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Demographic Effects of Girls' Education in Developing Countries: Proceedings of a Workshop. In Brief
Direct linkSamari, Goleen – National Academies Press, 2017
Educating girls is a universally accepted strategy for improving lives and advancing development. Girls' schooling is associated with many demographic outcomes, including later age at marriage or union formation, lower fertility, and better child health. However, the causal pathways between education and demographic outcomes are not well…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Correlation, Workshops
Guardino, Christine M.; Schetter, Christine Dunkel – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
Pregnancy anxiety is a particular emotional state tied to pregnancy-specific concerns, such as worries about the health of the baby and childbirth. A growing body of research demonstrates that pregnancy anxiety is an important risk factor for preterm birth and other adverse birth and child development outcomes. This article defines and describes…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Anxiety, At Risk Persons, Prenatal Influences
Peer reviewedMolenaar, Peter C. M.; Nesselroade, John R. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2009
It seems that just when we are about to lay P-technique factor analysis finally to rest as obsolete because of newer, more sophisticated multivariate time-series models using latent variables--dynamic factor models--it rears its head to inform us that an obituary may be premature. We present the results of some simulations demonstrating that even…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Simulation, Affective Behavior
Monastersky, Richard – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
In 1989, Hallam Hurt, a neonatologist in Philadelphia, started recruiting poor inner-city women for a study of how cocaine use during pregnancy affects the developing fetus. Dr. Hurt enrolled women who had used cocaine while pregnant and balanced them against a control group of equally poor women who had not taken any drugs. Years later, when the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Correlation, Intelligence Quotient, Control Groups
Jayachandran, Seema; Lleras-Muney, Adriana – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
Longer life expectancy should encourage human capital accumulation, since a longer time horizon increases the value of investments that pay out over time. Previous work has been unable to determine the empirical importance of this life-expectancy effect due to the difficulty of isolating it from other effects of health on education. We examine a…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Poverty
Download full textTripathi, Vrijesh; Nandan, Deoki – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2006
The world has a population of 6 billion. India alone has a population of 1 billion. This is despite the fact that India was the first country in the world to have a population policy. It is important to understand the factors that led to this population explosion and the complex links between population growth rates and levels of development.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Population Growth, Correlation, Socioeconomic Status
