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…
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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…
This study borrows theoretical perspectives applied in studies of migrant fertility--related to migrant selectivity, life disruption, and urban adaptation--to examine urban migration-child mortality interrelationships in three West African countries--Ghana, Mali and Senegal. The…
Ortadoğu coğrafyası, Dünya’da etnik ve dini farklılıklara dayalı şiddet olaylarının en fazla yaşandığı bölgelerin başında gelmektedir. Özellikle 2011 sonrası Arap Coğrafyasında yaşanan siyasi gelişmeler, Suriye ve Yemen’de iç savaş boyutunda etkili olmaktadır. İç dinamiklerin ya…
Among countries where there has not been a coercive government family planning program, Bangladesh is the poorest to have a total fertility rate fewer than five births per woman. Bangladesh has experienced a recent and steep decline in total fertility rate with a rate of 6.3 in …
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide insight into an individual family's fertility response to a short term financial shock. As economies develop, the number of children born in a household decreases at both the inter and intra-country level. This paper examines a hous…
This dissertation analyzes the effects of mandatory education and child allowance programs on Arab women's labor force activity and fertility patterns in Israel. In the case of mandatory education, it also looks at effects on age of marriage. It is divided into two chapters, eac…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between marriage markets and fertility in developing countries. Chapter 1 considers the impact of family planning on dowry transfers. We construct a model of the marriage market in which prospective mates anticipate the outcome of …
Understanding the constraints that households face when making decisions on fertility, education, and health is beneficial for effective interventions aimed at enhancing investments in human capital, promoting gender equity, and reducing poverty. This dissertation consists of fo…
An important question in the analysis of fertility is does the type of marital union matter? Is women's fertility affected by their marital union type? Does being in a monogamous or polygynous union have any effect on the number of children women will have? What is the nature of…
Studies were conducted to examine the relationship of hen age, fertility and embryonic mortality (EM) in turkeys. Hatch residue was examined from turkey flocks at two ages. One flock was in its first two weeks of egg production and the second flock had been in production for at …
In the first essay, titled "Is Economic Transition a Health Hazard? Estimating the Short-term Effect of Income on Self-assessed Health in Russia: 1994-2000," I use data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to estimate the causal impact of income on self-assessed healt…
Pakistan stands among the high fertility countries in the world and has the highest fertility, 4.5 children per woman, in the region of South Asia. Although a transition from high to low fertility can be observed from the data available, the pace of decline has remained slower t…
Among the Hadendowa of eastern Sudan, fertility and motherhood are not simple biological matters. Rather they represent a complex set of contested concepts and practices through which women strive to achieve an ideal reproductive status. This ethnography examines how Hadendowa i…
The main objectives of this study are to examine the status of women in Yemen compared with that of women in Indonesia and to explore how the status of women is related to fertility and the use of family planning methods in these two Islamic countries. Education, employment, age…
Infertility is a condition that afflicts a significant portion of the world's population. Islamic scholars accept the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) when used within the bounds of a marriage, but only in Shi`i Iran do some scholars permit the use of third-party ga…
This book discusses the nature of meiotic chromosome pairing effects which may play a role in the determination of fertility. In particular, data and illustrations from the application of recently developed electron microscopic spreading techniques will allow researchers in rela…