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This paper examines two aspects of teen childbearing in the United States. First, it reviews and synthesizes the evidence on the reasons why teen birth rates are so uniquely high in the United States ...
Contraceptive Uptake Among Married Women in Uganda: Does Empowerment Matter?
Women Empowerment Contraceptives
2015/7/27
Although contraceptive prevalence increased from 24% to 30% between 2006 and 2011, this uptake is still below global level of 62% and low levels of women empowerment could be a factor. Data was extrac...
Community Psychologies:What are they? What could they be? Why does it matter?A Critical Community Psychology Approach
Community Psychologies Critical Community Psychology Approach
2015/7/24
What is community psychology? Whilst some might assume this, superficially straightforward, question could be adequately answered by citing a definition given by an influential community psychologist,...
Does the contribution of women to household expenditure explain contraceptive use?An assessment of the relevance of bargaining theory to Africa
Family planning Bargaining theory Decision-making Empowerment
2015/7/24
This paper draws on the concept of bargaining theory to interpret contraceptive decision-making among women who express a desire to limit or space children. Bargaining theory assumes conflict in decis...
Fertility Levels,Trends and Differentials in Kenya:How Does the Own-children Method Add to Our Knowledge of the Transition?
Fertility Own-children method Demographic transition
2015/7/22
The own-children method of fertility estimation tracks temporal changes in fertility patterns. We revisit the Kenyan fertility transition by applying the method to 1979, 1989 and 1999 censuses, and 19...
Veterans’ Labor Force Participation:What Role Does the VA’s Disability Compensation Program Play?
Veterans’ Labor VA’s Disability Compensation Program Play
2015/7/17
Military engagements since the early 2000s have brought renewed public interest to issues involving U.S. active duty armed services members and veterans. Yet the stark differences in the labor market ...
Where Does Democracy Thrive: Climate, Technology, and the Evolution of Economic and Political Institutions
Climate Technology
2015/7/15
Why are some societies characterized by enduring democracy, while other societies are either
persistently autocratic or experiment with democracy but then quickly fall back into
autocracy? I find ...
Does Religion Distract the Poor? Income and Issue Voting Around the World
religion issue voting electoral choice
2015/6/8
This article asks whether religion undermines the negative relationship
between income and left voting that is assumed in standard political economy
models of democracy. Analysis of cross-country su...
How does Corporate Environmentalism Affect Political Activity? An Experimental Investigation
Political Activity Experimental Investigation
2015/6/5
This paper investigates how corporate environmentalism affects the willingness of citizens to
mobilize politically and pressure governments to regulate firms. We conducted experiments
involving tw...
How Does Obama Match-Up?Counterfactuals & the Role of Obama’s Race in 2008
Obama Match-Up Counterfactuals Obama’s Race in 2008
2015/6/4
Would the outcome of the 2008 U.S. presidential election have been different if Barack Obama had not been the Democratic nominee? In this paper we analyze 33 head-to-head matchups, some real and some ...
How Does Family Planning Promote Development? : Evidence from a Social Experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh – 1977-1996
Family Planning Promote Development
2015/1/22
If a social welfare program reduces the private costs of assessing, adopting, and using birth control, fertility is expected to decline. But by how much will fertility decline, for how long, among whi...
RACIAL DISPARITIES IN SELF REPORTED HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION. DOES PRIMARY CARE MATTER?
Health disparity Cultural competence Health care and Social Work
2015/1/12
A significant body of literature has accumulated in the last decade that provides evidence of the growing health care disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The literature su...
Assimilation effects on infant mortality among immigrants in Norway: Does maternal source country matter?
infant mortality country matter
2014/11/27
Assimilation models of infant outcomes among immigrants have received considerable
attention in the social sciences. However, little effort has been made to investigate how
these models are influe...
Assimilation effects on infant mortality among immigrants in Norway: Does maternal source country matter?
assimilation immigration infant mortality Norway source country effects
2014/11/27
Background: Assimilation models of infant outcomes among immigrants have received considerable attention in the social sciences. However, little effort has been made to investigate how these models ar...
How does education change the relationship between fertility and age-dependency under environmental constraints? A long-term simulation exercise
aging dependency human capital low fertility optimal fertility
2014/11/26
Background: When asked what a desirable fertility level for populations might be, most politicians, journalists, and even social scientists would say it is around two children per woman, a level that ...