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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1319–1350.
Published: 29 September 2016
... there be some low-productivity women: Assumption A1. N < F ¯ < F . 5 8 2016 29 9 2016 © Population Association of America 2016 2016 Polygamy Rank Wife order Intrahousehold allocation Ethiopia Polygamy is a prominent feature of many societies...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2169–2198.
Published: 15 September 2020
... intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Polygamy Mortality Marital status Fertility Bereavement...
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View articletitled, The Effects of Marital Status, Fertility, and Bereavement on Adult Mortality in Polygamous and Monogamous Households: Evidence From the Utah Population Database
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 281–313.
Published: 18 December 2014
... that prior studies have found mixed or ambiguous relationships between the number of children living in the household and their schooling attainment. Polygamy will also complicate the measurement of the household budget constraint, family composition, and child schooling decisions. In African cities...
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 1984
...) . Ekanem I. I. ( 1974 ). Influence of Polygamy on Fertility in Eastern Nigeria . In B. Kwaku Adadevoh (Ed.), Sub-Fertility and Infertility in Africa (pp. 56 – 64 ). Ibadan : Caxton Press (West Africa) Ltd . Farooq, G. M. 1980. Household Fertility Decision-Making in Nigeria. Paper...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1075–1101.
Published: 03 June 2012
... difference between spouses and contraceptive practice in sub-Saharan Africa] . Population , 60 , 725 – 764 . Barrett J. C. ( 1971 ). Fecundability and coital frequency . Population Studies , 25 , 309 – 313 . BBC News. (2010, April 30). Malawi move to ban polygamy angers Muslims...
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 241–253.
Published: 01 May 1970
... place in 1969 in several gouvernorats. Relaied Social Legislation A few comments should be made about social progress among women in Tunisia. Bourguiba has put forth considerable effort to try to upgrade the status of women. The first law he signed upon independence abolished polygamy. Farn- ilies have...
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 467–479.
Published: 01 November 2001
... systems, incidence of polygamy, extended families, and religious beliefs (J. Caldwell and P. Caldwell 1987; Lesthaeghe 1989). The fo- cus on these broad characteristics, however, may do little to explain which aspects of the structures affect reproductive behavior, and by what means (Greenhalgh 1990...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 315–332.
Published: 01 August 1993
...." These are contraceptive use, marital pattern (divorce and polygamy), coital frequency and voluntary abstinence, induced abortion, and breast- feeding. Among these variables, contraceptive use is likely to be influenced most strongly by gender preference to have a potential impact on fertility because it is the key...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 341–366.
Published: 09 January 2014
....2008.09.045 Bradley , M. ( 2004 ). Cultural configurations of Mormon fundamentalist polygamous communities . Nova Religio , 8 , 5 – 19 . 10.1525/nr.2004.8.1.5 Cahu , P. , Falilou , F. , & Pongou , R. (Forthcoming). Demographic transition in Africa: The polygamy...
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 573–586.
Published: 01 August 2002
... Traditionelle: les Peul Bandé (Sénégal Oriental) [Dynamics of a Traditional Population: The Fula in Eastern Senegal]. Working paper 99. Paris: INED-PUF. Pison, G. 1986. La Demographie de la Polygamie. Population 41(1):93 122. Ratcliffe, A.A., A.G. Hill, and G. Walraven. 2000. Separate Lives, Different...
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Demography (1991) 28 (1): 83–99.
Published: 01 February 1991
... (monogamy or polygamy) is expected to influence use of modem contraceptive methods. Past studies showed that polygamous wives practice abstinence (a traditional form of birth control) longer than monogamously married women Contraceptive Use in Kenya 87 (Caldwell and Caldwell 1981; Dow and Werner 1982...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 641–656.
Published: 01 June 1967
.... Another factor that could be respon- sible for the lower Malay fertility is the practice of polygamy as permitted by the Muslim Law, provided all wives (maxi- mum of four at anyone time) are equally treated by the husband. But, in spite of the paucity of empirical evidence from either census records...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 590–597.
Published: 01 June 1968
... on the average; educated women have 4), afflicted with high mor- tality rates (women want more children as a reserve), and characterized by frequent divorces and polygamy (more children mean a firmer marital bond). These conditions skew the age distri- bution to the younger-fertile and non- productive-ages...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 355–368.
Published: 01 August 1997
... Frequency.” . Population Studies , 25 ( 2 ), 309 – 13 . 10.2307/2173218 Bhatia , J.C. ( 1985 ). “Polygamy-Fertility Inter-Relationship: The Case of Ghana.” . Journal of Family Welfare , 31 ( 4 ), 46 – 55 . Bongaarts , J. , & Potter , R.G. ( 1983 ). Fertility, Biology...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1351–1375.
Published: 13 September 2016
... to the history of polygamy in Nepal, allowing men to take a second wife without formally dissolving their first marriage (Deuba and Rana 2001 ). A woman who wants to remarry, on the other hand, must dissolve her first marriage. For women without prospects for remarriage, separation may be a more desirable...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 642–650.
Published: 01 June 1968
... the Muslim minor- ity community alone should not be per- mitted plurality of wives, no matter what the Islamic religion says. When even avowedly Islamic countries like Turkey, the United Arab Republic and Pakistan Pakistan have given up polygamy, there is no reason why Indian Muslims should not give up...
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 169–187.
Published: 01 February 2005
... require explicit, mutual consent and prohibit polygamy and extrajudicial repudia- tion of a spouse. As of 2000, over 75% of reproductive-aged women in Egypt did not select their first husbands (EI-Zanaty et al. 1996), polygamy was admissible (albeit rare) if husbands notified existing and intended wives...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1243–1277.
Published: 24 May 2013
... , J. ( 1996 ). Can polygamy be avoided in Dakar? . In K. Sheldon (Ed.), Courtyards, markets and city streets: Urban women in Africa (pp. 129 – 152 ). Boulder, CO : Westview Press . Arango , J. , & Jachimonwicz , M. ( 2005 ). Regularizing immigrants in Spain: A new...
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 427–439.
Published: 01 November 1971
...; for the married woman, an atmosphere of mis- trust and suspicion, disruption of married life, eventual divorce. Under a legal sys- tem where polygamy is permitted and where the right of divorce is the pre- rogative of the male, such threats as- sume a certain sense of reality. STRUCTURE OF THE NON-AGRICULTURAL...
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Demography (1982) 19 (2): 161–176.
Published: 01 May 1982
... century. The interruption of marriage by divorce or death followed by remarriage is often difficult to detect in longitudinal family data for historical populations, and, of course, that difficul- ty is further compounded if the remar- riage involved polygamy. We have elimi- nated the problem...
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