The effects of temporary rural-urban migration on health issues in the sending rural African context have largely remained unexplored although circulation is an intense process in this region and migration constitutes an important vehicle of social change. The question addressed…
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This dissertation is an analysis of circular labor migration and its effect on subsistence agriculture among the Iban of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Based on lengthy field research, it focuses on the intersection of Iban economy, demography, and social organization, including th…
The general purpose of this study was to explore the implications of the cultural institution of polygyny for child health in Nigeria. Data collected from the 1990 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS, 1990) on children born five years preceding the survey were used to e…
This dissertation examines the effect of increases in the mother's level of education on the likelihood of diarrheal morbidity among Sudanese children aged 6 to 23 months. Maximum likelihood logistic regression models are used in the analysis. The logit estimates obtained from t…
This is a cross-national study with samples drawn from six countries in the Arab and Asian regions. The countries are Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. The data are taken the from the World Health Organization's surveys conducted in these countries in 1…
In the popular Nigerian imagination, as well as in anthropological literature, the Igbo people are renowned for their receptivity to change. In contemporary Nigeria, Igbo people aspire to strikingly modern lives—they want education for their children, development for their commu…
The number of displaced persons has increased dramatically over the past few decades and is expected to continue to rise. By the end of 1999 there were believed to be between 32 and 38 million displaced persons worldwide (UN 2000, USCR 2000). Most of these people have been or wi…
This dissertation examines the ways in which gender shapes migration and development processes in an export processing zone in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Based on extended fieldwork and research on historiographic and demographic sources, the project reconceptualizes two central…
Based on data from the 1990 Indonesian Census and the 1991 Demographic and Health Survey, analyses of fertility, fertility decline, and the use of contraceptive methods in Indonesia are presented. Two levels of analysis are carried out in this thesis: a macro-approach and a micr…
Les pays du Sahel sont frappés par la sous-scolarisation des enfants et par des disparités majeures en matière de fréquentation de l'enseignement primaire. L'objectif de notre étude est d'identifier, au-delà de l'offre scolaire, les facteurs qui font obstacle à la scolarisation …
This dissertation examines the short-run impacts of the Indonesian economic crises on different demographic outcomes of infants and women. In the first chapter, I examine whether the recent Indonesian financial crisis and the 1997/1998 drought and smoke haze crises had adverse e…
In this dissertation data from the 1983 Philippines National Demographic Survey was used to test the generalizability of John Caldwell's wealth flows theory of fertility. The 1983 NDS included several questions designed to allow the examination of the effect of intra-family weal…
Pakistan is among the world's most populous countries and its population has been growing at a dramatic pace due to the high fertility levels that prevail in the country. There has always been a debate as to whether it is economic development or family planning services that bri…
La présente recherche vise à appréhender les mécanismes contextuels et familiaux qui régissent l'offre de travail des femmes au Maroc urbain. Les approches macrosociales ont souvent associé ce phénomène au développement économique et au changement qu'il induit dans la structure …
Circular labor migrants in West Africa have been represented as harbingers of future disorder or, alternatively, as conduits for funneling necessary food and cash from the city to rural villages. This study interprets the social, demographic, environmental, and economic contexts…
This study is intended to test two major hypotheses linking socioeconomic variables, intervening variables, and fertility. The first hypothesis states that under a higher level of socioeconomic development, the socioeconomic-fertility association is expected to be negative. The …
The Indonesian government has long promoted development programs, including efforts to improve the health of the country's population. However, Indonesia's infant mortality rate is still much higher than those of neighboring countries, such as Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philipp…
This dissertation is a multilevel study of determinants of infant mortality in rural Indonesia. Individual (bio-demographic), household (socio-economic and environmental), and community variables (health facilities and personnel) are "blended" into a unique model to comprehensiv…
The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of age at first marriage in India, and to identify the most influential variables. Identifying key determinants is critical in a country like India, which has young ages at marriage and immense regional and residential div…
It is well documented that migrants maintain economic ties with their communities of origin. This dissertation investigates migrants' housing investments in their communities of origin, a previously unexplored subject. Nearly half of a Nigerian emigrant sample (N = 112) has init…