Wife inheritance, a tradition wherein a widow remarries her late husband’s brother, is increasingly being rejected by widows who live where the custom is practiced. Within these regions, the high prevalence and regional variation in HIV rates help to explain the decline in remarriage. Widows who reject wife inheritance are more likely to enroll their children in school, while child school enrol...

Using pooled data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG 2006–2010), we examine the effects of denominational affiliation, worship service attendance, and religious salience on remarriage timing. Survival analyses indicate that both men and women affiliated with conservative Protestant faith traditions are significantly more likely than their unaffiliated and Catholic counterparts to r...

The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National Demographic Survey of Tanzania (NDS) are used to investigate the role of marriage behavior in determinin...