While rural Bangladesh still maintains many traditional socio-Economic characteristics, modern contraceptives have been widely accepted by women of reproductive age for two decades. Matlab, Bangladesh, is a rural area with a significantly high rate of contraceptive use. Since th…
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Infant mortality remains high in Bangladesh despite the remarkable success in the reduction of fertility in the past decade. Using Mosley and Chen's framework that illustrates various levels of determinants, this study examines how different levels of predictors interactively af…
Historical fertility studies and recent world demographic surveys have been kind to researchers who view contraceptive adoption as a diffusion mechanism. In the last decade, major theoretical breakthroughs have been achieved in helping us understand how such diffusion may occur;…
Rural-urban migration in Sub-Saharan African countries has been increasing since the 1960s. In Senegal from 1961 to 1996, it grew 7.6% per annum. Labour market in the modern industrial and service sectors is so depressed that urban workers face high unemployment and poverty rate…
This dissertation examines the factors that determine child labor in Indonesia in the context of modernization theory. The analysis focuses on children ages 10-19 years old both in and out of school, and also on the type of labor they performed, as paid or unpaid family workers.…
In sub-Saharan Africa, demographers have mostly studied marriage as a direct determinant of reproductive behaviours. However, being a key vector of social reproduction, research on marriage is also of value because of its multiple implications on demographic behaviours, whether …
A large decline in both child mortality and fertility rates is one of the most salient features of the demographic transition which has been experienced by today's developed countries in modern times. It has been conjectured that lower child mortality rates might be one of the d…
In empirical models of intra-household allocation, it is very difficult to find a source of exogenous variation in order to obtain consistent estimates of the effects of individual- or household-specific endogenous variables on the demand for (or supply of) various, goods. This …
This study assessed the relationship between teachers' perception of population change and their implementation of population education conditioned by such background factors as sociodemographics, school environment, and population education program facilities. The general hypot…
The brain drain emerged as a phenomenon in the Sudan in the early 1970's when a change in the political system was followed by a change in the economic situation. The oil price increases created a dynamic process that led to attractive employment conditions in the petroleum prod…
This research presents an analysis of fertility differentials in Bangladesh in terms of the hierarchical structure of the society using Bangladesh Fertility Survey data. The study utilizes a political demographic perspective. A composite index of elitism has been constructed to …
After more than ten years, the Ogaden refugee problem persists. The factors producing the initial conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia continue to thwart a resolution which would allow the refugees to return to the Ogaden. Millions of dollars in international relief assistance …
This thesis is a study of the demographic and related agricultural history of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (KSSR). It presents a comprehensive discussion and analysis of the population development of the people of Kazakhstan over the past century. Supplemented by extensi…
This work explores two major interrelated issues: the colonization and dehumanization of the Oromos by the Ethiopians and the origin of Oromo nationalism. It explains how the minority Ethiopians colonized the majority Oromos with the help of the European imperialist powers in or…
The basic research problem addressed in this dissertation is the degree of influence of religion on the fertility of white American women as of 1965. Analysis is performed separately for conservative Protestants, moderate and liberal Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, and Jews. Th…
This study explores the residential preferences and migration propensities of rural youth in the central region of Saudi Arabia. My aim is to specify some of the valuational and socioeconomic factors that have stimulated and continue to stimulate a massive flow of out-migration …