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Quality, accessibility, and contraceptive use in rural tanzania
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 23–40.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Thomas A. Mroz; Kenneth A. Bollen; Ilene S. Speizer; Dominic J. Mancini Abstract We examine how informants’reports on community perceptions of the quality and accessibility offamily planningfacilities relate to the use of modern contraceptives by individuals in rural Tanzania. Using information...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1721–1746.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., individual-level data on women's childbearing and child survival trajectories in three rural districts of Tanzania between 2000 and 2015. It treats exposure to insurance conditions (mothers’ motivation to become pregnant as a result of having lost a child before the onset of a given birth interval...
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View articletitled, The Impact of Childhood Mortality on Fertility in Rural <span class="search-highlight">Tanzania</span>: Evidence From the Ifakara and Rufiji Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems
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Growing and Learning When Consumption Is Seasonal: Long-Term Evidence From Tanzania
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1091–1118.
Published: 14 May 2018
..., and idiosyncratic shocks, and estimate the model using panel data from early 1990s Tanzania. We then test whether the mean and seasonality of a child’s consumption profile affect height and educational attainment in 2010. Results show that the negative effects of greater seasonality are 30 % to 60...
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View articletitled, Growing and Learning When Consumption Is Seasonal: Long-Term Evidence From <span class="search-highlight">Tanzania</span>
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Does female circumcision affect infertility and fertility? A study of the central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, and Tanzania
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 313–321.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Ulla Larsen; Sharon Yan Abstract This study explores the association between female circumcision and infertility and fertility, using information from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). In Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania, circumcised women had lower childlessness, lower infertility by age...
View articletitled, Does female circumcision affect infertility and fertility? A study of the central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, and <span class="search-highlight">Tanzania</span>
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Childhood Risk of Parental Absence in Tanzania
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1121–1146.
Published: 29 July 2015
...Lauren Gaydosh Abstract Although parents might not live with their children for a variety of reasons, existing accounts of parental absence often examine one cause in isolation. Using detailed longitudinal demographic surveillance data from Rufiji, Tanzania, this article examines parental absence...
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Sharing the Load: How Do Coresident Children Influence the Allocation of Work and Schooling in Northwestern Tanzania?
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1931–1956.
Published: 09 September 2019
..., however, because few studies have simultaneously considered intrahousehold variation in both children’s education and work. Here, we investigate the influence of coresident children on education, work, and leisure in northwestern Tanzania, using detailed time use data collected from multiple children per...
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Orphanhood and human capital destruction: Is there persistence into adulthood?
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Demography (2010) 47 (1): 163–180.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Kathleen Beegle; Joachim De Weerdt; Stefan Dercon Abstract This article presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes in a region of northwestern Tanzania. We study a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991–1994 who were traced...
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Reporting Errors in Siblings’ Survival Histories and Their Impact on Adult Mortality Estimates: Results From a Record Linkage Study in Senegal
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 387–411.
Published: 04 February 2014
... ). The impact of the AIDS epidemic on the health of older persons in northwestern Tanzania . World Development , 31 , 131 – 148 . 10.1016/S0305-750X(02)00150-X Amstrup , S. C. , McDonald , T. L. , & Manly , B. F. J. ( 2005 ). Handbook of capture-recapture analysis . Princeton, NJ...
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View articletitled, Reporting Errors in Siblings’ Survival Histories and Their Impact on Adult Mortality Estimates: Results From a Record Linkage Study in Senegal
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The gradient in sub-saharan Africa: Socioeconomic status and HIV/AIDS
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 303–322.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Jane G. Fortson Abstract Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Burkina Faso (2003), Cameroon (2004), Ghana (2003), Kenya (2003), and Tanzania (2003), I investigate the cross- sectional relationship between HIV status and socioeconomic status. I find evidence of a robust...
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Orphans in Africa: parental death, poverty, and school enrollment
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 483–508.
Published: 01 August 2004
... Ainsworth M. , Beegle K. , & Koda G. ( 2002 ). The Impact of Adult Mortality on Primary School Enrollment in Northwestern Tanzania . Washington, DC : World Bank . Ainsworth M. , & Filmer D. ( 2002 ). Poverty, AIDS and Children’s Schooling: A Targeting Dilemma...
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Fertility Transitions and Schooling: From Micro- to Macro-Level Associations
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1407–1432.
Published: 29 September 2012
... fertility transitions facilitates the study of contextual variation. Our illustrative countries (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Zambia) capture this diversity. All six countries experienced some decline in fertility rates, from –1.5 % (Burkina Faso) to –15.4 % (Ghana) (see Fig. 3...
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Single Motherhood and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Life Course Perspective
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1521–1549.
Published: 10 July 2013
...), Tanzania (2004–2005), and Zimbabwe (2005–2006). These calendars began in January five years before the start of the survey and recorded whether the respondent was married or living as married for each subsequent month until the time of the survey. 3 Thus, all women provided monthly marital history data...
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Measuring living standards with proxy variables
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Demography (2000) 37 (2): 155–174.
Published: 01 May 2000
... Measurement Study (LSMS) provide this information. We use recent LSMS surveys from five countries that span the major regions and per capita income levels of the developing world: Ghana (1987 1989), Jamaica (1989), Pakistan (1991), Peru (1994), and Tanzania (1993 1994). These surveys are complemented...
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The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 675–697.
Published: 06 May 2011
... d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Senegal—and five countries in East and Southern Africa where rates are higher—Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 2 We selected these countries because they have conducted multiple DHS surveys since 1988, and because their latest round...
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Is There an Urban Advantage in Child Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence From 18 Countries in the 1990s
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Demography (2011) 48 (2): 531–558.
Published: 18 May 2011
... urbanized but with fast annual urban growth rates of more than 4%; Benin, Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Togo have moderate urbanization of between 20% and 40% and an annual urban growth rate of about 4%; and Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal have between 41...
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Migration, Marital Change, and HIV Infection in Malawi
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 239–265.
Published: 23 November 2011
.... Although migrants are at greater risk of contracting HIV, recent research also has shown that HIV/AIDS infection can affect migration. Evidence from Malawi (Floyd et al. 2008 ), South Africa (Hosegood et al. 2004 ; Ford and Hosegood 2005 ), Tanzania (Urassa et al. 2001 ), and Zimbabwe (Gregson et al...
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Desired Fertility and Number of Children Born Across Time and Space
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 55–83.
Published: 19 January 2016
... , D. K. , & Mroz , T. A. ( 1998 ). Purposive program placement and the estimation of family planning program effects in Tanzania . Journal of the American Statistical Association , 93 , 884 – 899 . 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473745 Arnold , F. ( 1990 ). Assessment...
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The Population Education Transition Curve: Education Gradients Across Population Exposure to New Health Risks
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1873–1895.
Published: 05 September 2017
... : Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare . Pamuk E. R. , Fuchs R. , & Lutz W. ( 2011 ). Comparing relative effects of education and economic resources on infant mortality in developing countries . Population and Development Review , 37 , 637 – 664 . 10.1111/j.1728...
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Marriage behavior response to prime-age adult mortality: evidence from malawi
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 February 2009
.... , Beegle K. , & Koda G. ( 2005 ). The Impact of Adult Mortality and Parental Deaths on Primary Schooling in North-Western Tanzania . Journal of Development Studies , 41 , 412 – 39 . 10.1080/0022038042000313318 Becker G.S. , & Lewis H.G. ( 1973 ). On the Interaction...
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Power Outages, Power Externalities, and Baby Booms
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1477–1500.
Published: 10 July 2014
... of such events include increases in fertility. The evidence comes from a month-long power outage affecting the entire island of Zanzibar, Tanzania, between May and June of 2008. To document the implications of this event, I use a panel database of community-level births constructed from maternity ward birth...
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