J A Behrman
Biographic Data
| ID | 37706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Behrman |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Behrman |
| SIGNATURE | BEHRMAN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1149-8209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Do Survey Respondents Distinguish between Ideal, Desired, and Expected Fertility? An Empirical Test of Survey Design Effects
Fertility preferences offer insights into how social factors shape behavior. Despite their significance, it remains unclear whether preference measures capture distinct, firm constructs in respondents’ minds, or to what extent responses reflect survey design choices like question order. In two survey experiments, we tested whether the sequence of fertility preference measures affected responses. The first experiment manipulated the sequence of ge…
The impacts of temperature on reading and math test scores in West and Central Africa
While evidence suggests that heat negatively affects learning across diverse global settings, its impact in Africa is under-studied. This paper contributes to this knowledge gap by combining georeferenced temperature data with standardized student assessment data in Grades 2 and 6 from the Program on the Analysis of Education Systems (PASEC) in eight West and Central African countries. First, we estimate the effects of heat exposure on students' …
Economic resources and parity among US women
BACKGROUNDEconomically insecure conditions may be driving young people's decisions to delay, forgo, or reduce childbearing.Yet establishing a causal link between economic resources and fertility is methodologically fraught.One approach has been to use survey experiments to manipulate hypothetical economic conditions and gauge respondents' fertility preferences
An Experimental Approach to Assessing Young Women's Childbearing Preferences
Although the mean U.S. ideal family size has remained relatively stable in recent years, reflecting a widespread preference for two-child families, we know very little about the strength of this preference among young adults. To examine the relative strength of preferences for family size relative to other attributes of family life, in this research note we conduct a forced-choice online conjoint survey experiment using a nationally representativ…
Quantitative Data Availability and Measurement of US Immigrant and Immigration Policies
In this IMR Methods Note, we spotlight the rise in quantitative data availability, measurements, and scholarly investigations of US immigrant and immigration policies (IIPs). To begin, we offer a detailed account of the quantitative data sources, measures, and analytical strategies that have been developed by scholars studying IIPs over the last two decades. We then highlight this scholarship's important advances toward identifying IIPs’ intended…
Demarcation and Difference
Indigeneity remains a major axis of stratification in Latin America, making questions of when and why people identify as Indigenous central to understanding and addressing inequality in the region. Using representative Latinobarometer data from 16 countries, collected between 2007 and 2020, the authors analyze the two most widely used instruments for the identification of Indigenous people in Hispanophone America: self-identification and responde…
Fear among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Youth in Texas during a Period of Punitive Immigration Policies (2009–2017)
Heightened partisan rhetoric surrounding immigration, combined with increasingly punitive immigration policies, has the potential to affect how children interact with their social environment, with implications for racially and spatially variegated developmental processes. In this data visualization, the authors use data from the 2009 to 2017 waves of the National Crime Victimization Survey’s School Crime Supplement to show that Hispanic students…
Ideal Family Size and Reproductive Orientations
Drawing on more than 30 years of nationally representative microdata from the General Social Survey, this article comprehensively updates recent trends in ideal family size in the United States. It first documents stability in ideal family sizes between the mid-1980s and 2018, even in the face of a recent fertility decline. Next, the study adopts a latent class approach that identifies typologies of “reproductive orientations,” defined as multidi…
State-Level Immigrant Policies and Ideal Family Size in the United States
Demographers have long been interested in how fertility ideals vary in response to perceived existential threats. Although migration scholars document the increasingly threatening nature of U.S. immigration policies, little research explores how these policies shape the fertility ideals of those most affected by them. To that end, we exploit spatiotemporal variation in states' evolving immigrant policy contexts to understand the effects of differ…
A brief report on the Covid ‐19 pandemic and ideal family size in the United States
Objective This brief report explores whether the COVID‐19 Pandemic impacted ideal family size in the United States. Background Although COVID‐19 negatively impacted short‐term fertility expectations, preferences, and behaviors in the United States, it remains unknown whether the pandemic contributed to changes in family size ideals more broadly. Method The sample consists of 1823 respondents from the General Social Survey (GSS) who were originall…
Identificational Orientations among Three Generations of Migrants in France
Scholarship on migrant identity increasingly shows that migrants can—and often do—construct multifaceted identities. Yet, questions around migrant identity formation remain contested in France, given a strongly assimilationist policy context that (in theory) precludes multiple identification. This paper explores intergenerational patterns of migrant identification in France using a nationally representative sample of 1st-, 1.5th-, and 2nd-generat…
Migrating to New Contraceptive Contexts
Do migrants adopt the contraceptive norms dominant in their destination context? To explore this question, the authors adopt a multisited analysis in which they standardize and integrate data on women’s contraceptive use from two different sources: the Trajectoires et Origines survey collected in France (the receiving country) and the Demographic and Health Survey collected in Turkey (the sending country). Descriptive analyses indicate that contr…
Point of Reference
A considerable literature explores whether the fertility of migrants from high-fertility contexts converges with that of women in lower fertility destinations. Nonetheless, much of this research compares migrants’ reproductive outcomes to those of native-born women in destination countries. Drawing on research emphasizing the importance of transnational perspectives, we standardize and integrate data collected in France (the destination) and in s…
International Migration and Modern Contraceptive Use
This research note presents a multisited analysis of migration and contraceptive use by standardizing and integrating a sample of African migrants in France from six West and Central African countries in the Trajectoires et Origines survey with a sample of women living in the same six African countries in the Demographic and Health Surveys. Descriptive analyses indicate that the contraceptive use of migrants more closely aligns with that of nativ…
Gender and Wealth in Demographic Research
Husbands' Dominance in Decision-Making About Women's Health
This article maps spatial and temporal variation in husbands' dominance in decision-making about their wives' health using pooled Demographic and Health Surveys from 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa in an earlier (i.e., 2001–2005) and later (i.e., 2010–2014) period. First, we use adaptive bandwidth kernel density estimation to show how aggregate country-level estimates of husbands' decision-making dominance mask enormous spatial heterogeneity w…
Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Dyadic Perspective
Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is inherently a relational event shaped by couple-level factors, most empirical examinations of IPV-related attitudes have used individuals as the unit of analysis. We apply a dyadic perspective to the study of attitudes about the acceptability of IPV, harnessing couple-level data from 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a region characterized by particularly high levels of both the incidence and acceptanc…
Childhood Origins, Migration, and First Modern Contraceptive Use in Turkey
This paper integrates contraception into the extant migrant‐fertility framework using the case of internal migration within Turkey. Drawing from the 2013 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey data, we show that migration is positively associated with age of first modern contraceptive use. As women's migration is quickly followed by family formation, women also take up modern contraception after first childbirth, likely due to new encounters with …
Mother’s Relative Educational Status and Early Childhood Height-for-Age z Scores
Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India
Son preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literature has explored whether parents invest more resources in sons relative to daughters—which we refer to as explicit discrimination—leading to girls’ poorer health status and, consequently, higher mortality. However, this literature has not adequately controlled for the implicit discrimination processes that sort girls into different types of familie…
The effects of growing-season drought on young women's life course transitions in a sub-Saharan context
In spite of the vast importance of weather shocks for population processes, limited work has investigated the micro-level processes through which weather shocks influence the transition to adulthood in low-income contexts. This paper provides a conceptual overview and empirical investigation of how weather shocks impact the timing, sequencing, and characteristics of young women's life course transitions in low-income rural settings. Drawing on th…
Women's employment and fertility in a global perspective (1960-2015)
BACKGROUND: Scant research explores the association between women's employment and fertility on a truly global scale due to limited cross-national comparative standardized information across contexts. METHODS: This paper compiles a unique dataset that combines nationally representative country-level data on women's wage employment from the International Labor Organization with fertility and reproductive health measures from the United Nations and…
Learning Inequality in Francophone Africa
Influential reports about the 'learning crisis' in the global South generally pay insufficient attention to social inequalities in learning. In this study, we explore the association between family socioeconomic status and learning outcomes in 10 francophone African countries using data from the Programme for the Analysis of Education Systems, a standardized assessment of pupils' mathematics and reading competence at the end of primary school. We…
Polygynous Unions and Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria
Objective: This article explores the association between polygyny and intimate partner violence (IPV) in Nigeria, with attention to selection into polygyny. Background: Although IPV occurs within the social context of a family, the linkages between polygyny and IPV are rarely interrogated, and there is little attempt to differentiate between “polygyny effects” and “selection effects.” Method: This article uses a sample of 19,189 couples from the …
Contextual Declines in Educational Hypergamy and Intimate Partner Violence
There has been increasing interest in understanding how macro-level contextual characteristics are associated with intra-couple dynamics, such as intimate partner violence (IPV). I extend this literature by exploring whether contextual changes in women’s status are associated with IPV at the couple level. I focus on case studies from four Eastern African countries—Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe—where there were large contextual declines in e…
The gender implications of large-scale land deals
This article introduces a discussion of gender dimensions into the growing debate on large-scale land deals. It addresses the current information gap on the differential gender effects of large-scale land deals through (1) an overview of the phases of large-scale land deals and discussion of related effects on rural men and women based on new literature on large-scale land deals and past literature on the gender effects of commercialization and c…
Does Schooling Affect Women’s Desired Fertility? Evidence From Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia
Demographic scholarship suggests that schooling plays an important role in transforming fertility preferences in the early stages of fertility decline. However, there is limited evidence on the relationship between schooling and fertility preferences that addresses the endogeneity of schooling. I use the implementation of Universal Primary Education (UPE) policies in Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia in the mid-1990s to conduct a fuzzy regression disc…
The effect of increased primary schooling on adult women's HIV status in Malawi and Uganda
This paper explores the causal relationship between primary schooling and adult HIV status in Malawi and Uganda, two East African countries with some of the highest HIV infection rates in the world. Using data from the 2010 Malawi Demographic Health Survey and the 2011 Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey, the paper takes advantage of a natural experiment, the implementation of Universal Primary Education policies in the mid 1990s. An instrumented regres…
Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Women's Reproductive Health
This article explores the effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on women's reproductive health, using geocoded data from the 2005 and 2012 Haiti Demographic and Health Surveys. We use geographic variation in the destructiveness of the earthquake to conduct a difference‐in‐difference analysis. Results indicate that heightened earthquake intensity reduced use of injectables—the most widely used modern contraceptive method in Haiti—and increased curr…
Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India
Son preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literature has explored whether parents invest more resources in sons relative to daughters—which we refer to as explicit discrimination—leading to girls’ poorer health status and, consequently, higher mortality. However, this literature has not adequately controlled for the implicit discrimination processes that sort girls into different types of familie…
The effects of growing-season drought on young women's life course transitions in a sub-Saharan context
In spite of the vast importance of weather shocks for population processes, limited work has investigated the micro-level processes through which weather shocks influence the transition to adulthood in low-income contexts. This paper provides a conceptual overview and empirical investigation of how weather shocks impact the timing, sequencing, and characteristics of young women's life course transitions in low-income rural settings. Drawing on th…
Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Dyadic Perspective
Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is inherently a relational event shaped by couple-level factors, most empirical examinations of IPV-related attitudes have used individuals as the unit of analysis. We apply a dyadic perspective to the study of attitudes about the acceptability of IPV, harnessing couple-level data from 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a region characterized by particularly high levels of both the incidence and acceptanc…
Learning Inequality in Francophone Africa
Influential reports about the 'learning crisis' in the global South generally pay insufficient attention to social inequalities in learning. In this study, we explore the association between family socioeconomic status and learning outcomes in 10 francophone African countries using data from the Programme for the Analysis of Education Systems, a standardized assessment of pupils' mathematics and reading competence at the end of primary school. We…
Disaster, Disruption to Family Life, and Intimate Partner Violence
Abigail Weitzman, Julia Andrea Behrman Sociological Science, March 7, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a9 Abstract Natural disasters have inherently social dimensions because they exacerbate preexisting inequalities and disrupt social norms and institutions
Women's employment and fertility in a global perspective (1960-2015)
BACKGROUND: Scant research explores the association between women's employment and fertility on a truly global scale due to limited cross-national comparative standardized information across contexts. METHODS: This paper compiles a unique dataset that combines nationally representative country-level data on women's wage employment from the International Labor Organization with fertility and reproductive health measures from the United Nations and…
Women’s land ownership and participation in decision-making about reproductive health in Malawi
Point of Reference
A considerable literature explores whether the fertility of migrants from high-fertility contexts converges with that of women in lower fertility destinations. Nonetheless, much of this research compares migrants’ reproductive outcomes to those of native-born women in destination countries. Drawing on research emphasizing the importance of transnational perspectives, we standardize and integrate data collected in France (the destination) and in s…
Mother’s Relative Educational Status and Early Childhood Height-for-Age z Scores
The relationship between women's paid employment and women's stated son preference in India
We explore whether womenâ s paid employment is associated with reductions in womenâ s stated son preference in India and whether these results vary by employment sector (agriculture, manufacturing, services, professional-technical) and skill level (education
Quantitative Data Availability and Measurement of US Immigrant and Immigration Policies
In this IMR Methods Note, we spotlight the rise in quantitative data availability, measurements, and scholarly investigations of US immigrant and immigration policies (IIPs). To begin, we offer a detailed account of the quantitative data sources, measures, and analytical strategies that have been developed by scholars studying IIPs over the last two decades. We then highlight this scholarship's important advances toward identifying IIPs’ intended…
State-Level Immigrant Policies and Ideal Family Size in the United States
Demographers have long been interested in how fertility ideals vary in response to perceived existential threats. Although migration scholars document the increasingly threatening nature of U.S. immigration policies, little research explores how these policies shape the fertility ideals of those most affected by them. To that end, we exploit spatiotemporal variation in states' evolving immigrant policy contexts to understand the effects of differ…
International Migration and Modern Contraceptive Use
This research note presents a multisited analysis of migration and contraceptive use by standardizing and integrating a sample of African migrants in France from six West and Central African countries in the Trajectoires et Origines survey with a sample of women living in the same six African countries in the Demographic and Health Surveys. Descriptive analyses indicate that the contraceptive use of migrants more closely aligns with that of nativ…
Husbands' Dominance in Decision-Making About Women's Health
This article maps spatial and temporal variation in husbands' dominance in decision-making about their wives' health using pooled Demographic and Health Surveys from 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa in an earlier (i.e., 2001–2005) and later (i.e., 2010–2014) period. First, we use adaptive bandwidth kernel density estimation to show how aggregate country-level estimates of husbands' decision-making dominance mask enormous spatial heterogeneity w…
Trends in Modern Contraceptive Use among Young Adult Women in sub‐Saharan Africa 1990 to 2014
This article provides updated estimates of trends in modern contraceptive use among young adult women (aged 15–24) who have had sex, using Demographic and Health Survey data from 23 sub‐Saharan African countries (1990–2014). In East/South Africa, parous women had higher modern contraceptive use than nulliparous women and larger increases in modern contraceptive use over time. In the West/Central region, nulliparous women had higher modern contrac…
Do Targeted Stipend Programs Reduce Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Schooling Attainment? Insights From Rural Bangladesh
Social investment in schooling in low-income countries has increased greatly in the 1990s and 2000s because of the robust associations among schooling and demographic, economic, and health outcomes. This analysis investigates whether targeted school-attendance stipend programs succeeded in reducing gender and socioeconomic inequalities in school attainment among a sample of the rural poor in Bangladesh. Multivariate analyses find that targeted st…
Gender and the global food-price crisis
This article argues that it is imperative to take gender into consideration when evaluating the impact of the global food-price crisis and developing crisis-related policies. Consideration of gender is important, given the key role that women play in agriculture, the disproportionate impact that the crisis has on women, and the potential role that women can play in resolving the crisis. Recent research on differential impacts of the crisis is dis…
Ideal Family Size and Reproductive Orientations
Drawing on more than 30 years of nationally representative microdata from the General Social Survey, this article comprehensively updates recent trends in ideal family size in the United States. It first documents stability in ideal family sizes between the mid-1980s and 2018, even in the face of a recent fertility decline. Next, the study adopts a latent class approach that identifies typologies of “reproductive orientations,” defined as multidi…
Gender and Wealth in Demographic Research
Childhood Origins, Migration, and First Modern Contraceptive Use in Turkey
This paper integrates contraception into the extant migrant‐fertility framework using the case of internal migration within Turkey. Drawing from the 2013 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey data, we show that migration is positively associated with age of first modern contraceptive use. As women's migration is quickly followed by family formation, women also take up modern contraception after first childbirth, likely due to new encounters with …
An exploration of differences in ideal family size between Muslim and non-Muslim women in France
The paper explores why Muslim women in France have, on average, higher ideal family sizes than non-Muslim women to better understand the socioeconomic and sociocultural factors that underlie Muslim womenâ s higher desired and realized fertility
Understanding the Complexities Surrounding Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria and Uganda
We investigate gender differences in agricultural productivity in Nigeria and Uganda. Results indicate persistent lower productivity on female-owned plots and among female-headed households, accounting for a range of socio-economic variables, agricultural inputs and crop choices using multivariate tobit models. Results are robust to inclusion of household-level unobservables and alternative specifications that account for decisions to plant crops…
Gender and the global food-price crisis
This article argues that it is imperative to take gender into consideration when evaluating the impact of the global food-price crisis and developing crisis-related policies. Consideration of gender is important, given the key role that women play in agriculture, the disproportionate impact that the crisis has on women, and the potential role that women can play in resolving the crisis. Recent research on differential impacts of the crisis is dis…
Out of Sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries
In this paper, we present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to be relatively high. Based on this framework, we argue that the relative current and future predicted prevalence of burdens of different health/disease conditions, as measured by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), provide a fairly accurate refle…
The gender implications of large-scale land deals
This article introduces a discussion of gender dimensions into the growing debate on large-scale land deals. It addresses the current information gap on the differential gender effects of large-scale land deals through (1) an overview of the phases of large-scale land deals and discussion of related effects on rural men and women based on new literature on large-scale land deals and past literature on the gender effects of commercialization and c…
Do Targeted Stipend Programs Reduce Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Schooling Attainment? Insights From Rural Bangladesh
Social investment in schooling in low-income countries has increased greatly in the 1990s and 2000s because of the robust associations among schooling and demographic, economic, and health outcomes. This analysis investigates whether targeted school-attendance stipend programs succeeded in reducing gender and socioeconomic inequalities in school attainment among a sample of the rural poor in Bangladesh. Multivariate analyses find that targeted st…
Does Schooling Affect Women’s Desired Fertility? Evidence From Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia
Demographic scholarship suggests that schooling plays an important role in transforming fertility preferences in the early stages of fertility decline. However, there is limited evidence on the relationship between schooling and fertility preferences that addresses the endogeneity of schooling. I use the implementation of Universal Primary Education (UPE) policies in Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia in the mid-1990s to conduct a fuzzy regression disc…
The effect of increased primary schooling on adult women's HIV status in Malawi and Uganda
This paper explores the causal relationship between primary schooling and adult HIV status in Malawi and Uganda, two East African countries with some of the highest HIV infection rates in the world. Using data from the 2010 Malawi Demographic Health Survey and the 2011 Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey, the paper takes advantage of a natural experiment, the implementation of Universal Primary Education policies in the mid 1990s. An instrumented regres…
Disaster, Disruption to Family Life, and Intimate Partner Violence
Abigail Weitzman, Julia Andrea Behrman Sociological Science, March 7, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a9 Abstract Natural disasters have inherently social dimensions because they exacerbate preexisting inequalities and disrupt social norms and institutions
Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Women's Reproductive Health
This article explores the effects of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on women's reproductive health, using geocoded data from the 2005 and 2012 Haiti Demographic and Health Surveys. We use geographic variation in the destructiveness of the earthquake to conduct a difference‐in‐difference analysis. Results indicate that heightened earthquake intensity reduced use of injectables—the most widely used modern contraceptive method in Haiti—and increased curr…
Women’s land ownership and participation in decision-making about reproductive health in Malawi
The relationship between women's paid employment and women's stated son preference in India
We explore whether womenâ s paid employment is associated with reductions in womenâ s stated son preference in India and whether these results vary by employment sector (agriculture, manufacturing, services, professional-technical) and skill level (education
Trends in Modern Contraceptive Use among Young Adult Women in sub‐Saharan Africa 1990 to 2014
This article provides updated estimates of trends in modern contraceptive use among young adult women (aged 15–24) who have had sex, using Demographic and Health Survey data from 23 sub‐Saharan African countries (1990–2014). In East/South Africa, parous women had higher modern contraceptive use than nulliparous women and larger increases in modern contraceptive use over time. In the West/Central region, nulliparous women had higher modern contrac…
Polygynous Unions and Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria
Objective: This article explores the association between polygyny and intimate partner violence (IPV) in Nigeria, with attention to selection into polygyny. Background: Although IPV occurs within the social context of a family, the linkages between polygyny and IPV are rarely interrogated, and there is little attempt to differentiate between “polygyny effects” and “selection effects.” Method: This article uses a sample of 19,189 couples from the …
Contextual Declines in Educational Hypergamy and Intimate Partner Violence
There has been increasing interest in understanding how macro-level contextual characteristics are associated with intra-couple dynamics, such as intimate partner violence (IPV). I extend this literature by exploring whether contextual changes in women’s status are associated with IPV at the couple level. I focus on case studies from four Eastern African countries—Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe—where there were large contextual declines in e…
An exploration of differences in ideal family size between Muslim and non-Muslim women in France
The paper explores why Muslim women in France have, on average, higher ideal family sizes than non-Muslim women to better understand the socioeconomic and sociocultural factors that underlie Muslim womenâ s higher desired and realized fertility
Mother’s Relative Educational Status and Early Childhood Height-for-Age z Scores
Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India
Son preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literature has explored whether parents invest more resources in sons relative to daughters—which we refer to as explicit discrimination—leading to girls’ poorer health status and, consequently, higher mortality. However, this literature has not adequately controlled for the implicit discrimination processes that sort girls into different types of familie…
The effects of growing-season drought on young women's life course transitions in a sub-Saharan context
In spite of the vast importance of weather shocks for population processes, limited work has investigated the micro-level processes through which weather shocks influence the transition to adulthood in low-income contexts. This paper provides a conceptual overview and empirical investigation of how weather shocks impact the timing, sequencing, and characteristics of young women's life course transitions in low-income rural settings. Drawing on th…
Women's employment and fertility in a global perspective (1960-2015)
BACKGROUND: Scant research explores the association between women's employment and fertility on a truly global scale due to limited cross-national comparative standardized information across contexts. METHODS: This paper compiles a unique dataset that combines nationally representative country-level data on women's wage employment from the International Labor Organization with fertility and reproductive health measures from the United Nations and…
Learning Inequality in Francophone Africa
Influential reports about the 'learning crisis' in the global South generally pay insufficient attention to social inequalities in learning. In this study, we explore the association between family socioeconomic status and learning outcomes in 10 francophone African countries using data from the Programme for the Analysis of Education Systems, a standardized assessment of pupils' mathematics and reading competence at the end of primary school. We…
Gender and Wealth in Demographic Research
Husbands' Dominance in Decision-Making About Women's Health
This article maps spatial and temporal variation in husbands' dominance in decision-making about their wives' health using pooled Demographic and Health Surveys from 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa in an earlier (i.e., 2001–2005) and later (i.e., 2010–2014) period. First, we use adaptive bandwidth kernel density estimation to show how aggregate country-level estimates of husbands' decision-making dominance mask enormous spatial heterogeneity w…
Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Dyadic Perspective
Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is inherently a relational event shaped by couple-level factors, most empirical examinations of IPV-related attitudes have used individuals as the unit of analysis. We apply a dyadic perspective to the study of attitudes about the acceptability of IPV, harnessing couple-level data from 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a region characterized by particularly high levels of both the incidence and acceptanc…
Childhood Origins, Migration, and First Modern Contraceptive Use in Turkey
This paper integrates contraception into the extant migrant‐fertility framework using the case of internal migration within Turkey. Drawing from the 2013 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey data, we show that migration is positively associated with age of first modern contraceptive use. As women's migration is quickly followed by family formation, women also take up modern contraception after first childbirth, likely due to new encounters with …
Migrating to New Contraceptive Contexts
Do migrants adopt the contraceptive norms dominant in their destination context? To explore this question, the authors adopt a multisited analysis in which they standardize and integrate data on women’s contraceptive use from two different sources: the Trajectoires et Origines survey collected in France (the receiving country) and the Demographic and Health Survey collected in Turkey (the sending country). Descriptive analyses indicate that contr…
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