TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal Risk Exposure and Adult Daughters’ Health, Schooling, and Employment
T2 - A Constructed Cohort Analysis of 50 Developing Countries
AU - Li, Qingfeng
AU - Tsui, Amy O.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Population Association of America.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - This study analyzes the relationships between maternal risk factors present at the time of daughters’ births—namely, young mother, high parity, and short preceding birth interval—and their subsequent adult developmental, reproductive, and socioeconomic outcomes. Pseudo-cohorts are constructed using female respondent data from 189 cross-sectional rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 50 developing countries between 1986 and 2013. Generalized linear models are estimated to test the relationships and calculate cohort-level outcome proportions with the systematic elimination of the three maternal risk factors. The simulation exercise for the full sample of 2,546 pseudo-cohorts shows that the combined elimination of risk exposures is associated with lower mean proportions of adult daughters experiencing child mortality, having a small infant at birth, and having a low body mass index. Among sub-Saharan African cohorts, the estimated changes are larger, particularly for years of schooling. The pseudo-cohort approach can enable longitudinal testing of life course hypotheses using large-scale, standardized, repeated cross-sectional data and with considerable resource efficiency.
AB - This study analyzes the relationships between maternal risk factors present at the time of daughters’ births—namely, young mother, high parity, and short preceding birth interval—and their subsequent adult developmental, reproductive, and socioeconomic outcomes. Pseudo-cohorts are constructed using female respondent data from 189 cross-sectional rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 50 developing countries between 1986 and 2013. Generalized linear models are estimated to test the relationships and calculate cohort-level outcome proportions with the systematic elimination of the three maternal risk factors. The simulation exercise for the full sample of 2,546 pseudo-cohorts shows that the combined elimination of risk exposures is associated with lower mean proportions of adult daughters experiencing child mortality, having a small infant at birth, and having a low body mass index. Among sub-Saharan African cohorts, the estimated changes are larger, particularly for years of schooling. The pseudo-cohort approach can enable longitudinal testing of life course hypotheses using large-scale, standardized, repeated cross-sectional data and with considerable resource efficiency.
KW - Cohort analysis
KW - Developing countries
KW - Fertility
KW - Life course
KW - Reproductive health
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U2 - 10.1007/s13524-016-0472-z
DO - 10.1007/s13524-016-0472-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 27154342
AN - SCOPUS:84966290823
SN - 0070-3370
VL - 53
SP - 835
EP - 863
JO - Demography
JF - Demography
IS - 3
ER -