Search Results for Consanguinity

... relatives. Financial liquidity-constrained households appear to use within-family marriage (in which one can promise ex-post payments) as a form of credit to meet up-front dowry demands, but the resultant wealth shock for households protected by the embankment relaxed this need to marry consanguineously...

...Linda Eberst Dorsten; Lawrence Hotchkiss; Terri M. King Abstract An unresolved issue in research on child survival is the extent to which familial mortality risk in infancy is due to biological influences net of sociodemographic and economic factors. We examine the effect of consanguinity on early...

... men with lower education but from more privileged families. Moreover, consanguineous marriages, which exemplify strong cultural constraints on spousal selection in certain parts of India, are more likely to be hypogamous than marriages not related by blood. We argue that the rise in hypogamous...

.... , & Caro L. ( 1985 ). The Influence of Consanguinity on Fertility and Infant Mortality in Sanabria (Zamora, Spain) . Biology and Society , 2 , 129 – 34 . Gardiner E. M. , & Yerushalmy Jacob ( 1939 ). Familial Susceptibility to Still Births and Neonatal Deaths . American...

... © Population Association of America 1982 1982 Current Population Survey Stable Population Probability Generate Function Direct Descendant Sibship Size References Atkins John R. ( 1974 ). On the Fundamental Consanguineal Numbers and their Structural Basis . American...

... ), 1293 – 305 . Bittle A.H. ( 2002 ). Endogamy, Consanguinity and Community Genetics . Journal of Genetics , 81 , 91 – 98 . 10.1007/BF02715905 Blunt E.A.H. ( 1931 ). The Caste System of Northern India . London : Oxford University Press . Botticini M. , & Siow...

... Hypothesis in EthnicRelations . Psychological Bulletin , 71 , 319 – 42 . 10.1037/h0027352 Atkins , J.R. ( 1984 ). On the Fundamental Consanguineal Numbers and Their Structural Basis . American Ethnologist , 1 ( 1 ), 1 – 31 . 10.1525/ae.1974.1.1.02a00010 Becker , G.S...

.... Workman (Eds.), Methods and Theories in Anthropological Genetics . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press . MacCluer , Jean W. , & Schull , William J. ( 1970 ). Frequencies of Consanguineous Marriage and Accumulation of Inbreeding in an Artificial Population . American...

.... , Tsuya , N.O. , Bean , L.L. , & Mineau , G.P. ( 1987 ). Intergenerational Transmission of Relative Fertility and Life Course Patterns . Demography , 24 , 467 – 80 . 10.2307/2061386 Atkins , J.R. ( 1974 ). On the Fundamental Consanguineal Numbers and Their Structural...

... ...........................................................................................................1097–1099 Merkin, Sharon S. See Vicki A. Freedman ........................................................661–671 Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq, Randall Kuhn, and Christina Peters. Consanguinity and Other Marriage Market Effects of a Wealth Shock in Bangladesh...

... for Political and Social Research [distributor] . Arber , S. , & Cooper , H. ( 1999 ). Gender Differences in Health in Later Life: The New Paradox? . Social Science and Medicine , 48 , 61 – 76 . 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00289-5 Casterline, J. and L. El-Zeini. 2003. “Consanguinity...

... No. 7440). Cambridge: MA : National Bureau of Economic Research . Jorde , L. B. ( 2001 ). Consanguinity and prereproductive mortality in the Utah Mormon population . Human Heredity , 52 ( 2 ), 61 – 65 . 10.1159/000053356 . Kalbfleisch , J. D. , & Prentice , R. L. ( 2011...

... characteristics. Consanguineous marriage is common in South Asian and other Muslim communities. Further, Islam recognizes property rights for women, dowry is less important in Muslim society in general, and Hinduism is traditionally based on patrilineal inheritance and excludes women from inheritance rights...

... family. Marriage arrangements among Hindus are clan-exogamous and gener- ally take place between families previously unknown to each other, who live at some distance apart. A Muslim daughter usually is married closer to home and to a family that has known her for years; consanguineous arrangements...

... and Ibrahim 2001 :8), and substantial assets are expected from both families, although consanguineous marriages may require fewer transfers. The groom’s family pays for the wedding and provides housing for the newlyweds; the bride’s family provides items for the new household. Third, although less documented...

... stands apart with largely bilateral family systems ( Raymo et al. 2015 ; Yeung et al. 2018 ). Further, while the rest of Asia and North Africa are patrilineal, there is variation within these family systems. For instance, primogeniture, polygyny, and consanguineous marriage are customary in some places...

... full depiction of consanguineal relations by cohort for the population of Sweden alive in 2017. We present granular descriptions of biological kinship, including kin traced through full and half-siblings, children by partner order, and separate kin counts for the maternal and paternal sides. Several...

... or consciousness: Perceptions of U.S. society among recent Latin American immigrants to the United States . Social Forces , 59 , 200 – 224 . Reniers G. ( 2001 ). The post-migration survival of traditional marriage patterns: Consanguineous marriages among Turks and Moroccans in Belgium . Journal...

... with married mothers is an open empirical question. Anthropologists have long noted that consanguineous ties are more important than conjugal ties in sub-Saharan Africa (Fortes 1958 ). Consequently, it is plausible that as long as children are recognized as belonging to a particular kinship lineage...