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Family Size, Intelligence, and Patterns of Achievement in Preschool Children
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Factors affecting family size preference: the case of Taiwan, 1970
… effect of socio-economic development and family planning programs in reducing fertility rates in developing countries has generated many studies in the social science literature. The goal of this thesis is to advance our knowledge about the development and family planning program arguments …
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Land holding education and desired family size in rural Nepal : the case of Shivaganj village
… Levels of fertility are measured by desired family size and number of children ever born. The study is based on data collected from 241 households in a village in the eastern terai region of Nepal during December-January 1986-1987. The sample consists of 107 female respondents and 134 male …
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Land holding education and desired family size in rural Nepal : the case of Shivaganj village
… Levels of fertility are measured by desired family size and number of children ever born. The study is based on data collected from 241 households in a village in the eastern terai region of Nepal during December-January 1986-1987. The sample consists of 107 female respondents and 134 male …
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Three essays on the effects of shocks from conflicts and family size in Latin America
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 105156 Lift date: 2020-03-13T15:25:40Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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A Juxtaposition of rational choice and socio-cultural approaches to explain changes in family size throughout the process of economic development using household survey data from Brazil
… traits to see which method explains more about family size in Brazil. The paper finds evidence to support the relevance of both the rational choice and the socio-cultural approaches to fertility studies. The research ultimately presents evidence that socio-cultural models generate relatively …
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Three essays on development economics in China
… in the One Child Policy on sex ratios and family size and then exploits the exogenous variation in family size caused by the relaxations to estimate the causal effect of family size on school enrollment. The third chapter is a descriptive study of income inequality for top income earners in …
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Assessment of the Determinants of Couples Decisions on Fertility Preference in Kishapu and Mvomero Districts,Tanzania
… network was found to have significant effect on family planning (FP) for both couples and on family size (FS) for men, though the effect was found to depend on the nature of relationship, discussion, encouragement and method used social network member. Communication was observed to have …
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Family intentions of women with one child : an Armidale study
This study is concerned with the family intentions of married women in Armidale, a medium sized country town in northern New South Wales. The surveyed women had their first baby in 1976, a year when the two child family was the preference of a majority of Australian women. Previously recorded …
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Family intentions of women with one child : an Armidale study
This study is concerned with the family intentions of married women in Armidale, a medium sized country town in northern New South Wales. The surveyed women had their first baby in 1976, a year when the two child family was the preference of a majority of Australian women. Previously recorded …
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Quality of Life - Impacts from the Family Planning Policy in China
The relationship between population size, the quality of human capital, and the quality of life, interests social scientists. This topic is particularly important in China, where a previous ‘demographic gift’ is becoming a ‘demographic debt’ due to fertility below the replacement rate, and an aging …
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Family influence on utilization of remittances: A case study of a village in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan
… of remittances for business, agriculture, basic family needs, and social ceremonies/luxury items. The focus was on the influence of four dimensions of extended family organization: exchange of financial support; authority pattern; family size; and familism. Results demonstrated that the exchange …
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A study of primary school pupils academic performance and self-esteem in relation to their position in the family
… to which performance in relation to position in family could be explained in terms of self-esteem. Stage One was based upon 182 children, who had wide-ranging home backgrounds. All subjects attended one of five contrasting schools and were tested with regard to self-esteem and spelling Which was …
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Three Essays on Family Economics
… dissertation investigates several key issues in family economics. The first chapter studies the role of family relocation on children's schooling and youth behavior problems. By exploiting the variation in sibling's age at the time of family relocation, we find no detectable negative effects of …
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An Empirical Study of Factors Associated with Physical Fitness of Sixth Grade Students
… in which the schools were located; (2) family size; (3) achievement scores on the Iowa Basic Skills Test; (4) absenteeism of the students; and (5) health history of students.
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Sons, daughters, and arab-american family dynamics: does a child's gender matter?
<p>SONS, DAUGHTERS, AND ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY DYNAMICS: DOES A CHILD'S GENDER MATTER?</p> <p>by</p> <p>SANAA ALHARAHSHEH</p> <p>December 2011</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Mary Sengstock</p> <p>Major: Sociology</p> <p>Degree:Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>Gender differences exist in families in all societies and …
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Social Change and Reproductive Behaviour in Rural Bangladesh, 1983-1996
… changes, especially consideration of the role of family planning programmes, in such an unfavourable context, have generated enormous controversy among academics. This study examines the determinants of these recent reproductive changes in rural Bangladesh over a 13-year period. It uses …
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Willingness to pay for insecticide-treated mosquito nets in rural South-East Nigeria : an integration of socio-economic and socio-psychological models
… average rural household is willing to pay for a family-size ITN.
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Energy-efficient housing alternatives: a predictive model of factors affecting household perceptions
… conceptual model was proposed to test the hypothesized relationships which were examined by path analysis. Perceptions of energy-efficient housing alternatives were found to be a function of selected household and dwelling characteristics, energy attitude; household economic factors, and household …
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