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The Behavioral Economics of Altruism,Reciprocity,and Transfers within Families and Rural Communities:Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Transfers Triple Dictator Games Trust Games Malawi HIV/AIDS Game theory Transfer behavior
2016/3/18
Transfers between strangers, neighbors, families, and spouses were examined using Triple Dictator Games (TDG, involving only givings) and Trust Games (TG, involving both givings and reciprocations) am...
Determinants of the Recent Rise in Childhood Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Kenya Demographic and Health Surveys, 1990 – 2003
Kenya Child mortality determinants
2015/7/27
Childhood mortality rates in Kenya increased in the 1990s and early 2000s. Evidence from Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS) data shows increase in under-5 mortality rate by 26 percent from 91 in 1...
Gender Disparity in HIV Prevalence: A National-Level Analysis of the Association between Gender Inequality and the Feminisation of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS gender inequality feminisation
2015/7/27
The HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa is often described as undergoing a ‘feminisation’ in which female HIV prevalence exceeds that of male in most age groups and countries. However, much of the vari...
Women’s Education, Empowerment, and Contraceptive Use in sub-Saharan Africa: Findings from Recent Demographic and Health Surveys
Education empowerment contraceptive use
2015/7/27
Fertility remains higher and contraceptive levels are substantially lower in Sub-Saharan Africa than elsewhere in the developing world. In this paper we use information on individuals and couples prov...
The Incipient Fertility Transition and Women’s Labor Force Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1991-2005: Evidence From the Demographic and Health Surveys
Incipient fertility transition overall employment
2015/7/27
Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced an expansion of schooling, accompanied by delays in marriage and lower fertility. These trends stand to boost women’s employment prospects and foster further fertili...
Islam, Polygyny and Modern Contraceptive Use in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa
Reproductive health Demographic Health Surveys
2015/7/27
Francophone sub-Saharan African countries have among the highest fertility rates and lowest modern contraceptive prevalence rates worldwide. This analysis is intended to identify the factors driving c...
Situations of fertility stall in sub-Saharan Africa
Fertility transition Fertility stall Contraception Labour force participation Sub-Saharan Africa
2015/7/22
A comparative study of fertility trends since 1950 in 30 countries from sub-Saharan Africa revealed several cases of “fertility stall”, that is a change from downward fertility trends to flat- or even...
Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Falling and Stalling
Fertility Stalling Education
2015/7/22
This paper uses data from the Demographic and Health Surveys to examine the current status of fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa, including the extent to which fertility decline has stalled. A...
A Minimum Data Set on Ageing and Older Persons in Sub-Saharan Africa:Process and Outcome
Sub-Saharan Africa ageing older persons minimum data set demographic and health indicators policy
2015/7/21
Relatively scant knowledge is available on the situations of older persons in sub-Saharan Africa. Reliable and accessible demographic and health statistics are needed to inform policy making for the o...
Evidence on linkages between urbanization,poverty and human well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa
urbanization poverty human well-being Sub-Saharan Africa
2015/6/26
Unprecedented urban population growth in the context of lacklustre economic performance in most African countries has created a new face of poverty characterised by a significant proportion of urban p...
Women's Roles and Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Women's Roles Demographic Change Sub-Saharan Africa
2015/6/25
For two decades or more there has been growing interest in exploring and documenting potential links between several demographic phenomena and various aspects of the changing position and associated s...
Does the orphan disadvantage "spill over"? An analysis of whether living in an area with a higher concentration of orphans is associated with children’s school enrollment in sub-Saharan Africa
education orphans school enrollment Sub-Saharan Africa
2014/11/24
Background: Despite considerable concern regarding the social consequences of sub-Saharan Africa's high orphan prevalence, there has been no research investigating how living in a community densely po...
Further evidence of community education effects on fertility in sub-Saharan Africa
community DHS education fertility fixed-effects multilevel province secular change Sub-Saharan Africa
2014/11/21
Background: Earlier investigations have shown that a woman's chance of having a child, or various proximate determinants of her fertility, are influenced by the socioeconomic resources in the communit...
Children’s stunting in sub-Saharan Africa: Is there an externality effect of high fertility?
sub-Saharan Africa high fertility
2014/11/20
A positive relationship between the number of siblings and a child’s chance of being
stunted has been seen in several studies. It is possible that individual stunting risks are
also raised by high...
Evaluating Health and Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Minimally Invasive Collection of Plasma in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH)
Biomarkers Field methods Health, Malawi
2014/3/31
Background: The collection of biomarker-based indicators of adult health and fitness is an important addition to socioeconomic surveys since these indicators provide valuable insights into the biologi...
