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Alison Gemmill

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Demographer. Asst Professor @JohnsHopkinsSPH. Associate Director @HopkinsPopCntr. Repro/population health, fertility, life course, health equity. She/hers.

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“The women and families have to suffer through an excruciating later part of pregnancy, knowing that their baby is likely to die in the first weeks of life.” (This is what happens with interfering with a women's right to choose what's best for herself. Horrendous.)

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Kathleen Bachynski 's avatar Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social
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“Among the causes of infant deaths, one increased the most: congenital abnormalities, which increased 22.9% in Texas in children… That trend suggests that at least in some cases, parents were forced to carry a pregnancy to term while knowing their children had little to no chance of survival”

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Alison Gemmill's avatar Alison Gemmill @alisongemmill.bsky.social
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Thanks for sharing our study. Glad to see it resonating with so many people.

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Katy Morris's avatar Katy Morris @katymorris.bsky.social
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Mobility in the life course

🏫 : LIVES & nccr on the move
🗓 : 5-6th November 2024
📍 : Geneva

💰 : no conference fee; lunches & conference dinner provided
📄 : abstracts by 31st May 2024
centre-lives.ch/fr/lives-int...

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Alison Gemmill's avatar Alison Gemmill @alisongemmill.bsky.social
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I've always liked this paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Emphasizes how stigma about pregnancy loss impacts women's disclosure, which in turn has implications for how we measure such phenomena in our reproductive health surveys.

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Zach Parolin 's avatar Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social
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Now online at Nature Human Behaviour: "Consumption Responses to an Unconditional Child Allowance in the U.S." We study how the 2021 CTC expansion affected family expenditures using observed (rather than reported) consumption data from 1.3 million establishments. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kate Clancy's avatar Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social
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I can't remember if I've shared this here, so if not - a TIME magazine article on menopause where the lede is me sharing how utterly unprepared I've been for perimenopause despite being a menstrual cycle expert.

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Jonathan Cohn 's avatar Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social
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"Half of all renters in the United States spend more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, more than at any other time in history, according to a new report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies." www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/r...

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo's avatar Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social
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The fertility rate for teens in Texas rose for the first time in 15 years in 2022, a shift driven by disproportionately high rates among Hispanic teens in the year after a six-week state abortion ban took effect.

www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

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Children growing up in more socioeconomically disadvantaged families and neighborhoods and children from marginalized racial/ethnic groups exhibit DNA methylation profiles that are indicative of lower cognitive functioning and a faster pace of biological aging.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36459...

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Atheendar Venkataramani's avatar Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social
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Granting groups political voice may lead to increased uptake of new medical technologies relevant to that group -- even years later.

From a working paper that we are revising:
cepr.org/publications...

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Philip N Cohen's avatar Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.bsky.social
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From 2019 to 2022 the American Indian / Alaska Native population in US Census data increased by 52%, or 2.9 million. 62% of the increase was in Hispanic AIANs, who now are 37% of the AIAN #population.

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