescent Development in Urban South Africa
There is widespread recognition of the importance of family stability for child development. South Africa presents an interesting context in which to study the consequences of family instability because of the traditionally fluid nature of household composition due to labor migration, child fostering, and non‐marital fertility. More recently, the HIV pandemic has added another source of instability. Within South Africa, however, patterns of insta…
The Weight of Inequality
The high rate of obesity among adolescents is a global public health problem that has recently expanded to affect middle- and low-income countries. Brazil, which is undergoing a relatively rapid nutrition transition and has inadequate health systems, is currently experiencing the consequences of increasing rates of overweight and obesity concomitantly with the consequences of generations of malnourishment. Given this scenario, Brazil is an ideal …
Maternal Household Decision-Making Autonomy and Adolescent Education in Honduras
Women's Reproductive Intentions and Behaviors during the Zika Epidemic in Brazil
The Educational Consequences of Adolescent Childbearing and Union Formation in Brazil
While Brazil has high rates of adolescent fertility for its below‐replacement total fertility rate, we know little about the causal effects of adolescent childbearing and adolescent union formation for women's education. In this paper, we examine unique data from the 2013 School‐to‐Work Transitions Survey to address the consequences of adolescent childbearing and adolescent union formation on educational outcomes of Brazilian young women. We appl…
Why social perception matters during disease outbreaks
Por que a percepção social é importante durante os surtos de doenças: observando como os indivíduos entendem o Zika vírus por história de infecção autorreferida Por qué la percepción social es importante durante los brotes de enfermedades: cómo los individuos entienden el virus del Zika por una historia autoinformada de infección
Signifying Zika
Despite having been broadly advertised by the mass media, many negative consequences of the Zika virus have been less significant than originally predicted. It is likely that after a few months from the epidemic's onset, personal experience with the virus has altered the person's way to deal with the disease. This study explores the relation between exposure to Zika virus and the social representation of the epidemic. More specifically, one analy…
Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Diet Behaviors within Brazilian Families
Existing literature documents the key role that parents play in transmitting diet behaviors to their children; however, less is known about differences by parent and child gender within families, especially with attention to household socioeconomic status (SES). We use nationally representative household data from Brazil and ask how parent-child associations of diet behavior differ by gender within lower- and higher-SES households. Results indica…
Navigating women’s reproductive health and childbearing during public health crises
Live Births and Fertility Amid the Zika Epidemic in Brazil
In late 2015, the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization classified the increase in congenital malformations associated with the Zika virus (ZIKV) as a public health emergency. The risk of ZIKV-related congenital syndrome poses a threat to reproductive outcomes that could result in declining numbers of live births and potentially fertility. Using monthly microdata on live births from the Brazilian Information System…
Intersections of Adolescent Well-Being
Socioeconomic and health disadvantages can emerge early in the life course, making adolescence a key period to examine the association between socioeconomic status and health. Past research on obesity in adolescence has focused on family measures of socioeconomic status, overlooking the role of individual-level nascent indicators of socioeconomic disadvantage. Using measured height and weight from nationally representative data from Brazil, we es…
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