This paper tests the unitary household model against the non-unitary models by estimating the effects of the provincial sex ratio and the parents’ nonlabor incomes on Indonesian household’s investment in children’s education. In urban areas the sex ratio is found to have a strong positive effect on education expenditures, while in rural areas it has little effect. The income pooling hypothesis ...

OBJECTIVE To compare HIV-related sexual risk behavior among temporary rural to urban migrants and non-migrants and to explore the role of migration in HIV transmission in a rural area of Ethiopia. METHODS A cross-sectional comparative study was conducted in Bure Woreda, West Gojam, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. A total of 1,310 male subjects (655 rural to urban migrants and 655 non-migrants) were ...

ABSTRACT
 Premarital sexual behavior is that carried out between men and women without legal marriage. As the number of premarital sex increases, efforts need to take. One can do identify main factors contributing reducing or increasing by a Regression model. In context behavior, environmental influences cannot be ignored. GLMM used model data grouped into certain Groups, include environme...

Unintended pregnancy and abortion among unmarried youths arepublic health issues in Vietnam. This review aims to analyse factors influencing unintended pregnancy and abortion among unmarried youths using published and unpublished literatures. An ecological model was used as the conceptual framework with five levels of factors to guide the analysis. The intrapersonal factors include increasing p...

The age of menarche among Indian girls, which is reported to be declining, ranges from 11.5–14.5 years, with the current average age being 13.5 years. This has resulted in earlier onset of puberty and secondary sex characteristics, and increased reproductive exposure. (Bhatia,1993) With sexual maturation taking place earlier and the age of marriage delayed, the period of non-marital fecundity, ...

Premarital sexual behavior is a problem and at the same time social phenomenon that increasingly common in society. The shift norms of good bad, right wrong, especially context sexuality, evident. adolescents if not handled properly can cause cases unwanted pregnancies (KTD) which turn lead to abortions, STIs HIV AIDS, even death. aim this study was determine factors associated with premarital ...

Premarital fertility, defined as birth before first marriage, is investigated in Madagascar, using two Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in 1992 and 1997. About 8 per cent of all births and 23 per cent of first births take place before marriage, despite a low underlying mean age at first marriage, estimated to be 18.6 years in the absence of a previous birth. A premarital first bir...