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Trouble and strife: demographic shocks, agrarian change and marriage in Portuguese Timor Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Douglas Kammen
ABSTRACT Marital exchange between origin ‘houses’ is central to Timorese narratives and has been a central concern of anthropological study of Portuguese Timor and independent Timor-Leste. This article challenges the notion of stable patterns of marital exchange between named houses across time. Drawing on data from the colonial census, this paper finds a severe imbalance in the sex ratio during the
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Modernisation, demographic change and state-level variations in household composition in India Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Etienne Breton
ABSTRACT This study examines whether modernisation and demographic change explain subnational household variations in India using state-level data from six rounds of the National Sample Survey harmonised by IPUMS-International. Results highlight significant regional differences in living arrangements, mainly between south India, where joint households are rare, and selected states located in the Indo-Gangetic
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Subjective life expectancy in transition: a longitudinal study of Korean baby boomers Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Jeong-Hwa Ho
ABSTRACT Subjective life expectancy predicts actual mortality and provides individual timeframes. This four-year longitudinal study on Korean baby boomers in middle age examines how subjective life expectancy changes as people get older and how changes in health and socioeconomic status cause these shifts. Compared to population-based actuarial life expectancies, men in their fifties overestimated
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Does ‘Love’ make a difference? Marriage choice and post-marriage decision-making power in India Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 Manjistha Banerji, Ashwini S. Deshpande
ABSTRACT Women's limited intra-household decision-making power has several dimensions: geographic, cultural, economic, and demographic. The dimension we focus on in this paper relates to women's transition into marriage. Marriages in India are near universal and age at marriage is low implying that nearly all women spend a large part of their lives in a marriage. However, little is known about the
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Social demography and pandemics Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Premchand Dommaraju
All the three components of demographic change – births, deaths and migration – are deeply affected by pandemics. While deaths are the most obvious, pandemics leave an imprint, over the short and l...
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Operation ‘bring them home’: learning from the large-scale repatriation of overseas Filipino workers in times of crisis Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 Karen Anne S. Liao
ABSTRACT In crisis events such as wars, natural disasters and epidemics, migrant workers are among the hardest hit and most vulnerable to displacement, unemployment and the loss of income. The coronavirus pandemic has drawn attention to the role of sending states in protecting labour migrants during disruptions, particularly by returning them to countries of origin. This article highlights the understudied
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Geospatial analysis of female fertility in Oman: do immigrant female domestic workers make a difference? Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-08-11 Shawky Mansour, Talal Al-Awadhi, Noura Al Nasiri
ABSTRACT Despite the progress achieved in transformational development in socioeconomic domains, in Oman, like other Gulf Cooperation Council states, fertility rates are higher compared with those in other Middle East nations. Reproductive behaviour often varies geographically; consequently, analysing and modelling this phenomenon should be conducted at subnational and finer levels to capture spatial
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Older persons in Thailand: an update from a recent national survey Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan
Thailand is one of the most aged countries in Southeast Asia. In 2020, older persons (defined as aged 60 and over) have outnumbered children under age 15 for the first time in Thai history. There a...
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Factors associated with regional variation in disability-free life expectancy based on functional difficulty among older persons in the Philippines Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Jeofrey B. Abalos, Heather Booth
ABSTRACT This study describes regional differences in the prevalence of functional difficulty among older persons in the Philippines. Using this measure, the study examines regional variation in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and investigates the factors associated with this variation. Data are drawn from the 2010 Philippine Census of Population and Housing and the 2010 Philippine regional
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The effect of delaying school start time on adolescents’ time use and health: evidence from a policy change in South Korea Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-07-23 Dongkyu Yang, Jaesung Choi
ABSTRACT This paper examines how delaying school start time to 9 o’clock affected the time use and health of secondary-school students in South Korea. To identify the causal effects of delaying school start time, we used a difference-in-differences methodology with two nationally representative datasets to take advantage of a unique natural experiment in South Korea. We found that the policy led students
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Internal migration in Indonesia: new insights from longitudinal data Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 Elda Luciana Pardede, Philip McCann, Viktor A. Venhorst
ABSTRACT This study examines the roles of individual and household characteristics in internal migration in Indonesia for the first time using the five waves of Indonesia Family Life Survey. Our analysis extends previous research by using a longer period to capture mobility behaviour, by comparing changing of residence across three spatial scales, by incorporating the interaction of relation to household
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Factors delaying marriage in Korea: an analysis of the Korean population census data for 1990–2010 Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Bun Song Lee, Jennifer Klein, Mark Wohar, Sangsin Kim
ABSTRACT The Korean total fertility rate is one of the lowest in the world. This study assesses a broad range of factors associated with delayed first marriages, an important determinant of low fertility, using the Korean Population Census 2 per cent sample from 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010 and other data sources. Using a multivariate logistic regression, we examine the probability of ever being
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Getting the measurement right! quantifying time poverty and multitasking from childcare among mothers with children across different age groups in rural north India Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Laili Irani, Vidya Vemireddy
ABSTRACT Existing research suggests that women spend a disproportionate amount of time on unpaid housework and childcare compared to men. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on unequal time burdens due to childcare among women. This study analyses the quantum of time poverty and multitasking behaviours of 3623 rural women with children of varying ages across rural North India. Findings show
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Climate-related displacement, impoverishment and healthcare accessibility in mainland Bangladesh Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Rabiul Haque, Nick Parr, Salut Muhidin
ABSTRACT This paper examines the experiences of people displaced internally by climate-related factors in mainland Bangladesh, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries. The data derives from a representative survey of 1,200 households drawn equally from displacement-susceptible areas and areas without climate-related displacement. Comparisons are drawn on the basis of four variables: the
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Government policy and global fertility change: a reappraisal Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Ke Shen, Feng Wang, Yong Cai
ABSTRACT The role of government policy in fertility change has been a central inquiry in understanding global demographic changes in the last half century. We return to this inquiry with longitudinal data for over 150 countries from 1976 to 2013 and use fixed-effects models to address common methodological concerns. Our results reveal that while government anti-natalist policies fail to show clear
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Parental Happiness and Social Policy in Asia. Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Shih-Yi Chao,Jennifer Glass
ABSTRACT People in East and South Asia widely believe that having children brings fulfilment to an individual’s life. However, over the past fifty years, modernisation in Asia has been accompanied by a remarkable drop in birth rates to a level even lower than most western countries. Prior research on western nations has shown that the time demands and financial stresses of parenthood, as well as current
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Family-supportive workplace policies and South Korean mothers’ perceived work-family conflict: accessibility matters Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-02-11 Eun Jung Kim, Susan L. Parish
ABSTRACT The present study examined the association of family policies on married working mothers in South Korea’s work-family conflict. The goal of the study was to compare the differential effects of policy availability and accessibility on reducing mothers’ work-family conflict. Given Korea’s work culture, which emphasises long working hours and work-oriented ethics, some employees may be unable
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Fertility behaviour in linguistic zones: revisiting the diffusion hypothesis in greater Bengal Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Pallabi Das, Zakir Husain, Saswata Ghosh
ABSTRACT This study compares fertility-related behaviour in the adjacent regions of West Bengal (a state in eastern India) and Bangladesh. The starting premise of the paper is that common history and language has led to diffusion of fertility practices from West Bengal to Bangladesh. This is hypothesised to create a homogenous pattern of fertility behaviour in the bordering districts of both political
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Who (still) cares? Patterns of informal caregiving to adult dependents in South Korea, 2006–2012 Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Noël Bonneuil, Younga Kim
ABSTRACT Provision of informal care is declining in South Korea. Informal caregiving is examined in South Korea using longitudinal data. The results are that women with a dependent disengage more from caregiving than men; caregivers are young rather than old, and more frequently live in rural areas. They receive more financial transfers from non-cohabiting relatives and have fewer children than non-caregivers
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Can conflicts and natural disasters account for the surplus of older men in Pakistan? Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Sehar Ezdi
ABSTRACT The number of missing women in the population of Pakistan in 2015 amounted to approximately 4.4 million. The age distribution of this male surplus (i.e. in the 40+ population) suggests that the collective exposure of selected birth cohorts to deleterious events (i.e. conflicts and natural disasters) may have precipitated a surge in female vis-a-vis male mortality. To analyse this, this paper
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New patterns of female migration in South Asia Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Gavin W. Jones
South Asian countries show different patterns of internal migration according to gender. In India, females have long dominated internal migration flows; censuses between 1971 and 2011 show that around 70 per cent of lifetime migrants were women. By contrast, in Bangladesh, in the last three decades of the twentieth century, more males than females moved (Afsar, 2000). A detailed study on one rural
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Driving factors of Asian international migration flows Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Guy J. Abel, James Raymer, Qing Guan
ABSTRACT Migration from, to and within Asia are believed to capture many of the largest flows in the world yet very little is known about the specific patterns and factors contributing to them. In this paper, utilising recent estimates of five-year bilateral migration flows for all countries in the world, we focus on understanding how demographic, geographic and socio-economic factors are related to
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Projecting household and living arrangements in Asia Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-08-14 Qiushi Feng
(2019). Projecting household and living arrangements in Asia. Asian Population Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 239-242.
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The influence of premarital coresidence with parents and family income on the transition to first marriage in South Korea Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-08-13 Joongbaeck Kim
ABSTRACT Premarital family context is influential for the transition to first marriage. This study examines the extent to which coresidence with parents and family income is associated with the transition to first marriage in South Korea. Drawing on extended coresidence perspective, the study examines the extent to which premarital coresidence with parents is associated with the transition to first
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Cohort differences in changing attitudes toward marriage in South Korea, 1998–2014: an age-period-cohort-detrended model Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-08-07 Yoonjoo Lee
ABSTRACT Although the proportion of people who agree with the necessity of marriage has continuously declined over recent decades in South Korea, the contribution of cohort changes in attitudes toward marriage has not been examined. Using a descriptive age-period-cohort-detrended model and nationally representative cross-sectional data pooled from 1998 to 2014 (N = 193,610), this study investigates
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Internal migration in the countries of Asia: levels, ages and spatial impacts Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-06-17 Elin Charles-Edwards, Martin Bell, Aude Bernard, Yu Zhu
ABSTRACT Internal migration, the movement of people between localities and regions within a country, has resulted in a significant redistribution of national populations. Past cross-national studies have been impeded by a lack of data and comparable metrics upon which to base comparisons. This paper examines internal migration in 30 Asian countries utilising a global dataset and a novel suite of measures
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Parental migration and the educational enrolment of left-behind children: evidence from rural Ponorogo, Indonesia Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-05-20 Silvia Mila Arlini, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Khoo Choon Yen, Elspeth Graham
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of parental migration on children’s educational enrolment following the recent reforms in Indonesian educational policy. We find that, in general, parental migration has a positive impact on school enrolment, although this varies by the child’s age and the gender of the migrant parent. Parental migration has an adverse impact on the school enrolment of younger
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Land-holding, participation in agriculture and short-term migration in rural India Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-05-14 S. Chandrasekhar, Soham Sahoo
ABSTRACT We analyse a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short-term migration is affected by household ownership of land and participation in agricultural activities. We estimate a recursive-bivariate-probit model recognising the simultaneity between short-term migration and the decision to operate the land. The results of the likelihood
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Getting rural migrant children into school in South China: migrant agency and parenting Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-02-18 Yinni Peng
ABSTRACT Scholarship has examined how immigrant parents in North America and Europe acculturate their children to the education system in their receiving societies, with a focus on overcoming language barriers and coping with cultural differences in education between home and host societies. However, relatively less attention has been paid to the efforts of migrant parents in circumventing structural
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‘The final decision is with the patient’: reproductive modernity and preferences for non-hormonal and non-biomedical contraceptives among postpartum middle class women in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-02-18 Belinda Rina Marie Spagnoletti, Linda Rae Bennett, Michelle Kermode, Siswanto Agus Wilopo
ABSTRACT In Indonesia fertility has plateaued for more than a decade. Over the same period Indonesian women have increasingly accessed contraception via the private sector. Our qualitative inquiry into the contraceptive preferences of middle class women in urban Yogyakarta revealed limited interest in and intent to use biomedical and hormonal contraceptive methods. Women’s justifications for their
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The unexpected rise of cohabitation in the Philippines: evidence of socioeconomic disadvantage or a second demographic transition? Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-01-28 Bernice Kuang, Brienna Perelli-Harris, Sabu Padmadas
ABSTRACT Cohabitation has increased rapidly in the Philippines, quadrupling in prevalence from 6 per cent in 1993 to 24 per cent in 2013 among young adult women. This increase is dramatic and exceptional given the slow change in other family behaviours, such as low divorce rates and continued high fertility, and the persistent influence of the Catholic Church. While cohabitation is often framed as
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Does working long hours cause marital dissolution? Evidence from the reduction in South Korea's workweek standard Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-01-16 Erin Hye-Won Kim, Changjun Lee
ABSTRACT Despite its important implications, little is known about the possible impact on marital dissolution of workweek standards, which set the maximum working hours for full-time workers and may, therefore, reduce their likelihood of working long hours. Moreover, evidence on the effect of working hours on marital dissolution comes predominantly from non-causal studies on Western women's work status
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The joint family and its discontents: interrogating ambivalence in intergenerational relationships Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Tannistha Samanta
ABSTRACT Drawing from an interview based household survey of 453 older parent(s) and adult children (sons and daughters-in-law) in the Ahmedabad district, this study utilised the solidarity-conflict-ambivalence models to understand both the perceptions and experience of joint living. Overall, findings reinforce popular imagination of the socially-sanctioned joint family as a site of reassuring continuity
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Too few nutrients and too many calories: climate change and the double burden of malnutrition in Asia Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-11-14 Raya Muttarak
ABSTRACT About half of children age under five worldwide who are classified as undernourished (84 million out of 151 million) or overweight or obese (17.5 million out of 38 million) live in Asia. Tackling malnutrition in Asia is however fairly complex since the nutritional transition, a consequence of rapid economic development and globalisation, made many Asian nations undergo the simultaneous burdens
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Health prospects of older persons in Thailand: the role of education Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-11-08 Elke Loichinger, Wiraporn Pothisiri
ABSTRACT Thailand’s population is aging rapidly and the number of older adults suffering from health limitations is expected to increase. Making use of several rounds of the Survey of Older Persons, we look at the education-specific prevalences of three health indicators over time and find a positive education gradient for difficulties with ADLs and poor self-rated health, but not for functional limitations
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Men’s participation in childcare and housework and parity progression: a Japanese population-based study Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-10-01 Tsuguhiko Kato, Hiraku Kumamaru, Setsuya Fukuda
ABSTRACT Although Japan has entered a phase of population decline due to decades of low fertility, studies on the determinants of fertility choices among Japanese couples remain sparse. Previous studies, mostly conducted in Europe, suggest that men’s active involvement in household labour may promote childbearing. We tested whether men’s participation in childcare and housework has an influence on
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Migration and left-behind parents and children of migrants in Cambodia: a look at household composition and the economic situation Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-09-19 Zachary Zimmer, Meredith Van Natta
ABSTRACT This paper examines composition of households formed after the outmigration of a household member in rural Cambodian and correlates household types with indicators of economic condition. The paper focuses on households containing left-behind parents and the children of migrants. Excess mortality in the 1970s due to war suggests the association between migration and economic condition may be
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Marital instability in the context of dramatic societal change: the case of Kyrgyzstan Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-09-12 Premchand Dommaraju, Victor Agadjanian
ABSTRACT How do marriages fare during times of dramatic social, political and economic transition? Transitional societies offer a unique context for studying marital instability as they are often buffeted by countervailing forces of modernisation and re-traditionalisation, in addition to socio-economic and political changes. Using detailed and rich data from Kyrgyzstan, the study investigates trends
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Family policies and working women’s fertility intentions in South Korea Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-09-10 Seung-won Choi, Aggie J. Yellow Horse, Tse-Chuan Yang
ABSTRACT The effects of family policies on fertility intentions have been underexplored under the ultra-low fertility context in East Asia. Using the 2007–2008 Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families (N = 1422), we examine how family assisting policies (i.e. maternal leave, childcare leave, and family allowance) and career-assisting policies (i.e. workplace daycare facilities, daycare allowance
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Asia’s under-researched forced and refugee migration Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-07-04 Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Ellen Percy Kraly
(2018). Asia’s under-researched forced and refugee migration. Asian Population Studies: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 229-231.
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Low fertility and gender inequity in developed Asian countries Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-05-09 Erin Hye-Won Kim
(2018). Low fertility and gender inequity in developed Asian countries. Asian Population Studies: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 113-115.
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Swimming against the tide: economic growth and demographic dividend in India Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-04-03 William Joe, Abhishek Kumar, Sunil Rajpal
ABSTRACT There is an increasing policy focus on India’s demographic potential and associated growth benefits. This paper provides empirical evidence regarding the net growth benefits derived from an increased share of working-age population in India. The analysis adopts decomposition and econometric methods, using data at the state and national level in India, to robustly test the nature and magnitude
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Non-standard work and fertility: a comparison of the US and Japan Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-03-12 Martin Piotrowski, Arne Kalleberg, Erik Bond, Rick Wolford
ABSTRACT Using General Social Survey data from Japan and the US (N = 5101), we examine the effect of non-standard or non-regular work status on men’s fertility. We employ a cross-national comparative approach to explore how this relationship differs both within and across the two countries. Consistent with features of the Japanese context which make it challenging for non-regular workers to realise
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The acculturation experiences of Asian immigrants in Singapore Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-02-13 Jayashree Mohanty, Hyekyung Choo, Srinivasan Chokkanathan
ABSTRACT This study aims to understand the acculturation experiences of Asian immigrants to Singapore. A qualitative exploratory study using focus group discussions was conducted among 40 permanent residents and new citizens. Each of the seven focus groups had an average of six participants and lasted 1–2 hours. Immigrants described Singaporean culture as a blended culture featuring multiracialism
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Fertility differentials between Korean and international marriage couples in South Korea Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-01-30 Hyun Sik Kim
ABSTRACT Amid high hopes that the rise of international marriage will boost fertility rates in South Korea, this article assesses fertility differentials between Korean and international marriage couples. Espousing the theoretical position that fertility decisions need to be viewed from a couple perspective, we seek to build a new framework that goes beyond the traditional immigrant fertility literature
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Family caregiving for older adults: gendered roles and caregiver burden in emigrant households of Kerala, India Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2018-01-12 Allen Prabhaker Ugargol, Ajay Bailey
ABSTRACT The Indian state of Kerala leads the demographic transition and characteristically showcases emigration of predominantly male adult children, leaving behind parents, spouses and children. When men emigrate, gendered contexts burden women, especially spouses and daughters-in-law, with caregiving duties including elder care. Employing the social exchange perspective and drawing on in-depth interviews
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Socio-demographic differences of disability prevalence among the population aged 60 years and over in Bangladesh Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2017-11-09 Mijanur Rahman, Aravinda Meera Guntupalli, Julie E. Byles
ABSTRACT This study aims to delineate the sociodemographic differences in disability prevalence across the population aged 60 years and over in Bangladesh, and to investigate the association of factors with reporting disability in later life. A microdata sample for those aged 60 years or over from the Census of Bangladesh 2011 was used where disability was assessed with a self-reported single response
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School-to-work transition of young people in Greater Jakarta: the determinants of success Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2017-08-08 Muhammad Ulil Absor, Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo
ABSTRACT This study aims to analyse the determinants of successful school-to-work transition of young adults in Greater Jakarta. The study argues that the most consistent and significant influences on successful transition among young adults are micro predictors rather than mezzo predictors. Education has a strong positive relationship to successful school to work transition particularly in attaining
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Maternal work hours and adolescents’ body weight in South Korea Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2017-07-26 Youngmin Cho
ABSTRACT This study examined whether previous findings linking maternal work hours to obesity among children generalised to Asian populations. Using a nationally representative sample of Korean middle school students and their parents (N = 1,873), ordinary least squares regression and logistic regression models assessed the association between maternal work hours and adolescents’ body mass index (BMI)
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Advancing research on internal migration in Asia: the mobility transition hypothesis revisited Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2017-05-24 Yu Zhu
(2018). Advancing research on internal migration in Asia: the mobility transition hypothesis revisited. Asian Population Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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‘The house cannot stay empty’: a case of young rural Nepalis negotiating multilocal householding Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 Marina Korzenevica, Jytte Agergaard
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, the mobility of young people abroad for education and labour has been rapidly increasing in Nepal, which has impacted both rural communities and household life. Based on ethnographic field data from Eastern Nepal, this paper explores how multilocality affects the socio-spatial dimensions of householding, i.e. how siblings negotiate their roles as movers and stayers
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Effects of mothers’ deaths on children’s schooling in Matlab subdistrict, Bangladesh Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2017-02-03 Abdur Razzaque, Julie DaVanzo, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Akhtar Hossain, Mohammad Enamul Hoque, Nurul Alam, Abbas Bhuiya, Peter Kim Streatfield
ABSTRACT This quantitative analysis examines evidence for the impacts of mothers’ death on the schooling of their left-behind children (ages 6–17 years) in the Matlab Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) area of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. The analysis compared the completed levels of primary and junior secondary schooling in 2005 (respectively
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Kuwait is home: perceptions of happiness and belonging among second plus generation non-citizens in Kuwait Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2016-12-21 Nasra M. Shah
ABSTRACT Kuwait is an oil-rich Gulf country where temporary foreign workers and their families comprise two-thirds of the population, without access to permanent residence or citizenship. Several residents, however, stay for long durations, raising a second or third generation there. Surveys of second plus generation non-nationals were conducted among 973 high school students and 246 working persons
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Can conditional cash transfers promote delayed childbearing? Evidence from the ‘Second Honeymoon Package’ in rural Maharashtra, India Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2016-11-30 Carol Vlassoff, Shobha Rao, Swapnil Vishnu Lale
ABSTRACT In 2007 the District Health Services in Satara District, Maharashtra, India, undertook an innovative programme, ‘the Second Honeymoon Package’ (SHP), which aimed to reduce the rate of population growth by offering conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to newly married couples who agreed to postpone their first birth by two or three years. The approach differed from India's traditional family planning
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Long-term health consequences of prenatal exposure to the Korean War Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2016-11-07 Chulhee Lee
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how in-utero exposure to the Korean War (1950–1953) affected health outcomes at old age. The probabilities of suffering from a particular type of functional limitation as well as having any disability were significantly higher in 2010 among the individuals born in 1951, who were in utero during the worst time of the war. The results of difference-in-difference estimations
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The urbanisation of Java, 2000–2010: towards ‘the island of mega-urban regions’ Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2016-11-01 Tommy Firman
ABSTRACT The mega-urbanisation process in Java is reflected in the spatial patterns of urban population growth between 2000 and 2010, although there has been a small deceleration in the rate of growth recently. This process is also clearly indicated in the significant increase in the number of urban localities, which reflects in situ urbanisation and rural–urban transformation in Java. Most districts
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The association between maternal employment and child survival in India, 1998–99 and 2005–06 Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2016-10-21 Ameed Saabneh
ABSTRACT While many studies contend that a mother's economic activity may generate positive outcomes for both mother and children, empirical results from less developed countries actually indicate higher mortality rates among children of working mothers. This article examines the association between maternal employment and child survival using India's National Family Health Survey. Using propensity
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Birth registration in Southeast Asia: a child’s foundation right? Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2016-10-20 Leslie Butt, Jessica Ball
(2017). Birth registration in Southeast Asia: a child’s foundation right? Asian Population Studies: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 223-225.
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Gender disparities in child health care seeking in northern Vietnam Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2016-07-28 Emily Treleaven, Pham Ngoc Toan, Duy Ngoc Le, Nadia Diamond-Smith, J. Colin Partridge, Hai Thanh Le
ABSTRACT Vietnam recently demonstrated a skewed sex ratio at birth. Little research has examined postnatal impacts of son preference in Vietnam, such as in child health care seeking. Past research in other Asian countries with son preference has found that parents are more likely to take sons to a health facility when they are sick, to do so more promptly, and invest more resources in care, than daughters
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Determinants of temporary labour migration in southern India Asian Population Studies (IF 1.147) Pub Date : 2016-07-27