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Adult mortality and children’s transition into marriage
Beegle, Kathleen; Krutikova, Sofya - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 42, pp. 1551-1574
Tanzania in the early 1990s and re-interviewed in 2004. We find that while girls who became paternal orphans married at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163135
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Hotspots and Coldspots: Household and village-level variation in orphanhood prevalence in rural Malawi
Weinreb, Alexander A.; Gerland, Patrick; Fleming, Peter - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 32, pp. 1217-1248
We explore the spatial distribution of orphans in two areas of Malawi. We first review pertinent themes in qualitative … relationship between the presence of orphans and a range of individual, household and village-level characteristics, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082651
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Children’s school participation and HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi:
Grant, Monica J. - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 45, pp. 1603-1634
Studies of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and children’s educational attainment largely focus on the direct impacts of parental illness and death, overlooking the potential indirect impact that parental knowledge and perceptions of their HIV status may have on children’s school...
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Estimates of Age-Specific Reductions in HIV Prevalence in Uganda: Bayesian Melding Estimation and Probabilistic Population Forecast with an HIV-enabled Cohort Component Projection...
Clark, Samuel J.; Thomas, Jason; Bao, Le - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 26, pp. 743-774
We estimate age-specific HIV incidence and prevalence in Tanzania and Uganda in the late 1990s and forecast forward … over the intervening decade. In Uganda our forecasts significantly overstate HIV prevalence. The age pattern of our … forecast errors reflects the age-specific reductions in HIV prevalence and incidence in Uganda. Our estimates and forecasts are …
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HIV/AIDS and time allocation in rural Malawi
Assche, Simona Bignami-Van; Assche, Ari Van; Anglewicz, … - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 27, pp. 671-708
AIDS morbidity and mortality are expected to have a large impact on households’ labor supply in rural Malawi since they reduce the time that adults can spend on production for subsistence and on income generating activities. However, the data demands for estimating this impact are high,...
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Income, health, and well-being in rural Malawi
Chin, Brian - In: Demographic Research 23 (2010) 35, pp. 997-1030
This paper attempts to isolate the causal link of income on health status and subjective well-being for the rural population in Malawi using three waves of household panel data spanning the period 2004-2008 from the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP) and the Malawi...
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Perceived risk of HIV infection and mental health in rural Malawi
Hsieh, Ning - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 13, pp. 373-408
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The age pattern of increases in mortality affected by HIV
Sharrow, David; Clark, Samuel J.; Collinson, Mark A.; … - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 39, pp. 1039-1096
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When the group encourages extramarital sex
Coma, Julia Cordero - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 30, pp. 849-880
Understanding the determinants of men’s extramarital sexual relations, which account for a relevant share of concurrent sexual partnerships, is an important research subject. This article focuses on examining how married men’s behavior is influenced by the fidelity norm. Using...
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Out of Sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries
Behrman, Jere R.; Behrman, Julia; Perez, Nykia M. - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 2, pp. 45-78
In this paper, we present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to be relatively high. Based on this framework, we argue that the relative current and future...
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