... married for the first time or widowed during the 1940's decade. Those who entered their 1950 marital statuses in the next older age interval, 20-24 years, included markedly greater proportions of college-educated. All status groups except the separated included higher proportions of college-educated women...

..., and (5) the rising proportion of economically dependent women in the 16–54 age span. Most of the data are based on the 1959 Census and vital statistics by administrative areas for the U. S. S. R. For analytic purposes these were sorted into 30 areas of low birth rates, 62 areas with moderate rates...

... Amin S. , Basu A.M. , & Stephenson R. ( 2002 ). Spatial Variation in Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh: Looking Beyond the Borders . Demography , 39 , 251 – 67 . 10.1353/dem.2002.0014 Balk D. ( 1994 ). Individual and Community Aspects of Women’s Status and Fertility...

... function of credit is to enhance women s eco- nomic status. Credit enables women to earn extra income, through which they can gain more financial autonomy. To generate a positive return on investments, however, women must spend time on income-generating activities. Thus credit can increase the opportunity...

... 1990), and among those with more decision-making power in India (Das Gupta 1990). Much less research has focused on the relationship be- tween women s status and the use of health services, a proxi- mate determinant of maternal and child mortality (McCarthy and Maine 1992; Mosley and Chen 1984...

... – 37 . 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2002.00515.x Nagaraj S. , & Lee K.H. ( 1995 ). The Status of Women and Fertility, Malaysia—Report No. 1, the Technical Report . Kuala Lumpur : Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya . Nagi M.H. ( 1984 ). Trends...

... does not al- ways contribute to an improvement in women s status; see Balk 1994 for an example from Asia.) Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa 235 Women s status also may operate through channels other than those just mentioned. For example, if the husband wants more children than the wife...

... of the rates demonstrated little rela- tionship between the sex difference and gender equality. However, I found a strong and consistent relationship between the sex difference and the stage of diffusion of the use of cigarettes. ebates over the consequences of improvements in women s status for the sex differ...

... ). Gender Inequality and Fertility in Two Nepali Villages . Population and Development Review , 21 , 541 – 61 . 10.2307/2137749 Nagaraj , S. , & Lee , K.H. ( 1995 ). The Status of Women and Fertility, Malaysia . Kuala Lumpur : Faculty of Economics and Administration, University...

..., Population Studies (1994) Kerry Richter, Chai The Impact of Child Care on Fertility in Child Care, Women s Status, and Spouse s occupation Podhisita, Apichat Urban Thailand, Demography (1994) Fertility in Urban Thailand, Chamratrithirong, and 1990 1991 Kusol Soonthorndhada (continued) 172 DEMOGRAPHY...

... and J. Caldwell 1981; Mhloyi 1988; Orubuloye 1979). Various as- pects of socioeconomic modernization, ideological changes, and improvement in women s status are alleged to have un- dermined the traditional norms and institutions that govern observance of prolonged abstinence and have enabled couples...

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... of women within households made far less progress, and enduring norms continue to maintain women s low status, with restricted agency and heavy dependence on male household members (UNDP 2005). This provides a fascinat- ing backdrop against which to examine the role of inequalities at the broader, societal...

... AND DOWELL MYERS The new second generation of the post-1965 immigration era is observed as children with their parents in 1980 and again as adults 25 years later. Intergenerational mobility is assessed for both men and women in four major racial/ethnic groups, both in regard to children s status attainment...

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... histories, their own and their children s health, marital status, sexual activities, fertility preferences, and HIV- related knowledge. Our analyses of marital disruption are restricted to the 10,467 ever- married women in CDHS 2000, who also provided the date of their marriage, and background information...

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