This research bridges historical economics, rural sociology, demography, anthropology and geography. Three models, linked by a quantified landownership distribution (LOD), explain major features of peasant societies with private ownership of land and partible inheritance. They a…
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Voluntary and involuntary return migration has always been part of the contract labour migration system, but in the case of the Middle East its importance has increased substantially. Since the 1980s Pakistan, one of the major labour suppliers to the Arab world, has faced return…
The dissertation consists of essays entitled "Changes in Female Labor Force Participation in Brazil 1976-1990: Pushed by Need or Pulled by Opportunity?"; "How Do Family Planning Worker Visits Affect Women's Behavior in Bangladesh?" and "Is Doorstep Delivery of Contraceptives Equ…
Previous studies on residential density have shown various effects on inhabitants. In this vein, some potential consequences of high residential density on expected Javanese cultural behavioral patterns were examined. High residential density was positively correlated with respo…
This comparative study of fertility decline in Sers and Sbiba, in the Northwest and Centerwest regions of Tunisia, considers their differential childbearing patterns in relation to economic development, agricultural policy, and the household economy. In studying why fertility de…
The research undertaken in this dissertation is the first attempt to examine pregnancy outcome differentials between the Israeli Jewish and non-Jewish populations, particularly Muslims, using Israel's linked birth-death files for 1980–1983 and 1990–1993, in a rigorous manner. Th…
The Bangladeshi married, nonpregnant women of reproductive age who made up the data used in this dissertation were clients of a family planning program funded by USAID and implemented by three private agencies in 1990. A theoretical model was developed in which, in the absence o…
Employees of today are more likely to trade their expertise for salary, and for the chance to develop their own identities and worth with their organizations. It is more a relationship of resource-exchange. This means the employee is committed to his/her organization only until …
This dissertation uses the 1991 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey to better understand factors responsible for the sustained high infant mortality level in Pakistan. The dissertation is organized in the form of four independent studies that complement each other. The first st…
This paper examines the relationship between female education and fertility in Niger with data from the 1992 Demographic and Health Survey. Using path analysis, the paper compares the effect of different levels of female education on fertility through age at marriage, contracept…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of fertility in Kuwait. Two facets of fertility were considered: the determinants of the quantity of children, measured by the total number of children ever born to a couple, and the determinants of the quality of chi…
Between 1925 and 1936, the Mukogodo of Kenya were swiftly transformed from cave-dwelling foragers with a Cushitic language to pastoralists with Maasai language and customs. The goal of the research was to learn why the Mukogodo made this transition, focusing on its possible rela…
This dissertation examines the inter-relationship between a number of socioeconomic and demographic variables including four variables that closely represent fertility. These four variables are family size, total number of births, desire for more children, and ever use of contra…
Rapid population growth is one of the main problems facing Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh has set specific and ambitious goals, based on the demographic transition model, it feels must be met to "solve" the "population problem". Many analysts feel these goals are very …
Child fostering or the practice of sending children out to be raised by nonbiological parents is widespread among many societies in West Africa. Where prevalent, the practice could have consequences on demographic events. The institution is studied in its own right as a demograp…
The main purpose of this research was to study aspects of social change in education, housing, health, labor force composition, and political participation in Muslim nations in two periods: 1975 and 1985. Further, the researcher compared the extent of change among Muslim countri…
Infant Mortality Rate is a statistic representing deaths occurring among newborns in the first year of life (i.e., Neonatal Mortality Rate = deaths in the first month and Post-neonatal Mortality = deaths in second through 12 months) in the United States (i.e., Ohio and Mississip…
Health outcomes vary across households depending on the spatial location of the household and the genetic attributes of the parents. These differences in health endowments or survival probabilities are known to and affect parent decisions, but are unobserved by the researcher. A…