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Duncan Thomas
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 255
Citations - 23861
Duncan Thomas is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Family life. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 245 publications receiving 22833 citations. Previous affiliations of Duncan Thomas include Michigan State University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Family-based association studies
TL;DR: It is concluded that family-based case-control studies are an attractive alternative to population-basedcase-control designs using unrelated control subjects.
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The Effects of Mortality on Fertility: Population Dynamics after a Natural Disaster
TL;DR: It is observed that women without children before the tsunami initiated family-building earlier in communities where tsunami-related mortality rates were higher, indicating that the fertility of these women is an important route to rebuilding the population in the aftermath of a mortality shock.
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The Effects of Mortality on Fertility: Population Dynamics After a Natural Disaster
TL;DR: The fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed large shares of the residents of some Indonesian communities but caused no deaths in neighboring communities using population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, was investigated in this article.
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Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence
Duncan Thomas,Elizabeth Frankenberg,Jed Friedman,Jean-Pierre Habicht,Mohammed Hakimi,Nicholas Ingwersen,Jaswadi,Nathan R. Jones,Christopher McKelvey,Gretel H. Pelto,Bondan Sikoki,Teresa E. Seeman,James P. Smith,Cecep Sumantri,Wayan Suriastini,Siswanto Agus Wilopo +15 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided in support of the hypothesis that health has a causal effect on economic prosperity of males during middle and older ages with new evidence on the effect of iron deficiency on economic and social prosperity of older adults.
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Health Over the Life Course
John Strauss,Duncan Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe static and dynamic models of the evolution of health over the life course in conjunction with the interrelationships between health, other human capital outcomes and economic prosperity.