Search Results - "MARK, NICHOLAS D. E."

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Relationships Between Pregnancy Intentions and Maternal Outcomes by Mark, Nicholas D. E.

“…Unplanned or unwanted pregnancies and births are linked to adverse maternal outcomes, but the extent to which such relationships hold for all racial/ethnic…”
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Adding Insult to Injury: Arrests Reduce Attendance through Institutional Mechanisms by Mark, Nicholas D. E., Geller, Amanda, Engberg, John

“…Students across the United States experience high levels of contact with the police. To clarify the causal relationships of this contact with educational…”
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Declining violence and improving birth outcomes in the US: Evidence from birth certificate data by Mark, Nicholas D.E., Torrats-Espinosa, Gerard

“…The decline in crime that occurred in the last decade of the 20th century was one of the most important societal changes in recent US history. In this paper,…”
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Choosing Alone? Peer Continuity Disparities in Choice-Based Enrollment Systems by Mark, Nicholas D. E., Corcoran, Sean P., Jennings, Jennifer L.

“…We provide novel evidence on the broader impacts of school choice systems by quantifying disparities in peer continuity from middle to high school in New York…”
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Could We Level the Playing Field? Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives, Nonmarital Fertility, and Poverty in the United States by WU, LAWRENCE L., MARK, NICHOLAS D. E.

“…Could we combat poverty by reducing the number of unintended and nonmarital births? This article proposes a federal policy that would provide all women with…”
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Sexual Abstinence in the United States: Cohort Trends in Abstaining from Sex While Never Married for U.S. Women Born 1938 to 1983 by Wu, Lawrence L., Martin, Steven P., England, Paula, Mark, Nicholas D. E.

“…In this data visualization, the authors document trends in abstaining from sex while never married for U.S. women born 1938–1939 to 1982–1983. Using data from…”
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Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts by Mark, Nicholas D.E.

“…Black-White disparities in low birth weight (LBW) rise with maternal age. Why? The “weathering hypothesis” holds that the increasing disparity is due to the…”
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More comprehensive sex education reduced teen births: Quasi-experimental evidence by Mark, Nicholas D E, Wu, Lawrence L

“…Women in the United States are much more likely to become mothers as teens than those in other rich countries. Teen births are particularly likely to be…”
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Do Pregnancy Intentions Matter? A Research Note Revisiting Relationships Among Pregnancy, Birth, and Maternal Outcomes by Mark, Nicholas D. E., Cowan, Sarah K.

“…The prevention of unplanned or unintended pregnancies continues to be a cornerstone of U.S. reproductive health policy, but the evidence that such pregnancies…”
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Pregnancy intentions' relationship with infant, pregnancy, maternal, and early childhood outcomes: Evidence from births in Alaska, Missouri, and Oklahoma by Hobby, Erica, Mark, Nicholas D. E., Gemmill, Alison, Cowan, Sarah K.

“…Objectives Much of reproductive health care policy in the United States focuses on enabling women to have intended pregnancies. Investigating whether the…”
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Is US Fertility now Below Replacement? Evidence from Period vs. Cohort Trends by Wu, Lawrence L., Mark, Nicholas D. E.

“…In this study, we contrast period and cohort approaches to answering the question: Is US fertility now below replacement? The answer would appear to be an…”
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Whither weathering? The variable significance of age in Black-White low birth weight disparities by Mark, Nicholas D.E.

“…This paper uses birth certificate data to provide novel estimates of the age-specific risk of a low birth weight birth (LBW, an infant born weighting <2500 g)…”
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