It has been ten years since the welfare reform law was signed by President Clinton amid predictions of disaster from the left. Thanks to provisions in the legislation itself that provided millions of dollars for research, to an unprecedented level of research sponsored by foundations, to data reported by states to the federal government, and to national data collected and reported on a routine ...

background the present study was designed and conducted to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and marital satisfaction among married and single students. materials and methods the sample of this study consisted of 50 married students of payame noor university in izeh city, south west of iran; then simple random sampling method was used to select samples. to measure self-efficacy q...

in this study which was carried out in 1974 in isphahan, 3,000 married women between the ages of 15 to 44 who were the residents of the city of isphahan and a similar group of women who were residents of the villages surrounding the city were interviewed. results indicate that the average and the median of age at the first marriage had been increasing steadily since 1959 for the city women and ...

BACKGROUND To reduce the increasing burden of pneumonia hospitalizations, we need to understand their determinants. Being married may decrease the risk of severe infections, due to better social support and healthier lifestyle. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this population-based case-control study, we identified all adult patients with a first-time pneumonia-related hospitalization between 1994 and...

CONTEXT A considerable proportion of women worldwide are married during childhood. Although many studies have examined early marriage (before age 18), few have compared outcomes or correlates among girls married during different stages of adolescence or have focused on girls married very early (before age 15). METHODS Data from a population-based survey conducted in 2009-2010 in seven Ethiopi...

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 18 OECD countries. Relative to their US counterparts, European married men work on average 9 to 17 percent, and married women in Western and Southern Europe 26 and 31 percent fewer hours. Married women in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe however work almost as many hours as US married women. We find th...