This paper studies the formation of marriage relationships between two households in 19 century, Tama, Japan. Previous studies on marriage market or partner selection in the Japanese past tended to rely either on information from a single village in case of statistical analysis, or on collection of oral histories. By using the information from a household register that covers 35 villages, and a...

the purpose of this research is to study the relationship between social and cultural traits of female students and their tendency toward emigration. the research method used in data collection and data analysis is social survey. the survey consists of 508 female students studying at m.a. and phd level in shiraz and ferdowsi university. the theoretical framework on which the study is based on i...

entrepreneurship is an emergent field in the recent decades which has been accompanied by very important efforts towards recognition of the grounds for its development. this research is conducted through a mixed method of questionnaire and interviews. the target group consists of students from the university of tehran, and shahid beheshti as well as the sharif university of technology who have ...

The term consanguineous is derived from two Latin words “con” meaning common, or of the same and “sanguineus” meaning blood. Thus, it refers to a relationship between two people who share a common ancestor or blood. Cousin marriage (seconddegree cousins or closer) is the marriage among people who have at least one grandparent. However clinical genetics, cousin marriage conventionally describes ...

BACKGROUND The genetic predisposition to obesity may have contributed to the obesity epidemic through assortative mating. We investigated whether spouses were positively assorted by body mass index (BMI; = kg/m(2)) in late childhood, and whether changes in assorted marriage by upper BMI-percentiles occurred during the obesity epidemic. METHODS In the Copenhagen School Health Records Register ...

CONTEXT Ethiopia has been characterized by high population growth. Recent social and economic developments have the potential to alter reproductive patterns in the country. Some of these developments include sustained economic growth, urbanization, rapid growth in school enrollments, expansion of primary health care, and a rise in contraceptive access and use. In other national contexts, these ...

BACKGROUND Despite continuing marriage delay in East Asia, little is known about the shift of marriage towards later ages and the concomitant decline in marriage. OBJECTIVE Applying the concept of cohort postponement and recuperation to marriage in South Korea, I study the pattern of marriage delay among women and the extent to which delayed marriages are realized later in life. METHODS With Ko...