Search for dissertations about: "Age at first marriage"

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2. 1. Child Marriage, Human Development and Welfare : Using Public Spending, Taxation and Conditional Cash Transfers as Policy Instruments

   Author : Yeasmin Sayeed; Lars Hultkrantz; Jörgen Levin; Jesper Stage; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HDs; Growth; MAMS; VAT Reform; Equity; Welfare; Secondary Stipend; Education; Age at Marriage; Multiregional Social Accounting Matrix; Cross-Entropy Estimation; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : The theme of this thesis is to analyze the impact of policy interventions such as financing human development (HD), tax reform and conditional cash transfer programmes, under the framework of growth and sustainable development. These policy instruments are evaluated through the application of both partial and general equilibrium models, and the last paper concentrates on developing regional social accounting matrices (SAMs) as a core database for spatial general equilibrium modelling. READ MORE

4. 2. Beyond a Second Demographic Transition? Fertility and family dynamics in Iceland

   Author : Ari Klængur Jónsson; Gunnar Andersson; Gerda Neyer; Daniele Vignoli; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family demography; Fertility; Family formation; Cohabitation; Nonmarital childbearing; Marriage; Marital dissolution; Iceland; Demography; demografi;

   Abstract : This thesis serves to bring Iceland into the realm of Nordic family-demographic and fertility research. Based on event-history techniques applied to Iceland longitudinal register data, I provide an overview of contemporary family-demographic trends during the last few decades. The thesis consists of four empirical studies. READ MORE

5. 3. Welfare, Security and the Level of Fertility: A Global Analysis, 1985 and 1995

   Author : Edgar Iglesias; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic history; female-male inequalities.; breastfeeding; marriage; fertility; contraceptive use; Ekonomisk och social historia;

   Abstract : Aims: This study aims to find an explanation for differentials in the level of fertility through the analysis of the recent data of seventy-eight developed and developing countries. The main approach adopted is the specification of a macroeconomic interdependent model testing hypotheses within an institutional point of view. READ MORE

6. 4. Changing reproductive patterns in rural China : the influence of policy and gender

   Author : Petra Löfstedt; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Age at first marriage; birth intervals; abortion; sex ratio at birth; contraceptive use; family planning programs; economic reforms; gender; Yunnan;

   Abstract : Background: In 1949, at the time for the foundation of the People's Republic of China, PRC, China had a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 5-6 children per woman, and it remained at that level throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In the beginning of the 1970s, the problems of rapid population growth began to receive serious attention and family planning programs were implemented. READ MORE

7. 5. Outcome of treatment for scoliosis. A multi-disciplinary follow-up at least 20 years after surgery or brace treatment in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with comparison to a matching control group

   Author : Aina Danielsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; scoliosis; spinal fusion; brace treatment; radiography; magnetic resonance imaging; osteoarthritis; spirometry; outcome studies; quality of life;

   Abstract : Introduction: The long term outcome of treatment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), with brace or surgery, has previously not been fully established.Aims: To evaluate the outcome in terms of radiological appearance, degenerative changes, pulmonary function and different aspects of health related quality of life at least twenty years after completed treatment. READ MORE