tending to be observed more and more frequently outside the formal framework of marriage. In both cases, the fact that women … are increasingly called on to find extra income has implications on their family lives. …

empowerment and child mortality via early marriage, defined as marriage before age 16. There exist three channels through which … early marriage reduces a mother's ability to take good care of her children: the harmful physical consequences of early sex … allows us to isolate the empowerment effect of early marriage. We estimate that it increases the probability that the mother …

, data sources the principal demo-economic events, as mortality, nuptiality taking into account assortive mating, household …

In contrast to health shocks, mortality shocks do not only induce direct costs such as medical and funeral expenses and …

compensating for poorer initial conditions. On the other hand, our results suggest a strong social and family determinism of …

explores the degree of inequality of opportunity in health in a developing country, using the 2007 Indonesian Family Life …

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 …