Mary Paula Arends-Kuenning
Biographic Data
| ID | 271745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Paula Arends-Kuenning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Arends-Kuenning |
| SIGNATURE | ARENDS-KUENNING M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3947-8971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
How Does a Rural Poverty Alleviation Program Affect Parents’ Aspirations About Their Children? Evidence from BRAC-TUP in Bangladesh
This paper analyses the unintended effects of a randomised controlled trial in Bangladesh targeting the ultra-poor on parental occupational aspirations for their children. Because significant aspirational gaps exist between poor and wealthy households, as well as between boys and girls, this study analyses whether a graduation-type program can reduce these gaps. Because the intervention bundles different services including the transfer of a produ…
Empoderamento feminino na agricultura: Um estudo na Lar Cooperativa Agroindustrial (Paraná)
O objetivo deste trabalho foi mensurar e analisar o empoderamento das mulheres, em sua maioria agricultoras, associadas à Lar Cooperativa Agroindustrial ou participantes enquanto cônjuges dos cooperados. Para a obtenção dos resultados, foram coletados dados primários por meio de questionários aplicados a 150 casais de agricultores e agricultoras, totalizando 300 entrevistados. A partir desses dados, foi feita a aplicação de uma adaptação do Women…
Factors associated with harvest and postharvest loss among soybean farmers in Western Paraná State, Brazil
The United Nations included reducing harvest and postharvest losses as a Sustainable Millennium Development Goal in 2015, leading to increased research and policymaker interest in reducing losses to insure food security. This article analyzes the factors associated with self-reported harvest loss among soybean farmers in Paraná, Brazil, using a survey of 243 farmers. The principal–agent problem is the most important contributor to harvest and pos…
Poverty Among The Elderly: An Application of a Collective Consumption Model in Brazil
Consumption patterns and demand in households headed by the elderly: Evidence from Brazil
Purpose The main objective of this paper is to analyze patterns of consumption expenditure and the effects of income, prices and socioeconomic and demographic factors on demand among elderly- and young-adult-headed households in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The authors estimated a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System demand system using the main household consumption good groups – food, housing, clothing, transportation, health care and ot…
Gender, education, and farm succession in Western Paraná State, Brazil
Choosing Plan B Over Plan A: Risk Compensation Theory and Contraceptive Choice in India
Can women's contraceptive method choice be better understood through risk compensation theory? This theory implies that people act with greater care when the perceived risk of an activity is higher and with less care when it is lower. We examine how increased over-the-counter access to emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) accompanied by marketing campaigns in India affected women's contraceptive method choices and incidence of sexually transmitte…
Análise dos determinantes da felicidade dos associados da lar cooperativa agroindustrial
Sabendo-se que a felicidade é sentida de forma subjetiva e a sua mensuração envolve a avaliação que cada pessoa faz de sua vida, este trabalho objetivou identificar e analisar quais são os determinantes socioeconômicos que influenciam na felicidade dos associados da Lar Cooperativa Agroindustrial. Para tanto, elaboraram-se questões que buscaram captar a percepção individual de felicidade de uma amostra de 150 casais (300 indivíduos) associados à …
The elderly in Brazil: Demographic Transition, Profile, and Socioeconomic Condition
This paper presents a revision about the elderly population in Brazil, addressing aspects of the demographic transition as it relates to socio-economic conditions and some consequences and trends associated with policies affecting Brazil's elderly. Since a demographic transition has been occurring as a result of the aging of the Brazilian population, we identify a majority profile of Brazilian elderly as White women who live in urban areas in cou…
Analysis of Math Test Score Gap Between White and Non-White Students in Brazilian Public Schools: Saeb 2015
This study aims to analyze and decompose the gap between White and non-White students’ test scores observed in the Brazilian National Evaluation System of Basic Education (SAEB)—2015. To do so, proficiency equations were estimated for each student race group (White, Brown, Black, and Indigenous) using the recentered influence function method, which generalizes the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition to any point in the grade distribution. The proficienc…
Perdas na colheita de soja na região oeste do Paraná
Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar e analisar, sob a ótica do produtor rural, o volume e os fatores que afetam as perdas na colheita de grãos de soja na região Oeste do Paraná. Para a obtenção dos resultados foram coletados dados primários por meio de entrevistas com 243 produtores rurais em 8 municípios da região. Os resultados apontaram que, apesar do desenvolvimento e modernização do setor, ainda existem perdas passíveis de controle, is…
Brazil: Reversal of Fortune ‐ by Montero, Alfred P
Montero, Alfred P. (2014) Brazil: Reversal of Fortune, Polity Press ( Cambridge), ix + 241 pp. £53.83 hbk., £16.55 pbk. Brazil became a focus of global attention as it ascended into the ranks of the world's largest economies and hosted the 2014 soccer World Cup. From 2000 until recent years, the economy grew rapidly. Inequality and poverty rates fell impressively after 2000. After a rocky return to democracy in 1985, Brazil now has a stable and f…
Exploring Latina/Latino Migrants' Adaptation to the Economic Crisis in the US Heartland: A Capability Approach
This paper employs the capability approach to explore how Latina/Latino migrants in Central Illinois—an area of the Midwest (or Heartland) that lies outside the traditional metropolitan destinations—were coping with the local effects of the global economic crisis of the late 2000s. The crisis affected the capabilities of Latina/Latino migrants to pursue work that provided sufficient income to meet their families' basic needs. Exacerbating the cri…
The Impact of Demand Factors, Quality of Care and Access to Facilities on Contraceptive Use in Tanzania
The low contraceptive prevalence rate and the existence of unmet demand for family planning services present a challenge for parties involved in family planning research in Tanzania. The observed situation has been explained by the demand-side variables such as socioeconomic characteristics and cultural values that maintain the demand for large families. A small, but growing body of research is examining the effect of supply-side factors such as …
Household Bargaining Power and Agricultural Supply Response: Evidence from Ethiopian Coffee Growers
The balance of care: Trends in the wages and employment of immigrant nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000
Recently, the transnational migration of nurses from developing countries to developed countries has received heightened attention from policymakers, health-care practitioners, and the media. In this article, the 1990 and 2000 Census Public Use Micro Survey (PUMS) data files are used to address the issue of nurse migration. I examine changes in the number, location, wages, countries of origin, and other economic and demographic variables for fore…
Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the food for education program in Bangladesh
School Attendance, Child Labor and Local Labor Market Fluctuations in Urban Brazil
Reconsidering the Doorstep‐delivery System in the Bangladesh Family Planning Program
The government of Bangladesh is currently testing and implementing strategies to change its family planning program from a reliance on field‐workers who conduct home visits to a conventional fixed‐site delivery system. Researchers have made two suggestions: First, the program should encourage women to switch from nonclinical methods delivered by family planning workers to more cost‐effective clinical methods such as sterilization, and second, fie…
Women's Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh
How do family planning workers’ visits affect women’s contraceptive behavior in bangladesh
In Bangladesh, family planning workers’ visits reduce the costs of contraception and may increase the demand. If visits increase demand or if workers are targeting their visits, past visits by family planning workers should have a positive and significant effect on later probabilities of adopting contraceptive methods. Longitudinal data show that past visits are not significant in hazard models for adoption of contraceptive methods, whereas visit…
How Do Family Planning Workers' Visits Affect Women's Contraceptive Behavior in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, family planning workers' visits reduce the costs of contraception and may increase the demand. If visits increase demand or if workers are targeting their visits, past visits by family planning workers should have a positive and significant effect on later probabilities of adopting contraceptive methods. Longitudinal data show that past visits are not significant in hazard models for adoption of contraceptive methods, whereas visit…
Agricultural Biotechnology for Developing Countries: Prospects and Policies
Will the biotechnology revolution improve the living standards of poor rural farmers in developing countries? The Green Revolution showed that the economic and social structures in a society play a larger role in determining how innovations affect people than the scientific content of the innovations. Social and economic structures within developing countries and within the international community will determine what crops are enhanced using biot…
The Effects of Family Planning Workers' Contact on Fertility Preferences: Evidence from Bangladesh
Should family planning programs put more effort into persuading couples to want smaller families or into helping women achieve their reproductive goals? Indeed, can family planning programs affect fertility preferences? Longitudinal data from Bangladesh collected from 1982 to 1993 show that women's desired family sizes have declined dramatically. This study examines how the decline in desired family size is related to visits from family planning …
The Long-term Demographic Role of Community-based Family Planning in Rural Bangladesh
Experimental studies demonstrating the effectiveness of nonclinical distribution of contraceptives are typically conducted in settings where contraceptive use is low and unmet need is extensive. Determining the long-term role of active outreach programs after initial demand is met represents an increasingly important policy issue in Asia, where contraceptive prevalence is high and fixed service points are conveniently available. This article exam…
School Attendance, Child Labor and Local Labor Market Fluctuations in Urban Brazil
The Impact of the Quality of Family Planning Services on Contraceptive Use in Peru
Barbara Mensch, Mary Arends-Kuenning, Anrudh Jain, The Impact of the Quality of Family Planning Services on Contraceptive Use in Peru, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1996), pp. 59-75
Women's Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh
Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the food for education program in Bangladesh
Household Bargaining Power and Agricultural Supply Response: Evidence from Ethiopian Coffee Growers
The Long-term Demographic Role of Community-based Family Planning in Rural Bangladesh
Experimental studies demonstrating the effectiveness of nonclinical distribution of contraceptives are typically conducted in settings where contraceptive use is low and unmet need is extensive. Determining the long-term role of active outreach programs after initial demand is met represents an increasingly important policy issue in Asia, where contraceptive prevalence is high and fixed service points are conveniently available. This article exam…
How do family planning workers’ visits affect women’s contraceptive behavior in bangladesh
In Bangladesh, family planning workers’ visits reduce the costs of contraception and may increase the demand. If visits increase demand or if workers are targeting their visits, past visits by family planning workers should have a positive and significant effect on later probabilities of adopting contraceptive methods. Longitudinal data show that past visits are not significant in hazard models for adoption of contraceptive methods, whereas visit…
The Effects of Family Planning Workers' Contact on Fertility Preferences: Evidence from Bangladesh
Should family planning programs put more effort into persuading couples to want smaller families or into helping women achieve their reproductive goals? Indeed, can family planning programs affect fertility preferences? Longitudinal data from Bangladesh collected from 1982 to 1993 show that women's desired family sizes have declined dramatically. This study examines how the decline in desired family size is related to visits from family planning …
Empoderamento feminino na agricultura: Um estudo na Lar Cooperativa Agroindustrial (Paraná)
O objetivo deste trabalho foi mensurar e analisar o empoderamento das mulheres, em sua maioria agricultoras, associadas à Lar Cooperativa Agroindustrial ou participantes enquanto cônjuges dos cooperados. Para a obtenção dos resultados, foram coletados dados primários por meio de questionários aplicados a 150 casais de agricultores e agricultoras, totalizando 300 entrevistados. A partir desses dados, foi feita a aplicação de uma adaptação do Women…
Factors associated with harvest and postharvest loss among soybean farmers in Western Paraná State, Brazil
The United Nations included reducing harvest and postharvest losses as a Sustainable Millennium Development Goal in 2015, leading to increased research and policymaker interest in reducing losses to insure food security. This article analyzes the factors associated with self-reported harvest loss among soybean farmers in Paraná, Brazil, using a survey of 243 farmers. The principal–agent problem is the most important contributor to harvest and pos…
Gender, education, and farm succession in Western Paraná State, Brazil
Perdas na colheita de soja na região oeste do Paraná
Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar e analisar, sob a ótica do produtor rural, o volume e os fatores que afetam as perdas na colheita de grãos de soja na região Oeste do Paraná. Para a obtenção dos resultados foram coletados dados primários por meio de entrevistas com 243 produtores rurais em 8 municípios da região. Os resultados apontaram que, apesar do desenvolvimento e modernização do setor, ainda existem perdas passíveis de controle, is…
The balance of care: Trends in the wages and employment of immigrant nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000
Recently, the transnational migration of nurses from developing countries to developed countries has received heightened attention from policymakers, health-care practitioners, and the media. In this article, the 1990 and 2000 Census Public Use Micro Survey (PUMS) data files are used to address the issue of nurse migration. I examine changes in the number, location, wages, countries of origin, and other economic and demographic variables for fore…
Agricultural Biotechnology for Developing Countries: Prospects and Policies
Will the biotechnology revolution improve the living standards of poor rural farmers in developing countries? The Green Revolution showed that the economic and social structures in a society play a larger role in determining how innovations affect people than the scientific content of the innovations. Social and economic structures within developing countries and within the international community will determine what crops are enhanced using biot…
The Long-term Demographic Role of Community-based Family Planning in Rural Bangladesh
Experimental studies demonstrating the effectiveness of nonclinical distribution of contraceptives are typically conducted in settings where contraceptive use is low and unmet need is extensive. Determining the long-term role of active outreach programs after initial demand is met represents an increasingly important policy issue in Asia, where contraceptive prevalence is high and fixed service points are conveniently available. This article exam…
Comparing the Peru Service Availability Module and Situation Analysis
This report reviews the experience of the World Fertility Surveys and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in collecting community-level data on family planning. It assesses the validity of the community data for Peru that were collected via a service availability module, much like that which is used for the DHS, through a comparison with data from the Situation Analysis. The analysis indicates that the knowledgeable informant, the main sourc…
The Impact of the Quality of Family Planning Services on Contraceptive Use in Peru
Barbara Mensch, Mary Arends-Kuenning, Anrudh Jain, The Impact of the Quality of Family Planning Services on Contraceptive Use in Peru, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1996), pp. 59-75
The Effects of Family Planning Workers' Contact on Fertility Preferences: Evidence from Bangladesh
Should family planning programs put more effort into persuading couples to want smaller families or into helping women achieve their reproductive goals? Indeed, can family planning programs affect fertility preferences? Longitudinal data from Bangladesh collected from 1982 to 1993 show that women's desired family sizes have declined dramatically. This study examines how the decline in desired family size is related to visits from family planning …
Agricultural Biotechnology for Developing Countries: Prospects and Policies
Will the biotechnology revolution improve the living standards of poor rural farmers in developing countries? The Green Revolution showed that the economic and social structures in a society play a larger role in determining how innovations affect people than the scientific content of the innovations. Social and economic structures within developing countries and within the international community will determine what crops are enhanced using biot…
Women's Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh
How do family planning workers’ visits affect women’s contraceptive behavior in bangladesh
In Bangladesh, family planning workers’ visits reduce the costs of contraception and may increase the demand. If visits increase demand or if workers are targeting their visits, past visits by family planning workers should have a positive and significant effect on later probabilities of adopting contraceptive methods. Longitudinal data show that past visits are not significant in hazard models for adoption of contraceptive methods, whereas visit…
How Do Family Planning Workers' Visits Affect Women's Contraceptive Behavior in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, family planning workers' visits reduce the costs of contraception and may increase the demand. If visits increase demand or if workers are targeting their visits, past visits by family planning workers should have a positive and significant effect on later probabilities of adopting contraceptive methods. Longitudinal data show that past visits are not significant in hazard models for adoption of contraceptive methods, whereas visit…
Reconsidering the Doorstep‐delivery System in the Bangladesh Family Planning Program
The government of Bangladesh is currently testing and implementing strategies to change its family planning program from a reliance on field‐workers who conduct home visits to a conventional fixed‐site delivery system. Researchers have made two suggestions: First, the program should encourage women to switch from nonclinical methods delivered by family planning workers to more cost‐effective clinical methods such as sterilization, and second, fie…
School Attendance, Child Labor and Local Labor Market Fluctuations in Urban Brazil
The balance of care: Trends in the wages and employment of immigrant nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000
Recently, the transnational migration of nurses from developing countries to developed countries has received heightened attention from policymakers, health-care practitioners, and the media. In this article, the 1990 and 2000 Census Public Use Micro Survey (PUMS) data files are used to address the issue of nurse migration. I examine changes in the number, location, wages, countries of origin, and other economic and demographic variables for fore…
Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the food for education program in Bangladesh
The Impact of Demand Factors, Quality of Care and Access to Facilities on Contraceptive Use in Tanzania
The low contraceptive prevalence rate and the existence of unmet demand for family planning services present a challenge for parties involved in family planning research in Tanzania. The observed situation has been explained by the demand-side variables such as socioeconomic characteristics and cultural values that maintain the demand for large families. A small, but growing body of research is examining the effect of supply-side factors such as …
Household Bargaining Power and Agricultural Supply Response: Evidence from Ethiopian Coffee Growers
Exploring Latina/Latino Migrants' Adaptation to the Economic Crisis in the US Heartland: A Capability Approach
This paper employs the capability approach to explore how Latina/Latino migrants in Central Illinois—an area of the Midwest (or Heartland) that lies outside the traditional metropolitan destinations—were coping with the local effects of the global economic crisis of the late 2000s. The crisis affected the capabilities of Latina/Latino migrants to pursue work that provided sufficient income to meet their families' basic needs. Exacerbating the cri…
Brazil: Reversal of Fortune ‐ by Montero, Alfred P
Montero, Alfred P. (2014) Brazil: Reversal of Fortune, Polity Press ( Cambridge), ix + 241 pp. £53.83 hbk., £16.55 pbk. Brazil became a focus of global attention as it ascended into the ranks of the world's largest economies and hosted the 2014 soccer World Cup. From 2000 until recent years, the economy grew rapidly. Inequality and poverty rates fell impressively after 2000. After a rocky return to democracy in 1985, Brazil now has a stable and f…
Analysis of Math Test Score Gap Between White and Non-White Students in Brazilian Public Schools: Saeb 2015
This study aims to analyze and decompose the gap between White and non-White students’ test scores observed in the Brazilian National Evaluation System of Basic Education (SAEB)—2015. To do so, proficiency equations were estimated for each student race group (White, Brown, Black, and Indigenous) using the recentered influence function method, which generalizes the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition to any point in the grade distribution. The proficienc…
Perdas na colheita de soja na região oeste do Paraná
Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar e analisar, sob a ótica do produtor rural, o volume e os fatores que afetam as perdas na colheita de grãos de soja na região Oeste do Paraná. Para a obtenção dos resultados foram coletados dados primários por meio de entrevistas com 243 produtores rurais em 8 municípios da região. Os resultados apontaram que, apesar do desenvolvimento e modernização do setor, ainda existem perdas passíveis de controle, is…
The elderly in Brazil: Demographic Transition, Profile, and Socioeconomic Condition
This paper presents a revision about the elderly population in Brazil, addressing aspects of the demographic transition as it relates to socio-economic conditions and some consequences and trends associated with policies affecting Brazil's elderly. Since a demographic transition has been occurring as a result of the aging of the Brazilian population, we identify a majority profile of Brazilian elderly as White women who live in urban areas in cou…
Consumption patterns and demand in households headed by the elderly: Evidence from Brazil
Purpose The main objective of this paper is to analyze patterns of consumption expenditure and the effects of income, prices and socioeconomic and demographic factors on demand among elderly- and young-adult-headed households in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The authors estimated a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System demand system using the main household consumption good groups – food, housing, clothing, transportation, health care and ot…
Gender, education, and farm succession in Western Paraná State, Brazil
Choosing Plan B Over Plan A: Risk Compensation Theory and Contraceptive Choice in India
Can women's contraceptive method choice be better understood through risk compensation theory? This theory implies that people act with greater care when the perceived risk of an activity is higher and with less care when it is lower. We examine how increased over-the-counter access to emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) accompanied by marketing campaigns in India affected women's contraceptive method choices and incidence of sexually transmitte…
Análise dos determinantes da felicidade dos associados da lar cooperativa agroindustrial
Sabendo-se que a felicidade é sentida de forma subjetiva e a sua mensuração envolve a avaliação que cada pessoa faz de sua vida, este trabalho objetivou identificar e analisar quais são os determinantes socioeconômicos que influenciam na felicidade dos associados da Lar Cooperativa Agroindustrial. Para tanto, elaboraram-se questões que buscaram captar a percepção individual de felicidade de uma amostra de 150 casais (300 indivíduos) associados à …
Factors associated with harvest and postharvest loss among soybean farmers in Western Paraná State, Brazil
The United Nations included reducing harvest and postharvest losses as a Sustainable Millennium Development Goal in 2015, leading to increased research and policymaker interest in reducing losses to insure food security. This article analyzes the factors associated with self-reported harvest loss among soybean farmers in Paraná, Brazil, using a survey of 243 farmers. The principal–agent problem is the most important contributor to harvest and pos…
Poverty Among The Elderly: An Application of a Collective Consumption Model in Brazil
Economics (15 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Population (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (10 works) · Political science (10 works)