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Birth Order, Sex Composition and Risky Behaviour of Adolescent Girls in Nigeria
Tenikué, Michel - 2017
Nigeria, a context characterized by age and gender based hierarchy. Using individual data from the DHS surveys it shows that …
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The Commodification of Intimacy : Marriage, Sex, and Reproductive Labor
Constable, Nicole - 2010
Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and complex interconnectivity of local and global processes. Anthropological studies of cross-border marriages, migrant domestic workers, and sex workers have burgeoned, demonstrating growing scholarly...
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Higher parental socioeconomic status accelerates sexual debut in Italy
Guetto, Raffaele; Vignoli, Daniele; Lachi, Alessio - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417300
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A sequence-analysis approach to the study transition to adulthood in low- and middle-income countries
Sironi, Maria; Barban, Nicola; Pesando, Luca Maria; … - 2020
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Son Preference, Fertility and Family Structure : Evidence from Reproductive Behavior among Nigerian Women
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2014
considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility behavior and shape … Nigeria, the paper shows that, compared to women with first-born sons, women with first-born daughters have (and desire) more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396151
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Son Preference, Fertility and Family Structure : Evidence from Reproductive Behavior Among Nigerian Women
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2017
considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility behavior and shape … Nigeria, the paper shows that, compared to women with first-born sons, women with first-born daughters have (and desire) more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973224
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Rural small-scale women farmers and preference for family size in South-East Nigeria
Okafor, Samuel; Onu, Janefrances C.; Nwaeze, Vivian C. - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 46 (2021), pp. 35-68
Among other things, fertility control in Nigeria may not be feasible without recourse to socioeconomic issues such as … micro-occupation classification and dominant family cultural traditions facing women and their relationship to fertility … dominant family cultural traditions facing women and their relationship to fertility behaviour. Rural small-scale women farmers …
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The impact of abortion legalisation on birth outcomes in Uruguay
Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Ferre, Zuleika; Triunfo, … - 2016 - This version: 10th June 2016
This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks of gestation on the quantity and quality of births in the short run. We employ a differences-in-differences approach, a comprehensive administrative register of births and a...
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Access to emergency contraception and its impact on fertility and sexual behavior
Mulligan, Karen - In: Health economics 25 (2016) 4, pp. 455-469
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Did parental involvement laws grow teeth? : the effects of state restrictions on minors' access to abortion
Myers, Caitlin K.; Ladd, Daniel - 2017
We compile data on the locations of abortion providers and enforcement of parental involvement laws to document dramatic increases in the distances minors must travel if they wish to obtain an abortion without involving a parent or judge. Between 1992 - the year the U.S. Supreme Court...
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