Limited attention has been paid so far to the impacts of war on proximate determinants fertility, including childbearing preferences. This study explores relationship between exposure local conflict violence and fertility desires in Colombia. I combined nationally representative micro-level data timing, frequency decisiveness reproductive preferences from Demographic Health Surveys, with geospa...

Shijing 詩經 is the earliest collection of Chinese poems and songs traditionally considered to be compiled by Confucius. Scholarship on this deems widespread wind imagery contained in it either a metaphor for males or medium emotional expression. However, religious ideas involved sacrifices gods early China, which are, fact, deeply linked with “wind” Shijing, warrant further consideration. This a...