An Analysis of Fertility Differentials by Religion in Kerala State: A Test of the Interaction HypothesisPopulation Research and Policy Review - Tập 22 - Trang 557-574 - 2003
Manoj Alagarajan
In a revelation of overall decline to below replacement fertility in the Kerala state of India, it was generally found that fertility among Muslims is higher and contraceptive prevalence lower than among Hindus and Christians. This paper examines the interaction between religion and other socioeconomic factors, that is, whether the effect of religion on fertility remains constant across other fact...... hiện toàn bộ
Race, Place, and Veteran Status: Migration among Black and White Men, 1940–2000Population Research and Policy Review - Tập 30 - Trang 701-728 - 2011
Amy Kate Bailey
In this paper, I gauge the impact of veteran status on migration probabilities for black and white men in the late 20th century United States, comparing cohorts that were subject to various military staffing policies. I find that white veterans are more likely than are white non-veterans to live outside the state of their birth and to have recently migrated. These effects persist regardless of whe...... hiện toàn bộ
Relative Economic Position and Female Marriage Migration: Marrying Men in Taiwan Across Borders and BoundariesPopulation Research and Policy Review - Tập 41 - Trang 1451-1470 - 2022
Zhenchao Qian, Ming-Chang Tsai
In recent decades, Taiwan’s cross-border marriages, often involving less educated and rural men, raised concerns regarding these couples’ disadvantaged position and how the wives, mostly from mainland China and Southeast Asia, fared and integrated. Using data from the surveys of female marriage migrants from outside Taiwan in 2003, 2008, and 2013, along with comparable data among recently married ...... hiện toàn bộ
The impact of mass media family planning promotion on contraceptive behavior of women in GhanaPopulation Research and Policy Review - Tập 13 - Trang 161-177 - 1994
David O. Olaleye, Akinrinola Bankole
This paper examines the influence of media messages about family planning, and attitudes toward media promotion of family planning, on contraceptive behavior of married women in Ghana. It also examines the problem of reverse causation that arises in studies of this nature when the data used provide no information on the temporal order of the actual time that respondents were exposed to family plan...... hiện toàn bộ
Public attitudes toward genetic testingPopulation Research and Policy Review - Tập 10 - Trang 235-255 - 1991
Eleanor Singer
This article, which reports the results of a telephone survey of a national sample of the adult US population, was designed as a first measure of attitudes in an area likely to undergo significant change over the next few years. Among the major findings: (1) First, attitudes toward prenatal testing are overwhelmingly favorable at this time, with about two thirds of the respondents saying they woul...... hiện toàn bộ
Nonmarital cohabitation and fertility in the United States and Western EuropePopulation Research and Policy Review - Tập 3 - Trang 181-193 - 1984
Ann Klimas Blanc
The increasing popularity of nonmarital cohabitation and a decline in marriage rates in the United States and Western Europe has led to a growing research interest in cohabitation without marriage and its relationship to traditional marriage. This article examines the evidence on the prevalence of cohabitation and the characteristics of cohabitants, and focuses on the childbearing behavior of coha...... hiện toàn bộ