Browsing Hopkins Population Center Working Paper Archive by Title
Now showing items 13-32 of 58
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The Decline of Childhood Mortality
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Demography and Policy : an Asian Experience
(Hopkins Population Center, 1991)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing the use of demographic knowledge in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policies. The focus of the discussion is to conceptualize the ... -
Demography and the Biomedical Sciences: The Integration of Demographic and Epidemiologic Approaches to Studies of Health in Developing Countries
(Hopkins Population Center, 1985-06) -
Disagreement in Spousal Reports of Current Contraceptive Use in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Hopkins Population Center, 1998-12)Contraceptive prevalence is a key variable estimated from Demographic and Health Surveys. But the prevalence estimated from reports of husbands differs widely from that estimated for wives. In this research, using data ... -
Does the Law of Diminishing Returns Apply to Infant Motality Decline?
(Hopkins Population Center, 2001-06-22)Objective: This paper examines time series data on infant mortality from 21 countries to demonstrate an appropriate test of the hypothesis that percentage reductions in infant mortality are larger when infant mortality is ... -
Economic, physical, and political characteristics of neighborhood of residence and the risk of low birth weight.
(Hopkins Population Center, 1996)Low birth weight remains an important public health problem in the U.S. Most research on low birth weight focuses on individual-level determinants of low birth weight such as health behaviors or use of prenatal care. We ... -
The Effectiveness of Natural Family Planning Methods for Birth Spacing: A comprehensive review
(Hopkins Population Center, 1999-07)Calendar rhythm is in the same range of effectiveness as modern NFP. When calendar rhythm studies are standardized, the projected rhythm pregnancy rates, 15.0 and 18.5 are within the range of modern NFP methods. Unplanned ... -
Effects of Divorce on Mental Health Through the Life Course
(Hopkins Population Center, 1997-02)The long-term effects of divorce on individuals after the transition to adulthood are examined using information from a British birth cohort that has been followed from birth to age 33. Growth-curve models and fixed-effects ... -
Family Composition Effects in Gender Differentials in Nutrition and Immunization in Rural India
(Hopkins Population Center, 2000-01)The literature on gender discrimination over the last several decades has shown that gender differentials in child mortality exist in most regions of the developing world, with particularly severe excess female mortality ... -
Generalized Exchange and Intergenerational Transfers in Taiwanese and Filipino Families
(Hopkins Population Center, 1998-08) -
Historical Trends in the Sex Ratio at Birth
(Hopkins Population Center, 1990-01) -
The History, Methodology and Main Findings of the Matlab Project in Bangladesh
(Hopkins Population Center, 1992) -
Household Structure as a Response to Economic Adjustments : Evidence from the 1980's Urban Mexico
(Hopkins Population Center, 1992) -
Hyperstability
(Hopkins Population Center, 1993) -
Hyperstability
(Hopkins Population Center, 1993-10) -
The Impact of Attitudes on Marriage Behavior
(Hopkins Population Center, 1996)e examine the effect of career orientation and attitudes toward marriage on marriage timing. Our focus is whether men and women with strong career orientations and work experience are less likely to marry, net of attitudes ... -
The Impact of Women's Participation in Credit Programs on the Demand for Quality Health Care in Rural Bangladesh
(Hopkins Population Center Papers on Population, 1998-03-18) -
Implications of Population Aging for Geriatric Health
(Hopkins Population Center, 1998-08)This analysis examines four theories about the relationships between mortality, morbidity, and disability in old age in the US and discusses the evidence. The theories include the pandemic of Chronic Diseases, Compression ... -
Individual and Community-Level Determinants of Domestic Violence in Rural Bangladesh
(Hopkins Population Center, 1999-05)Although there is growing recognition of the problem of domestic violence in developing countries, relatively little remains known about both its prevalence and associated risk factors. The study employs multi-level models ... -
Infertility and Early Pregnancy Loss
(Hopkins Population Center, 1994)The inability to achieve a recognized pregnancy may result from either failure of conception or implantation or an early postimplantation loss. Recently, a highly sensitive and specific assay for urinary human chorionic ...