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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1351–1375.
Published: 13 September 2016
...Elyse A. Jennings Abstract Few studies have examined the causes and consequences of marital dissolution in non-Western settings. This article explores the fundamental factors that may predict marital dissolution in a mainly agrarian setting in South Asia, where collectivism has historically been...
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Published: 15 March 2013
Fig. 7 Life expectancy projections for South Asia (IIASA-defined) for our BHM model, IIASA, and the UN. The median projections for BHM and IIASA are similar, but the IIASA 80 % interval is much wider than the BHM 80 % interval
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 226–248.
Published: 01 March 1968
... to rectify this deficiency. A population with an age structure, vital rates, and school enrollment rates representative of many countries in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa was projected for sixty years, according to the following sets of conditions: (a) constant fertility—constant educational...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 521–536.
Published: 01 May 2010
...), and (b) girls are born at relatively earlier parities within families (birth-order effect). Empirically testing for these effects, we find that both are present in many countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and North Africa but are absent in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Using maximum...
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Demography (1987) 24 (2): 271–278.
Published: 01 May 1987
...K. Srinivasan; A. C. Muthiah Abstract In a number of developing countries, especially in South Asia, there is a custom for a pregnant woman to go to her mother’s home for delivery and remain for some months afterwards. In this context, estimates of various fertility measures, based on data from...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 777–801.
Published: 15 March 2013
...Fig. 7 Life expectancy projections for South Asia (IIASA-defined) for our BHM model, IIASA, and the UN. The median projections for BHM and IIASA are similar, but the IIASA 80 % interval is much wider than the BHM 80 % interval ...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2083–2108.
Published: 10 December 2019
... the potential mechanisms that make them so powerful. Here we use longitudinal measures from the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) to describe the processes of ideational change across 12 years among a representative sample from a rural agrarian setting in South Asia. Findings from lagged dependent variable...
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Published: 04 May 2011
Fig. 1 Distribution of human development index across districts. Source: Nepal South Asia Centre ( 1999 ). Nepal Human Development Report 1998 (Submitted to the United Nations Development Programme, Nepal), Kathmandu, Nepal
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 563–582.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jisoo Hwang Abstract South Korea and other developed regions in East Asia have become forerunners of prolonged lowest-low fertility. South Korea's total fertility rate has been below 1.3 for two decades, the longest duration among OECD countries. Using vital statistics and census data, I study...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 489–508.
Published: 01 November 1986
... , S. J. ( 1973 ). Dowry and bridewealth and the property rights of women in South Asia . In J. Goody , & S. J. Tambiah (Eds.), Bridewealth and Dowry (pp. 59 – 169 ). Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press . Tambiah , S. J. ( 1973 ). From varna to caste through...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 August 2003
... Family Health Survey Severe Stunting References Agarwal B. ( 1994 ). A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia . New York : Cambridge University Press . Amin S. ( 1990 ). The Effect of Women’s Status on Sex Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 761–786.
Published: 01 April 2022
... available. 1 Since DHS does not cover East Asia, we used other sources for China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. These sources include Chinese censuses from IPUMS International, Chinese and Japanese General Social Surveys, and the Korean National Survey on Fertility, Family Health & Welfare...
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Demography (2001) 38 (1): 67–78.
Published: 01 February 2001
.../0032472031000149886 Basu , A.M. ( 1992 ). Culture, the Status of Women and Demographic Behaviour . Oxford : Clarendon . Basu , A.M. ( 1996 ). Girls’ Schooling, Autonomy and Fertility Change: What Do These Words Mean in South Asia? . In R. Jeffery , & A.M. Basu (Eds.), Girls...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1715–1735.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the Sahara in 1955 will have lost 1.9 children by her 65th birthday, but a woman born in 2000 will have experienced the death of only 0.4 children by that same age. We expect to observe a similar decline among women of working ages (i.e., before age 65) in Central and South Asia: from 1 child death to only...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 989–1012.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Kinship System High Caste Kinship Institution United Province References Agarwal B. ( 1994 ). A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia . New Delhi : Cambridge University Press . Agarwal B. ( 1997 ). ‘Bargaining’ and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond...
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Writing the names: Marriage style, living arrangements, and first birth interval in a Nepali society
Demography (1993) 30 (2): 175–188.
Published: 01 May 1993
... ). Biocultural Adaptations of the High Altitude Sherpas of Nepal . In J. R. Lukacs (Ed.), The People of South Asia: The Biological Anthropology of India, Pakistan, and Nepal (pp. 387 – 420 ). New York : Plenum . Wood James W. ( 1990 ). Fertility in Anthropological Populations . Annual...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1663–1686.
Published: 25 May 2013
... 2013 © Population Association of America 2013 2013 Marriage Contraception Arranged marriage Fertility South Asia Social change worldwide is steadily eroding the practice of familially arranged marriage in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, but most recently in rural South Asia...
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in Intergenerational Clustering of Under-Five Mortality: A Cohort Perspective in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Published: 01 August 2024
= South and Southeast Asia; orange = Central Africa; purple = East Africa; red = Southern Africa; yellow = West Africa.
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 195–220.
Published: 31 January 2020
... children’s educational attainment and their marriage timing over 12 years. Also novel, we investigate these associations in rural South Asia, a setting quite different from the Western European and U.S. setting for most prior research on these associations. We pose multiple related research questions...
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