title: Maternal Risk Exposure and Adult Daughters' Health, Schooling, and Employment: A Constructed Cohort Analysis of 50 Developing Countries.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Population, Family and Reproductive Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4033, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, USA.
authors.forename: Qingfeng
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Population, Family and Reproductive Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, W4033, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, USA. atsui@jhu.edu.
authors.forename: Amy O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Tsui
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D032721:Adult Children / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001721:Birth Intervals; D001724:Birth Weight; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010298:Parity; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cohort analysis; Developing countries; Fertility; Life course; Reproductive health