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Examining underlying determinants of fertility rates in Zambia:Evidence from the 2007 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Underlying determinants Fertility Education Wealth Zambia
2016/7/7
Limited data exits on factors influencing fertility in Zambia. This study examined underlying determinants of fertility patterns and levels in Zambia. Data extracted from the 2007 Zambia Demographic a...
It is Lower Than You Think it is: Recent Total Fertility Rates in Brazil and Possibly Other Latin American Countries
Fertility Brazil Total Fertility Rate Latin America Births Low Fertility
2016/3/17
Understanding emerging patterns of low fertility in middle-income countries is of essential importance. We
demonstrate that the use of the P/F Brass methods in Brazil to adjust for a presumed underre...
This paper examines two aspects of teen childbearing in the United States. First, it reviews and synthesizes the evidence on the reasons why teen birth rates are so uniquely high in the United States ...
Religious differences in child vaccination rates in urban Africa:Comparison of population surveillance data from Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso
Vaccination Religion Child Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
2015/7/24
Many studies have shown a significant relationship between religion and health in Western countries. In developing countries, however, there is a dearth of scientific studies on the matter. Using data...
A Stata module for computing fertility rates and TFRs from birth histories: tfr2
birth history Demographic and Health Survey fertility Poisson regression Stata total fertility rate trends
2014/11/24
Background: Since the 1970s, birth history data have become widely available, thanks to the World Fertility survey and the Demographic and Health Surveys programs. Despite their wide availability, the...
Spatially varying predictors of teenage birth rates among counties in the United States
geographically weighted regression local modeling nonmetropolitan spatial non-stationarity teenage birth rates
2014/11/21
Background: Limited information is available about teenage pregnancy and childbearing in rural areas, even though approximately 20 percent of the nation’s youth live in rural areas. Identifying whethe...
Demography, foreclosure, and crime:: Assessing spatial heterogeneity in contemporary models of neighborhood crime rates
demographic context and crime foreclosure and crime geographically weighted regression
2014/11/20
Background: The present research evaluates the possibility of spatial heterogeneity in the effects on neighborhood crime rates of both traditional demographic indicators - immigrant concentration, rac...
Point and interval forecasts of mortality rates and life expectancy: A comparison of ten principal component methods
mortality rates life expectancy Point
2014/11/20
Using the age- and sex-specific data of 14 developed countries, we compare the point
and interval forecast accuracy and bias of ten principal component methods for forecasting mortality rates a...
Purchasing power parity exchange rates for the poor: using household surveys to construct PPPs
using household surveys to construct PPP spoor
2014/3/24
I am grateful to Anne Case, Richard Chiburis, Scott Fulford, D. S. Prasada Rao, and Martin
Ravallion for comments on an earlier version. I owe a special debt to Erwin Diewert for detailed
comments...
The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France
unemployment variability job separation job finding worker flows
2012/10/19
In this paper, we aim to shed light on the relative contribution of the separation and job
finding rates to French unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative
data on register...
We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for
worker output. Our data contain the population of Finnish blue collar workers in 61 different
industries dur...
Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries
labor force participation rates structural change stationarity
2012/10/23
This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogen...
How General Are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates
time preferences self-control problems good-specific discounting savings poverty traps
2012/10/23
This paper tests the broadly adopted assumption that people apply a single discount rate to the utility from different sources of consumption. Using unique data from two surveys conducted in rural Uga...
Young Child Homicide and Accidental Death Rates in the United States, 1940-2005: Classification Issues in Mutually Exclusive Events
Accidental Death Rates Child Classification Homicide Rates Mutually Exclusive Events
2013/1/31
Events that are mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive, and have a constant sum must be negatively correlated. This study examined whether non-motor vehicle accidental deaths and homicides in you...
Toward a Children’s Savings and College-Bound Identity Intervention for Raising College Attendance Rates: A Multilevel Propensity Score Analysis
Wealth Assets College Attendance Identity-Based Motivation
2013/9/4
It has been suggested that children’s savings programs will be more effective if they are combined with strategies to build children’s college-bound identities. In this study we use a multi-level trea...