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Wen, Ming | Air pollution shortens life expectancy and health expectancy for older adults: the case of China | Background: Outdoor air pollution is one of the most worrying environmental threats China faces today. Comprehensive and quantitative analysis of the health consequences of air pollution in China is lacking. This study reports age-sex-specific life expectancy (LE) and health expectancies (HEs) corre... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Wen, Ming | Neighborhood socioeconomic status and BMI differences by immigrant and legal status: Evidence from Utah | We build on recent work examining the BMI patterns of immigrants in the US by distinguishing between legal and undocumented immigrants. We find that undocumented women have relative odds of obesity that are about 10 percentage points higher than for legal immigrant women, and their relative odds of ... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Korinek, Kim | Family relations and the experience of loneliness among older adults in Eastern Europe | In this paper I conceptualize and analyze the determinants of loneliness among older adults in Russia and Bulgaria, two former communist societies experiencing myriad and challenging transitions - economically, demographically, and socially. Using the Generations and Gender Survey (2004) I conduct ... | 2009 | |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Thanks for nothing: changes in income and labor force participation for never-married mothers since 1982 | This study examines whether the changing social and economic characteristics of women who give birth out of wedlock have led to higher family incomes. Using Current Population Survey data collected between 1982 and 2002, we find that never-married mothers remain poor. They have made modest econom... | Motherhood; Single Mothers; Income; Population surveys | 2006-07-26 |
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Korinek, Kim | The effect of household and community on school attrition: an analysis of Thai youth | We analyze school attrition among youth in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand. We find that family investments in schooling are shaped by both household and local community contexts. There is an enrollment advantage for girls across different households and communities. We find that youth whose mothers... | 2012-01-01 |
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