Sarah Brauner-Otto
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 267198 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sarah Brauner-Otto |
| PRENOMES | Sarah |
| SOBRENOME | Brauner-Otto |
| ASSINATURA | BRAUNER-OTTO S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4098-7351 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Effect of First Births on Women's Employment in a Low-Income Context
Highlights This is the first longitudinal study in an LMIC setting of employment changes following childbirth. A large (40%), short-term decrease in maternal employment (i.e., penalty) was observed after childbirth. A moderate (8–10%), long-term maternal employment penalty was observed after childbirth. Women in high-quality salaried jobs experienced the greatest employment penalties. The employment penalty has grown over time as the share of wom…
Women’s Work Characteristics and Fertility Expectations
Previous research has shown that employment is an important social context affecting fertility, yet relatively little is known about the extent to which work characteristics affect fertility expectations. Using over 25 years of data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we analyzed the associations between part-time work and characteristics associated with autonomy over working time, specifically self-employment and managerial/prof…
Housing and fertility
Postponement of first birth has implications for the health and well-being of women and is often associated with lower fertility levels, a demographic reality affecting most high-income countries. Country-level institutional differences are one factor behind the variation in fertility in these countries. This paper examines the relationship between housing and mean age at first birth across 39 low-fertility countries. Using newly compiled indicat…
Women's employment trajectories in a low-income setting
Background : Across the globe, employment for pay outside the home plays a key role in the lives of women, and increasing the proportion of women involved in high-quality jobs is a critical component of reaching several sustainable development goals. While existing research from high-income societies demonstrates that women's employment is not constant over the life course, relatively less is known about women's employment trajectories in low-inc…
Women's employment and Children's education
Parents’ Marital Quality and Children’s Transition to Adulthood
Unique longitudinal measures from Nepal allow us to link both mothers’ and fathers’ reports of their marital relationships with a subsequent long-term record of their children’s behaviors. We focus on children’s educational attainment and marriage timing because these two dimensions of the transition to adulthood have wide-ranging, long-lasting consequences. We find that children whose parents report strong marital affection and less spousal conf…
The Gendered Relationship between Parental Religiousness and Children's Marriage Timing
In this article, we examine whether mother's and father's self-reported religiousness relates differently to the timing of their children's marriages. Conceptualizing religion as one source of cultural schema about marriage that is likely to conflict with other schemas for living, and theorizing that women are more likely to experience structured ambivalence over religious schema and their enactment than men, we predict father's religiousness wil…
Maternal employment and child health in Nepal
Offspring education and parental mortality
Natural resource collection and desired family size
Constrained Intentions
Using five waves of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics ( pairfam), we examine how economic circumstances are related to fertility intentions in childless young men and women in East and West Germany. We explore multiple dimensions of fertility intentions: short-term intentions for the next two years, long-term expectations about family size, and uncertainty about these short- and long-term intentions. Our find…
The Emergence of Two Distinct Fertility Regimes in Economically Advanced Countries
My Friend is Gay, But… The Effects of Social Contact on Christian Evangelicals’ Beliefs about Gays and Lesbians
This paper examines the relationship between social contact with gays and lesbians and beliefs about homosexuality, and explicitly investigates whether this relationship is different for Christian evangelicals than for others. We find that although social contact with gays and lesbians is related to beliefs about homosexuality in ways predicted by social contact theory, those with a gay or lesbian friend hold more positive attitudes, this is not …
Health Services, Attitudes about Children, and Fertility Limitation
This article investigates the role of women’s attitudes as a mechanism through which changes in social context influence individual behavior. By examining how specific dimensions of health services are related to one’s attitudes about children’s roles in the household and how those attitudes are related to contraceptive behavior, I provide new information on these intermediary social-psychological processes. My investigation focuses on a setting …
Divorce in sub-Saharan Africa
Divorce is one of the main drivers of family instability in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from 101 Demographic and Health Surveys and novel estimation techniques, we 1) provide the first systematic estimates of divorce across 33 countries; 2) assess trends in divorce in 20 countries; and 3) investigate the key country-level correlates of divorce both across and within countries. Despite considerable geographic variation, our estimates show that …
Explaining religious differentials in family-size preference
We examine how religio-ethnic identity, individual religiosity, and family members' religiosity were related to preferred family size in Nepal in 1996. Analyses of survey data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study show that socio-economic characteristics and individual experiences can suppress, as well as largely account for, religio-ethnic differences in fertility preference. These religio-ethnic differentials are associated with variance in part…
Environmental quality and fertility
Non-family experience and receipt of personal care in Nepal
Scholars and policy makers have expressed concern that social and economic changes occurring throughout Asia are threatening the wellbeing of older adults by undercutting their systems of family support. Using a sample of 1,654 men and women aged 45 and above from the Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal, we evaluated the relationship between individuals' non-family experiences, such as education, travel and non-family living, and their likelihoo…
Attitudes About Children and Fertility Limitation Behavior
Schools, Their Spatial Distribution and Characteristics, and Fertility Limitation
This article investigates the complex relationship between various dimensions of women's educational context and their contraceptive use later in life. Using data from rural Nepal on all the schools that ever existed in one community, I create geographically weighted measures of school characteristics-specifically teacher and student characteristics-that capture exposure to the complete array of schools and investigate the direct relationship bet…
Does it matter how you ask? Question wording and males' reporting of contraceptive use at last sex
Parental family experiences, the timing of first sex, and contraception
Schools, schooling and children's support of their ageing parents in rural Nepal
Intergenerational transfers play an important role in individuals' lives across the lifecourse. This paper reviews theories on intergenerational transfers and social change to inform our understanding of how changes in the educational context that arise from the spread of mass education influence children's support of their parents. By examining multiple aspects of the educational context in rural Nepal, including husbands' and wives' education a…
Divorce in sub-Saharan Africa
Divorce is one of the main drivers of family instability in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from 101 Demographic and Health Surveys and novel estimation techniques, we 1) provide the first systematic estimates of divorce across 33 countries; 2) assess trends in divorce in 20 countries; and 3) investigate the key country-level correlates of divorce both across and within countries. Despite considerable geographic variation, our estimates show that …
The Emergence of Two Distinct Fertility Regimes in Economically Advanced Countries
Maternal employment and child health in Nepal
Schools, Their Spatial Distribution and Characteristics, and Fertility Limitation
This article investigates the complex relationship between various dimensions of women's educational context and their contraceptive use later in life. Using data from rural Nepal on all the schools that ever existed in one community, I create geographically weighted measures of school characteristics-specifically teacher and student characteristics-that capture exposure to the complete array of schools and investigate the direct relationship bet…
Environmental quality and fertility
Schools, schooling and children's support of their ageing parents in rural Nepal
Intergenerational transfers play an important role in individuals' lives across the lifecourse. This paper reviews theories on intergenerational transfers and social change to inform our understanding of how changes in the educational context that arise from the spread of mass education influence children's support of their parents. By examining multiple aspects of the educational context in rural Nepal, including husbands' and wives' education a…
Parents’ Marital Quality and Children’s Transition to Adulthood
Unique longitudinal measures from Nepal allow us to link both mothers’ and fathers’ reports of their marital relationships with a subsequent long-term record of their children’s behaviors. We focus on children’s educational attainment and marriage timing because these two dimensions of the transition to adulthood have wide-ranging, long-lasting consequences. We find that children whose parents report strong marital affection and less spousal conf…
Natural resource collection and desired family size
Parental family experiences, the timing of first sex, and contraception
Offspring education and parental mortality
Explaining religious differentials in family-size preference
We examine how religio-ethnic identity, individual religiosity, and family members' religiosity were related to preferred family size in Nepal in 1996. Analyses of survey data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study show that socio-economic characteristics and individual experiences can suppress, as well as largely account for, religio-ethnic differences in fertility preference. These religio-ethnic differentials are associated with variance in part…
Attitudes About Children and Fertility Limitation Behavior
Housing and fertility
Postponement of first birth has implications for the health and well-being of women and is often associated with lower fertility levels, a demographic reality affecting most high-income countries. Country-level institutional differences are one factor behind the variation in fertility in these countries. This paper examines the relationship between housing and mean age at first birth across 39 low-fertility countries. Using newly compiled indicat…
Constrained Intentions
Using five waves of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics ( pairfam), we examine how economic circumstances are related to fertility intentions in childless young men and women in East and West Germany. We explore multiple dimensions of fertility intentions: short-term intentions for the next two years, long-term expectations about family size, and uncertainty about these short- and long-term intentions. Our find…
The Gendered Relationship between Parental Religiousness and Children's Marriage Timing
In this article, we examine whether mother's and father's self-reported religiousness relates differently to the timing of their children's marriages. Conceptualizing religion as one source of cultural schema about marriage that is likely to conflict with other schemas for living, and theorizing that women are more likely to experience structured ambivalence over religious schema and their enactment than men, we predict father's religiousness wil…
Does it matter how you ask? Question wording and males' reporting of contraceptive use at last sex
Women’s Work Characteristics and Fertility Expectations
Previous research has shown that employment is an important social context affecting fertility, yet relatively little is known about the extent to which work characteristics affect fertility expectations. Using over 25 years of data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we analyzed the associations between part-time work and characteristics associated with autonomy over working time, specifically self-employment and managerial/prof…
Women's employment trajectories in a low-income setting
Background : Across the globe, employment for pay outside the home plays a key role in the lives of women, and increasing the proportion of women involved in high-quality jobs is a critical component of reaching several sustainable development goals. While existing research from high-income societies demonstrates that women's employment is not constant over the life course, relatively less is known about women's employment trajectories in low-inc…
Women's employment and Children's education
Health Services, Attitudes about Children, and Fertility Limitation
This article investigates the role of women’s attitudes as a mechanism through which changes in social context influence individual behavior. By examining how specific dimensions of health services are related to one’s attitudes about children’s roles in the household and how those attitudes are related to contraceptive behavior, I provide new information on these intermediary social-psychological processes. My investigation focuses on a setting …
Non-family experience and receipt of personal care in Nepal
Scholars and policy makers have expressed concern that social and economic changes occurring throughout Asia are threatening the wellbeing of older adults by undercutting their systems of family support. Using a sample of 1,654 men and women aged 45 and above from the Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal, we evaluated the relationship between individuals' non-family experiences, such as education, travel and non-family living, and their likelihoo…
Schools, schooling and children's support of their ageing parents in rural Nepal
Intergenerational transfers play an important role in individuals' lives across the lifecourse. This paper reviews theories on intergenerational transfers and social change to inform our understanding of how changes in the educational context that arise from the spread of mass education influence children's support of their parents. By examining multiple aspects of the educational context in rural Nepal, including husbands' and wives' education a…
Parental family experiences, the timing of first sex, and contraception
Schools, Their Spatial Distribution and Characteristics, and Fertility Limitation
This article investigates the complex relationship between various dimensions of women's educational context and their contraceptive use later in life. Using data from rural Nepal on all the schools that ever existed in one community, I create geographically weighted measures of school characteristics-specifically teacher and student characteristics-that capture exposure to the complete array of schools and investigate the direct relationship bet…
Does it matter how you ask? Question wording and males' reporting of contraceptive use at last sex
Attitudes About Children and Fertility Limitation Behavior
Environmental quality and fertility
Non-family experience and receipt of personal care in Nepal
Scholars and policy makers have expressed concern that social and economic changes occurring throughout Asia are threatening the wellbeing of older adults by undercutting their systems of family support. Using a sample of 1,654 men and women aged 45 and above from the Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal, we evaluated the relationship between individuals' non-family experiences, such as education, travel and non-family living, and their likelihoo…
My Friend is Gay, But… The Effects of Social Contact on Christian Evangelicals’ Beliefs about Gays and Lesbians
This paper examines the relationship between social contact with gays and lesbians and beliefs about homosexuality, and explicitly investigates whether this relationship is different for Christian evangelicals than for others. We find that although social contact with gays and lesbians is related to beliefs about homosexuality in ways predicted by social contact theory, those with a gay or lesbian friend hold more positive attitudes, this is not …
Health Services, Attitudes about Children, and Fertility Limitation
This article investigates the role of women’s attitudes as a mechanism through which changes in social context influence individual behavior. By examining how specific dimensions of health services are related to one’s attitudes about children’s roles in the household and how those attitudes are related to contraceptive behavior, I provide new information on these intermediary social-psychological processes. My investigation focuses on a setting …
Divorce in sub-Saharan Africa
Divorce is one of the main drivers of family instability in sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from 101 Demographic and Health Surveys and novel estimation techniques, we 1) provide the first systematic estimates of divorce across 33 countries; 2) assess trends in divorce in 20 countries; and 3) investigate the key country-level correlates of divorce both across and within countries. Despite considerable geographic variation, our estimates show that …
Explaining religious differentials in family-size preference
We examine how religio-ethnic identity, individual religiosity, and family members' religiosity were related to preferred family size in Nepal in 1996. Analyses of survey data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study show that socio-economic characteristics and individual experiences can suppress, as well as largely account for, religio-ethnic differences in fertility preference. These religio-ethnic differentials are associated with variance in part…
The Emergence of Two Distinct Fertility Regimes in Economically Advanced Countries
Natural resource collection and desired family size
Constrained Intentions
Using five waves of the German Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics ( pairfam), we examine how economic circumstances are related to fertility intentions in childless young men and women in East and West Germany. We explore multiple dimensions of fertility intentions: short-term intentions for the next two years, long-term expectations about family size, and uncertainty about these short- and long-term intentions. Our find…
Offspring education and parental mortality
Maternal employment and child health in Nepal
Parents’ Marital Quality and Children’s Transition to Adulthood
Unique longitudinal measures from Nepal allow us to link both mothers’ and fathers’ reports of their marital relationships with a subsequent long-term record of their children’s behaviors. We focus on children’s educational attainment and marriage timing because these two dimensions of the transition to adulthood have wide-ranging, long-lasting consequences. We find that children whose parents report strong marital affection and less spousal conf…
The Gendered Relationship between Parental Religiousness and Children's Marriage Timing
In this article, we examine whether mother's and father's self-reported religiousness relates differently to the timing of their children's marriages. Conceptualizing religion as one source of cultural schema about marriage that is likely to conflict with other schemas for living, and theorizing that women are more likely to experience structured ambivalence over religious schema and their enactment than men, we predict father's religiousness wil…
Women's employment and Children's education
Housing and fertility
Postponement of first birth has implications for the health and well-being of women and is often associated with lower fertility levels, a demographic reality affecting most high-income countries. Country-level institutional differences are one factor behind the variation in fertility in these countries. This paper examines the relationship between housing and mean age at first birth across 39 low-fertility countries. Using newly compiled indicat…
Women's employment trajectories in a low-income setting
Background : Across the globe, employment for pay outside the home plays a key role in the lives of women, and increasing the proportion of women involved in high-quality jobs is a critical component of reaching several sustainable development goals. While existing research from high-income societies demonstrates that women's employment is not constant over the life course, relatively less is known about women's employment trajectories in low-inc…
Women’s Work Characteristics and Fertility Expectations
Previous research has shown that employment is an important social context affecting fertility, yet relatively little is known about the extent to which work characteristics affect fertility expectations. Using over 25 years of data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we analyzed the associations between part-time work and characteristics associated with autonomy over working time, specifically self-employment and managerial/prof…
Effect of First Births on Women's Employment in a Low-Income Context
Highlights This is the first longitudinal study in an LMIC setting of employment changes following childbirth. A large (40%), short-term decrease in maternal employment (i.e., penalty) was observed after childbirth. A moderate (8–10%), long-term maternal employment penalty was observed after childbirth. Women in high-quality salaried jobs experienced the greatest employment penalties. The employment penalty has grown over time as the share of wom…
Sociology (19 obras) · Psychology (16 obras) · Demography (15 obras) · Population (15 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · Fertility (11 obras) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (10 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (10 obras)