Jane Miller, James Trussell, Anne R. Pebley, Barbara Vaughan
This analysis uses data from Bangladesh and the Philippines to demonstrate that children who are born within 15 months of a preceding birth are 60 to 80% more likely than other children to die in the first two years of life, once the confounding effects of prematurity are removed. The risks associat...
Anne R. Pebley, Sandra L. Huffman, A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Paul Stupp
This paper is an investigation of the relationship of a maternal nutritional status with intra-uterine mortality in a population of chronically malnourished rural Bangladeshi women. First, life-table techniques are used to compare the level of intra-uterine mortality in this population with levels r...
Jane Miller, Germán Rodrı́guez, Anne R. Pebley
Longitudinally collected data from rural Bangladesh was used to investigate the effects of lactation, reproductive patterns, and seasonality on maternal weight and postpartum weight change. Results of multivariate analyses demonstrate that weight change exhibits a strong seasonal pattern, with losse...
Anne R. Pebley, John B. Casterline, James Trussell
Average age at 1st birth is a partial determinant of a countrys growth rate is related to the incidence of pregnancy complications and may be related to subsequent childbearing and socioeconomic status. World Fertility Survey data from 19 countries is used to examine intercountry variations in age a...
Noreen Goldman, Anne R. Pebley
This paper examines the effects of age differences at marriage and of fertility and mortality rates on the marriage markets in 2 very different settings: sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This paper is an extension of an earlier paper on the demography of polygyny in sub-Saharan Africa which focuse...
Sajeda Amin, Anne R. Pebley
This paper measures the impact of programme participation on a range of women's status indicators such as control over household resources, mobility and autonomy and attitudes and aspirations. Five hundred female respondents were interviewed in 36 rural villages in two thanas of Manikganj district i...