Geoffrey McNicoll, Roger Jeffery, Alaka Malwade Basu
Schooling as Contraception? - Roger Jeffery and Alaka M Basu Girls' Schooling, Autonomy and Fertility Change - Alaka M Basu What Do These Words Mean in South Asia? Maternal Schooling and Fertility - John Cleland and Shireen Jejeebhoy Evidence from Censuses and Surveys Educational Attainment, Status ...
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...
John C. Caldwell, Pat Caldwell, Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris
This article aims to show how the period now known as adolescence came into being and how it was shaped by international economic, institutional, and social influences. It considers premodern societies and argues that traditional culture has shaped contemporary adolescence even more than has global ...
Bruce Caldwell, John C. Caldwell, Satindra Nath Mitra, Wayne Smith
Searching for an optimum solution to the Bangladesh arsenic crisis: Thirty years ago Bangladesh experienced very high levels of infant and child mortality, much of it due to water-borne disease in deltaic conditions where surface water was highly polluted. In what appeared to be one of the great pub...
Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris, Barkat‐e‐Khuda, John Caldwell et al.
Bangladesh adjoins the Asian region with the severest AIDS epidemic and has common borders with two of the most affected areas, the Indian Hill States and northern Burma. There has been disagreement about the danger to Bangladesh, one view citing the likelihood of transmission from neighbouring infe...
Bruce Caldwell, John C. Caldwell, Satindra Nath Mitra, Wayne Smith
Abstract Bangladesh has seen one of the developing world's great public health successes, the conversion of the drinking water source for 94% of the rural population to ‘safe water’, in the form of tubewells, with the aim of reducing morbidity and mortality from water‐borne disease. Now, that succes...
John C. Caldwell, James F. Phillips, Barkat‐e‐Khuda
National family planning programs have been an important instrument in accelerating global fertility decline and in restricting ultimate world population to a level probably below ten billion. They began to come into being after 1950 and will probably go out of existence in most of the world's regio...
John C. Caldwell, Pat Caldwell
The family planning program in the Matlab District of Bangladesh has been described in unique detail for more than 25 years and is regarded as a model for equally poor parts of the world. Its experience has been reported as showing the ineffectiveness of contraceptive saturation approaches and the p...
John C. Caldwell, Bruce Caldwell
The Asian demographic transition is treated as one aspect of the global Industrial Revolution, which started in the West but now involves the whole world. In fact, the multiplication of per capita income in Asia in the second half of the twentieth century has been the world's fastest. With the rise ...
Introduction: Abortion in a Changing World by John C. Caldwell and Pat Caldwell Abortion: A World-Wide Overview by Susheela Singh, Stanley K. Henshaw, and Kathleen Bernsten The Challenge of Induced Abortion Research: A Transdisciplinary Perspective by Axel I. Mundigo Demographic Research and Abortio...
John C. Caldwell, A. K. M. Jalaluddin, Pat Caldwell, W. Cosford
This paper reports on a 1978 research project in Bangladesh which examined the pre-conditions for fertility decline by measuring the most quantifiable aspect of childrens value--their work within the family context. All activities between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m. for all family members over five years of ...
John C. Caldwell, George E. Immerwahr, Lado T. Ruzicka
Focus in this illustrative analysis is on the following: some of the issues involved in the study of fertility as related to family or household structure; the problems and techniques involved in using World Fertility Survey (WFS) data for this purpose; and illustative findings using WFS data with r...
John C Caldwell Barkat-E-khuda, Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris, Pat Caldwell et al.
Abstract Demographic theory has failed to keep up with the spread of fertility transition to most parts of the world. There is still a tendency to exclude the role of national family planning programmes and to regard their activities as extraneous or artifi cial, lying outside the scope of the socio...
Bruce Caldwell, Wayne Smith, John C. Caldwell, Satindra Nath Mitra
Abstract The presence of arsenic in tubewell water has been identified as a major health problem in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Government, with international assistance, is attempting to mitigate the effects of arsenic by a major programme of tubewell water testing and education about arsenic and ho...
Bruce Caldwell, John C. Caldwell, Barkat‐e‐Khuda, Indrani Pieris
Neil Thomas
In this comment, John Cleland's rejection of the importance of economic security to fertility is challenged on the grounds that he gives insufficient attention to the components of Mead Cain's theory. Superficial regard for the full meaning of insurance, and almost total neglect of the environment o...
Jane Menken, Cameron Campbell, Paul R. Greenough, John C. Caldwell et al.
In this paper, we reaffirm Watkins and Menken's (1985) conclusion that there is 'little likelihood that famines will be a major determinant of population growth in the future, any more than ... in the past'.We find that age and sex-specific patterns of famine mortality change that have markedly diff...
Barkat-e Khuda, John Caldwell, Bruce Caldwell, Indrani Pieris et al.
John C. Caldwell, World Fertility Survey
K. M. Murphy, Frances O’Brien, Michael Madden, John Collins et al.