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I-Fen Lin
Researcher at Bowling Green State University
Publications - 54
Citations - 3135
I-Fen Lin is an academic researcher from Bowling Green State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Remarriage & Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 54 publications receiving 2828 citations. Previous affiliations of I-Fen Lin include University of Wisconsin-Madison & Office of Population Research.
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Evaluating the Quality of Self-Reports of Hypertension and Diabetes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors validate self-reported self-reports of two major health conditions, hypertension and diabetes, based on a recently fielded survey in Taiwan (SEBAS, 2000), including both selfreported health information and a physical examination for a large, nationally representative sample of respondents aged 54 and older.
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Evaluating the quality of self-reports of hypertension and diabetes
TL;DR: This study validates self-reports of two major health conditions, hypertension and diabetes, based on a recent survey in Taiwan (SEBAS 2000), and reveals that self- Reports vastly underestimate the prevalence of hypertension, but yield a reasonably accurate estimate ofThe prevalence of diabetes.
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The gray divorce revolution: rising divorce among middle-aged and older adults, 1990-2010.
Susan L. Brown,I-Fen Lin +1 more
TL;DR: This study documents how the divorce rate among persons aged 50 and older has changed between 1990 and 2010 and identifies the sociodemographic correlates of divorce among today's middle-aged and older adults.
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Using survey participants to estimate the impact of nonparticipation
I-Fen Lin,Nora Cate Schaeffer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the AA present a deux methodes ad hoc for reducing the biais introduced by non-reponses, i.e., des erreurs substantielles dans les estimations obtenues dans the enquetes.
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How Hungry is the Selfish Gene
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between parent and child, and find that in those households in which a child is raised by an adoptive, step or foster mother, less is spent on food.