Fertility and Mortality Differentials among the Population Groups of the Himalayas

Kapoor, A.K.; Kshatriya, Gautam K.; Kapoor, Satwanti

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“…With respect to community effects, numerous studies have uncovered significant differences in health and health care utilization across race, ethnicity, religion, and region (Burgard, 2002;Stephenson and Tsui, 2002;Basu, 1990). Along the same lines a number of studies have also found significant differences in health investment by caste in India (Bonu and Baker, 2003;Kabir et al, 2003;Kapoor et al, 2003).…”

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Social affiliation and the demand for health services: Caste and child health in South India

Luke

Munshi

2007

Journal of Development Economics

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This paper assesses the role of social affiliation, measured by caste, in shaping investments in child health. The special setting that we have chosen for the analysis - tea estates in the South Indian High Range - allows us to control nonparametrically for differences in income, access to health services, and patterns of morbidity across low caste and high caste households. In this controlled setting, low caste households spend more on their children's health than high caste households, reversing the pattern we would expect to find elsewhere in India. Moreover, health expenditures do not vary by gender within either caste group, in contrast once again with the male preference documented throughout the country. A simple explanation, based on differences in the returns to human capital across castes in the tea estates is proposed to explain these striking results.

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Social affiliation and the demand for health services: Caste and child health in South India

Luke

Munshi

2007

Journal of Development Economics

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“…Despite this limitation, Crow's index has been widely used in human populations, because it allows indirect quantitative estimation of the selection inherent in the evolutionary process simply on the basis of the demographic statistics of birth and death rates (Terrenato et al, 1979;Hed, 1987;Reddy & Chopra, 1990;Kapoor et al, 2003;Alfonso-Sanchez et al, 2004). The study of secular trend, a covariate of Crow's index, and its implications provides a new dimension to understand the evolution and process of transition going on in a population.…”

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Opportunity for Natural Selection Among the Indian Population: Secular Trend, Covariates and Implications

Gautam

2009

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Crow's index is widely used for indirect quantitative estimation of natural selection using birth and death rates. The present investigation is based on 179 studies among 144 different endogamous communities belonging to nineteen states and six geographical regions of India, categorized into six social groups. These studies appeared in 33 different years over six decades (1956 to 2007). The secular trend in Crow's index (I(t)) and its mortality and fertility components (I(m) and I(f)) shows a gradual decline in I(t) and radical shift in the relative contributions of I(m) and I(f). Before 1990 the opportunity for natural selection was mainly determined by differential pre-reproductive mortality (I(m)), whereas after 1990 it has been determined by differential fertility (I(f)). To find out the covariates of I(t), I(m) and I(f) sixteen socio-demographic variables were considered, and nine were found to be significantly correlated with I(t): total dependency ratio, decadal growth rate 1991-2001, young age dependency ratio, crude death rate, total fertility rate, child mortality rate, under-5 mortality rate, old age dependency ratio and decadal growth rate 1981-1991. On the basis of multivariate stepwise regression analysis, female literacy emerged as one of the most important predictors of I(t). The declining trend of I(t), Im and I(f) shows that the Indian population is passing through the demographic transition.

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“…The same is observed by Bharati (1981), [8] Rajani Kumari et al (1985), [9] Babu et al (1995), [10] Sengupta and Begum (1998), [11] Kapoor and Patra (2002) [12] and Dharanipriya et al (2003) [13] suggesting the influence of socioeconomic conditions. Kapoor et al (2003) [14] also found an inverse . [10] Lowest value is observed in Jalari reported by Rajani Kumari et al (1985).…”

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Opportunity for natural selection among three endogamous subpopulations of Andhra Pradesh

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Fertility and Mortality Differentials among the Population Groups of the Himalayas

Cited by 13 publications

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Social affiliation and the demand for health services: Caste and child health in South India

Social affiliation and the demand for health services: Caste and child health in South India

Opportunity for Natural Selection Among the Indian Population: Secular Trend, Covariates and Implications

Opportunity for natural selection among three endogamous subpopulations of Andhra Pradesh

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