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Factors Influencing Children’s Full Immunization in Ethiopia
Children Immunization Region Ethiopia
2016/7/7
Child morbidity and mortality in Ethiopia is mainly due to vaccine preventable diseases. Although numerous interventions have been made since the 1980’s to increase vaccination coverage, the level of ...
It is well-known that small di§erences in discount rates, persisting over generations, make it much easier to explain US wealth inequality across households as an equilibrium outcome. At the individua...
Place Matters: Community Level Effects of Women’s Autonomy on Ethiopian Children’s Immunization Status
Community Ethiopia Immunizations
2015/7/27
Over 75% of Ethiopian children are not fully immunized against infectious diseases and illnesses. Studies have shown that women’s autonomy, or decision-making abilities, is related to improvements in ...
Determinants of diarrhea among young children under the age of five in Kenya, evidence from KDHS 2008-09
Childhood diarrhea Sources of drinking water
2015/7/27
This paper examines the relative contribution of household, demographic and maternal characteristics to the incidence of diarrhea in young Kenyan children. Data from the Kenya Demographic and Health S...
Gender,household headship and children’s educational performance in Nigeria:debunking the myth of poor performance in female-headed households
Gender household household headship Children Educational performance
2015/7/22
This study examines how gender interacts with household headship to influence children’s educational performance. It evaluates the educational performance of children in senior secondary schools in La...
Fertility Levels,Trends and Differentials in Kenya:How Does the Own-children Method Add to Our Knowledge of the Transition?
Fertility Own-children method Demographic transition
2015/7/22
The own-children method of fertility estimation tracks temporal changes in fertility patterns. We revisit the Kenyan fertility transition by applying the method to 1979, 1989 and 1999 censuses, and 19...
Fertility Transition in Nigeria:Exploring the Role of Desired Number of Children
Fertility Transition Nigeria Desired Children
2015/7/22
Reports have suggested the onset of fertility transition in Nigeria and speculations are rife about the factors driving the observed fertility changes. This study investigates if and how 'desired numb...
The Demand for Children in Anambra State of Nigeria: A Logit Analysis
Demand for children Desired family size
2015/7/22
This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of demand for children in Anambra State of Nigeria. To achieve this, a micro framework was adopted and cross sectional data explored. Logisti...
Desire for Children and Fear of Side Effects–A Basic Barrier for Acceptance of Contraceptive Services in Rural Area of Central India
Contraceptive acceptance Women Reproductive age group
2015/7/10
Background: According to UN projection India’s population will reach 1.53 billion by the year 2050 and will be the highest population in the world. The success of the present RCH-II programme relies o...
Value of Children and the social production of welfare
cross-cultural research cultural framing fertility intergenerational relations parenthood value of children welfare production
2014/11/26
Background: The paper describes the origins of the Value of Children (VOC) approach to the cross-cultural research on fertility behavior around the Pacific Rim, and critically discusses its shortcomin...
The long-term consequences of parental divorce for children’s educational attainment
divorce educational attainment international comparison social mobility tracking
2014/11/26
Background: In this paper we study the long-term consequences of parental divorce in a comparative perspective. Special attention is paid to the heterogeneity of the consequences of divorce for childr...
Children’s union status and contact with mothers: A cross-national study
cohabitation comparative HRS intergenerational relationships marriage share
2014/11/26
Background: In North America and Europe, population aging challenges the institutions responsible for elder care. In these environments, older individuals rely on offspring to provide social, instrume...
She said, he said: Comparing mothers' and fathers' reports on the non-resident father's contact with his children
absent fathers discrepancy between mother's and father's reporting father-child contact fathers' role after separation parents living apart
2014/11/26
Background: Analyses of contact frequency between non-resident fathers and children have often been based on samples of non-resident fathers or resident mothers only. It is well established that non-r...
Long-term trends of men’s co-residence with children in England and Wales
childlessness family fatherhood parenthood
2014/11/26
Background: Increasing numbers of childless men as well as fathers with reduced or no contact with their children have sparked concern about an erosion of fatherhood. Although the general trend is und...
Children are costly, but raising them may pay: The economic approach to fertility
children as consumption and investment goods economic theory fertility intra-family bargaining labor force participation opportunity cost public policies rational choices social context time and uncertainty
2014/11/26
Objective: This article provides a non-technical introduction to analyses of fertility which are based on a rational-choice paradigm and which acknowledge that raising children may have a strong impac...