Exposure to Particulate Matter, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Gurung, Anobha; Bell, Michelle L.

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“…Although Nepalese society is ethnically complex, we adopted the standard categorization of ethnic groups into five categories: Brahmin/Chhetri (high caste Hindus), Dalit (low caste Hindus), Hill Janajati (Hill Tibeto-Burmese), Newar, and Terai Janajati (indigenous to Chitwan) (Bista 1972; Blaikie et al 1980; Fricke 1986; Guneratne 1994; Gurung 1980; Macfarlane 1976). …”

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Emotional Variation and Fertility Behavior

2017

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Emotional influences on fertility behaviors are an understudied topic that may offer a clear explanation of why many couples choose to have children even when childbearing is not economically rational. With setting-specific measures of the husband-wife emotional bond appropriate for large-scale population research matched with data from a long-term panel study, we have the empirical tools to provide a test of the influence of emotional factors on contraceptive use to limit fertility. This article presents those tests. We use long-term, multilevel community and family panel data to demonstrate that the variance in levels of husband-wife emotional bond is significantly associated with their subsequent use of contraception to avert births. We discuss the wide-ranging implications of this intriguing new result.

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“…This study adopted these categories. For more information about these ethnic groups, see Bista (1972), Fricke (1988), Gurung (1980, 1998), and Macfarlane (1976). Individuals are coded 1 if a member of a specific category and 0 if not, using Brahmin/Chhetri as a reference group.…”

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Social context of first birth timing in a rapidly changing rural setting

Ghimire

2017

Social Science Research

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This article examines the influence of social context on the rate of first birth. Drawing on socialization models, I develop a theoretical framework to explain how different aspects of social context (i.e., neighbors), may affect the rate of first birth. Neighbors, who in the study setting comprise individuals’ immediate social context, have an important influence on the rate of first birth. To test my hypotheses, I leverage a setting, measures and analytical techniques designed to study the impact of macro-level social contexts on micro-level individual behavior. The results show that neighbors’ age at first birth, travel to the capital city and media exposure tend to reduce the first birth rate, while neighbors’ non-family work experience increases first birth rate. These effects are independent of neighborhood characteristics and are robust against several key variations in model specifications.

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“…Additionally, because ethnicity in Nepal is complex and likely related to an individual’s behaviors (Acharya and Bennet 1981; Bista 1972; Fricke 1994; Gurung 1980), I use dichotomous variables to control for five classifications of ethnicity: upper caste Hindu, low caste Hindu, Newar, hill Tibeto-Burmese, and terai Tibeto-Burmese. Upper caste Hindus are the most represented ethnic group in our sample, as they are in Nepal as a whole, and will be the reference group in the hazard model analysis below.…”

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Environmental quality and fertility: the effects of plant density, species richness, and plant diversity on fertility limitation

Brauner-Otto

2013

Popul Environ

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The relationship between the environment and population has been of concern for centuries and climate change is making this an even more pressing area of study. In poor rural areas declining environmental conditions may elicit changes in family related behaviors. This paper explores this relationship in rural Nepal looking specifically at how plant density, species richness, and plant diversity are related to women’s fertility limitation behavior. Taking advantage of a unique data set with detailed micro-level environmental measures and individual fertility behavior I link geographically weighted measures of flora at one point in time to women’s later contraceptive use as a way to examine this complex relationship. I find a significant, positive relationship between plant density, species richness, and plant diversity and the timing of contraceptive use. Women in poor environmental conditions are less likely to terminate childbearing, or do so later, and therefore more likely to have larger families.

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Exposure to Particulate Matter, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

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Emotional Variation and Fertility Behavior

Emotional Variation and Fertility Behavior

Social context of first birth timing in a rapidly changing rural setting

Environmental quality and fertility: the effects of plant density, species richness, and plant diversity on fertility limitation

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