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Marriage and divorce: changes and their driving forces [PDF]

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across demographic groups and countries.
Betsey Stevenson, Justin Wolfers
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Coming of age in‐ and out‐of‐place: frictions of adolescent mobility in island Southeast Asia Devenir adulte, à sa place ou non : frictions de la mobilité adolescente dans les îles d'Asie du Sud‐Est

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Through a comparison of adolescent experience in Manggarai, eastern Indonesia, and amongst children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia, this article argues for the value of attending to the spatiality of adolescence as a period of transition. Biocultural development expands both adolescents’ concrete experiences of mobility and their sense of the ...
Catherine Allerton
wiley   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Machine Learning-Based Prediction and Analysis of Chinese Youth Marriage Decision. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Zhang J, Lu C, Wang X, Guo D, Bi C, Ju X.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Equilibrium Analysis of Marriage, Divorce and Risk-Sharing [PDF]

This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk.
Dan Anderberg
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Hair as sensory skin: sensitive bodies, ritual shaving, and the maintenance of bodily boundaries in Hindu Suriname De la pilosité comme peau sensorielle : corps sensibles, rasage rituel et maintien des limites du corps chez les hindous du Surinam

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
wiley   +1 more source

Let her shine: Empowering women and closing India's gender gap in STEM. [PDF]

PLoS Med
Chattopadhyay A.
europepmc   +1 more source

The effects of legislative change on female labour supply : marriage and divorce, child and spousal support, property division and pension splitting [PDF]

Although there has been a considerable amount of legislation aimed at marital rights in several countries in recent decades, the implications for women's labor supply has been a comparatively neglected area.
Dnes, Antony
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Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

Child marriage in contexts of forced displacement: exploring drivers and decision-making in Jordan through a gender and generational lens. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Presler-Marshall E, Jones N, Baird S, Abu Hamad B, Alheiwidi S, Oakley E.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source