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Union formation, within-couple dynamics, and child well-being: A global macrolevel perspective
Population, Space and Place ( IF 2.630 ) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 , DOI: 10.1002/psp.2661
Ewa Batyra 1 , Luca Maria Pesando 2 , Andrés F Castro 3 , Frank F Furstenberg 4 , Hans-Peter Kohler 4
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Studies on global changes in families have greatly increased over the past decade, adopting both a country-specific and, more recently, a cross-national comparative perspective. While most studies are focused on the drivers of global changes in families, little comparative research has explored the implications of family processes for the health and well-being of children. This study aims to fill this gap and launch a new research agenda exploring the intergenerational implications of union-formation and within-couple dynamics for children's health and well-being across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), both globally, regionally, and by the stage of fertility transition. We do so by adopting a macrolevel perspective and a multi-axis conceptualization of children's outcomes—health at birth, health in later life, and schooling—and leveraging Demographic and Health Survey and World Bank data across 75 LMICs. Our results show that in societies where partnerships are characterized by more equal status between spouses—that is, where the age range between spouses and differences in years of schooling between partners are narrower—children fare better on several outcomes. These associations are particularly strong in mid- and high-fertility settings. Despite a series of regularities, our results also highlight a set of findings whereby, at a macrolevel, the prevalence of marriage and divorce/separation are not invariably associated with children's outcomes, especially in LMICs where fertility is comparatively lower. We document little cross-regional heterogeneity, primarily highlighting the centrality of demographic factors such as age vis-à-vis, for instance, region-specific characteristics that are more tied to the social fabric of specific societies.

中文翻译:

工会的形成、夫妻内部动态和儿童福祉:全球宏观视角

过去十年中,对全球家庭变化的研究大大增加,既采用了特定国家的视角,也采用了最近的跨国比较视角。虽然大多数研究都集中在家庭全球变化的驱动因素上,但很少有比较研究探讨家庭过程对儿童健康和福祉的影响。本研究旨在填补这一空白,并启动一项新的研究议程,探讨婚姻形成和夫妻内部动态对低收入和中等收入国家(LMIC)儿童健康和福祉的代际影响,无论是在全球、区域、以及生育转变阶段。为此,我们采用宏观视角和对儿童结局(出生时健康、晚年健康和学校教育)的多轴概念化,并利用 75 个中低收入国家的人口与健康调查和世界银行数据我们的研究结果表明,在伴侣关系的特点是配偶之间地位更加平等的社会中——也就是说,配偶之间的年龄范围和伴侣之间受教育年限的差异较小——孩子在一些结果上表现得更好。这些关联在中、高生育率环境中尤其强烈。尽管存在一系列规律性,但我们的结果还强调了一系列发现,即在宏观层面上,结婚和离婚/分居的普遍程度并不总是与儿童的结局相关,特别是在生育率相对较低的中低收入国家。我们几乎没有记录跨区域异质性,主要强调人口因素(例如年龄)的中心地位,例如与特定社会的社会结构更相关的区域特定特征。
更新日期:2023-04-18
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