Social changes have rapidly removed arranged marriages and it seems the change in marriage pattern has played a role in childbearing. On the other hand, there is a great reduction in population in many countries which requires a comprehensive policy to manage the considerable drop in population. To achieve this goal, initially, the factors affecting fertility must be precisely identified. This ...

Humans are quite unusual compared to other great apes in that reproduction typically takes place within long-term, iteroparous pairings--social arrangements that have been culturally reified as the institution of marriage. With respect to male behaviour, explanations of marriage fall into two major schools of thought. One holds that marriage facilitates a sexual division of labour and paternal ...

Despite interest in the potential of the welfare system as a tool to affect marriage behaviors among low-income women, little is known about how welfare participation affects decisions to marry. We employ an event history approach to examine transitions to marriage over a five-year period among mothers who have had a non-marital birth. We find that welfare participation under the Temporary Assi...

The purpose of this paper is in two folds; the first is to undertake a thorough appraisal of the existing input variable selection (IVS) methods in the context of time-critical and resource-limited dimensionality reduction problems. The second is to demonstrate further improvements and the application of a recently proposed time-critical sensitivity analysis method called EventTracker in indust...

Undernutrition has been a glaring problem of India, especially among the vulnerable groups like children and women population. Child nutrition gets its due attention because of associated frank morbidity and mortality. But adolescent women and pregnant women rarely get noticed because of their adaptability and Indian nature of ‘learn to live with it’ till the problem exacerbates and complicatio...