Although the overall health of children is much improved in Matlab, Bangladesh since the late 1970's, when life expectancies were low and females suffered significantly higher rates of mortality than males, sex differences in nutritional status, negatively affecting girls, remai…
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The HIV/AIDS disease in Senegal is characterized by a stable national prevalence rate around 1% since 1990, its concentration among vulnerable sub-groups and in certain geographic areas, and its essentially heterosexual mode of transmission. However, explanatory studies of risky…
Fertility levels in most urban areas of Ethiopia have declined substantially in the face of low level of socio-economic development. In contrast, rural fertility remains at high levels. This study examines people's orientations towards reproduction, including the perceived benef…
Past research on marriage timing in Asia has found the modernization framework to be insufficient for explaining and understanding the processes of marriage and non-marriage. Using insights provided by research on marriage timing in Western societies, we examine the determinants…
Family support for the South Asian elderly is usually considered to be given automatically to all, without taking into consideration the available resources of the elder, or their gender and marital status. These assumptions are problematic because they do not accord agency to t…
The study objective was to determine the impact that sex-selective abortion has had upon gender differentials in child morbidity and mortality in India. If prenatal discrimination against girls has been substituting for postnatal discrimination, then eliminating sex-selective ab…
The study of political capacity and demographic change in Thailand is designed to examine the significance of the link between government capacity and demographic behavior at sub-national level. I argue that government capacity is an important determinant for fertility decline. …
Two essays in this dissertation make a contribution to monitoring the HIV/AIDS epidemic and two focus on the behavioral dynamics that feed it. Following advances in medical technology, HIV testing is now often included in community-based surveys and that raised expectations for …
This dissertation focuses on the intergenerational features of educational inequality including the demographic mechanisms that shape the distribution of schooling across generations. Demographic mechanisms and educational inequality are interrelated. Consider the effect of expa…
In 2013, Summers (2015) revived the secular stagnation hypothesis, firstly postulated by Hansen (1939), to describe the current macroeconomic picture faced by developed economies. This dissertation assesses this claim. Taking into consideration the inputs from several authors, w…
This dissertation examines the relationship between ethnicity and fertility in West Africa based on recent data from national demographic surveys and ethnographic information from the region. Although the total fertility rate differs little across ethnic groups in West Africa, t…
Since the early 1950s considerable research has focused on the complex husband-wife dynamic behind a couple's decision to initiate family planning, the roots of which can be traced to Stycos (1955), who proposed that lack of effective communication between spouses was the main f…
Problem. The problem of this study was to identify the risk groups and explore the sociodemographic risk factors for violent crime victimization among adolescents and young adults surveyed in the 1992-1994 National Crime Victimization Survey. The context of the analysis was scho…
Tetuán is situated in the north of Morocco, about 20 km from the coast and about 60 km from the city of Tangier. The city lies on the banks of the Rio Martin River and on a plain situated between two mountains: Darsa and Gorgiz. In 1912, Spain and France divided Morocco into two…
Fertility preference is an important indicator of general attitudes towards childbearing and the possible courses of future fertility trends. Demographic research shows that, as the schooling of women increases, their desire to have a large number of children decreases. However,…
Child labor is widespread in the informal sector economy of Senegal. Although child labor is widely viewed as a problem of poor countries, this serious subject has received little scholarly attention (Gilbert and Gugler 1992; Gugler 1997). Of the scant scholarly research complet…
Migration has become a way of life for rural women of Senegal. However, the role a woman plays in relation to the migratory process varies between communities. In recent decades the migration of young single girls and women to Dakar to take up employment as domestic workers has …
Fertility transition has been slow in sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, however, there is evidence to suggest a fertility transition in some countries and some major regions in sub-Saharan Africa. Notable among these is Nigeria where Cohen (1993) asserts that there has been a drop o…
Maternal mortality is one of the basic health indicators that reflect a nation's health status. It is estimated that 2.5 million women become pregnant in Indonesia each year and approximately 10,700 of these women die from pregnancy-related causes. In this dissertation there are…