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The Accuracy of Age Reporting among Elderly African Americans:Evidence of a Birth Registration Effect
Age Reporting Elderly African Americans Birth Registration
2016/3/18
This paper expands on previous research that has documented relatively high levels of inconsistency in age information for elderly African Americans. Drawing on a sample of death certificates for Mary...
Childhood Conditions and Adult Health:Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Childhood Conditions Adult Health Health Retirement
2016/3/18
Poor health and premature death are direct manifestations of biological processes influenced by genetic,environmental, and life style factors. These factors operate throughout the life course and inte...
Adult Mortality Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders:A Review of the Evidence
Adult Mortality Asian Americans Pacific Islanders
2016/3/18
Mortality estimates have consistently pointed to a sizable health advantage for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders compared to white Americans, but a question remains as to whether mortality estima...
The Behavioral Economics of Altruism,Reciprocity,and Transfers within Families and Rural Communities:Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Transfers Triple Dictator Games Trust Games Malawi HIV/AIDS Game theory Transfer behavior
2016/3/18
Transfers between strangers, neighbors, families, and spouses were examined using Triple Dictator Games (TDG, involving only givings) and Trust Games (TG, involving both givings and reciprocations) am...
Health of Native-born and Foreign-born Black Residents in the United States:Evidence from the 2000 Census of Population and the National Health Interview Survey
PUMS NHIS Disability Self-rated health Chronic conditions Black US residents Immigrant health advantage
2016/3/18
Utilizing the 5% Public Use Micro Data Sample (PUMS) from the 2000 Census of Population and 2000-2006 waves of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we examine differences in disability, self-r...
How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors:Evidence from Malawi
HIV Testing Results Beliefs MDICP Sexual behavior Disease prevalence Risk Exposure
2016/3/18
Many HIV testing programs in Africa and elsewhere aim to reduce risk-taking behaviors by providing individuals with information about their own HIV status. This paper examines how beliefs about own HI...
Health Expenditure Risk and Annuitization:Evidence from Medigap Coverage
Annuitization Health expenditures Health insurance Medigap Risk
2016/3/18
Theoretical research suggests that health expenditure risk can have an ambiguous influence on the annuitization decisions of the elderly. I provide empirical evidence on this linkage, by estimating th...
Strengthening the home-to-facility continuum of newborn and child health care through mHealth: Evidence from an intervention in rural Malawi
mHealth Newborn and child health Home-to-facility continuum of care
2015/7/28
This paper assesses the impact of a mobile health (mHealth) project on uptake of home-based care for newborn and child health, and investigates the extent to which uptake of home-based care resulted i...
Leveraging mobile technology to reduce barriers to maternal, newborn and child health care: a contribution to the evidence base
Mobile technology Maternal Newborn and Child health care
2015/7/28
Leveraging mobile technology to reduce barriers to maternal, newborn and child health care: a contribution to the evidence base.
Determinants of the Recent Rise in Childhood Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys, 1990 – 2003
Kenya Child mortality determinants
2015/7/27
Childhood mortality rates in Kenya increased in the 1990s and early 2000s. Evidence from Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS) data shows increase in under-5 mortality rate by 26 percent from 91 in 1...
Migration, remittance and development in origin countries: evidence from Nigeria
Remittances economic growth migration
2015/7/23
Migration (international or local migration) of individuals/workers is viewed as a channel through which workers’ remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries; resources a...
Orphanhood, Vulnerability and Primary School Attendance:Evidence from a School-Based Survey in Two Regions of Tanzania
Orphans Vulnerable children Primary school Dropouts Urban-rural
2015/7/22
This paper addresses two frequent overgeneralisations in the orphanhood literature in Africa: about the 'vulnerability' of children and about 'orphans'. It specifically examines school attendance, giv...
Evidence on linkages between urbanization,poverty and human well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa
urbanization poverty human well-being Sub-Saharan Africa
2015/6/26
Unprecedented urban population growth in the context of lacklustre economic performance in most African countries has created a new face of poverty characterised by a significant proportion of urban p...
Attitudes on marriage and new relationships: Cross-national evidence on the deinstitutionalization of marriage
changing attitudes cohabitation cross-national comparisons deinstitutionalization of marriage sexual relations single parents
2014/11/26
Background: Consistent with the deinstitutionalization-of-marriage thesis, studies report a decline in support for marital conventions and increased approval of other relationship types. Generalizatio...
Delayed entry into first marriage and marital stability: Further evidence on the Becker-Landes-Michael hypothesis
divorce heterogamy marital instability marriage
2014/11/25
Background: In their pioneering research, Becker, Landes, and Michael (1977) found that beyond age 30 there is a positive relationship between women’s age at first marriage and marital instability. Th...