Liang-Chia Chen, Emdadul Huq, Stan D’Souza
Conclusive evidence was provided in an earlier study by the authors of higher female than male mortality from shortly after birth through the childbearing ages in a rural area of Bangladesh.' Male mortality exceeded female mortality in the neonatal period, but this differential was reversed in the p...
Erica Field, Attila Ambrus
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Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi
This article presents findings of research addressing the question of how women's status affects fertility. The effects on contraceptive use of women's participation in rural credit programs and on their status or level of empowerment were examined. A woman's level of empowerment is defined here as ...
Mead Cain
From the perspective of parents in many parts of the developing world, high fertility and large numbers of surviving children may be economically rational propositions. An important consideration with respect to the micro implications of high fertility is the economic roles and productive contributi...
Kaivan Munshi, Jacques Myaux
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Syed Hashemi, Ann P. Riley
Susheela Singh, Renée Samara
This study examines trends in first marriage consensual unions and cohabiting unions among adolescents. Data were obtained for 40 countries from Demographic and Health Surveys. Marriage timing was grouped for the proportion of all women aged 20-24 years who married by ages 15 18 and 20 years. Women ...
Deborah Balk
This paper examines the relationship between women's status and fertility in two regions of rural Bangladesh. Based on individual and household-level survey data, women's status is measured through four constructs. The covariates of these four aspects of women's status vary considerably and confirm ...
Pradip K. Muhuri, Samuel H. Preston
Pradip K. Muhuri, Samuel H. Preston, Effects of Family Composition on Mortality Differentials by Sex Among Children in Matlab, Bangladesh, Population and Development Review, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 415-434
Upul Senarath, Nalika Gunawardena
This article aims to discuss women's autonomy in decision making on health care, and its determinants in 3 South Asian countries, using nationally representative surveys. Women's participation either alone or jointly in household decisions on their own health care was considered as an indicator of w...
Stan D’Souza, Liang-Chia Chen
This study provides conclusive documentation of higher female than male mortality from shortly after birth through the childbearing ages in a rural area of Bangladesh. The higher male mortality rates during the neonatal period are consistent with reports from developed countries; but whereas in deve...
Julie DaVanzo, Lauren Hale, Abdur Razzaque, Md Mizanur Rahman
Using high-quality longitudinal data on 125,720 singleton live births in Matlab, Bangladesh, we assessed the effects of duration of intervals between pregnancy outcomes on infant and child mortality and how these effects vary over subperiods of infancy and childhood and by the type of outcome that b...
Liang-Chia Chen, Shamsa Ahmed, Melita Gesche, W. Henry Mosley
Abstract A group of 209 married, fecund women in rural Bangladesh were studied prospectively for 24 months from 1969 to 1971 to define some of the biological and sociological factors relating to fertility performance. These women were selected from a larger study population of 112,000 that had been ...
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen et al.
BACKGROUND: Under natural circumstances, the sex ratio of male to female mortality up to the age of 5 years is greater than one but sex discrimination can change sex ratios. The estimation of mortality by sex and identification of countries with outlying levels is challenging because of issues with ...
John Bongaarts
An examination of fertility trends in countries with multiple DHS surveys found that in the 1990s fertility stalled in midtransition in seven countries: Bangladesh, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, and Turkey. In each of these countries fertility was high (more than six births per w...