Sajeda Amin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sajeda Amin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sajeda |
| FAMILY NAME | Amin |
| SIGNATURE | AMIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Population Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5391-1594 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Identifying latent classes of empowerment among early adolescent girls and the factors that cultivate them
BACKGROUND: Efforts to empower adolescent girls remain constrained by confusion around how to conceptually define empowerment and how to design interventions. More research, particularly among young adolescents, is needed that considers contextual and age-specific circumstances. This paper examines the latent classes of empowerment among early adolescent girls in Bangladesh and factors associated with membership in these classes. Using data from …
Perceptions of minimum age at marriage laws and their enforcement
This work is part of an RCT registered August 4, 2016 in the AEA RCT registry identified as: AEARCTR-0001463 . See: https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/1463
Voice Without Choice? Investigating Adolescent Girls’ Agency in Marital Decision-making in Niger
This article uses qualitative data from Niger to examine adolescent girls’ perceptions of their own agency in marriage decisions and contextual factors influencing these perceptions. We find that girls make marital decisions within a context that stresses parental consent and community approval, places a high value on obedience, and is constrained by limited opportunities, gendered distribution of labor, and dominant social norms promoting an ear…
Child marriage practices among the Rohingya in Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that child marriage may be accelerated during times of crisis and insecurity as resources are scarce and child marriage may be a survival strategy for girls and their families. In 2017, the Rohingya experienced a mass displacement to Bangladesh in response to escalating violence in Myanmar. This displacement has resulted in an estimated population of nearly 1 million Rohingya living in Cox's Bazar. METHODS: …
Support for Gender Stereotypes
This paper examines the influence of the institutional nature of schools on gender stereotyping by exploring contrasts between non-religious and Islamic faith (that is madrasah) schools among secondary school-going adolescents in rural Bangladesh. In particular, differences in gender attitudes across school types are explored to elucidate what about schools matters. Using a uniquely designed survey to assess the influence of school type on studen…
The Effects of Adolescent Childbearing on Literacy and Numeracy in Bangladesh, Malawi, and Zambia
Global investments in girls’ education have been motivated, in part, by an expectation that more-educated women will have smaller and healthier families. However, in many low- and middle-income countries, the timing of school dropout and first birth coincide, resulting in a rapid transition from the role of student to the role of mother for adolescent girls. Despite growing interest in the effects of pregnancy on levels of school dropout, researc…
Marriage and sexual and reproductive health of Rohingya adolescents and youth in Bangladesh
This qualitative study focuses specifically on displaced Rohingya adolescents and youth (ages 14–24) and explores how the crisis has impacted their sexual and reproductive health (SRH), marriage practices, safety and security, and related attitudes and aspirations. This research aims to identify approaches to improve adolescents' knowledge of SRH issues and their access to and uptake of services, and to identify gaps in programming knowledge and …
Eradicating Child Marriage in the Commonwealth
Commonwealth countries are well-known global hotspots for child marriage. Seven members – Bangladesh, India, Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, South Sudan and Uganda – belong to the global list of 20 co
Community-level correlates of physical violence against unmarried female adolescents in Bangladesh
It is important to find and target communities in which unmarried adolescent girls are at higher risk of experiencing physical violence. Programs and policies must focus specifically on changing attitudes regarding treatment of women and girls. As these attitudes accepting of physical violence are found in adolescents aged 10 to 19, school and community-based programs should particularly target this age group
Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh
This article explores the relationship between women’s participation in microcredit groups and domestic violence in Bangladesh. Several recent studies have raised concern about microcredit programs by reporting higher levels of violence among women who are members. These results, however, may be attributable to selection bias because members might differ from nonmembers in ways that make them more susceptible to violence to begin with. Using a sa…
Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education
This paper addresses gender equity in parents' educational investments in children in rural Bangladesh. The authors analyse correlates of time spent in school, studying outside school and work, using a dataset on time-use patterns of school-going children. The authors find that time spent at work varies inversely with the amount of time spent studying at home. Time spent in school is insensitive to factors such as poverty and gender. Time spent s…
Poverty, Marriage Timing, and Transitions to Adulthood in Nepal
This study examines the influence of household poverty during early childhood on schooling, workforce participation, and early marriage among adolescent girls in Nepal. Longitudinal data from the two‐wave panel of the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) were used to examine these relationships. For 5‐9‐year‐old girls contacted in NLSS I and again when aged 13–17 in NLSS II (N = 400), multinomial logit regression estimates indicate that household…
The Role of Abortion in the Last Stage of Fertility Decline in Vietnam
Special Reviewers
Popular perceptions of emerging influences on mortality and longevity in Bangladesh and West Bengal
Relatively little is known about how environmental and pathological threats to human survival and longevity are perceived by the public. In this study in rural Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, which used individual interviews and focus-group discussions to investigate the changing costs of and motivations for reproduction, respondents were questioned about their perceptions of changes in mortality. The findings show that, while child mortality …
Education, wage work, and marriage
We explore young working women's perceptions of marriage and work in contemporary Egypt, when an increase in age at marriage was evident from national survey data. Both working conditions and employment opportunities declined significantly for young women even as their educational attainment increased and marriage was delayed. In-depth interviews were conducted over a 2-year period between 1998 and 2000 with 27 young women between the ages of 15 …
Does microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? Evidence from northern Bangladesh
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Andrew Geddes, Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe? Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz (Eds.), International Relations and Global Climate Change Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer (Ed.), Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health Per Pinstrup‐Andersen and Rajul Pandya‐Lorch (Eds.), The Unfinished Agenda: Perspectives on Overcoming Hunger, Poverty, and Environmental Degradation Anisur Rahman, Ind…
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Laurel Bossen, Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan Fabrizio Butera and Gabriel Mugny (EDS.), Social Influence in Social Reality: Promoting Individual and Social Change Harold Coward and Daniel C. Maguire (EDS.), Visions of a New Earth: Religious Perspectives on Population, Consumption, and Ecology Martha C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach…
Women's lives and rapid fertility decline
Spatial Variation in Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh
This article promotes a more complete understanding of social change by analyzing spatial patterns of contraceptive use in Bangladesh and the contiguous state of West Bengal in India. Multilevel analyses that control for variations in individual- and household-level correlates show an important role for cross-border influences only in those districts that share a common language across the border. The districts that are positive outliers in contr…
The efffects of migration and work on marriage of female garment workers in Bangladesh
This paper examines the effects of migration and entry into garment work on marriage for young women in Bangladesh. The data comes from a study of female garment workers and their non‐working peers conducted in 1996–97 in Bangladesh. In a country where women traditionally do not work in formal employment, and enter arranged marriages soon after puberty, the rapidly expanding garment industry offers scope for social change. The industry employs ma…
Women's Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh
Savings/Credit Group Formation and Change in Contraception
We examine the characteristics of women who chose to join a women's savings or credit group organized by Save the Children USA in a rural area of Bangladesh, and the impact of participation on contraceptive use. The data are taken from a panel survey conducted in 1993, shortly before the groups were formed, and in 1995 after interventions began. Our findings show that although demographic and socioeconomic characteristics have only a weak relatio…
Savings/credit group formation and change in contraception
We examine the characteristics of women who chose to join a women’s savings or credit group organized by Save the Children USA in a rural area of Bangladesh, and the impact of participation on contraceptive use. The data are taken from a panel survey conducted in 1993, shortly before the groups were formed, and in 1995 after interventions began. Our findings show that although demographic and socioeconomic characteristics have only a weak relatio…
Transition to Adulthood of Female Garment-Factory Workers in Bangladesh
This article examines data from a study on garment-factory workers in Bangladesh to explore the implications of work for the early socialization of young women. For the first time, large numbers of young Bangladeshi women are being given an alternative to lives in which they move directly from childhood to adulthood through early marriage and childbearing. Employment creates a period of transition in contrast to the abrupt assumption of adult rol…
Education, wage work, and marriage
We explore young working women's perceptions of marriage and work in contemporary Egypt, when an increase in age at marriage was evident from national survey data. Both working conditions and employment opportunities declined significantly for young women even as their educational attainment increased and marriage was delayed. In-depth interviews were conducted over a 2-year period between 1998 and 2000 with 27 young women between the ages of 15 …
The Poverty-Purdah Trap in Rural Bangladesh
Trends in poverty, working through changing roles of women in income generation, have been advanced as one explanation of changing fertility in Bangladesh. This paper examines women's work patterns in two rural villages in northern Bangladesh and finds little evidence of increasing workforce participation, despite high contraceptive use rates. Observation of women's work patterns suggests that purdah, the practice of female seclusion, influences …
Conditioning Factors for Fertility Decline in Bengal
This article argues that looking solely for the immediate causes of reproductive change may distort our understanding of policy options by failing to take into account the historical and cultural factors that affect not only the impact of policies and programs but their very nature and existence. The article examines the historical origins and spread of "modern" ideas in Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in India. It concludes that a coloni…
Does microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? Evidence from northern Bangladesh
Women's Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh
Savings/credit group formation and change in contraception
We examine the characteristics of women who chose to join a women’s savings or credit group organized by Save the Children USA in a rural area of Bangladesh, and the impact of participation on contraceptive use. The data are taken from a panel survey conducted in 1993, shortly before the groups were formed, and in 1995 after interventions began. Our findings show that although demographic and socioeconomic characteristics have only a weak relatio…
Family Structure and Change in Rural Bangladesh
This analysis uses data from an intensive village study to investigate whether rising landlessness leads to increasing fragmentation and nucleation of families in rural Bangladesh. It was found that, even after rapid fertility decline, the elderly and women continue to rely extensively on family support. Although landlessness puts stress on intergenerational relations, a favourably low dependency ratio (elders to sons), brought about by the child…
The efffects of migration and work on marriage of female garment workers in Bangladesh
This paper examines the effects of migration and entry into garment work on marriage for young women in Bangladesh. The data comes from a study of female garment workers and their non‐working peers conducted in 1996–97 in Bangladesh. In a country where women traditionally do not work in formal employment, and enter arranged marriages soon after puberty, the rapidly expanding garment industry offers scope for social change. The industry employs ma…
Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh
This article explores the relationship between women’s participation in microcredit groups and domestic violence in Bangladesh. Several recent studies have raised concern about microcredit programs by reporting higher levels of violence among women who are members. These results, however, may be attributable to selection bias because members might differ from nonmembers in ways that make them more susceptible to violence to begin with. Using a sa…
Poverty, Marriage Timing, and Transitions to Adulthood in Nepal
This study examines the influence of household poverty during early childhood on schooling, workforce participation, and early marriage among adolescent girls in Nepal. Longitudinal data from the two‐wave panel of the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) were used to examine these relationships. For 5‐9‐year‐old girls contacted in NLSS I and again when aged 13–17 in NLSS II (N = 400), multinomial logit regression estimates indicate that household…
Child marriage practices among the Rohingya in Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that child marriage may be accelerated during times of crisis and insecurity as resources are scarce and child marriage may be a survival strategy for girls and their families. In 2017, the Rohingya experienced a mass displacement to Bangladesh in response to escalating violence in Myanmar. This displacement has resulted in an estimated population of nearly 1 million Rohingya living in Cox's Bazar. METHODS: …
Marriage and sexual and reproductive health of Rohingya adolescents and youth in Bangladesh
This qualitative study focuses specifically on displaced Rohingya adolescents and youth (ages 14–24) and explores how the crisis has impacted their sexual and reproductive health (SRH), marriage practices, safety and security, and related attitudes and aspirations. This research aims to identify approaches to improve adolescents' knowledge of SRH issues and their access to and uptake of services, and to identify gaps in programming knowledge and …
Women's lives and rapid fertility decline
Eradicating Child Marriage in the Commonwealth
Commonwealth countries are well-known global hotspots for child marriage. Seven members – Bangladesh, India, Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, South Sudan and Uganda – belong to the global list of 20 co
Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education
This paper addresses gender equity in parents' educational investments in children in rural Bangladesh. The authors analyse correlates of time spent in school, studying outside school and work, using a dataset on time-use patterns of school-going children. The authors find that time spent at work varies inversely with the amount of time spent studying at home. Time spent in school is insensitive to factors such as poverty and gender. Time spent s…
Popular perceptions of emerging influences on mortality and longevity in Bangladesh and West Bengal
Relatively little is known about how environmental and pathological threats to human survival and longevity are perceived by the public. In this study in rural Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, which used individual interviews and focus-group discussions to investigate the changing costs of and motivations for reproduction, respondents were questioned about their perceptions of changes in mortality. The findings show that, while child mortality …
Voice Without Choice? Investigating Adolescent Girls’ Agency in Marital Decision-making in Niger
This article uses qualitative data from Niger to examine adolescent girls’ perceptions of their own agency in marriage decisions and contextual factors influencing these perceptions. We find that girls make marital decisions within a context that stresses parental consent and community approval, places a high value on obedience, and is constrained by limited opportunities, gendered distribution of labor, and dominant social norms promoting an ear…
Reversed Realities
Reproductive and socioeconomic determinants of child survival
Studies of infant and child mortality have evolved to distinguish between two sets of explanatory variables-factors related to reproductive or maternal characteristics and socioeconomic factors, generally described as characteristics of the family or household. Almost all multivariate analyses include variables from each of these two sets, but there has been little consideration of the relationship between them. We examine how these two sets of v…
Reversed Realities
The Determinants of Reproductive Change in Bangladesh
The Poverty-Purdah Trap in Rural Bangladesh
Trends in poverty, working through changing roles of women in income generation, have been advanced as one explanation of changing fertility in Bangladesh. This paper examines women's work patterns in two rural villages in northern Bangladesh and finds little evidence of increasing workforce participation, despite high contraceptive use rates. Observation of women's work patterns suggests that purdah, the practice of female seclusion, influences …
Transition to Adulthood of Female Garment-Factory Workers in Bangladesh
This article examines data from a study on garment-factory workers in Bangladesh to explore the implications of work for the early socialization of young women. For the first time, large numbers of young Bangladeshi women are being given an alternative to lives in which they move directly from childhood to adulthood through early marriage and childbearing. Employment creates a period of transition in contrast to the abrupt assumption of adult rol…
Family Structure and Change in Rural Bangladesh
This analysis uses data from an intensive village study to investigate whether rising landlessness leads to increasing fragmentation and nucleation of families in rural Bangladesh. It was found that, even after rapid fertility decline, the elderly and women continue to rely extensively on family support. Although landlessness puts stress on intergenerational relations, a favourably low dependency ratio (elders to sons), brought about by the child…
Survey Experience Among Women in Bangladesh
This article examines issues surrounding survey methodology and the research process from the experience of a study of female garment workers in Bangladesh carried out during 1996-1997 by the Population Council and the University of Southampton. The process of sampling the population of interest and then the interview process will be examined in detail. In addition, some more general issues about survey research in developing countries and in Ban…
Conditioning Factors for Fertility Decline in Bengal
This article argues that looking solely for the immediate causes of reproductive change may distort our understanding of policy options by failing to take into account the historical and cultural factors that affect not only the impact of policies and programs but their very nature and existence. The article examines the historical origins and spread of "modern" ideas in Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in India. It concludes that a coloni…
The efffects of migration and work on marriage of female garment workers in Bangladesh
This paper examines the effects of migration and entry into garment work on marriage for young women in Bangladesh. The data comes from a study of female garment workers and their non‐working peers conducted in 1996–97 in Bangladesh. In a country where women traditionally do not work in formal employment, and enter arranged marriages soon after puberty, the rapidly expanding garment industry offers scope for social change. The industry employs ma…
Women's Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh
Savings/Credit Group Formation and Change in Contraception
We examine the characteristics of women who chose to join a women's savings or credit group organized by Save the Children USA in a rural area of Bangladesh, and the impact of participation on contraceptive use. The data are taken from a panel survey conducted in 1993, shortly before the groups were formed, and in 1995 after interventions began. Our findings show that although demographic and socioeconomic characteristics have only a weak relatio…
Savings/credit group formation and change in contraception
We examine the characteristics of women who chose to join a women’s savings or credit group organized by Save the Children USA in a rural area of Bangladesh, and the impact of participation on contraceptive use. The data are taken from a panel survey conducted in 1993, shortly before the groups were formed, and in 1995 after interventions began. Our findings show that although demographic and socioeconomic characteristics have only a weak relatio…
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Andrew Geddes, Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe? Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz (Eds.), International Relations and Global Climate Change Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer (Ed.), Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health Per Pinstrup‐Andersen and Rajul Pandya‐Lorch (Eds.), The Unfinished Agenda: Perspectives on Overcoming Hunger, Poverty, and Environmental Degradation Anisur Rahman, Ind…
Short Reviews
Books reviewed in this article: Laurel Bossen, Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan Fabrizio Butera and Gabriel Mugny (EDS.), Social Influence in Social Reality: Promoting Individual and Social Change Harold Coward and Daniel C. Maguire (EDS.), Visions of a New Earth: Religious Perspectives on Population, Consumption, and Ecology Martha C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach…
Women's lives and rapid fertility decline
Spatial Variation in Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh
This article promotes a more complete understanding of social change by analyzing spatial patterns of contraceptive use in Bangladesh and the contiguous state of West Bengal in India. Multilevel analyses that control for variations in individual- and household-level correlates show an important role for cross-border influences only in those districts that share a common language across the border. The districts that are positive outliers in contr…
Does microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? Evidence from northern Bangladesh
Popular perceptions of emerging influences on mortality and longevity in Bangladesh and West Bengal
Relatively little is known about how environmental and pathological threats to human survival and longevity are perceived by the public. In this study in rural Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, which used individual interviews and focus-group discussions to investigate the changing costs of and motivations for reproduction, respondents were questioned about their perceptions of changes in mortality. The findings show that, while child mortality …
Education, wage work, and marriage
We explore young working women's perceptions of marriage and work in contemporary Egypt, when an increase in age at marriage was evident from national survey data. Both working conditions and employment opportunities declined significantly for young women even as their educational attainment increased and marriage was delayed. In-depth interviews were conducted over a 2-year period between 1998 and 2000 with 27 young women between the ages of 15 …
Special Reviewers
The Role of Abortion in the Last Stage of Fertility Decline in Vietnam
Looking Beyond Universal Primary Education
This paper addresses gender equity in parents' educational investments in children in rural Bangladesh. The authors analyse correlates of time spent in school, studying outside school and work, using a dataset on time-use patterns of school-going children. The authors find that time spent at work varies inversely with the amount of time spent studying at home. Time spent in school is insensitive to factors such as poverty and gender. Time spent s…
Poverty, Marriage Timing, and Transitions to Adulthood in Nepal
This study examines the influence of household poverty during early childhood on schooling, workforce participation, and early marriage among adolescent girls in Nepal. Longitudinal data from the two‐wave panel of the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) were used to examine these relationships. For 5‐9‐year‐old girls contacted in NLSS I and again when aged 13–17 in NLSS II (N = 400), multinomial logit regression estimates indicate that household…
Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh
This article explores the relationship between women’s participation in microcredit groups and domestic violence in Bangladesh. Several recent studies have raised concern about microcredit programs by reporting higher levels of violence among women who are members. These results, however, may be attributable to selection bias because members might differ from nonmembers in ways that make them more susceptible to violence to begin with. Using a sa…
Community-level correlates of physical violence against unmarried female adolescents in Bangladesh
It is important to find and target communities in which unmarried adolescent girls are at higher risk of experiencing physical violence. Programs and policies must focus specifically on changing attitudes regarding treatment of women and girls. As these attitudes accepting of physical violence are found in adolescents aged 10 to 19, school and community-based programs should particularly target this age group
Sociology (23 works) · Economics (22 works) · Economic growth (16 works) · Population (16 works) · Demography (15 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Socioeconomics (13 works)