This study presents an analysis of demographic, socio-economic and environmental characteristics that may influence the quantum and timing of first, second and third births among Iranian women. This study focuses on the role that these variables played in influencing the fertili…
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A number of studies have suggested that migrants have fertility levels lower than those of non-migrants. What is not clear, however, is whether differentials between migrants and non-migrants reflect selection at place of origin, adaptation at place of destination, or disruption…
The study examines the determinants of contraceptive use and method choice in Bangladesh by utilizing the 1996-97 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey which is the most recently conducted national survey. The present study has attempted to measure Coale's three preconditions…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between physical accessibility to family planning facilities, measured by travel time, and contraceptive prevalence. The purpose of this research is to quantify the manner in which accessibility affects the likelihood of use of dif…
This dissertation makes a probabilistic case for the explanatory and predictive power of the three basic demographic variables—fertility, mortality, and migration—in the study of ethno-nationalist violence. It emancipates ethno-nationalist violence as an explanans distinct from …
This dissertation is composed of three distinct chapters, all of which detect and examine the influences of government policy on labor markets. Chapter 1. While many researchers have sought to estimate government wage differentials, most of them ignore the issues of unobserved h…
This paper presents a model of migration, using male employment and migration histories from the 1988 Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS). The model can be regarded as reduced-form in nature, which represents myopic decision. The econometric model draws on Lee's (1983) general t…
Marriage in West Africa is almost universal; polygyny, a form of union where a man is married to more than one wife, is widely practiced in Senegal and Mali. Age at first marriage is very early for girls and divorced or widowed women quickly remarry. The first chapter is a study…
This study examines the extent to which electrification relates to improvement of quality of life in Indonesia. In this respect, the study addresses two objectives. First, it examines the extent to which electrification accounts for differences in quality of life in Indonesia. S…
This dissertation addresses economic growth and development from an intergenerational perspective. The first essay develops an endogenous growth model with overlapping generations, driven by the technological change through firms' research and development (R&D) activities. It th…
This dissertation studies the migration of individuals and the migration of nuclear family units from households in rural Matlab to urban areas of Bangladesh. A model of the determinants of individual versus family migration tests the factors leading to migration as a community-…
Introduction of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technology in Bangladesh creates an interesting case to show the complicated interplay between cultural norms, women's role, and structural transformation of agriculture. By taking Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research…
This study investigates the impact of infant and child mortality on fertility level in Niger. In the first part of the study, proportional hazards models are used to assess the relative risk of having a birth in one and two year intervals. The main results are, first, that at an…
This thesis reviews the variables that influence young women's ability to refuse sex with a man who has paid her school fees and a man who has power over her such as a teacher or employer. I use the 2002 Cameroon Adolescent Reproductive Health Survey, which contains information …
The link between economic reform and health, particularly the health of children, has been the subject of recent policy debate. Although economic reform remains a major feature of African policy-making, there has been very little empirical research on the impact of this reform o…
In this dissertation I evaluate the family support for the elderly in the aging developing countries. I argue that well-being of the elderly cannot be ensured by the family alone for two reasons: the burden will increase in the future and elderly are not necessarily taken of wel…
This study is intended to explore the intentions to migrate of a group of migrants from urban Java and Kalimantan, Indonesia, using a framework based on Place-Utility/Migration Intentions Model. Because this study explores the intentions of urban residents, several new variables…
Detailed data on the health status of Saudi women are lacking. This cross sectional study attempts to provide a comprehensive description of the health status of Saudi females between the ages of 15-45 residing in Yanbu Al-Siniyah. The purpose is to assess women's needs for heal…
Most studies of the association between productive characteristics and reproductive behavior of rural households assume a unidirectional causal structure with the latter as the dependent variable. This study argues that the two are mutually causative. To test this general theore…