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Does female empowerment evolve over the life cycle, and has it changed across generations? We use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys covering a sample of about 191,000 adult women to evaluate the age, period and cohort effect regarding individual attitudes to marital violence....
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Le PIB réel par habitant des Comores baisse depuis 1985. Il est aujourd'hui de 16% moins élevé qu'il y a 10 ans, au moment de l'indépendance. Dissimulée ou voyante, la pauvreté touche inégalement les diverses îles et leurs catégories de population et continue de s'accroître. Elle...
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tending to be observed more and more frequently outside the formal framework of marriage. In both cases, the fact that women …
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Aims: To assess the impact of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) on patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Methods: Two HRQOL instruments were administered by telephone interviews to a sample of 253 IBS French patients recruited from the general population. IBS was diagnosed...
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In this article, we analyse the dynamics of household per capita incomes using longitudinal data from Indonesia, South Africa, Spain and Venezuela. We find that in all four countries reported initial income and job changes of the head are consistently the most important variables in accounting...
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In Senegal, marriage and procreation are strongly associated in the social representations. With the postponement of … the age at first marriage, childbearing outside marriage is becoming more frequent. A comparison of two contrasting … determinants of the births outside of marriage. In Niakhar, the urban experience is a factor that determines the likelihood of …
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Much empirical research found that fostered children are less likely than others to attend school, which suggests that fostering may be disadvantaged human capital investment. This paper tries to analyze the impact of child fostering on school enrollment in rural Madagascar. We examine firstly...
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market is transforming, in particular the number of wage earners is decreasing, the age of marriage is postponed, and women … participate more and more in economic life. Despite the fact that marriage comes later, it appears that the unions are less stable …
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that despite the delay of the age of the marriage in Dakar, self-sufficient young single women are still rare. Only 1 % of … given to women’s paid work. Also, in Lomé and not in Dakar, marriage does not mean that the husband is solo liable to take …
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Microsimulation constitutes a particularly powerful instrument for evaluating the distributive impact of macro-economic shocks. All existing models applied to developing countries remain static. I develop a dynamic model able to account for the temporal dimension of macro-economic shocks and...
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