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Women's empowerment across the life cycle and generations: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Djemaï, Elodie; Arestoff, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073079
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Peut-on s'appuyer sur le capital socio-culturel pour réduire la pauvreté aux Comores
Dubois, Jean-Luc - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 1997
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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Comment les femmes concilient-elles mariage et travail à Dakar et à Lomé ?
Adjamagbo, Agnès; Antoine, Philippe; Béguy, Donatien; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
tending to be observed more and more frequently outside the formal framework of marriage. In both cases, the fact that women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074508
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Impact du syndrome de l’intestin irritable (SII) sur la qualité de vie des malades
Amouretti, Michel; Le Pen, Claude; Gaudin, Anne-Françoise - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071869
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Household income dynamics : a four-country story
Fields, Gary S.; Cichello, Paul; Freije, Samuel; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166497
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Naissances prémaritales au Sénégal : confrontation de modèles urbain et rural
Delaunay, Valérie; Antoine, Philippe; Adjamagbo, Agnès - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861498
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Mortality and survivors' consumption
Grimm, Michael - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010
In contrast to health shocks, mortality shocks do not only induce direct costs such as medical and funeral expenses and possibly income loss, but also reduce the number of consumption units in the household. Using data from Indonesia, it is shown that the economic costs related to the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706909
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Psychosocial resources and social health inequalities in France : Exploratory findings from a general population survey
Dourgnon, Paul; Grignon, Michel; Jusot, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
We study the psychosocial determinants of self-assessed health in order to explain social inequalities in health in France. We use a unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on self-assessed health status of subjective perceptions of social capital, social support, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707650
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Confiage et scolarisation des enfants en milieu rural à Madagascar
Rakoto-Tiana, Nelly - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071853
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Mariage, divorce et remariage à Dakar et Lomé
Dial, Fatou Binetou; Antoine, Philippe - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011072096