Latino Access to Preschool Stalls - Declining State Capacity and Demographic Change

Testing for fertility stalls in demographic and health surveys

This study compares two methods for testing fertility trends and fertility stalls using Demographic and Health Surveys data. The first method is based on linear regression and uses the equivalence of period and cohort estimates with the same cumulative fertility at age 40, the same number of births, and the same distribution of women by parity. The second method is based on logistic regression....

Correlates of adiposity among Latino preschool children.

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is at record high levels in the US and disproportionately affects Latino children; however, studies examining Latino preschool children's obesity-related risk factors are sparse. This study determined correlates of Latino preschoolers' (ages 3-5 years) adiposity to inform future obesity interventions and policies. METHODS Latino preschoolers (n = 96) from 4 Head S...

State Capacity, Capital Mobility, and Tax Competition

Abstract The theory of international tax competition suggests that governments attempt to attract mobile capital bases by undercutting the foreign capital tax rate. An analysis of the role that state capacity plays in tax policymaking under international pressures is, however, missing. The central contribution of our study is to highlight the importance of the interaction between state capaci...

Demographic Change in Kosrae State, Federated States of Micronesia

The population of Kosrae has changed dramatically since its first contact with non-Micronesian societies nearly two hundred years ago. Some of the greatest changes occurred during the nineteenth century, when diseases introduced by outsiders nearly eradicated the native population. More recently the number of Kosrae residents has grown, the rapid increases during the twentieth century producing...

Demographic Change and Transport