In “Assessing Electronic Health Records for Describing Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities,” Aubrey Limburg, Barbara Entwisle et al. demonstrate “the possibility of leveraging EHRs for research on social determinants & population health.” @uncpopcenter.bsky.socialread.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
"This past week, news that the Florida Department of Education directed schools to teach abstinence-only sex education initiated the most online discussion about reproductive health..." 🛟🩺😷 lawsky sociology www.infodemiology.com/florida-depa...
Other discussions promoted false claims that COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility and responded to reports that two women died due to Georgia’s abortion ban.
Nice data and analysis! Pretty convincing causal model (my take using dagitty.net ):
"Prioritize families, not marriage" says P. Fomby in a new commentary in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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“Do Migrants Exhibit More Grit?” Employing the Grit-S index, Michael White et al. study South African rural-urban migration & find that “grit remains more predictive for females,” confirming the gendered context of migration. PSTC_Brown WitsSPH UMassBoston read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Ideal Family Size and Reproductive Orientations”: Using GSS microdata, Julia Behrman finds “remarkable stability in ideal family sizes of roughly 2.5 children btw the mid-1980s and 2018,” while IDing 3 latent classes of distinct ideological dispositions. @IPRatNU read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“Population Growth, Immigration & Labor Market Dynamics”: Using the UK as an example, Michael Elsby, Jennifer Smith & Jonathan Wadsworth present a dynamic accounting framework to examine “population flows as a means to understanding labor market outcomes." read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Using data from an RCT in Malawi, in “Family Planning & Children’s Human Capital,” Dan Maggio, Mahesh Karra & David Canning find that "improved access to FP positively affects children’s height" & cognitive dev. @bostonu.bsky.social@harvardchanschool.bsky.socialread.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
“The Impact of Multiple Births on Fertility”: Using new methods & @ipums.bsky.social@minnpop.bsky.socialread.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
