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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009
A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
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Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?
Blumberg, Rae Lesser - eSocialSciences - 2008
Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion.†[Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of...
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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - eSocialSciences - 2010
female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … both higher female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the …
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The Wide Angle: The End of Population Growth
Sanyal, Sanjeev - eSocialSciences - 2011
The the population dynamics of the 21st century is shown here.
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Poverty, RCH-Care Utilization and Fertility in India: A District Level Analysis
Gulati, S C - eSocialSciences - 2011
-care utilization and fertility. Thereby the study formulates a recursive model to highlight the structural linkages between marriage … age patterns, contraception, antenatal and delivery care, children’s immunization and fertility. The parametric … strong interlinkages between fertility, contraception, marriage age patterns, antenatal and delivery care, and immunization …
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The Syrian Christians of Kerala: Demographic and Socioeconomic Transition in the Twentieth Century
Zachariah, K.C. - eSocialSciences - 2010
comprising fertility, mortality, and migration. [Working Paper No. 322] …
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Asian Fertility Transition: Is Gender Equity in Formal Occupations An Explanatory Factor?
Narayana, D. - eSocialSciences - 2010
Early writers on fertility decline (Thompson 1929; Davis 1945 1955 1963; Notestein 1945; Feemdman 1961 -62) emphasized …
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Regional Heterogeneity and Fertility Behaviour in India
Rajan, S. Irudaya; Guilmoto, Christophe Z. - eSocialSciences - 2010
of non-demographic data, models of fertility determinants and district-wise mapping to test out the presence of regional … clustering. Regional analysis reveals that economic, social and health indicators display spatial patterns as strong as fertility … rates. All recent models of fertility incorporate a significant geographical component (using dummy regional variables or …
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