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Patrilocality and Child Sex Ratios in India

Goli, Srinivas; Arora, Somya; Jain, Neha - 2022

In multi-level and multi-layered foundations of gendered approaches for understanding the kinship system, son preferences, and male-skewed child sex ratios in India; patriarchy, and patrilineality have received greater attention than patrilocality. To fill this gap, in this study, we construct a...

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The marriage squeeze : measuring and explaining marriage market dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Swardt, Christiaan De; Hartwig, Renate - 2025

of polygyny shape partner availability in structurally significant ways. Building on a dynamic model of the marriage … market, we introduce a novel measure that accounts explicitly for the intensity of polygyny and apply it to Demographic and … Health Survey data from 1991 to 2023. We show that conventional marriage ratios, which ignore polygyny, understate the extent …

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Trading Off or Having it All? Completed Fertility and Mid-Career Earnings of Swedish Men and Women

Boschini, Anne; Hakansson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011

Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require time and other resources and reflect the accumulated priorities of individuals and couples. We explore how these outcomes have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by...

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Census 2011 and Child Sex Ratios in Tamil Nadu

Srinivasan, Sharada; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2011

Provisional estimates based on Census 2011 show that the sex ratio in the age group 0 to 6 in India continued to decline, from 927 in 2001 to 914 in 2011. Contrary to the national trend, the 0-6 sex ratio for Tamil Nadu has registered an increase for the first time since 1961, increasing from...

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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : Effects and Solutions

Glassman, Amanda; Silverman Bonnifield, Rachel; … - 2012

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...

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Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wage Growth of Men and Women

Loughran, David; Zissimopoulos, Julie M. - 2008

The authors use data from the earlier and later cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effect of marriage and childbearing on wages. Their estimates imply that marriage lowers female wages by between two and four percent in the year of marriage. Marriage also lowers...

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A New Color in the Picture : The Impact of Educational Fields on Fertility in Western Germany

Oppermann, Anja - 2012

The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new dimension. According to these recent findings, not only the level but also the field of education has to be taken into account. The field of education determines a great deal about...

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Working for Change : the Effect of Female Labor Force Participation on Fertility

Hackett, Lucy; Marquez-Padilla, Fernanda - 2019

Though the negative correlation between fertility and development has been long acknowledged, it is challenging to estimate the causal effect of female labor force participation (FLFP) on fertility. We use a novel instrument for estimating this effect: washing machines prices -- a relevant...

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Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage : A Beckerian Approach

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2014

that this analysis has been expanded and tested. Becker also used D&S analysis to develop his argument that polygyny … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily …

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Demographics of the Gay and Lesbian Population in the United States : Evidence from Available Systematic Data Sources

Black, Dan; Gates, Gary J.; Sanders, Seth G.; Taylor, … - 2021

There are thousands of studies on the gay and lesbian population. Because of the difficulty of sampling this population, most studies have used "convenience samples" for analysis. Until recently, it was extremely rare that survey data on gays and lesbians were collected from a known sampling...

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