The desire to start a family is something millions of people around the globe strive to achieve. However, many factors such as the societal changes in family planning due to increasing maternal age, use of birth control, and ever-changing lifestyles have increased the number of …
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This dissertation views the economic development process as evolving in two dimensions: increasing skill stratification and expanding the necessity set. The first dimension is illustrated by an OLG model in the background of the 1800-2000 Swedish fertility transition. The result…
This dissertation combines three essays studying the relationship between fertility decisions and labor market inequality. The first chapter studies the effect of providing abortions for free on women's fertility decisions and career outcomes. The second chapter looks at the imp…
The linkage between parenthood and cognitive health has not been explored in-depth in the United States. This dissertation contributes to the broad literature on parenthood and parental well-being by examining how parental status, parent-child relationship quality, and history o…
Considerable progress has been made in mammalian species since the advent of <i>in vitro</i> sperm-egg interaction systems. Although <i>in vitro </i>systems for studying sperm-egg interaction in chickens have been developed, they have not been characterised and are limited by th…
What is the connection between people and the landscape that surrounds them? How dochanges in that landscape affect social life? This study of a dual-sited village communityin southern Manggarai (eastern Indonesia) argues that places and pathways are cruciallyimplicated in the c…
This thesis focuses on the concept of informed choice in family planning and how numerical and systematic targeting aimed at raising the numbers of contraceptive acceptors fundamentally undermines this concept in highland Chiapas. The Government of Mexico’s policy aims within it…
This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of conte…
This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of conte…
This dissertation studies the influence of production and inheritance systems on sex ratios, investments in male and female children and fertility in two traditional societies. In Chapter 1, I focus on the variation in female population deficit across districts within India. I a…
This study has four aims: (1) To examine the main determinants of fertility among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as measured by the number of children ever born to a woman, (2) To identify the main factors that determine the utilization of family planning services and contracep…
The purpose of the thesis is to offer an examination of the economics of crime and corruption. By stressing the importance of Becker's seminal paper, we show how criminal behaviour is no longer considered the result of mental illness, but a decision largely based on a cost-benef…
Chapter 1: Conflict and Child Health: Evidence from the DRC Conflicts between 1996 and 2014: This paper uses four nationally representative household surveys to investigate the dynamics of children's health during the DRC conflicts from 1996 to 2014. I find negative effects on c…
This thesis examines childbearing and first birth in Scotland. A description of empirical patterns and trends in childbearing and first birth in Scotland is given. Unique and appropriate analyses of data sources are presented. This includes analysis of the Scottish Longitudinal …
In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life. This trend has created new ways of using, exchanging, and understanding oocytes-the reproductive…
Endocrine disruptors: part I - II
by Metzler, M.
fromHandbook of Environmental Chemistry
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Type: Book