Abstract

This project is designed to understand the rapid increase in autism prevalence in the United States over the past two decades. Proposed are new analyses of complex, multi- level temporally sensitive data sets that will enable me to determine the extent to which familial, environmental, gene-environment, and diagnostic drift/substitution are driving the autism epidemic. Detailed attention to and models capable of capturing social network and social influence underpinnings of the epidemic are developed. New analysis models for intercalating spatial and social network data are developed. These models where appropriate are extended to a wide range of developmental disorders that have increased rapidly in prevalence.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)
Type
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (NDPA) (DP1)
Project #
5DP1OD003635-03
Application #
7660331
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZGM1-NDPA-G (P2))
Program Officer
Jones, Warren
Project Start
2007-09-30
Project End
2012-07-31
Budget Start
2009-08-01
Budget End
2010-07-31
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
2009
Total Cost
$805,000
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Columbia University (N.Y.)
Department
Social Sciences
Type
Other Domestic Higher Education
DUNS #
049179401
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10027

  Publications

King, Marissa; Bearman, Peter S (2017) Gifts and influence: Conflict of interest policies and prescribing of psychotropic medications in the United States. Soc Sci Med 172:153-162
Cheslack-Postava, Keely; Susser, Ezra; Liu, Kayuet et al. (2015) Can Sibling Sex Ratios Be Used as a Valid Test for the Prenatal Androgen Hypothesis of Autism Spectrum Disorders? PLoS One 10:e0141338
Schieve, Laura A; Fountain, Christine; Boulet, Sheree L et al. (2015) Does Autism Diagnosis Age or Symptom Severity Differ Among Children According to Whether Assisted Reproductive Technology was Used to Achieve Pregnancy? J Autism Dev Disord 45:2991-3003
Fountain, Christine; Zhang, Yujia; Kissin, Dmitry M et al. (2015) Association between assisted reproductive technology conception and autism in California, 1997-2007. Am J Public Health 105:963-71
Liu, Kayuet; Bearman, Peter S (2015) Focal Points, Endogenous Processes, and Exogenous Shocks in the Autism Epidemic. Sociol Methods Res 44:272-305
Kissin, D M; Zhang, Y; Boulet, S L et al. (2015) Association of assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment and parental infertility diagnosis with autism in ART-conceived children. Hum Reprod 30:454-65
King, Marissa; Essick, Connor; Bearman, Peter et al. (2013) Medical school gift restriction policies and physician prescribing of newly marketed psychotropic medications: difference-in-differences analysis. BMJ 346:f264
Mazumdar, Soumya; Winter, Alix; Liu, Ka-Yuet et al. (2013) Spatial clusters of autism births and diagnoses point to contextual drivers of increased prevalence. Soc Sci Med 95:87-96
Keyes, Katherine M; Susser, Ezra; Cheslack-Postava, Keely et al. (2012) Cohort effects explain the increase in autism diagnosis among children born from 1992 to 2003 in California. Int J Epidemiol 41:495-503
Mazumdar, Soumya; Liu, Ka-Yuet; Susser, Ezra et al. (2012) The disappearing seasonality of autism conceptions in California. PLoS One 7:e41265

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