Does son preference influence children's growth in height? A comparative study of Chinese and Filipino children [0.03%]
儿子偏好会影响孩子的身高增长吗——基于中国和菲律宾儿童的比较研究
Shige Song,Sarah A Burgard
Shige Song
Research has demonstrated that son preference has a serious impact on the survival and well-being of female infants and children in some parts of South and East Asia, but little is known about the consequences of son preference in later chi...
Adolescent fertility and religion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the year 2000: the role of Protestantism [0.03%]
2000年巴西里约热内卢的青少年生育率与宗教的关系：新教的作用
Sarah McKinnon,Joseph E Potter,Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Sarah McKinnon
Social transformations in Brazil in recent years have included a substantial increase in adolescent fertility, a dramatic rise in membership of Protestant religious denominations, and an accompanying decline in the number of Catholics. We u...
The intergenerational transmission of divorce in cross-national perspective: results from the Fertility and Family Surveys [0.03%]
跨国视角下离婚的代际传递效应——来自生育和家庭调查(FFS)数据的证据
Jaap Dronkers,Juho Harkonen
Jaap Dronkers
We used data on women's first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce across 18 countries and to seek explanations in macro-level characteristics for the cross-national variat...
Early traces of the Second Demographic Transition in Bulgaria: a joint analysis of marital and non-marital union formation, 1960-2004 [0.03%]
保加利亚第二人口转变的早期迹象：基于1960至2004年婚姻及非婚同居关系形成的联合分析
Jan M Hoem,Dora Kostova
Jan M Hoem
We explore trends in first-union formation in Bulgaria from 1960, using data from the national Gender and Generations Survey of 2004. We analyse jointly the transition into cohabitation and directly into marriage. The standardized marriage ...
The perils of father-reported fertility data for household labour supply models [0.03%]
基于父亲报告的生育数据在户内劳动供给模型中的问题分析
James P Vere
James P Vere
Many panel data-sets contain father-reported fertility data. Yet, since men tend to underreport past fertility--especially daughters or children from previous marriages--using such data can lead to significantly biased results when estimati...
Reproduction in upheaval: ethnic-specific fertility responses to societal turbulence in Kazakhstan [0.03%]
社会动荡中的民族通婚：哈萨克斯坦的民族特异性生育应对机制研究
Victor Agadjanian,Premchand Dommaraju,Jennifer E Glick
Victor Agadjanian
This study contributes to the literature on demographic adjustments to societal crises by examining ethnic-specific probabilities of having first, second, and third marital births in late-twentieth-century Kazakhstan. Discrete-time logit mo...
Li Liu,Stan Becker,Amy Tsui et al.
Li Liu et al.
This paper compares the performance of three methods applicable to national-level demographic data of estimating births averted as a consequence of contraceptive practice. Two are based on the relationship between the general fertility rate...
The linked survival prospects of siblings: evidence for the Indian states [0.03%]
印度各联邦属中兄弟姐妹相连的生存前景问题：证据与分析
Wiji Arulampalam,Sonia Bhalotra
Wiji Arulampalam
This paper reports an analysis of micro-data for India that shows a high correlation in infant mortality among siblings. In 13 of 15 states, we identify a causal effect of infant death on the risk of infant death of the subsequent sibling (...
K Hill,W Seltzer,J Leaning et al.
K Hill et al.
We use data from the 1931, 1941, and 1951 censuses of India and the 1951 census of Pakistan to examine the demographic consequences of Partition in the Punjab in 1947. Had growth rates for the period 1931-41 for the Punjab as a whole contin...
The effects of pregnancy spacing on infant and child mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh: how they vary by the type of pregnancy outcome that began the interval [0.03%]
bangladesh某地区间子死亡率和儿童死亡率与怀孕间隔的关系及其受导致间隔的妊娠结果类型的影响
Julie DaVanzo,Lauren Hale,Abdur Razzaque et al.
Julie DaVanzo et al.
Using high-quality longitudinal data on 125,720 singleton live births in Matlab, Bangladesh, we assessed the effects of duration of intervals between pregnancy outcomes on infant and child mortality and how these effects vary over subperiod...