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David Shapiro

Professor Emeritus of Economics, Demography, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Health and mortality

Missing twins and twin-singleton mortality convergence in Sub-Saharan Africa

March 10, 2021February 3, 2020 Roland Pongou, David Shapiro and Michel Tenikue
Africa, Children, Mortality, twins

Substantial literature documents that twins have higher mortality than singletons, but does not address whether this twin disadvantage eventually disappears, and if so, at what age. Roland Pongou, David Shapiro … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

The pace of fertility decline in Sub-Saharan Africa

March 7, 2021December 18, 2017 David Shapiro and Andrew Hinde
Africa, Children, Demography, Fecondity, Fertility, Reproduction

Global social changes that diffuse across the world from country to country often proceed most quickly in those places that start last. Change in the pioneer regions is delayed by … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Women’s schooling, child mortality, and fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

June 10, 2021November 20, 2017 David Shapiro and Michel Tenikue
Africa, child mortality, Children, Mortality

Over time, women’s educational attainment in sub-Saharan Africa has been increasing (Barro and Lee, 2013), while infant and child mortality have been decreasing (United Nations, 2015). Both changes have contributed … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Recent fertility changes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

March 6, 2021June 12, 2017 David Shapiro and Basile O. Tambashe
Africa, Demography, Fertility

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the third most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of the countries with the highest fertility in the world, at 6.6 … Read more

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