This dissertation studies how environmental shocks, risk attitudes and time preferences affect key decisions made by households which affect their long term well-being. The first chapter studies how natural disasters affect household migration. I separately examine the impact of…
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Background Interpersonal theories of influence postulate that the interactions between two members of a dyad are characterized by bidirectional influence, mutual regulation, and interpersonal assimilation. Empirical support for an interpersonal sphere of influence comes from res…
Marriage and fertility are institutions that comprise a fundamental part of adult life in Africa. Decades ago, universal and early marriage ensured that women spent the majority of their reproductive lives married; and marriage was the main locus of childbearing. However, while …
Among the 22 Arab countries, Egypt ranks amongst the worst for the treatment of women. Additionally, in the last 6 years, fertility surged to a 20-year high of 3.5 births per woman. Poorer women's status and autonomy is often linked to high fertility; however, little is known ab…
In this dissertation, I study the relationship between fertility and old-age support in developing countries. I present a two-period model in which parents decide on the quantity and the quality of children and savings during childbearing years and children decide on transfers t…
This dissertation consists of three unrelated papers in labor economics. The first chapter documents the role of norms, both cultural and religious, in the fertility decisions of second-generation women in the US. Using two cohorts of immigrants (1970 and 2000s), I find that fer…
In this dissertation research, the empirical analyses are developed to investigate the role of different factors on female’s fertility decisions as well as female labor force participation. This research contains two major parts related to women: first, the impact of State Child…
The site of Hierakonpolis is considered to have played an important role in the development of the Egyptian state, which formed at end of the fourth millennium BC. Archaeological evidence suggests that, for the Middle and Late Predynastic periods (ca. 3900-3200 BC), Hierakonpoli…
This dissertation examines the inter-relationship between a number of socioeconomic and demographic variables including four variables that closely represent fertility. These four variables are family size, total number of births, desire for more children, and ever use of contra…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
The research described in this dissertation consists of four major areas: (1) sequence analysis of protamine 2 from Muroid rodents to identify potential zinc-binding domain(s) of protamine 2; (2) structural studies of the protamine 2-zinc complex from Syrian Gold hamster sperm a…
Despite a strongly pronatalist climate, immigrant and ethnic groups in Israel have experienced dramatic declines in fertility desires and family size over the past several decades. There has also been an increase in contraceptive use and a significant shift from reliance on trad…
This dissertation is composed of three essays examining different facets of demography, ranging from an issue affecting infant mortality and two issues affecting fertility. The first paper is an assessment of the role of cousin marriage in infant mortality. Previous studies indi…
This dissertation examines the relationship in Malaysia between fertility and child schooling. Theoretical models are developed to illustrate the quantity-quality tradeoff involved in this relationship, and to explain how number of children and quality of children as measured by…
Reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection, used for the biomedical treatment of infertility have become a routine component of Germany's social medical system. German Turks, an ethnic group traditionally marked as overpopulate…
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…