Findings in the literature have also been inconsistent; in Bangladesh and Peru, women with unwanted pregnancies were less likely to pursue professional delivery services (Marston and Cleland 2003; Rahman et al. 2016), but a similar trend was not present in Egypt, Kenya, Bolivia, the Philippines...
Therefore, estimating a woman’s land ownership in a family context might underestimate its impact on her bargaining power in a household context. Third, we consider more relevant empowerment indicators: own healthcare decision, major household purchases, and visits to family or relatives, which ...
Therefore, we expect people in more individualist countries to be more resistant to social distancing measures because they underestimate the risk and place personal freedom over concerns about the dangers of COVID-19. Individualism is associated with a desire to maintain self-concept and with ...
Births were classified as South Asian if the mother and father were both born in Bangladesh, British India Ocean Territories, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, or Pakistan. These locations were chosen in consultation with immigrant and cultural support organisations in British Columbia. Immigrants from these...
Information on such credited service was not collected during the survey, which can potentially underestimate the probability and intensity of EFS within the sample. We did not observe any association between the trust of a household head and the probability of acquiring EFS. According to Carpiano ...