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Duncan A Thomas

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Intra-household resource allocation: An inferential approach

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D Thomas - Journal of human resources, 1990 - JSTOR
If household income is pooled and then allocated to maximize welfare then income under
the control of mothers and fathers should have the same impact on demand. With survey
data on family health and nutrition in Brazil, the equality of parental income effects is ...
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Health, nutrition, and economic development

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J Strauss… - Journal of economic literature, 1998 - JSTOR
Over the past 20 years, investment in human resources has taken center stage in the study
of developing economies. A voluminous set of wage function estimates provides the basis
for calculating market returns to education for virtually every country in the world. Studies ...
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Human resources: Empirical modeling of household and family decisions

J Strauss… - Handbook of development economics, 1995 - Elsevier
Chapter 34 HUMAN RESOURCES: EMPIRICAL MODELING OF HOUSEHOLD AND
FAMILY DECISIONS JOHN STRAUSS* Michigan State University DUNCAN THOMAS*
RAND and UCLA Contents 1. Introduction and overview 1885 1.1. Historical ...
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Does Head Start make a difference?

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J Currie… - 1993 - nber.org
Although there is a broad hi-partisan support for Head Start, the evidence of positive
longterm effects of the program is not overwhelming. Using data from the National
Longitudinal Survey's Child-Mother file, we examine the impact of the program on a range ...
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Like father, like son; like mother, like daughter: Parental resources and child height

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D Thomas - Journal of Human Resources, 1994 - JSTOR
Using household survey data from the United States, Brazil, and Ghana, I examine the
relationship beween parental education and child height, an indicator of health and
nutritional status. In all three countries, the education of the mother has a bigger effect on ...
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[HTML] Ambient air pollution and atherosclerosis in Los Angeles

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N Künzli, M Jerrett, WJ Mack… - Environmental health …, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Associations have been found between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution
and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The contribution of air pollution to
atherosclerosis that underlies many cardiovascular diseases has not been investigated. ...
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Exposure measurement error in time-series studies of air pollution: concepts and consequences.

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SL Zeger, D Thomas, F Dominici… - Environmental health …, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Misclassification of exposure is a well-recognized inherent limitation of
epidemiologic studies of disease and the environment. For many agents of interest,
exposures take place over time and in multiple locations; accurately estimating the ...
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How does mother's education affect child height?

D Thomas, J Strauss… - Journal of Human Resources, 1991 - JSTOR
Many studies have demonstrated that parental education has a significant positive impact on
child health. This paper attempts to identify the mechanisms through which maternal
education affects one indicator of child health-height conditional on age and sex. Using ...
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Health and wages: Evidence on men and women in urban Brazil

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D Thomas… - Journal of Econometrics, 1997 - Elsevier
Survey data indicate that different dimensions of health affect the wages of men and women
in urban Brazil. Height has a large and significant effect on wages: taller men and women
earn more. Body mass index (BMI) is associated with higher wages of males, especially ...
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Early test scores, socioeconomic status and future outcomes

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J Currie… - 1999 - nber.org
This paper examines the long-term effects of early test scores using data from the British
National Child Development Survey. We show that test scores measured as early as age 7
have significant effects on future educational and labor market outcomes. For example, ...
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School quality and the longer-term effects of Head Start

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J Currie… - 1998 - nber.org
Recent research on Head Start, an enriched preschool program for poor children that effects
on test scores fade out'more quickly for black children than for white children. This" paper
uses data from the 1988 wave of the National Educational Longitudinal Survey to show ...
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Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil

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D Thomas, J Strauss… - Journal of Development Economics, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract The impact of household characteristics on child survival and height, conditional on
age, is examined using household survey data from Brazil. Parental education is found to
have a very strong positive effect on both outcomes and this is robust to the inclusion of ...
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[BOOK] The real costs of Indonesia's economic crisis: preliminary findings from the Indonesia Family Life Surveys

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E Frankenberg, D Thomas, K Beegle… - 1999 - rand.org
Executive Summary Indonesia is at the center of dramatic political and economic upheaval.
Projections put output in 1998 at 15% below its 1997 level and inflation at 75-80% for 1997.
Riots and demonstrations flared in several Indonesian cities. After leading the country for ...
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Exposure measurement error: influence on exposure-disease relationships and methods of correction

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D Thomas, D Stram… - Annual Review of Public Health, 1993 - annualreviews.org
Epidemiology, being primarily an observational rather than experimental science, has often
encountered problems with measurement of the study variables, which are not under the
control of the investigator. Difficulties arise in part because the variables under study are ...
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Modeling and EM estimation of haplotype-specific relative risks from genotype data for a case-control study of unrelated individuals

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DO Stram, C Leigh Pearce, P Bretsky… - Human …, 2003 - content.karger.com
Page 1. Original Paper Hum Hered 2003;55:179–190 DOI: 10.1159/000073202
Modeling and EM Estimation of Haplotype- Specific Relative Risks from Genotype
Data for a Case-Control Study of Unrelated Individuals Daniel ...
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The influence of household composition on household expenditure patterns: theory and Spanish evidence

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AS Deaton, J Ruiz-Castillo… - The Journal of Political Economy, 1989 - JSTOR
A concept of demographic separability is proposed that formalizes the notion that there are
groups of goods (adult goods) that have little or no relationship to specific classes of
household demographics (the numbers or ages of children). That there exist adult goods ...
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Public policy and anthropometric outcomes in the Cote d'Ivoire

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D Thomas, V Lavy… - Journal of public Economics, 1996 - Elsevier
Household survey data from the Côte d'Ivoire are used to examine the impact of public
policies on child height, child weight for height and adult body mass index. Economic
adjustment programs in the 1980s were accompanied by reduced availability and quality ...
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Air pollution and bronchitic symptoms in Southern California children with asthma.

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R McConnell, K Berhane, F Gilliland… - Environmental health …, 1999 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Page 1. CHIIWREN'S HEALTH iArti'cles Air Pollution and Bronchitic Symptoms in
Southern California Children with Asthma Rob McConnell,1 Kiros Berhane,1 Frank
Gilliland,1 StephanieJ. London,2 Hita Vora,1 Edward Avol ...
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[BOOK] Statistical methods in genetic epidemiology

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Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology Page 4. This page
intentionally left blank Page 5. Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology DUNCAN
C. THOMAS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2004 Page 6. ...
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Quality of health care, survival and health outcomes in Ghana

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V Lavy, J Strauss, D Thomas… - Journal of Health Economics, 1996 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the effect of quality and accessibility of health services and other public
infrastructure on the health of children in Ghana. We focus on child survival, child height and
weight using data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The results suggest an ...
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Recent developments in genomewide association scans: a workshop summary and review

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DC Thomas, RW Haile… - The American Journal of Human …, 2005 - Elsevier
... Both designs use all the data from both samples in the final analysis. Duncan Thomas
and Daniel Stram described some extensions of the Satagopan et al. approach
for the design of the CFR and MEC genomewide studies. ...
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General relative-risk models for survival time and matched case-control analysis

DC Thomas - Biometrics, 1981 - JSTOR
Page 1. General Relative-Risk Models for Survival Time and Matched Case-Control
Analysis Author(s): Duncan C. Thomas Source: Biometrics, Vol. 37, No. 4, (Dec, 1981),
pp. 673-686 Published by: International Biometrie Society ...
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Does Head Start help hispanic children?

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J Currie… - 1996 - nber.org
Poor educational attainment is a persistent problem among Latino children, relative to non-
Latinos. This paper examines the effects of participation in the Head Start program on
Latinos. We find that large and significant benefits accrue to Head Start children when we ...
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Simultaneously modelling censored survival data and repeatedly measured covariates: a Gibbs sampling approach

CL Faucett… - Statistics in Medicine, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
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Education in a Crisis

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D Thomas, K Beegle, E Frankenberg… - Journal of Development …, 2004 - Elsevier
The year 1998 saw the onset of a major economic and financial crisis in Indonesia. GDP fell
by 12% that year. The effect on education of the next generation is examined. On average,
household spending on education declined, most dramatically among the poorest ...
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[PDF] Incomes, expenditures, and health outcomes: Evidence on intrahousehold resource allocation

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D Thomas - … resource allocation in developing countries: Models, …, 1997 - ifpri.org
Although the traditional (unitary) model of the household is simple, it is hard to overstate its
contribution to the understanding of economic and social behavior. Whether or not it is an
adequate description of household choices is fundamentally an empirical question—the ...
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Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height

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D Thomas… - Journal of Development Economics, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract The relation between parental characteristics, community characteristics and child
height is examined using Brazilian household survey data, matched with information
collected at the municipio level. Child height is significantly affected by local infrastructure, ...
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Economic shocks, wealth, and welfare

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E Frankenberg, JP Smith… - Journal of Human …, 2003 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract The immediate effects of the Asian crisis on the well-being of Indonesians are
examined using the Indonesia Family Life Survey, an ongoing longitudinal household
survey. There is tremendous diversity in the effect of the shock: for some households, it ...
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The distribution of income and expenditure within the household

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D Thomas - Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 1993 - JSTOR
Most economic models of the household assume that it may be treated as if all members
share the same preferences or one member (a dictator) makes all resource allocation
decisions. That assumption is tested by asking whether income in the hands of men has ...
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Lost but not forgotten: Attrition and follow-up in the Indonesia Family Life Survey

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D Thomas, E Frankenberg… - Journal of Human Resources, 2001 - JSTOR
Data from three waves of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) are used to examine follow-
up and attrition in the context of a large scale panel survey conducted in a low-income
setting. Household-level attrition between the baseline and first follow-up four years later ...
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[PDF] Health, nutrition and prosperity: a microeconomic perspective

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D Thomas… - BULLETIN-WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, 2002 - who.int
Abstract A positive correlation between health and economic prosperity has been widely
documented, but the extent to which this reflects a causal effect of health on economic
outcomes is very controversial. Two classes of evidence are examined. First, carefully ...
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Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia

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K Beegle, E Frankenberg… - Studies in Family …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Indonesian women's power relative to that of their husbands is examined to determine how it
affects use of prenatal and delivery care. Holding household resources constant, a woman's
control over economic resources affects the couple's decisionmaking. Compared with a ...
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Health over the life course

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J Strauss… - Handbook of development economics, 2007 - Elsevier
Abstract In recent years, significant advances have been made in better understanding the
complex relationships between health and development. This reflects the combined effects
of methodological innovations at both the theoretical and empirical level, the integration of ...
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[PDF] Income shares and shares of income: Empirical tests of models of household resource allocations

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D Thomas… - RAND Labor and Population Program Working …, 1994 - rand.org
The vast majority of the literature in economics on household decisions assumes (either
explicitly or implicitly) that the household maximizes a unique utility function given a set of
constraints dictated by the household budget and available technology. While treating the ...
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Medical care for children: Public insurance, private insurance, and racial differences in utilization

J Currie… - Journal of Human Resources, 1995 - JSTOR
Data from two waves of the Child-Mother module of the National Longitudinal Surveys are
used to examine the medical care received by children. We compare those covered by
Medicaid, by private health insurance and those with no insurance coverage at all. We ...
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[PDF] Distribution of power within the household and child health

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D Thomas, D Contreras… - Santa Monica: RAND. Mimeo, 2002 - Citeseer
Abstract Recent research suggests that household decision-making may be influenced by
the relative power of husbands and wives. But, empirical measurement of relative power has
been extremely difficult. Using data that were specially collected to address this issue, the ...
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[HTML] The measurement and interpretation of health in social surveys

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D Thomas… - Summary measures of population …, 2002 - books.google.com
Health status is hard to measure. It is widely recognized that health is multi-dimensional
reflecting the combination of an array of factors that include physical, mental and social well-
being, genotype and phenotype influences as well as expectations and information. A ...
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Wages, employment and economic shocks: Evidence from Indonesia

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JP Smith, D Thomas, E Frankenberg… - Journal of Population …, 2002 - Springer
Abstract. After over a quarter century of sustained economic growth, Indonesia was struck by
a large and unanticipated crisis at the end of the 20th Century. Real GDP declined by about
12% in 1998. Using 13 years of annual labor force data in conjunction with two waves of a ...
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[HTML] Traffic-related air pollution and asthma onset in children: a prospective cohort study with individual exposure measurement

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M Jerrett, K Shankardass, K Berhane… - Environmental health …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Family-based association studies

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WJ Gauderman, JS Witte… - JNCI …, 1999 - jncimono.oxfordjournals.org
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Women's health and pregnancy outcomes: Do services make a difference?

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E Frankenberg… - Demography, 2001 - Springer
Abstract We use data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to investigate the impact of a
major expansion in access to midwifery services on health and pregnancy outcomes for
women of reproductive age. Between 1990 and 1998 Indonesia trained some 50,000 ...
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Education across generations in South Africa

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D Thomas - The American Economic Review, 1996 - JSTOR
Racially segregated education was a central pillar propping up the apartheid system in
South Africa. The 1953 Bantu Education Act centralized control of black education and
linked tax receipts from blacks to public expenditure on their education. In 1975, ...
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Principles of study design in environmental epidemiology.

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H Morgenstern… - Environmental Health Perspectives, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract This paper discusses the principles of study design and related methodologic
issues in environmental epidemiology. Emphasis is given to studies aimed at evaluating
causal hypotheses regarding exposures to suspected health hazards. Following ...
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The healthy migrant effect: new findings from the Mexican Family Life Survey

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LN Rubalcava, GM Teruel… - Journal …, 2008 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We used nationally representative longitudinal data from the Mexican Family Life
Survey to determine whether recent migrants from Mexico to the United States are healthier
than other Mexicans. Previous research has provided little scientific evidence that tests the ...
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Bias and efficiency in family-based gene-characterization studies: conditional, prospective, retrospective, and joint likelihoods

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P Kraft… - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2000 - Elsevier
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Family bargaining and welfare

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L Rubalcava… - 2000 - DTIC Document
Abstract: Recent research on household behavior suggests that, ceteris paribus, a woman's"
power" within a household influences consumption and time allocation choices. From an
empirical point of view, a central stumbling block in this line of inquiry has been ...
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Testing linkage disequilibrium in sibships

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KD Siegmund, B Langholz, P Kraft… - The American Journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
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[BOOK] Health care prices, health and labor outcomes: Experimental evidence

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WH Dow, P Gertler, RF Schoeni, J Strauss… - 1997 - rand.org
Abstract While the demand for health care has been shown to decline as prices rise, little is
known about the impact of raising user fees on health outcomes or other dimensions of well-
being such as labor supply and wages. Drawing on evidence from social experiments ...
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Remembrances of things past: Test–retest reliability of retrospective migration histories

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JP Smith… - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Matched retrospective life history data collected from the same individuals in two
waves of the Malaysian Family Life Survey provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the
quality of long-term recall data in a rapidly changing developing country. Recall quality, ...
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Statistical methods for analyzing effects of temporal patterns of exposure on cancer risks.

DC Thomas - Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 1983 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1. Scand J Work Environ Health. 1983 Aug;9(4):353-66. Statistical methods for
analyzing effects of temporal patterns of exposure on cancer risks. Thomas DC. Two
approaches to the inclusion of temporal factors in the analysis ...
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Explaining family change and variation: Challenges for family demographers

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JA Seltzer, CA Bachrach, SM Bianchi… - Journal of Marriage …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and
Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This ...
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[BOOK] Gender differences in household resource allocations

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D Thomas… - 1991 - www-wds.worldbank.org
How are resources allocated within the household? Whereas sociologists and
anthropologists have attempted to peer into this black box, economists have paid less
attention to the question. In almost every study of household behavior, economic models, ...
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[CITATION] Child health and the distribution of household resources at marriage

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[PDF] Household budgets, household composition and the crisis in Indonesia: Evidence from longitudinal household survey data

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D Thomas, E Frankenberg… - … of America Meetings …, 1999 - www-siepr.stanford.edu
Abstract Using panel data from Indonesia, the impact of the financial crisis on the welfare of
households is examined. Contrasting consumption of the same households in late 1997 and
late 1998, mean per capita expenditure (PCE) has declined by around 25% while median ...
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Can expanding access to basic healthcare improve children's health status? Lessons from Indonesia's 'midwife in the village'programme

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E Frankenberg, W Suriastini… - Population Studies, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
In the 1990s, the Indonesian government placed over 50,000 midwives in communities
throughout the country. We examine how this expansion in health services affected
children's height-for-age. To address the problem that midwives were not randomly ...
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Models for exposure-time-response relationships with applications to cancer epidemiology

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DC Thomas - Annual review of public health, 1988 - annualreviews.org
Page 1. Ann. Rev. Public Health. 1988. 9:451 2 Copyright © 1988 by Annual Reviews 1nc.
All ri8hts reserved MODELS FOR EXPOSURE-TIME-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH
APPLICATIONS TO CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY Duncan C. Thomas ...
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[BOOK] Wages, schooling and background: investments in men and women in urban Brazil

J Strauss, D Thomas, EG Center… - 1991 - voced.edu.au
Abstract: There is virtually universal agreement that the correlation between wages and
education is positive in a wide range of countries. In Brazil there has been a very large
positive return to schooling, which has been well documented in the literature, although ...
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[CITATION] Iron deficiency and the well-being of older adults: Early results from a randomized nutrition intervention

D Thomas, E Frankenberg, J Friedman, JP Habicht… - Population Association of …, 2003
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Health consequences of forest fires in Indonesia

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E Frankenberg, D McKee… - Demography, 2005 - Springer
Abstract We combined data from a population-based longitudinal survey with satellite
measures of aerosol levels to assess the impact of smoke from forest fires that blanketed the
Indonesian islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra in late 1997 on adult health. To account for ...
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Role of education and extension in the adoption of technology: A study of upland rice and soybean farmers in Central-West Brazil

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J Strauss, M Barbosa, S Teixeira, D Thomas… - Agricultural …, 1991 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper explores reduced form determinants of the adoption of certain
technologies by upland rice and soybean farmers in the Center-West region of Brazil. We
merge community level data on the availability and quality of publicly provided ...
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The demographic transition in Southern Africa: Another look at the evidence from Botswana and Zimbabwe

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D Thomas… - Demography, 1994 - Springer
Abstract Botswana and Zimbabwe have been acclaimed as being on the vanguard of the
demographic transition in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper examines the comparability of the
CPS and the DHS data for each country and finds that part of the observed decline in ...
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Measurement issues in environmental epidemiology.

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M Hatch… - Environmental health perspectives, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract This paper deals with the area of environmental epidemiology involving
measurement of exposure and dose, health outcomes, and important confounding and
modifying variables (including genotype and psychosocial factors). Using examples, we ...
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Patients' understanding of prescribed drugs

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SW Fletcher, RH Fletcher, DC Thomas… - Journal of Community …, 1979 - Springer
Page 1. Journal of Community Health Vol. 4, No. 3, Spring 1979 PATIENTS'
UNDERSTANDING OF PRESCRIBED DRUGS Suzanne W. Fletcher, MD, M.Sc., Robert
H. Fletcher, MD, M.Sc., Duncan C. Thomas, Ph.D., and Claus Hamann, MD ...
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Design and analysis of multilevel analytic studies with applications to a study of air pollution.

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W Navidi, D Thomas, D Stram… - Environmental Health …, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract We discuss a hybrid epidemiologic design that aims to combine two approaches to
studying exposure-disease associations. The analytic approach is based on comparisons
between individuals, eg, case-control and cohort studies, and the ecologic approach is ...
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Statistical issues in studies of the long-term effects of air pollution: The Southern California Children's Health Study

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K Berhane, WJ Gauderman, DO Stram… - Statistical …, 2004 - projecteuclid.org
Page 1. Statistical Science 2004, Vol. 19, No. 3, 414–449 DOI 10.1214/088342304000000413 ©
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2004 Statistical Issues in Studies of the Long-Term Effects
of Air Pollution: The Southern California Children's Health Study ...
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Measurement and mismeasurement of social indicators

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J Strauss… - The American Economic Review, 1996 - JSTOR
Over the last few decades, there has been a spectacular increase in the availability of data
on a broad array of social indicators including life expectancy, health, and education, and
these data are routinely tabulated for many countries. In part, this reflects a recognition ...
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[CITATION] Client perceptions of integrated marketing communications

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TR Duncan… - Journal of Advertising Research, 1993 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Información del artículo Client perceptions of integrated marketing communications.
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Physician sensitivity to the price of diagnostic tests: a US-Canadian analysis

J Hoey, JM Eisenberg, WO Spitzer… - Medical Care, 1982 - JSTOR
A questionnaire containing 11 patient management problems was completed by 495
physicians and medical students at an American and a Canadian medical school.
Respondents indicated whether they would order a particular diagnostic test in each case, ...
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Fertility, education and resources in South Africa

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D Thomas - Critical perspectives on schooling and fertility in the …, 1999 - books.google.com
South Africa has emerged from three-quarters of a century of apartheid, which placed
comprehensive restrictions on the geographic and economic mobility of its population. As
those restrictions are relaxed and the society moves toward integration, one of the ...
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[CITATION] Chinese political thought: A study based upon the theories of the principal thinkers of the Chou period

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[BOOK] Measuring power

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E Frankenberg, D Thomas… - 2001 - Citeseer
ABSTRACT There is a longstanding interest in how decisions about resource allocations are
made within households and how those decisions affect the welfare of household members.
Much empirical work has approached the problem from the perspective that if preferences ...
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Temporal modifiers of the radon-smoking interaction

D Thomas, J Pogoda, B Langholz… - Health physics, 1994 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Data on lung cancer mortality in a cohort of 3,347 Colorado Plateau uranium miners
was reanalyzed to investigate the role of time-related modifiers of the radon-smoking
interaction. A nested case-control sample of the cohort was drawn, matching each of the ...
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[CITATION] Global advertising: issues and practices

SE Moriarty… - Current Issues and Research in Advertising, 1991
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[PDF] Causal effect of health on labor market outcomes: Experimental evidence

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D Thomas, E Frankenberg, J Friedman, JP Habicht… - 2006 - escholarship.org
Abstract Iron deficiency is widespread throughout the developing world. We provide new
evidence on the effect of iron deficiency on economic and social prosperity of older adults
drawing on data from a random assignment treatment-control design intervention. The ...
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Survival models for familial aggregation of cancer.

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W Mack, B Langholz… - Environmental health …, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Page 1. Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 87, pp. 27-35, 1990 Survival Models
for Familial Aggregation of Cancer by Wendy Mack,* Bryan Langholz,* and Duncan
C. Thomast It has recently been shown that the relative ...
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[HTML] Assessing uncertainty in spatial exposure models for air pollution health effects assessment

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J Molitor, M Jerrett, CC Chang… - Environmental Health …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Although numerous epidemiologic studies now use models of intraurban
exposure, there has been little systematic evaluation of the performance of different models.
Objectives In this present article we proposed a modeling framework for assessing ...
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On the road: Marriage and mobility in Malaysia

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JP Smith… - Journal of Human Resources, 1998 - JSTOR
Migration choices of husbands and wives in a dynamic and developing country are studied
in the context of an economic model of the household. Data are drawn from the second
wave of the Malaysia Family Life Survey. Exploiting the retrospective histories, we ...
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Labor market transitions of men and women during an economic crisis: Evidence from Indonesia

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D Thomas, K Beegle… - 2000 - DTIC Document
Abstract: Indonesia is in the midst of a major financial, economic and political crisis. The
immediate effects of the crisis on labor market outcomes are examined drawing on two
rounds of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) a longitudinal household survey ...
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Race, children's cognitive achievement and the Bell Curve

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J Currie… - 1995 - nber.org
In The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray demonstrate that a mother's score on the Armed
Forces Qualification Test is a powerful predictor of her child's score on a cognitive
achievement test. We replicate this finding. However, even after controlling for maternal ...
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[CITATION] Health, education, and the economic crisis in Indonesia

E Frankenberg, K Beegle, D Thomas… - annual meeting of the Population …, 1999
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Multistage sampling for disease family registries

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KD Siegmund, AS Whittemore… - JNCI …, 1999 - jncimonographs.oxfordjournals.org
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Fertility, contraceptive choice, and public policy in Zimbabwe

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D Thomas… - The World Bank Economic Review, 1996 - World Bank
Abstract Zimbabwe has invested massively in public infrastructure since independence in
1980. The impact of these investments on demographic outcomes is examined using
household survey data matched with two community level surveys. A woman's education ...
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Measuring change in Indonesia

K Beegle, E Frankenberg… - Papers, 1999 - ideas.repec.org
After almost three decades of sustained economic growth, Indonesia is currently in the midst
of a major economic and financial crisis. This paper seeks to contribute new evidence on
three questions: who has been affected most by the crisis, how they have been affected ...
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[PDF] Spending, saving and public transfers paid to women

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L Rubalcava, G Teruel… - 2004 - escholarship.org
ABSTRACT The literature suggests men and women have different preferences. This paper
exploits a random assignment social experiment in which women in treatment households
were given a large public cash transfer (PROGRESA) and women in control households ...
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The problem of multiple inference in identifying point-source environmental hazards.

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DC Thomas - Environmental health perspectives, 1985 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Page 1. Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 62, pp. 407-414, 1985 The Problem
of Multiple Inference in Identifying Point-Source Environmental Hazards by Duncan
C. Thomas* Point-source environmental hazards are often ...
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Contribution of radon and radon daughters to respiratory cancer.

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N Harley, JM Samet, FT Cross, T Hess… - Environmental health …, 1986 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract This article reviews studies on the contribution of radon and radon daughters to
respiratory cancer and proposes recommendations for further research, particularly a
national radon survey. The steady-state outdoor radon concentration averages 200 pCi/ ...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of “Intelligence”: Down the Slippery Slopes of The Bell Curve

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J Currie… - … Relations: A Journal of Economy and …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Herrnstein and Murray report that conditional on maternal “intelligence”(AFQT scores), child
test scores are little affected by variations in socioeconomic status. Using the same data, we
demonstrate that their finding is very fragile. We explore the effect of adopting a more ...
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[CITATION] The food share as a welfare measure

D Thomas - 1986 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 44410931. The food share as a welfare measure / (1986). Thomas,
Duncan. Abstract. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 1986.. Bibliography: leaves 243-254.
Details der Publikation. Download, http://worldcat.org/oclc/82633157. ...
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[BOOK] Contraceptive choice, fertility, and public policy in Zimbabwe

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D Thomas… - 1995 - books.google.com
Living Standards Measurement Study No. 107. Lost investment opportunities for society and
the inefficient provision of public schooling are just some of the reasons why developing
countries are concerned with low school completion rates. This study investigates the ...
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Lost but not Forgotten: Attrition and Follow-Up in the Indonesian Family Life Survey

D Thomas, E Frankenberg… - Working Papers, 2000 - ideas.repec.org
Data from three waves of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) are used to examine attrition
in the context of a large scale panel survey conducted in a low income setting. ... To our
knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there ...
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Nonparametric estimation and tests of fit for dose-response relations

DC Thomas - Biometrics, 1983 - JSTOR
Page 1. BIOMETRICS 39, 263-268 March 1983 Nonparametric Estimation and Tests of Fit for
Dose-Response Relations Duncan C. Thomas Department of Epidemiology and Health, McGill
University, 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4 ...
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Investments, Time Preferences, and Public Transfers Paid to Women

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L Rubalcava, G Teruel… - Economic Development and Cultural …, 2009 - JSTOR
Abstract The literature suggests that men and women may have different preferences. This
paper exploits a social experiment in which women in treatment households were given a
large public cash transfer (PROGRESA). In an effort to disentangle the effect of additional ...
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Parental investments in schooling: The roles of gender and resources in urban Brazil

D Thomas, RF Schoeni… - Papers, 1996 - ideas.repec.org
There have been dramatic increases in educational attainment in Brazil over the last half-
century. These increases have been especially rapid for women who are, today, better
educated than men. The importance of the education and income of mothers and fathers ...
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[CITATION] Temporal effects and interactions in cancer: implications of carcinogenic models

DC Thomas - … Epidemiology: Risk Assessment, 1982 - Philadelphia, Society for Industrial …
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Mental health in Sumatra after the tsunami

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E Frankenberg, J Friedman… - Journal …, 2008 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We assessed the levels and correlates of posttraumatic stress reactivity (PTSR)
of more than 20000 adult tsunami survivors by analyzing survey data from coastal Aceh and
North Sumatra, Indonesia. Methods. A population-representative sample of individuals ...
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[CITATION] Measurement of child health: Maternal response bias

J Sindelar… - Papers, 1991 - ideas.repec.org
No abstract is available for this item. ... To our knowledge, this item is not available for
download. To find whether it is available, there are three options: 1. Check below under "Related
research" whether another version of this item is available online. 2. Check on the ...
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[PDF] Out of west africa: Evidence on the efficient allocation of resources within farm households

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M Rangel… - Manuscript, Harris School of …, 2005 - harrisschool.uchicago.edu
Abstract Previous contributions to the literature have used data on agricultural production
activities in West Africa to show that plots of land managed by women are less productive
(on average) than the ones farmed by their husbands. This would seem to indicate a ...
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[HTML] Dog ownership enhances symptomatic responses to air pollution in children with asthma

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R McConnell, K Berhane, J Molitor… - Environmental health …, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Experimental data suggest that asthma exacerbation by ambient air pollutants
is enhanced by exposure to endotoxin and allergens; however, there is little supporting
epidemiologic evidence. Methods We evaluated whether the association of exposure to ...
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Risk assessment for aflatoxin B1: A modeling approach

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AH Wu‐Williams, L Zeise… - Risk Analysis, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
The data generated by Yeh et al. on hepatitis B virus, aflatoxin, and primary hepatocellular
carcinoma (PHC) in Southern Guangxi, China was used to evaluate the cancer potency of
aflatoxin. We examined model fits to these data to explore whether hepatitis B virus (HBV) ...
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[CITATION] Measuring housing quality: a study of methods

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