Warren C Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 85369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren C Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren C |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3068-6168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Beyond borders
Introduction: Forensic Medical Evaluations (FMEs), which provide objective documentation of physical and psychological consequences of past abuse, can be pivotal in immigration proceedings, offering critical evidence of persecution endured by asylum seekers, which may corroborate their claims. Yet their applicability in humanitarian parole and Title 42 exemption cases remains underexplored. Aim: To characterise the role of Istanbul Protocol–infor…
Family formation among adolescent Rohingya refugees; trajectories into adolescent marriage and childbearing in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh
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What other option did I have?”– The effect of conflict and displacement on child marriage and early childbearing among displaced Rohingya adolescents
Our results demonstrate that many Rohingya families view child marriage as a practical tool to overcome challenges associated with being displaced, and early childbearing as an inevitable natural consequence of child marriage. The Government of Bangladesh must ease restrictions on income-generating opportunities as well as continue working with humanitarian organizations to provide and fund education and skills-building opportunities for both ado…
Estimating Prevalence of Forced Labor in the Brick Kiln Industry in Pakistan
Child marriage and displacement
Though displaced populations face exacerbated challenges that are associated with increased rates of child marriage, little research has elucidated the reasons behind such phenomena. The present study qualitatively explores the drivers and consequences of child marriage among Syrian refugee, Iraqi internally displaced, and host communities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Specifically, it explores how vulnerabilities in displaced groups impact ch…
Fostering Protective Assets Among Syrian Refugee Girls Who Experience Child Marriage
Prevalence of Child Marriage Among Yemeni and Somali Refugee and Host Communities in Djibouti, 2019
We will never give up
Active conflict settings constitute challenging operating environments for humanitarian health organisations and workers. An emerging feature of some conflicts is direct violence against health workers, facilities, and patients. Since the start of the war in 2011, Syria has endured extreme and deliberate violent attacks on health facilities and workers. This paper reports on the findings from a qualitative study that examined the lived experience…
Drivers and consequences of child marriage in a context of protracted displacement
Efforts to address child marriage among Syrian refugees must acknowledge the different ways in which displacement can influence child marriage attitudes and practices and should capitalize on positive changes that have the potential to catalyze social norm change. Moreover, targeted, focused and contextualized interventions should not only focus on preventing child marriage but also on mitigating its impacts
Child marriage among Somali refugees in Ethiopia
This research contributes to the evidence base on child marriage in humanitarian settings. Insights generated from this study have the potential to inform programs and interventions aiming to prevent and mitigate the impacts of this harmful practice
Trafficking, Client and Police Violence, Sexual Risk and Mental Health Among Women in the Sex Industry at the Thai-Myanmar Border
This study describes sex trafficking and associations with violence and health among female migrants in the sex industry in Mae Sot, Thailand. The mixed-methods study included a qualitative interview phase ( n = 10), followed by a cross-sectional survey phase ( n = 128). Entry via trafficking (force, fraud, or coercion [FFC], or as minors) was prevalent (76.6%), primarily FFC (73.4%). FFC was associated with inconsistent condom use, inability to …
Prevalence of Child Marriage Among Yemeni and Somali Refugee and Host Communities in Djibouti, 2019
Despite increased vulnerability of displaced communities, the evidence of child marriage in humanitarian setting remains scarce. We conducted this study to estimate the prevalence of child marriage among Somali and Yemeni refugees and their host communities in Djibouti; and assess its independent associations with different exposure variables. Using a stratified random sampling design, we recruited eligible refugee and hosts-near-refugee househol…
Child Marriage in Yemen
Objectives: This study assesses the prevalence of and risk factors for child marriage in Yemen, which was experiencing a nationwide conflict at the time of the study. Study Design: We conducted a survey of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities using a stratified multistage cluster sampling design. Each household included an interview with a female adult (n=1210), a household roster (n=8400), and one female adolescent interview …
Gender Differences in Violence and Other Human Rights Abuses Among Migrant Workers on the Thailand–Myanmar Border
We describe human rights violations against migrant workers at the Thailand-Myanmar border, and evaluate differences by gender and industry. This mixed methods study pairs key informant interviews ( n = 40) with a cross-sectional quantitative survey of migrant workers from Myanmar ( n = 589) recruited via respondent-driven sampling. Key informants described significant hazards during migration, including deception, theft, and physical and sexual …
Identifying mental health problems and Idioms of distress among older adult internally displaced persons in Georgia
Differences in Patterns of Mortality Between Foreign-Born and Native-Born Workers Due to Fatal Occupational Injury in the USA from 2003 to 2010
Trafficking, Exploitation and Migration on the Thailand‐Burma Border
Migrant workers from Burma often experience exploitation, abuse and violations at various stages of travel to and within Thailand and in workplaces in Thailand. Guided by Zimmerman et al.'s conceptual framework, which identifies the potential risks associated with trafficking process, this article presents findings from in‐depth interviews with 61 migrant workers living and working in and around Mae Sot, Thailand, on the Thailand‐Burma border, to…
Commentary
The Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees, 1989-1997
The Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees, 1989–1997, has been hailed as a model of international solidarity and burden-sharing and criticized as an example of international buck-passing and questionable compromises. Looking back on this agreement—one in which both Sergio Vieira de Mello and Arthur Helton played significant roles—a fair conclusion might be that it was both. Though flawed in its implementation, however, the CPA doe…
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Behaviour Change Interventions
This paper presents a new approach to cost analysis of family planning programmes that focuses on behaviour change of programme clients as the final ‘output’ rather than units of contraceptive services delivered, as does the familiar couple-years-of-protection index. It is useful to know how much it costs to deliver a unit of contraceptive services, but it would also seem useful to know how much it costs to change a prospective client’s behaviour…
Population Policy in Early Victorian England
Policy Implications of the Next World Demographic Transition
Although the world demographic transition from high to low fertility appears to be nearing its completion, observed in perspective, this is the latest in a series of such transitions stretching back into prehistory. A stable new equilibrium is far from inevitable; indeed, it is unlikely. Many countries are experiencing below‐replacement‐level fertility, and this trend is spreading. Couples are now able to choose their family size, free of the tra…
Famine in Slow Motion
FAMINE IN SLOW MOTION: A CASE STUDY OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT IN NORTH KOREA Get access W. Courtland Robinson W. Courtland Robinson *Center for Refugee and Disaster Studies, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 113–127, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/19.2.113 Published: 01 June 2000
Terms of Refuge
Terms of Refuge
Contents * 1. Introduction. * 2. First flight. * 3. The year of leaving dangerously. * 4. Cambodians on the border. * 5. Laotian Refugees in Thailand. * 6. Resettlement in the West. * 7. Things fall apart. * 8. The comprehensive plan of action. * 9. Roads back home. * 10. Aftermath
The Economic Theory of Fertility Over Three Decades
After a promising start some three decades ago, the application of micro-economic analysis to fertility studies has proved disappointing. It has not led to an increased understanding of fertility decisions nor to the policy insights which had been expected. This paper considers the reasons for this disappointment. It reviews briefly the development of the now dominant version of the economic approach to fertility analysis, the so-called "Chicago …
Kenya Enters the Fertility Transition
Contraceptive prevalence is rising and fertility is falling in Kenya, and the speed with which these changes are occurring suggests that Kenya has passed a turning point and entered a transition. In this paper the author explores these recent trends with data from the 1989 Kenya Demographic Health Survey and several other small-scale surveys and qualitative research studies. Underlying the changed contraceptive – fertility behaviour, there appear…
The Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees, 1989-1997
The Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees, 1989–1997, has been hailed as a model of international solidarity and burden-sharing and criticized as an example of international buck-passing and questionable compromises. Looking back on this agreement—one in which both Sergio Vieira de Mello and Arthur Helton played significant roles—a fair conclusion might be that it was both. Though flawed in its implementation, however, the CPA doe…
Identifying mental health problems and Idioms of distress among older adult internally displaced persons in Georgia
The Time Cost of Children and Other Household Production
In this paper the relative time cost of children compared to other types of household tasks, and the relative time cost of producing quantity rather than quality of children is examined. These propositions lie at the heart of much of the literature on the economics of fertility, but they have rarely been examined directly. We employ household time-use data from a study of a large metropolitan area in the United States. Our results cast doubt on t…
Money, Population and Economic Change in Late Medieval Europe
Agricultural Development and Demographic Change
Trafficking, Exploitation and Migration on the Thailand‐Burma Border
Migrant workers from Burma often experience exploitation, abuse and violations at various stages of travel to and within Thailand and in workplaces in Thailand. Guided by Zimmerman et al.'s conceptual framework, which identifies the potential risks associated with trafficking process, this article presents findings from in‐depth interviews with 61 migrant workers living and working in and around Mae Sot, Thailand, on the Thailand‐Burma border, to…
Rural-Urban Fertility Differentials in Mexico
Gender Differences in Violence and Other Human Rights Abuses Among Migrant Workers on the Thailand–Myanmar Border
We describe human rights violations against migrant workers at the Thailand-Myanmar border, and evaluate differences by gender and industry. This mixed methods study pairs key informant interviews ( n = 40) with a cross-sectional quantitative survey of migrant workers from Myanmar ( n = 589) recruited via respondent-driven sampling. Key informants described significant hazards during migration, including deception, theft, and physical and sexual …
Policy Implications of the Next World Demographic Transition
Although the world demographic transition from high to low fertility appears to be nearing its completion, observed in perspective, this is the latest in a series of such transitions stretching back into prehistory. A stable new equilibrium is far from inevitable; indeed, it is unlikely. Many countries are experiencing below‐replacement‐level fertility, and this trend is spreading. Couples are now able to choose their family size, free of the tra…
Fertility of U.S. farm women during the electrification era, 1930–1950
We will never give up
Active conflict settings constitute challenging operating environments for humanitarian health organisations and workers. An emerging feature of some conflicts is direct violence against health workers, facilities, and patients. Since the start of the war in 2011, Syria has endured extreme and deliberate violent attacks on health facilities and workers. This paper reports on the findings from a qualitative study that examined the lived experience…
Child Marriage in Yemen
Objectives: This study assesses the prevalence of and risk factors for child marriage in Yemen, which was experiencing a nationwide conflict at the time of the study. Study Design: We conducted a survey of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities using a stratified multistage cluster sampling design. Each household included an interview with a female adult (n=1210), a household roster (n=8400), and one female adolescent interview …
High Fertility as Risk-Insurance
Recently ‘insurance against risk’ has been proposed as a major addition to the list of economic supports for a high perceived value of children in poor South Asian countries. That is, that children provide a vital insurance policy for poor couples against the many hazards and risks to which they are subject. This argument is plausible and has proved appealing. If correct, it implies that demand for children will remain high (and contraceptive pra…
Rural electrification and fertility change
Population and Development Planning
Evaluating the Economic Benefits of Fertility Reduction
This paper outlines 2 main approaches which have been developed for the purpose of evaluating the benefits of population control programs. One of these is the investment approach which basically argues for programs aimed directly at birth prevention through the payment of bonuses to individuals for not having children. Such investment models are partial equilibrium analyses: They want to find out the impact of preventing a single birth assuming a…
The Development of Modern Population Theory
Urban-rural differences in Indian fertility
It is a commonplace that urban fertility is lower than rural fertility in the West, and it is frequently assumed that this holds for non-Western populations as well. In the case of India, previous studies of rural-urban fertility ratios have appeared to bear out this expectation. However, fertility ratios based on the most recent available age distributions show no significant rural-urban fertility differentials. This conclusion is supported by s…
Child marriage and displacement
Though displaced populations face exacerbated challenges that are associated with increased rates of child marriage, little research has elucidated the reasons behind such phenomena. The present study qualitatively explores the drivers and consequences of child marriage among Syrian refugee, Iraqi internally displaced, and host communities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Specifically, it explores how vulnerabilities in displaced groups impact ch…
Trafficking, Client and Police Violence, Sexual Risk and Mental Health Among Women in the Sex Industry at the Thai-Myanmar Border
This study describes sex trafficking and associations with violence and health among female migrants in the sex industry in Mae Sot, Thailand. The mixed-methods study included a qualitative interview phase ( n = 10), followed by a cross-sectional survey phase ( n = 128). Entry via trafficking (force, fraud, or coercion [FFC], or as minors) was prevalent (76.6%), primarily FFC (73.4%). FFC was associated with inconsistent condom use, inability to …
Prevalence of Child Marriage Among Yemeni and Somali Refugee and Host Communities in Djibouti, 2019
Despite increased vulnerability of displaced communities, the evidence of child marriage in humanitarian setting remains scarce. We conducted this study to estimate the prevalence of child marriage among Somali and Yemeni refugees and their host communities in Djibouti; and assess its independent associations with different exposure variables. Using a stratified random sampling design, we recruited eligible refugee and hosts-near-refugee househol…
Population Policy in Early Victorian England
Female Autonomy and Fertility Among the Garo of North Central Bangladesh
Money, Population and Economic Change in Late Medieval Europe
The Financing of Federal Authorities1
Modern Science and the Human Fertility Problem
Rural-Urban Fertility Differentials in Mexico
Urban-rural differences in Indian fertility
It is a commonplace that urban fertility is lower than rural fertility in the West, and it is frequently assumed that this holds for non-Western populations as well. In the case of India, previous studies of rural-urban fertility ratios have appeared to bear out this expectation. However, fertility ratios based on the most recent available age distributions show no significant rural-urban fertility differentials. This conclusion is supported by s…
On Ignorance in History
The Development of Modern Population Theory
Population control and development strategy
Population control in developing areas seems to take hold only after a minimal level of social and economic development has already been achieved repeating the previous experience of Western nations during their demographic transition. It is thus necessary for an economic/social infrastructure to exist prior to the establishment of any successful population control program. The less developed countries are divided into 3 groups: 1) those which ha…
Evaluating the Economic Benefits of Fertility Reduction
This paper outlines 2 main approaches which have been developed for the purpose of evaluating the benefits of population control programs. One of these is the investment approach which basically argues for programs aimed directly at birth prevention through the payment of bonuses to individuals for not having children. Such investment models are partial equilibrium analyses: They want to find out the impact of preventing a single birth assuming a…
Studies in the Demography of Pakistan
Studies in the Demography of Pakistan
The Economics of Work Sharing in Peasant Agriculture
Benefits of Fertility Reduction
Fertility reduction is defined as any permanent fall through time in some significant portion of the age-specific fertility schedule that is unmatched by a rise in some other portion of the schedule and that results in a reduced average completed size of family. Factors such as increase in the age of marriage distribution of income and welfare benefits and costs of children alter the rate of fertility. Since costs and benefits of children change …
Real costs of delivering family planning services
Real costs of delivering family planning services: implications for management. M J Reardon, S G Deeds, N A Dresner, J M Diksa, and W C RobinsonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.9.860 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Population and Development Planning
Changing Thai Attitudes toward Fertility and Family Size
Population and Development Planning
Economic policy and population change in Thailand
The cost per unit of family planning services
This paper presents results of a cross-sectional analysis of family planning programme costs per unit for a group of 28 countries. The costs per unit are analysed using regression techniques with variables of programme (age, scale and type of programme) and setting (demographic structure, socio-economic level of development, health, accessibility and other). The Couple-Years of Protection Index is used for standardization and the variation in per…
The Roots of the Southeast Asian Primate City
Agricultural Development and Demographic Change
Rural electrification and fertility change
Another look at the Hutterites and natural rertility
The fertility of the Hutterites has become almost legendary in the demographic literature. Coale selected their overall total fertility rate (equal to 10.9) as the standard for his index of marital fertility (Coale, 1965). The rate is very commonly used as a benchmark for “natural fertility” that is, as an indicator of how high human procreation can be under favorable environmental conditions and with no deliberate controls. The present note take…
High Fertility as Risk-Insurance
Recently ‘insurance against risk’ has been proposed as a major addition to the list of economic supports for a high perceived value of children in poor South Asian countries. That is, that children provide a vital insurance policy for poor couples against the many hazards and risks to which they are subject. This argument is plausible and has proved appealing. If correct, it implies that demand for children will remain high (and contraceptive pra…
Regional variation in the age-specific natural fertility curve
This paper examines the question of whether there are consistent regional variations in the level and shape of the age-specific natural fertility curve using data for 45 less-developed countries drawn from a recent US Census Bureau compilation. In general there do not appear to be such variations. A remarkably consistent age pattern of natural fertility emerges, once the rates have been normalized and an adjustment made for age at first exposure …
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