This paper provides an original conceptual framework examining whether and how natural disasters exert any influence on nuptiality by drawing on socio-psychology and economics literature contributions.
The study examines the effects of climate variability on marriage using longitudinal individual-level demographic data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) and climate and economic data from 1871 to 1937.
Drawing on a three year research study on the gendered impacts of climate change, the authors argue that climate crises are creating significant economic hardships which has led to dowry being viewed by the families of young men as a form of capital accumulation.
Class Syllabus. The course will critically examine: the major concepts and basic tools of demography; key geographical and historical processes of population change - fertility, mortality,and migration; and the socio-economic, political, and environmental causes and consequences of population dynamics in different world regions and over time (and the potential outcomes of various policy interventions). (From course description).
The authors in this paper hypothesized that divorce affects the environment by increasing the number of households and reducing household size.
In this paper the author investigates frontier migration with a focus on Latin America.
In this study, the author used ethnographic data to construct a general computational model representing key person- and family-level behaviors, constraints, and decisions affecting the size and composition of prehistoric hunter-gatherer families in eastern North America.
Article discusses the role of social and demographic, agricultural, and livestock husbandry practices in preventing environmental risk in the Indian Trans-Himalaya.
The report provides a summary of recent information on selected aspects of population, education and development. It covers topics such as trends in population, education and development; education and entry into reproductive life; the interrelationships between education and fertility; education, health, and mortality; and education and international migration. (from Preface)
