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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"cohort effects"”.
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Age, period, and cohort effects on trust of government in rural America.
… former conditions. Using hierarchical age-period-cohort with cross-classified random effect modeling (HAPC-CCREM) and a span of thirty-five years of empirical data, I address the linkage between macro-level socioeconomic conditions and institutional trust. I hypothesize that rural communities have …
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Correlates of Measures of Adaptive and Pathological Narcissism
… and discussion abound about potential narcissism cohort effects and their implications. The most widely used measure of narcissism has been the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI), which has a history of being considered a measure of adaptive, subclinical trait narcissism. However, increasing …
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Dimensions of Well-Being: Earnings, Happiness and Domestic Violence
… always worse than workers, and it also suggests cohort effects are also important when lifecycle profiles do not follow the same people over the whole age range. This chapter also provides an economic model which partly explains how higher productivity individuals may leave the market earlier …
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Essays on Immigrant Mental Health: A Look at Health Reporting, Model Identification, and Policy Changes
… health or whether it applies to recent immigrant cohorts. This thesis seeks to understand the healthy immigrant effect with regards to mental health, by examining aspects of mental health reporting and immigrant mental health using both survey and administrative health data. The first chapter …
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The 1980's And Today; An Analysis Of Women's Subjective Well-being
… marital status, gender, social networks, and cohort effect on dimensions of subjective well-being for women. Multiple dimensions of subjective well-being are examined. Multiple regression and logistic regression are employed to examine the effects of marital status, social networks, and cohort …
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Coresidence At the Crash: The Effect of Employment, Marital Status, and Disability On Living With Your Parents
… suggested by life course research, age, period, cohort effects must be taken into account. Together these results illustrate that the reasons for coresiding are varied, but instability in the life course is the key to understanding those reasons. Furthermore, I find prevailing norms and popular …
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Cellular and Synaptic Morphology of Golgi -Impregnated Cortical Neurons in Patients With Schizophrenia
… appear to result from antipsychotic exposure or cohort effects.
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Behavioral Aspects of Retirement Savings: How do 401(K) Plans Affect Household Asset Accumulation?
… a reduction in consumption. Controlling for cohort effects reduces the amount of wealth attributable to 401(k) eligibility to a negligible (and statistically insignificant) amount. The second essay considers the impact that borrowing against the assets in 401(k) plan might have on household …
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The immigrant experience : networks, skills and the next generation
… outcomes of immigrants. I find evidence of cohort effects in the relationship between mean earnings and the proportion of co-ethnics in the CMA which vary by education level. Next, using information on the proportion of one's friends who share one's ethnicity, I test a common assumption that …
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A cohort perspective of U.S. adult mortality
This dissertation advances a cohort perspective to analyze trends in racial and educational disparities in U.S. adult mortality. The project is organized around three themes. First, I emphasize that recent temporal changes in U.S. adult mortality risk are rooted in cohort forces. Unfortunately, …
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Cohort Differences in Perceptions of Helpful Counselor Characteristics
The present study examined age cohort differences in older and younger adults as they relate to perceptions of helpful counselor characteristics. The present study also assessed whether previous help-seeking behavior influences perceptions of what counselor characteristics would be helpful. The …
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Hip Fracture Incidence and Prevalence of Osteoporosis in Sweden in Recent Decades
… to analyze whether they are attributable to cohort and/or period effects. In population-based samples of urban and rural women (n=437, age ≥50 years) and men (n=277, age ≥60 years) risk factors for hip fracture were evaluated in 1988/89 and 1998/99 as was BMD in Malmö women from 1970 to 1999 …
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Diagnostic Procedures Using Radiation and Risk of Thyroid Cancer: Causal Association or Detection Bias? An Examination of Population Cancer Trends and Data from the NYC Fire Department
… City of New York (FDNY) data. Using age-period-cohort analyses of SEER data (1973-2011), trends in TC incidence in the United States were decomposed into the effects of age, period and cohort in the context of changes in diagnostic procedures. Using FDNY data, the association of radiation …
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Epidemiological evidence that can help to improve timely diagnosis of colorectal cancer in New Zealand.
… Registry (years 1994–2018) using an age- period-cohort (APC) model. The overall CRC incidence rates in NZ decreased between 1994 and 2018 by an average of 1.31% per year. However, the decrease was observed only in patients 50 years and older. In those 30-<50 years old, the incidence rates …
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The “Why” Generation: Traits and Conflict Styles of Millennials From the Workplace to the Future of Society
<p>The Millennial generation is now the largest cohort in the United States, with an estimated 85 million Millennials compared to 69.5 million Generation Xers and 69.6 million Baby Boomers (U.S. Census Bureau, 2019). Given the growing impact of this sizable generation, this paper explores the …
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A Brief Intervention to Reduce Sugar Consumption on College Campuses
… samples from 10 years ago. Selection and cohort effects are discussed. It is possible that individuals are consuming less sugar than in the previous decade, and this may be due to increased awareness and understanding of the effects of sugar consumption. Future research should further …
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An economic analysis of declining marriages in post-apartheid South Africa, 1995-2006
… the pseudo panel, we make use of the Age-Period-Cohort Model to disentangle marriage trends into age, period, and cohort effects in order to establish whether the change in marital patterns observed in post-apartheid South Africa reflects a real decline in marriages. Having established that the …
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Multivariate statistical modelling of family formation processes among women in Namibia
… distinctive in the Namibian society. Period and cohort effects in the timing of first sex were evident among women in Namibia. Efforts to discourage early sexual debut should be stepped up especially in North-Eastern Namibia. Results did not suggest a significant nonlinear pattern of age at first …
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Empirical Essays in Earnings and Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies
… accurately reflect the experience of individual cohorts. We utilize annual surveys of expenditures and income conducted between 1984 and 2004 and decompose changes in average earnings and expenditures into cohort, age, and period effects. The estimated period effects accurately reflect the …
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The impact of serotonergic and dopaminergic genetic variation on endophenotypes of emotional processing
… emotionality. In addition to 5-HTTLPR, the effects of past stressful life events on the startle response were investigated: Participants who had recently experienced at least one stressful life event exhibited stronger startle responses and reduced habituation of the startle reflex although …
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