Neoclassical theory of consumer behavior posits a static framework for utility maximization from micro perspectives. The consumer is assumed to behave as if he maximizes a utility function subject to a set of non-stochastic restrictions like exogenous prices and predetermined in…
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Estimates of total fecundability and total fetal loss are confounded by an inability to detect pregnancies very early in gestation. A cycle in which no pregnancy is observed results from either no conception or a conception followed by an unrecognized fetal loss. This research e…
During the past decades, international migration has assumed much prominence. Manifested in flows of permanent settlers, asylum seekers, refugees, contract workers and undocumented migrants, the global stock of international migrants has increased steadily. The current stock of …
The Arab American community has been the subject of many misconceptions and the focus of attention during Middle East-related crises, which often expose it to prejudice and violence. This heightened climate gave rise to the development of an “Arab American” identity, and thus ca…
Objective. I examine the effects state-to-state relations, including colonial status, foreign overseas development assistance and military presence, on migration flows between 46 sub-Saharan African countries and seven European countries between 1985 and 1994. Arguing that the s…
Although the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) in Nepal has increased in the last 5 years, studies indicate that substantial proportions of Nepali women are not using contraception despite having a desire to limit or temporally space the birth of children. This paradox between…
Economists since Engel have recognized that the size and composition of a household effect its demand for goods and services. In the literature to date, the number and ages of children have been the main demographic variables that have been incorporated into the analysis of dema…
In this dissertation I address two important aspects of the process governing the intrahousehold allocation of resources in child welfare: the parental decision process that underlies the distribution of resources among individuals, and the hypothesis that mothers have stronger …
In the 1980s, the Ethiopian government relocated about 600,000 people from drought-affected and over-populated regions. Over 82,000 settlers moved to Metekel, a place occupied by the Gumz people. The official objective of the resettlement was preventing famine and attaining food…
Demographers have speculated about differences between birth and pregnancy history questionnaires in terms of data quality; however, differences have never been examined in an experimental study. The present analysis is an individual-level validation of fertility and mortality i…
Children’s work in developing countries is generally depicted as competing with children’s education, harmful to children and societies, and a product of family strategies for confronting poverty. These assumptions remain problematic as they are built on research that focuses on…
This dissertation addresses two primary issues: measuring women's work in a context where female labor force participation is low and including the full range of women's work activities in the investigation of the work/fertility relationship. Using data from the Egypt Use Effect…
This study compiles and analyzes the available data to estimate Mongolia's population size and distribution throughout the twentieth century. An understanding of Mongolian demographics is useful for interpreting Mongolia's society, economics, and politics, because population cha…
This study examines the socioeconomic determinants of the child mortality rates, the life table probabilities of dying before reaching age two, three, and five, qx, in the provinces of Turkey between 1962 and 1982. The study explores relationship between the dependent variables,…
This thesis explores the nature of migration and movement between a Black Sea village and the urban and overseas communities formed by its inhabitants. It examines historical reasons for migration from the village and reveals how villagers on the Black Sea first migrated to Amer…
This research evaluates how people face uncertainty in their lives when they cannot purchase insurance in formal markets. It is concerned with how rural households in less developed countries (LDC) face risk by creating social capital via exchange relationships and how these exc…
This study examined the supply dynamics of Kuwaiti teachers in the general education system of the public schools in Kuwait. The study attempted to ascertain the extent of teacher mobility, its determinants, and their policy implications. To analyze the supply dynamics of teache…
This dissertation examines the role of social inequality in the allocation of individuals to different types of employment. It tests three related hypotheses—first, whether India has minority enclave markets built by socially disadvantaged individuals rejected by the primary mar…
Although urbanization in Ethiopia is at its embroynic stage, most urban scholars have characterized the history of urbanization in Ethiopia into three categories. These are urbanization in the (a) pre-Italian period (1900-1935); (b) Italian colonization period (1936-1941); and (…