The purpose of this study is, first, to analyze the trends in mortality in Turkey during the 1960-1995 period, and, then, to determine whether economic development or public policy based on improvements in medical/technological knowledge was primarily responsible for the mortali…
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The primary purpose of this dissertation is to assess the extent to which household characteristics and behaviours exert their effects both directly and indirectly on childhood mortality through the more proximate factors that can be measured within the context of society. A chi…
The revolutionary political upheavals, the structural socioeconomic changes after the 1979 revolution, and the first post-revolutionary family planning and health program are argued to be the major factors that led to swings in fertility levels over the last decades in Iran. How…
This study attempts to contribute to the research in income inequality and poverty in the Turkish labor market. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between various income types and demographic, sociologic, and economic factors that have impact on individua…
In this dissertation, by analyzing the consumption practices of Turkey's households, I attempted to identify whether there are distinctions between the different social classes in contemporary Turkey. Stated another way, I assessed and explored the impact of social classes on co…
The purpose of this investigation was to point out two methodological deficiencies in the area of differential fertility research in the Middle East and to propose possible refinements in the method to correct the deficiencies. (1) To control for the possible contaminating effec…
Afghan women suffer extremely high maternal mortality and morbidity rates, their life expectancy is one of the lowest in the world, and the mortality rate of their infants is the highest in the world. Although the effects of poverty and war on women's health are substantial this…
This dissertation explores the relationship between social reproduction and geographic locality within a population of migrants and their descendants originating in Africa's western Sahel region and living in the city of Brazzaville, Congo. Its theoretical context is at the inte…
The three essays in this dissertation examine demographic and sociological processes related to family and gender in countries in the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia. The first paper looks at family formation---specifically first-cousin marriages---in Egypt, Jordan, Tur…
Several developing countries introduced family planning programs to reduce their population growth rates. The rapid spread of birth control programs in the developing countries was at times accompanied by measures which violated human rights. In response to the ethical violation…
Pakistan stands among the high fertility countries in the world and has the highest fertility, 4.5 children per woman, in the region of South Asia. Although a transition from high to low fertility can be observed from the data available, the pace of decline has remained slower t…