Papers from 2020
Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Schooling Attainment, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Hans-Peter Kohler
A Sequence-Analysis Approach to the Study of the Transition to Adulthood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Maria Sironi, Nicola Barban, Luca Maria Pesando, and Frank F. Furstenberg
Rural Poverty and Disability in LMICs, Raghav Gaiha, Shantanu Mathur, and Vani S. Kulkarni
Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: What Is It Good For?, Herbert L. Smith
The Labor Force Trajectories of Immigrant Women: Intersecting Personal Characteristics and Migration Dynamics, Sandra Florian, Chenoa Flippen, and Emilio A. Parrado
Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response: COVID-19 in the United States, Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Iliana V. Kohler, Daniel Bennett, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Jill Darling, Arie Kapteyn, Jürgen Maurer, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Changing Gender Gaps in the Timing of Partnership Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ewa Batyra, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Frank F. Furstenberg
Changes in Couples’ Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Christine Schwartz, and Kelly Musick
Health Screening for Emerging Disease Burdens Among the Global Poor, Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana V. Kohler
The Effects of Negative Economic Shocks at Birth on Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa, Fabrice Kämpfen
Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviors, Alberto Ciancio, Adeline Delavande, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana V. Kohler
The Causal Effects of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling in Urban China, Jere R. Behrman, Yuan Hu, and Junsen Zhang
After-School Tutoring, Household Substitution and Student Achievement: Experimental Evidence from Rural China, Jere R. Behrman, C. Simon Fan, Xiangdong Wei, Hongliang Zhang, and Junsen Zhang
The State of Mental Health Among the Elderly Chinese, Yi Chen and Hanming Fang
The Mature Adults Cohort of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH-MAC), Iliana V. Kohler, Chiwoza Bandawe, Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Collin F. Payne, James Mwera, James Mkandawire, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Marital Dissolutions and Changes in Mental Health: Evidence from Rural Malawi, Tyler W. Myroniuk, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Iliana V. Kohler
The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and Karen A. Kopecky
Mental Health, Schooling Attainment and Polygenic Scores: Are There Significant Gene-Environment Associations?, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, Jason M. Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Papers from 2019
Does Sorting Matter for Learning Inequality? Evidence from East Africa, Paul Anand, Jere R. Behrman, Hai-Anh H. Dang, and Sam Jones
The Long-Term Consequences of Family Planning in Old Age: Evidence from China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" Campaign, Yi Chen and Hanming Fang
Family Change and Variation Through the Lens of Family Configurations in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Andrés Felipe Castro Torres, Luca Maria Pesando, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Frank F. Furstenberg
Persistence of Non-Communicable Diseases, Affluence and Inequality in India, Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
Employment, Aging and Disease in India, Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
Trust in Hospitals-Evidence from India, Vani S. Kulkarni, Veena S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
Assessing (and Addressing) Reporting Heterogeneity in Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) with an Application to Gender Difference in Quality of Life, Zhiyong Huang and Fabrice Kämpfen
Non-communicable Diseases and Depression: Evidence from South Africa, Manoj K. Pandey, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
Family Change in Global Perspective: How and Why Family Systems Change, Frank F. Furstenberg
Papers from 2018
A Pilot Study of Uncertainty in Income Tax Forecasts, Andrew Joung, Benjamin Lockwood, and Alex Rees-Jones
Aging, Disability and Disease in India, Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
Growing Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases in India, Pratima Yadav, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
American Kinship Reconsidered, Frank F. Furstenberg
Aging, Depression, Non-Communicable Diseases and Disabilities in South Africa, Manoj K. Pandey, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Raghav Gaiha
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-generational Investment, Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Kathleen McGinn
Household Determinants of Teen Marriage and Childbearing: Sister Effects Across Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Luca Maria Pesando and Alejandra Abufhele
Global Family Change: Persistent Diversity with Development, Luca Maria Pesando, Andrés F. Castro, Liliana Andriano, Julia A. Behrman, Francesco Billari, Christiaan Monden, Frank Furstenberg, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Papers from 2017
Cohort Profile: The Migration and Health in Malawi (MHM) Study, Philip Anglewicz, Mark VanLandingham, Lucinda Manda-Taylor, and Hans-Peter Kohler
The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of Access to IVF, Naomi Gershoni and Corinne Low
Betting the House: How Assets Influence Marriage Selection, Marital Stability, and Child Investments, Jeanne Lafortune and Corinne Low
Wealth Disparities for Early Childhood Anthropometrics and Skills: Evidence from Chilean Longitudinal Data, Jere R. Behrman, Dante Contreras, Isidora Palma, and Esteban Puentes
Recent Changes in US Mortality: Continued Deterioration Relative to Peers, Yana Vierboom and Samuel Preston
Up, Down and Reciprocal: The Dynamics of Intergenerational Transfers, Family Structure and Health in a Low-Income Context, Collin F. Payne, Luca Maria Pesando, and Hans-Peter Kohler
The Contribution of Differences in Adiposity to Educational Disparities in Mortality in the United States, Yana Vierboom
Health and Mortality Patterns Among Migrants in France, Myriam Khlat and Michel Guillot
The Role of Marriage in Fighting HIV: A Quantitative Illustration for Malawi, Jeremy Greenwood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, and Michéle Tertilt
Family Economics Writ Large, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and Guillaume Vandenbroucke
Papers from 2016
Cognitive Health among Older Adults: Evidence from Rural Sub-Saharan Africa, Collin F. Payne, Iliana V. Kohler, Chiwoza Bandawe, Kathy A. Lawler, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Limited Common Origins of Multiple Adult Health-Related Behaviors: Evidence from U.S. Twins, Nikkil Sudharsanan, Jere R. Behrman, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Effects of Birth Control Policies on Women’s Age at First Birth in China, Menghan Zhao and Hans-Peter Kohler
Papers from 2015
Homeownership of Immigrants in France: Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows, Laurent Gobillon and Matthieu Solignac
Africans in the American Labor Market, Irma T. Elo, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Romeo Gansey, and Duncan Thomas
It is Lower Than You Think it is: Recent Total Fertility Rates in Brazil and Possibly Other Latin American Countries, Helena Cruz Castanheira and Hans-Peter Kohler
Demographic Transition Revisited: Low Fertility, Socioeconomic Development, and Gender Equity, Thomas M. Anderson and Hans-Peter Kohler
Variance Estimation for a Complex Life Table Quantity: Disease-free Life Expectancy, Ezra Fishman
The Demography of Mental Health Among Mature Adults in a Low-Income High HIV-Prevalence Context, Iliana V. Kohler, Collin F. Payne, Chiwoza Bandawe, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Africans in the American Labor Market, Irma T. Elo Professor, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Duncan Thomas, and Romeo Gansey
Lifetime risk of dementia in the United States, Ezra Fishman
Papers from 2014
The Consequences of Abortion and Contraception Policies on Young Women's Reproductive Choices, Schooling and Labor Supply, Diego Amador
Growing Educational Differentials in the Retreat from Marriage among Korean Men, Hyunjoon Park and Jae Kyung Lee
Lifetime Probability of Developing Diabetes in the United States, Samuel Preston, Ezra Fishman, and Andrew Stokes
The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi, Victoria Baranov and Hans-Peter Kohler
Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, and Cezar Santos
Natural Symptoms? The Intersection of Social, Biological, and Genetic Determinants of Depression in Later Life, Jason Schnittker
Papers from 2013
Schooling has Smaller or Insignificant Effects on Adult Health in the US than Suggested by Cross-Sectional Associations: New Estimates Using Relatively Large Samples of Identical Twins, Vikesh Amin, Jere R. Behrman, and Hans-Peter Kohler
American Studies: A Case Study of Interdisciplinarity, Jerry A. Jacobs
The Contribution of Sociology to the Emergence of Applied and Pre-professional College Majors, Jerry A. Jacobs
Receptivity Curves: Educational Research and the Flow of Ideas: Expanded Version, Jerry A. Jacobs
Narratives of Death in the Time of AIDS in Rural Malawi, Adam Ashforth and Susan C. Watkins
Cohort Profile: The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH), HANS-PETER KOHLER, Susan C. Watkins, Jere R. Behrman, Philip Anglewicz, Iliana V. Kohler, Peter Fleming, Rebecca L. Thornton, James Mkandawire, Linda Kalilani-Phiri, Hastings Honde, Augustine Hawara, Ben Chilima, Chiwoza Bandawe, Victor Mwapasa, and MLSFH Study Team
Discrete Games in Endogenous Networks: Theory and Policy, Anton Badev
Eliciting Maternal Subjective Expectations about the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation, Flávio Cunha, Irma T. Elo, and Jennifer F. Culhane
An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Jeremy Greenwood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, and Michèle Tertilt
The Impact of Married Individuals Learning HIV Status in Malawi: Divorce, Number of Sexual Partners, Condom Use with Spouses, Theresa M. Fedor, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Jere R. Behrman
The Social and the Sexual: Networks in Contemporary Demographic Research, Hans-Peter Kohler, Stéphane Helleringer, Jere R. Behrman, and Susan C. Watkins
The Effects of Child-Bearing Policies in Remarriages: Evidence from China, Hanming Fang and Wanchuan Lin
The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S., Emin Dinlersoz and Jeremy Greenwood
Papers from 2012
La causalité en sociologie et démographie. Retour sur le principe de l’action humaine, Herbert L. Smith
Marriage as a Mechanism: Women’s Education and Wealth in Malawi, Sarah Spell, Philip Anglewicz, and Hans-Peter Kohler
The Indirect Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy, Victoria Baranov, Daniel Bennett, and Hans-Peter Kohler
Education Fever and the East Asian Fertility Puzzle: A Case Study of Low Fertility in South Korea, Thomas M. Anderson and Hans-Peter Kohler
Interdisciplinarity in Recently Founded Academic Journals, Jerry A. Jacobs and Rebecca Henderson
Semiparametric Bayesian Modeling of Income Volatility Heterogeneity, Shane T. Jensen and Stephen H. Shore
Evaluating Health and Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Minimally Invasive Collection of Plasma in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH), Iliana V. Kohler, Philip Anglewicz, Hans-Peter Kohler, John F. McCabe, Ben Chilima, and Beth J. Soldo
Identifying Idiosyncratic Career Taste and Skill with Income Risk, Stephen H. Shore, Daniel Barth, and Shane T. Jensen
Performance-Support Bias and the Gender Pay Gap among Stockbrokers, Janice F. Madden
Health Expenditure Risk and Annuitization: Evidence from Medigap Coverage, Daniel W. Sacks
Copenhagen Consensus 2012: Challenge Paper on "Population Growth", Hans-Peter Kohler
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, and Cezar Santos
Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance: Random Assignment in Seoul High Schools, Hyunjoon Park, Jere R. Behrman, and Jaesung Choi
Papers from 2011
The Impact of the PROGRESA/Oportunidades Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Health and Related Outcomes for the Aging in Mexico, Jere R. Behrman and Susan W. Parker
First-Round Impacts of the 2008 Chilean Pension System Reform, Jere R. Behrman, Maria Cecilia Calderon, Olivia Mitchell, Javiera Vasquez, and David Bravo
Do More-Schooled Women have Fewer Children and Delay Childbearing? Evidence from a Sample of U.S. Twins, Vikesh Amin and Jere R. Behrman
High Development and Fertility: Fertility at Older Reproductive Ages and Gender Equality Explain the Positive Link, Mikko Myrskylä, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Francesco Billari
Journal Rankings in Sociology: Using the H Index with Google Scholar, Jerry A. Jacobs
HIV/AIDS-related Expectations and Risky Sexual Behavior in Malawi, Adeline Delavande and Hans-Peter Kohler
Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Rural Malawi, Iliana V. Kohler, Hans-Peter Kohler, Philip Anglewicz, and Jere R. Behrman
Estimating Smoking-attributable Mortality in the United States, Andrew Fenelon and Samuel H. Preston
International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years, Asma Hyder and Jere R. Behrman
Is the High Level of Obesity in the United States Related to Its Low Life Expectancy?, Samuel H. Preston and Andrew Stokes
From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: A Macroeconomic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization, Jesus Fernández-Villaverde, Jeremy Greenwood, and Nezih Guner
Papers from 2010
Financial Literacy, Schooling, and Wealth Accumulation, Jere R. Behrman, Olivia S. Mitchell, Cindy Soo, and David Bravo