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Generations and Gender Survey (GSS), we study fertility intentions of university graduates. We concentrate on university degree … their durations are related to short-term fertility intentions, taking into consideration possible gender-specific and … fertility behaviour. Childlessness is a particularly widespread phenomenon among female university graduates in Western Germany …
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test of gender equity theory by examining whether the unequal division of household labour leads to lower fertility … market participation and the lowest-low fertility. The Netherlands has moderate to low gender inequity, high part-time female …Fertility levels have fallen drastically in most industrialized countries. Diverse theoretical and empirical frameworks …
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, India - summarizes current mortality, fertility, migration, family size and household characteristics; examines bivariate … associations between poverty (land ownership, consumer expenditure, housing, nutrition, health, etc.) and demographic variables … (children mortality, fertility, family planning, etc.); presents multivariate models of demographic behaviour and causes of …
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goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty reduction. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important … determinants of reproductive health. While fertility and contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) are evenly distributed, wide gaps in … health; focusing interventions on high-fertility and high maternal mortality ratio (MMR) areas; addressing human resources …
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Afghanistan suffers from poverty and low human development aggravated by 23 years of conflict. In 2012, the population was 29 million and per capita income US $268. Economic growth was estimated at 3.6 percent in 2013, down from 14.4 percent in 2012. The transition led to investor and consumer...
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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank's Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010-2015 (RHAP), which recognizes the importance of addressing ASRH as a development issue with important implications for poverty reduction. Delaying childbearing...
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impressive policy as well as programmatic commitment to lowering the fertility level. However, its future socioeconomic prospects … may be hampered by its population growth rate, depending on how quickly the fertility rates decline and at which point … a laissez faire projection scenario and 201.3 million under an accelerated fertility transition (AFT) scenario. This …
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Nepal has achieved its targets for MDGs 4 and 5a. Maternal mortality declined from 790 to an estimated 190 deaths per 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2013 an impressive 76 percent decline. Under-five mortality showed a similarly impressive decline going from 142 to 42 deaths per 1,000...
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' dynamics during their decision processes on fertility intentions and practices, along with community perceptions of male … about their fertility intentions and practices due to the financial challenges of raising large families. This concern has …
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fertility and partnership appear to be developing differently and there are indications that a new phase of restandardisation … (except for Eastern Europe) is evaluated using data from the first wave of the Generations and Gender Survey and simple …
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