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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 303–322.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., comparatively little work has assessed the relationship between socioeconomic status and health in develop- ing countries, but existing evidence suggests that they are positively linked in develop- ing countries, as they are elsewhere (e.g., Wagstaff 2000). In sub-Saharan Africa today, HIV status...
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 233–250.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Øystein Kravdal Abstract Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys for 22 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, I show that the average educational level in a village or a community of a similar size has a significant depressing effect on a woman’s birth rates, net of urbanization and her own...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 229–247.
Published: 01 May 1991
... as a Function of Age . New England Journal of Medicine , 307 , 404 – 6 . 10.1056/NEJM198202183060706 Frank , O. ( 1983 ). Infertility in Sub-Saharan Africa . New York : The Population Council . Henin , R. A. , Korten , A. , & Werner , L.H. ( 1982 ). Evaluation of Birth...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 465–482.
Published: 01 August 2004
... and Endogenous Explanatory Variables: Test and Solutions With an Application to the Demand for Contraceptive Use in Tunisia . Demography , 32 , 111 – 31 . 10.2307/2061900 Caldwell J.C. , Caldwell P. , & Quiggin P. ( 1989 ). The Social Context of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 757–772.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Ian M. Timæus; Momodou Jasseh Abstract This article reports levels, trends, and age patterns of adult mortality in 23 sub-Saharan Africa countries, based on the sibling histories and orphanhood data collected by the countries’ Demographic and Health Surveys. Adult mortality has risen sharply since...
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 271–294.
Published: 30 January 2018
...Martin Flatø Abstract With high rates of infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, investments in infant health are subject to tough prioritizations within the household, in which maternal preferences may play a part. How these preferences will affect infant mortality as African women have ever-lower...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1295–1316.
Published: 13 June 2018
... countries in sub-Saharan Africa. We use a mother fixed-effects analysis to estimate the effect of recent organized violence events within a radius of 50 km of the home of each mother on the likelihood that her child is born in a health facility. The results indicate that geographical and temporal proximity...
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Published: 13 June 2018
Fig. 1 Location of DHS survey sites in sub-Saharan Africa, 1990–2014. Black dots represent DHS cluster locations More
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 445–473.
Published: 07 February 2020
... this question in sub-Saharan Africa, a world region where parents’ education plays a major role in protecting children against severe health risks, and where young children commonly experience parental divorce and remarriage. Moreover, sub-Saharan Africa features distinct family lineage systems, affording...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 355–368.
Published: 01 August 1997
..., and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants . New York : Academic Press, Inc. . Caldwell , J.C. , & Caldwell , P. ( 1990 ). “High Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa.” . Scientific American , 262 ( 5 ), 118 – 25 . 10.1038/scientificamerican0590-118 Caldwell , P...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1585–1611.
Published: 01 October 2024
... the share of labor in nonagricultural occupations, industrialization, the share of women with higher education, and the formalization of the economy. Our simulations suggest that if high-fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa underwent structural economic transformations comparable to those of other low...
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Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 2 Mortality and fertility decline in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean, 1950–2020. Source: United Nations Population Division Data from 2021. More
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 571–602.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Luca Maria Pesando Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is undergoing rapid transformations in the realm of union formation in tandem with significant educational expansion and rising labor force participation rates. Concurrently, the region remains the least developed and most unequal along multiple...
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Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 2 Share of homogamous couples by educational level, for sub-Saharan Africa as a whole (top panel) and by household location of residence (bottom panel). U = urban; R = rural. Source : Demographic and Health Surveys. More
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 341–366.
Published: 09 January 2014
..., polygyny continues to thrive in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (Bove and Valeggia 2009 ; Van de Walle 2006 ). Building on evidence that the prevalence of polygyny reflects a complex bundle of economic, social, and cultural features, and that its prevalence has implications for how polygynous families...
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 531–558.
Published: 18 May 2011
... Population Association of America 2011 2011 Sub-Saharan Africa Child mortality Migration Urban, rural Rural-Urban Nearly all studies that have examined rural-urban differences of demographic and health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa show that urban residents fare better than rural residents...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1075–1101.
Published: 03 June 2012
... for the fast propagation of HIV in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa. 1 5 2012 3 6 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 HIV Marriage Sexual behavior Partnership concurrency Africa Polygyny was frequently featured in early scientific debates on the epidemiology...
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Published: 18 October 2011
Fig. 6 Food production in sub-Saharan Africa, 1961 to 2009. Data are from FAO ( 2011 ) More
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
...Shelley Clark; Dana Hamplová Abstract Single motherhood in sub-Saharan Africa has received surprisingly little attention, although it is widespread and has critical implications for children’s well-being. Using survival analysis techniques, we estimate the probability of becoming a single mother...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1143–1170.
Published: 01 June 2021
... about the acceptability of IPV, harnessing couple-level data from 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a region characterized by particularly high levels of both the incidence and acceptance of IPV. We document considerable geographic heterogeneity in the distribution of attitudinal concordance...
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