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"Missing Girls" in China and India: trends and policy impacts
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Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland; Guo Zhen, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Li Shuzhuo, Xi'an Jiaotong University; 2013-001
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"Missing Girls" in the South Caucasus Countries: Trends, Possible Causes, and Policy Options
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Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland // Keywords: Gender, Poverty, Economic Shocks, Social Protection, Governance, Health, Population; JEL codes: D13, H31, H55, J13, J16, P31; 2017-004
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"Rosie" learns Spanish: The AI-powered chatbox bridging disparities in maternal and infant health
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Nguyen and Aparicio receive $200k from NIH to expand access to healthcare information
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2024 Time Use Conference
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Sponsored by NICHD, MPRC, Minnesota Population Center, and the Maryland Time Use Laboratory
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A cross-national investigation of women's empowerment
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Desai and Yu tap into dimensions of empowerment in household, work, and education across 28 countries
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Abraham and Kearney examine secular decline in US employment over the past two decades
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Robots and offshoring seen as important factors in decline of employment rates
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Addressing Health Equity Among Central American and African-American Women and Youth
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The Consortium on Race, Gender, & Ethnicity, Moderated by Dr. Diana Guelespe.
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Adriana Lleras-Muney, UCLA
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Intergenerational Correlations in Longevity
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Advanced School Progression Relative to Age and Early Family Formation in Mexico
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Mónica Caudillo Demography article re-examines education outcomes in light of advanced school progression by age
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Advanced School Progression Relative to Age and Early Family Formation in Mexico
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Research has documented a negative association between women’s educational attainment and early sexual intercourse, union formation, and pregnancy. However, the implications that school progression relative to age may have for the timing and order of such transitions are poorly understood. In this article, I argue that educational attainment has different implications depending on a student’s progression through school grades relative to her age. Using month of birth and age-at-school-entry policies to estimate the effect of advanced school progression by age, I show that it accelerates the occurrence of family formation and sexual onset among teenage women in Mexico. Focusing on girls aged 15–17 interviewed by a national survey, I find that those who progress through school ahead of their birth cohort have a higher probability of having had sex, been pregnant, and cohabited by the time of interview. I argue that this pattern of behaviors is explained by experiences that lead them to accelerate their transition to adulthood compared with same-age students with fewer completed school grades, such as exposure to relatively older peers in school and completing academic milestones earlier in life. Among girls who got pregnant, those with an advanced school progression by age are more likely to engage in drug use, alcohol consumption, and smoking before conception; more likely to have pregnancy-related health complications; and less likely to attend prenatal care visits. Thus, an advanced school progression by age has substantial implications for the health and well-being of young women, with potential intergenerational consequences.
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