John C. Caldwell, Barkat‐e‐Khuda, Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris et al.
The claim has been made, notably in a 1994 World Bank report, that the Bangladesh fertility decline shows that efficient national family planning programs can achieve major fertility declines even in countries that are very poor, and even if females have a low status and significant socioeconomic ch...
Md. Nazrul Islam Mondal, Md. Kamal Hossain, Md. Korban Ali
The main purpose of this study is to observe the influencing factors on infant and child mortality of suburban and rural areas of Rajshahi District, Bangladesh. Primary data have been used to examine the differential patterns of infant and child mortality. A multivariate technique is employed to inv...
Kathryn M. Yount, AliceAnn Crandall, Yuk Fai Cheong, Theresa L. Osypuk et al.
Child marriage (before age 18) is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Worldwide, Bangladesh has the highest prevalence of IPV and very early child marriage (before age 15). How the community prevalence of very early child marriage influences a woman's risk of IPV is unkn...
Carine Ronsmans, Mahbub Elahi Chowdhury, Sushil Kanta Dasgupta, Anisuddin Ahmed et al.
Background The effect of a parent's death on the survival of the children has been assessed in only a few studies. We therefore investigated the effect of the death of the mother or father on the survival of the child up to age 10 years in rural Bangladesh. Methods We used data from population surve...
D. A. Coleman, Sylvie Dubuc
This paper presents estimates of the level and trend of the fertility of different ethnic minorities in the UK from the 1960s up to 2006. The fertility estimates are derived primarily from the Labour Force Survey using the Own-Child method, with additional information from the General Household Surv...
Kazuyo Machiyama, John B. Casterline, Joyce Mumah, Fauzia Akhter Huda et al.
BACKGROUND: Unmet need for family planning points to the gap between women's reproductive desire to avoid pregnancy and contraceptive behaviour. An estimated 222 million women in low- and middle-income countries have unmet need for modern contraception. Despite its prevalence, there has been little ...
Prashant Bharadwaj, Leah K. Lakdawala
ABSTRACT. This paper investigates whether boys receive preferential prenatal treatment in a setting where son preference is present. Using micro health data from India, we highlight sex-selective prena-tal investments as a new channel via which parents can practice discriminatory behavior. We find t...
Susan Greenhalgh, W. Penn Handwerker
The politics of reproduction - a window on social change, W.Penn Handwerker the politics of reproductive biology - exclusionary policies in the United States, Rose Jones the politics of obstetric care - the Inuit experience, John O'Neill and Patricia A.Kaufert the politics of birth - cultural dimens...
Mary K. Shenk, Mary C. Towner, Howard Kress, Nurul Alam
The demographic transition is an ongoing global phenomenon in which high fertility and mortality rates are replaced by low fertility and mortality. Despite intense interest in the causes of the transition, especially with respect to decreasing fertility rates, the underlying mechanisms motivating it...
Deborah Balk
(1997). Defying Gender Norms in Rural Bangladesh: A Social Demographic Analysis. Population Studies: Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 153-172.
Geoffrey McNicoll, John Cleland, James F. Phillips, Sajeda Amin et al.
Mead Cain
In rural Bangladesh domestic organization is patriarchal ownership of land is concentrated among men and inheritance customs and laws favor sons. Sons establish their new households soon after marriage usually about 28 and they then assume independent authority while usually being given right to a p...
Lisa M. Bates, Joanna Maselko, Sidney Ruth Schuler
In traditional settings where early marriage and early childbearing persist, decisions about age at marriage are often made by parents, and mothers-in-law tend to have considerable influence in hastening the initiation of childbearing. This study analyzes data from a 2002 survey in six villages in r...
James F. Phillips, Wayne S. Stinson, Shushum Bhatia, Makhlisur Rahman et al.
This paper evaluates the demographic impact of the Family Planning-Health Services Project in Matlab Thana of rural Bangladesh. The project was begun by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh in October 1977. Contraceptive services--including pills, condoms, IUDs, steri...
Farah Deeba Chowdhury
This article focuses on the reasons for child marriage in a Bangladeshi village. Although the mean age of marriage for women in Bangladesh is currently 20.2, nearly half of all girls are married before the age of 18. In Bangladesh, female sexuality is controlled through early marriage and the custom...