Search for dissertations about: "age at marriage"

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2. 1. Bronze Age Identities : Costume, Conflict and Contact in Northern Europe 1600-1300 BC

   Author : Sophie Bergerbrant; Kristian Kristiansen; Nick Thorpe; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bronze Age; burials; gender; warfare; lifecycle; contact; costume; South Scandinavia; Lüneburg culture; identity; conflict; warrior; Archaeology; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Abstract : This dissertation deals with male and female social identities during the Middle Bronze Age (1600-1300 BC) in southern Scandinavia and northern Germany. South Scandinavian Bronze Age research has traditionally focused on the male sphere, while women have seldom been seriously considered or analysed in terms of their roles, power or influences on society. READ MORE

4. 2. 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

5. 3. 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

6. 4. Time for Retirement : Studies on how leisure and family associate with retirement timing in Sweden

   Author : Linda Kridahl; Ann-Zofie Duvander; Ingrid Esser; Kène Henkens; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; retirement; leisure; grandparenthood; elderly parents; marriage; Sweden; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

   Abstract : Retirement transition is a major life event in later adult life. Its timing is important for older individuals for economic, personal and family reasons, as well as for aging societies contemplating a comprehensive plan for population changes, including sustainability of the labor force, pension system, and welfare services such as eldercare. READ MORE

7. 5. 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