Julia Behrman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Behrman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Behrman |
| SIGNATURE | BEHRMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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
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…
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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
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
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…
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
Economics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Developing country (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)