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Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis
Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1821–1852.
Published: 03 November 2016
...Kathryn M. Yount; AliceAnn Crandall; Yuk Fai Cheong; Theresa L. Osypuk; Lisa M. Bates; Ruchira T. Naved; Sidney Ruth Schuler Abstract Child marriage (before age 18) is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Worldwide, Bangladesh has the highest prevalence of IPV and very...
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 333–349.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Shelly Lundberg; Elaina Rose Abstract We estimate the effect of a child’s gender on the mother’s probability of marriage or remarriage using data from the PSID Marital History and Childbirth and Adoption History Files. We find that the birth of a son speeds the transition into marriage when...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1283–1318.
Published: 13 September 2016
..., work hours, and commute time. Parent-child coresidence First marriage Marriage aspirations Relationship formation Japan Demographers and family researchers have long been interested in young adults’ living arrangements, with a special focus on their decision to leave or remain...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 857–880.
Published: 12 April 2014
...Maria Cancian; Daniel R. Meyer Abstract We examine the effects of an increase in income on the cohabitation and marriage of single mothers. Using data from an experiment that resulted in randomly assigned differences in child support receipt for welfare-receiving single mothers, we find...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1167–1194.
Published: 01 July 2015
... marriages were associated with slightly better parenting quality relative to remaining single, although effect sizes were small and limited to marriages that remained intact at the time of child assessment. Mid-pregnancy marriages were not associated with improved children’s behavior or cognitive ability...
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Demography (1973) 10 (4): 525–535.
Published: 01 November 1973
.... The rates are initially small, but increase rapidly until they reach a maximum at ages 25–30 for bachelors and 15–20 for spinsters, following which they gradually decline. During 1901–1931, unlike Western countries, India had not experienced any revolution in marriage habits encompassing traditional child...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2123–2146.
Published: 02 December 2019
... an enhancement of women’s agency within their household and positive assortative matching in the marriage market. By pointing to the beneficial consequences of delaying marriage, this research calls for concerted policy action to prevent child marriage. 01 10 2019 02 12 2019 © Population...
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Demography (1973) 10 (3): 329–350.
Published: 01 August 1973
... of path analysis for this type of research are briefly mentioned. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1973 1973 Path Analysis Child Mortality Path Coefficient Living Child Marriage Cohort References Chandrasekaran, C. n.d. India’s Fertility in a Changing Economic...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 653–681.
Published: 01 November 1993
... fertility decisions as predictors of disruption of the marriage. We find that the hazard of disruption has strong negative effects on the hazard of marital childbearing, lengthening the intervals between births and decreasing the chances that a child will be born. This effect appears to be strongest...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1345–1356.
Published: 03 July 2014
... out of wedlock. Data came from the National Survey of Family Growth on 5,255 children born nonmaritally. By age 15, 29 % of children born nonmaritally experienced a biological-father marriage, and 36 % experienced a stepfather marriage. Stepfather marriages occurred much later in a child’s life—one...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 299–318.
Published: 01 August 1995
... characteristics of the child and the family, including emotional problems, cognitive’ achievement, and socioeconomic status. The results show that by age 23, those whose parents divorced were more likely to leave home because of friction, to cohabit, and to have a child outside marriage than were those whose...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2169–2198.
Published: 15 September 2020
... in polygamous marriages relative to the death of a husband, and how marriage order affects the mortality of women in polygamous marriages. We also examine how the number of children ever born and child deaths affect the mortality of men and women as well as variation across monogamous and polygamous unions. Our...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 55–63.
Published: 01 February 1990
... Population Survey to examine this issue. Continuous-time regression models with ages and numbers of children as time-varying covariates are estimated. Net of controls for age at marriage, year of marriage, education, and marital duration, stability increases with family size up to the third child but starts...
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 237–261.
Published: 01 May 2004
... and Child Support Policies on Union Formation . Princeton, NJ : Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University . Cherlin A.J. ( 1992 ). Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Cherlin A.J. ( 1999 ). Going to Extremes: Family...
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Published: 03 November 2016
Fig. 1 Predicted probability of physical intimate partner violence (IPV) by age at first marriage before age 18 versus at 18 years or older (Table 3 , Model 3), modified by village-level prevalence of very early child marriage (VECM), rural Bangladesh 2013–2014. The village level prevalence
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Demography (1981) 18 (4): 529–548.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Margaret Mooney Marini; Peter J. Hodsdon Abstract Analyzing data from a fifteen-year follow-up survey of high school students originally surveyed in 1957–58 and resurveyed in 1973–74, this paper examines the effects of the timing of marriage and first birth on subsequent child spacing, holding...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 566–573.
Published: 01 June 1966
... and child health have also been added. No significent changes were planned for the Standard Certificate of Death. The Standard Certificate of Marriage will include as new items the education of the bride and groom, the date on which the last marriage, if any, ended, and specification of the officiant...
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Demography (1986) 23 (2): 231–245.
Published: 01 May 1986
... Files of the Current Population Survey, never-married mothers are significantly less likely than ever-married mothers to have a child support award; which do, however, cannot readily be explained by our model. Ever-disrupted black marriages resulted in awards considerably less frequently than nonblack...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 555–571.
Published: 01 August 2008
... recently had a child from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study. A shortage of men in a marriage market is associated with lower relationship quality for unmarried parents. Male shortages are associated with lower rates of marriage following a nonmarital birth, in part because of the mediating...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 23–47.
Published: 04 January 2012
... among mothers of young children. In addition to accounting for the number of transitions that a mother experiences during the first five years of her child’s life, we pay close attention to the type and timing of these transitions. We find that mothers who transition to cohabitation or marriage...
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