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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1075–1101.
Published: 03 June 2012
... into polygynous unions, (2) the sexual network structure characteristic of polygyny, (3) the relatively low coital frequency in conjugal dyads of polygynous marriages ( coital dilution ), and (4) the restricted access to sexual partners for younger men in populations where polygynous men presumably monopolize...
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 573–586.
Published: 01 August 2002
... that widespread polygyny required a special interest in marriage pat- terns, data collection and analysis in polygynous marriages needed to be carefully planned, and even the use of the total fertility rate for comparisons between men and women was scrutinized. In this article, we compare men s and women s...
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 139–157.
Published: 01 May 1995
... © Population Association of America 1995 1995 Random Error Term Female Status World Fertility Survey Polygynous Marriage Socioeconomic Status Variable References Alexander P. ( 1986 ). Labor Expropriation and Fertility: Population Growth in Nineteenth Century Java . In W...
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 533–542.
Published: 01 November 1995
... are currently monogamous men who intend to remain so, currently monogamous men who intend to become polygynous, and currently polygynous men. The first analysis demonstrates that typical marriage analyses may misclassify men who intend to become polygynous. Applications of the marriage trichotomy illustrate...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 205–228.
Published: 10 September 2013
... 15.54 16.21 15.94 45+ 19.98 18.88 20.03 Mother is in polygynous marriage 27.97 27.87 27.90 Mother is HIV positive 6.18 4.90 4.95 Mother is in bad health 37.13 35.98 37.47 Household Covariates Family death, 2006–2008 –– 15.72 16.67 Quintile of household asset...
View articletitled, The Impact of Family Transitions on Child Fostering in Rural Malawi
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2169–2198.
Published: 15 September 2020
... in polygamous marriages (Bove and Valeggia 2009 ; Jankowiak et al. 2005 ). Most of the empirical literature examining the relationship between marriage order and wife outcomes is based on studies of contemporary polygynous households in Africa, but there are also some studies based on historical households...
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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 (2014) 51 (1): 229–255.
Published: 26 September 2013
... effects (except as noted). Standard errors, shown in parentheses, are clustered at the household level. * p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001 As stated earlier, a possible violation of the identification assumption arises from polygynous marriages in which mothers of young children...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 355–368.
Published: 01 August 1997
... their polygynously married counterparts. This line of research is of limited util- ity in explaining the impact of polygyny on reproductive be- havior because the dichotomization of marriage ignores the fluidity in marriage. For instance, currently monogamous unions in most of sub-Saharan Africa may become polygy...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 341–366.
Published: 09 January 2014
... in polygynous families could persist, or even be magnified, in these settings of concentrated disadvantage. Therefore, even as polygyny continues to decline across sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, or within particular subnational regions, marriage patterns will remain critical for understanding infant health...
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 302–308.
Published: 01 March 1965
... marriages had to be registered, do a substantial number of consensual unions (unions de fait, i.e., stable non-registered unions) show 8 per- cent of the unions for the whole country, not considering polygynous unions. Even in this case, the label "consensual union" covers at least three different...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1243–1277.
Published: 24 May 2013
... incidence of polygyny. Senegal has one of the highest levels of polygyny in sub-Saharan Africa: 48.6 % of women aged 15–49 were in polygynous marriages in 1997 (Westoff 2003 :9); and polygyny is significant even in urban areas like Dakar (Antoine and Nanitelamio 1996 ). Although polygyny has traditionally...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 295–309.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of the impact of marriage and marriage dissolution on the developmental cycle of the household). Even nuclear households may become elementary polygy- nous households in view of the fact that African marriage is potentially polygynous. The measurement of the household's economic status poses special challenges...
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 1984
..., which ap- pears to have a depressing effect on fertility (Ekanem, 1974,p. 59). All things being equal, it is expected that the higher the incidence of polygyny, the lower the fertility, because of lower average fre- quency of coitus. Fertility will also tend to be lower in polygynous marriages...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
... over women’s life course and investigate the relationship between single motherhood and child mortality in 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Although a mere 5 % of women in Ethiopia have a premarital birth, one in three women in Liberia will become mothers before first marriage. Compared...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1029–1048.
Published: 21 June 2011
... ** 0.524 ** 0.479 ** 0.520 ** Age 21–25 0.948 0.931 Age 26–30 0.673 0.668 Age 31 or older 0.433 ** 0.425 ** In polygynous marriage 0.652 ** 0.667 ** 1–4 years of schooling 0.953 0.937 5 or more years of schooling 0.868 0.856 Gainfully employed...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 465–482.
Published: 01 August 2004
... Problems and Subsequent Divorce . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 59 , 612 – 24 . 10.2307/353949 Bean F. , Berg R.R. , & Van Hook J.V.W. ( 1996 ). Socioeconomic and Cultural Incorporation and Marital Disruption Among Mexican Americans . Social Forces , 75 , 593 – 617...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 417–438.
Published: 01 May 2008
... statistics (adjusted for cluster- ing on the individual). Th e sample is composed of current marriages in MDICP2 that either remained intact or ended in separation or divorce by MDICP3. Marriages that ended in widowhood were excluded from the analysis. For polygynous men, more than one marriage can...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 891–913.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and 1969 and was followed less often by divorced women and those from polygynous households. Women with primary education and those from higher status groups were more likely to experience delayed entry. The truncated trajectory was associated with lack of economic wealth, polygynous households, and caste...
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View articletitled, Childbearing Trajectories in a West African Setting: A Sequence Analysis Approach
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 347–371.
Published: 27 January 2020
...’ marriage following the death of a child (Lyngstad 2013 ; Rogers et al. 2008 ) and suggesting that women are often blamed for children’s adverse outcomes (Castle 1994 ; Haws et al. 2010 ), we propose and test an alternative account of positive associations between IPV and child mortality. Our analyses...
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View articletitled, The Marital Implications of Bereavement: Child Death and Intimate Partner Violence in West and Central Africa
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Demography (1976) 13 (4): 479–493.
Published: 01 November 1976
... the fact that in some polyg- ynous marriages wives compete to win fa- vor and greater access to their husband's eventual estate by producing ever more children, once controls are introduced for age and education wives in polygynous unions are about as likely to use con- traception as women in monogamous...
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