Deborah Balk

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between women's status and fertility in two regions of rural Bangladesh and found that women status is an important determinant of fertility; of the variance in total children ever born that can be explained by factors other than age, nearly 30 per cent is due to direct measures of women status.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the linearity and exponent of the rank-size distribution of spatially contiguous patches of stable night light over a range of brightnesses corresponding to different intensities of development and find statistically significant exponents in the range −0.95 to −1.11 with an abrupt transition to very large, extensively connected, spatial networks of development near the low light detection limit.

TL;DR: A set of large-scale gridded datasets representing population counts or densities is presented, compares and discusses and focuses on data properties, methodological approaches and relative quality aspects that are important to fully understand the characteristics of the data with regard to the intended uses.

TL;DR: In this article, the risk of infant and child death in ten West African countries attributable to individual, household and spatially explicit geographical factors is estimated, with 120,000 births occurring in the 10 years prior to the 1997-2001 Demographic and Health Survey dates.

TL;DR: The authors Defying Gender Norms in Rural Bangladesh: A Social Demographic Analysis, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 153-172, 1997; The authors Theodorakopoulos et al.