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Sex Mortality Differentials in the United States:The Role of Cohort Smoking Patterns
Sex differentials Mortality Cigarette smoking
2016/3/18
This paper demonstrates that, over the period 1948-2003, sex differentials in mortality in the age range 50-54 to 85+ widened and then narrowed on a cohort rather than on a period basis. The cohort wi...
Childbearing dynamics among married women of reproductive age in Nigeria: re-affirming the role of education
Fertility Parity progression Births
2015/7/27
Nigeria ranks among the high-fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Studies that examine relationship between fertility dynamics and education are important to improving maternal and child health....
Role of conflict in shaping fertility preferences in Rwanda
shaping fertility preferences Rwanda
2015/7/24
Conflicts affect the social and economic conditions that could account for the stall in fertility decline in Sub-Saharan Africa. For Rwanda, the total fertility rate decreased very rapidly to 6.1 in t...
Fertility Transition in Nigeria:Exploring the Role of Desired Number of Children
Fertility Transition Nigeria Desired Children
2015/7/22
Reports have suggested the onset of fertility transition in Nigeria and speculations are rife about the factors driving the observed fertility changes. This study investigates if and how 'desired numb...
The Role of Proximate and other Determinants in Ghana’s Fertility Transition
Proximate Customs Practices
2015/7/22
Although studies have revealed some of the factors behind Ghana’s fertility transition, much effort is still needed to explain the contribution to the transition of social factors such as beliefs, pra...
Gender-Role Attitudes and Reproductive Health Communication among Female Adolescents in South Nyanza,Kenya
Gender-Role Attitudes Reproductive Health Communication Female Adolescents South Nyanza Kenya
2015/7/21
In this paper, we use data from three districts of Nyanza Province in Kenya to examine gender-role attitudes and reproductive health communication among adolescent females aged 12-19 years. We test fo...
Trends in Contraceptive Use in Kenya,1989-1998:The Role of Socio-Economic,Cultural and Family Planning Factors
family planning contraceptive use infant/child death demographic transition logistic regression interactive term
2015/7/21
This paper uses the 1989 and 1998 KDHS data sets to examine the role of socioeconomic, cultural and family planning factors in explaining the observed increase in contraceptive use in Kenya during the...
Explaining Contraceptive Use Differences:Do Men Play a Role?
Explaining Contraceptive Use Differences Men Play a Role
2015/7/20
Data from the Kenya and Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are used to assess the observed difference in modern contraceptive use between the two countries.The findings indicate that although ...
Supplementary Role of Health Metrics for Reducing Total Fertility Rate in a North-Indian State
Total Fertility Rate REACH Strategy Health metrics ICDS Gender Rajasthan India
2015/7/10
Reducing Total Fertility Rate (TFR) amongst rural Indian couples from the current level is a significant challenge to the population control policies relying solely on the Government efforts. REACH st...
Daughter preference in Japan: A reflection of gender role attitudes?
children gender attitudes gender preferences gender roles
2014/11/24
Background: Unlike other East Asian nations where preference for sons over daughters still prevails, gender preference for children in Japan has progressively shifted from son preference to a noticeab...
Educational differences in chronic conditions and their role in the educational differences in overall mortality
chronic conditions incidence multi-state life table prevalence
2014/11/21
Demographers use different models to decompose the prevalence of given health conditions. This article discusses how these models can help us understand the ways in which these conditions affect overa...
The Role of Social Participation for Women's Ability to Combine Motherhood and Employment Security in Mali and Ghana
Mali, Ghana employment security conversion factor context social participation
2015/7/27
This study investigates the role of social participation for the achievements of women in employment security and their fertility choices. In Capability terms, this implies exploring the circumstances...
Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
Hours worked Labor supply Female labor force participation Time use Household allocations
2014/3/31
Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marri...
Black-White Differentials in Cause-Specific Mortality in the United States during the 1980s: The Role of Medical Care and Health Behaviors
National Longitudinal Mortality Study Current Population Surveys National Death Index International Classification of Disease
2014/3/31
In this paper, we examine black-white differences in cause-specific mortality during the 1980s when black-white disparities in mortality widened in the United States. We group causes of death to those...
Ethnic differences in transition to first marriage in Iran: The role of marriage market, women’s socio-economic status, and process of development
development education ethnicity Iran marriage marriage market women status
2010/1/13
This paper, using data from the 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey and a range of time-varying district-level contextual information derived from the 1986 and 1996 censuses of Iran, applies a dis...