researching on the economic gains of marriage is one of the fields in family economics studies. accordingly, the aim of this paper is to investigate marriage gains as couples' income increases while the main hypothesis is based on cross-productivity effect. the resulted evidence from families of tehran suggests that the cross-productivity effect exists for both of spouses whereas this effe...

The role of gender in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) participation under Option B+ has not been adequately studied, but it is critical for reducing losses to follow-up. This study used qualitative methods to examine the interplay of gender and individual, interpersonal, health system, and community factors that contribute to PMTCT participation in Malawi and Uganda. We condu...

BACKGROUND Intimate-partner violence might increase during and after exposure to collective violence. We assessed whether political violence was associated with male-to-female intimate-partner violence in the occupied Palestinian territory. METHODS A nationally representative, cross-sectional survey was done between Dec 18, 2005, and Jan 18, 2006, by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statisti...

BACKGROUND Although some studies have been conducted on violence against women, but all these studies were conducted in the general population and not the wives of addicts. This study was aimed to compare the violence against women with and without an addicted spouse. METHODS This comparative study was conducted on 200 married women in Kashan, Iran. 100 cases were females with addicted spouse...

There is an enormous interest in development interventions aimed at reducing behavioural poverty traps, including by raising women's and girls' aspirations, or future-oriented goals. However, little known about how aspirations influence their gender attitudes, the marriages into which they select involvement intra-household decision-making. We find that women Kyrgyzstan with higher are more lik...