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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria

Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987

Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...

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- Mon fils, vous avez tort de risquer votre argent dans les actions, La Bourse est un coupe-forge, le bitume une cochonnerie, les mines sont des précipices..... un homme sage doit...

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Mr Mug's mother tells him that investing in the stock market is a risky way to earn money.

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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan

Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989

Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life …-Saharan pattern of marriage as “early and universal”. Early and virtually continuous marriage throughout a woman's reproductive years … is also maintained by several related marriage customs including polygyny, levirate marriage, and bride wealth or bride …

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THE INTEGRATIVE FUNCTIONS OF POST-INDUSTRIAL U.S. LABOR MARKET FOR MARRIAGE FORMATION: THREE ESSAYS

Yang, Lijun - 2010

marriage since the 1970s. This dissertation examines the relationship between men’s socioeconomic characteristics and marriage … formation and the labor market causes of marriage declines since the 1970s. It is motivated by three aspects of labor market … of noncollege educated black men is partly responsible for their faster rate of marriage decrease. The effect of …

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Mechanisms affecting the link between nuptiality and fertility: Tanzania, 1973

Sekatawa, Emmanuel K. - 1981

marriage behavior in determining fertility levels. Coale's parameters of the age pattern of first marriage ao, k and C are … first marriage, marital disruption and remarriage on fertility. Techniques for obtaining detailed information on the process …

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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics

Giolito, Eugenio - 2010

two-period overlapping generation model, I show that given an increase of the desired number of children age at marriage …I develop an equilibrium, a two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth, to study the … interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age of men and women at first marriage. Within a simple …

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Socio-economic status, health shocks, life satisfaction and mortality: evidence from an increasing mixed proportional hazard model

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P; Shields, Michael A - 2005

marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …

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Materialism, Perceived Financial Problems, and Marital Satisfaction

Dean, Lukas R 1979- - 2005

While there has been a relatively large number of studies conducted to investigate associations between financial problems and marital outcomes, little research has been done to examine possible relationships between materialistic attitudes, perceived financial problems, and marital outcomes....

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Marriage and health : selection, protection, and assortative mating

Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliya; Llull, Joan - 2017

marriage health gap is similar for men and women. If we allow for unobserved heterogeneity in innate health (permanent and age …-dependent), potentially correlated with timing and likelihood of marriage, we find that the effect of marriage on health disappears below age …-59 years). This indicates that the observed gap is mainly driven by selection into marriage at younger ages, but there might be …

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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate

Howarth, R.B.; Norgaard, R.B. - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource. Provided that there are no...

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