Social Change and the Relationships Between Education and Employment

Yabiku, Scott T.; Schlabach, Sarah

doi:10.1007/s11113-008-9117-2

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“…Furthermore, there has been an extensive expansion of schools, health services, markets, transportation, cooperatives, and employment centers (Axinn and Yabiku 2001). There has been a sharp increase in school enrollment, visits to health clinics, employment outside the home, and exposure to the mass media (Axinn and Barber 2001; Axinn and Yabiku 2001; Beutel and Axinn 2002; Barber and Axinn 2004; Yabiku and Schlabach 2009). Also, for decades Nepal has been a popular destination for international tourists.…”

Section: Nepal As a Research Sitementioning

confidence: 99%

The measurement and prevalence of an ideational model of family and economic development in Nepal

2012

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This paper is motivated by the expectation that developmental idealism has been disseminated to ordinary people and affects family behavior. Developmental idealism is a belief and value system that endorses societal and family development, views societal and family development as occurring together, and suggests that modern families are causes and consequences of societal development. We use data collected in Nepal in 2003 to examine the understandings of ordinary people and show that Nepalis can discuss ideas about development and its relationship to family life and that developmental idealism has been widely disseminated in Nepal. Developmental idealism is related in predictable ways to education, work experience, rural-urban residence, and mass media exposure. Although research ascertaining the influence of developmental idealism on demographic decision-making and behavior would be valuable, we cannot evaluate this with our one-time crossectional data, but our data and theory suggest that this influence may be substantial.

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Section: Nepal As a Research Sitementioning

confidence: 99%

The measurement and prevalence of an ideational model of family and economic development in Nepal

2012

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“…Educational enrollment has risen from virtually zero in the 1960s to 100 percent of both sexes attending school for at least one day by 1996 (Beutel and Axinn 2002). However, students are not staying continuously enrolled, graduation rates are low, and women are completing about three fewer years of schooling on average than men (Yabiku and Schlabach 2009). 1…”

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Schools, Their Spatial Distribution and Characteristics, and Fertility Limitation*

Brauner-Otto

2012

Rural Sociology

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This paper investigates the complex relationship between various dimensions of women’s educational context and their later life contraceptive use. Using data from rural Nepal on all the schools that ever existed in one community, I create geographically weighted measures of school characteristics—specifically teacher and student characteristics—that capture exposure to the complete array of schools and investigate the direct relationship between these dimensions of school characteristics and contraceptive use. These analyses provide new information on the broader issue of how social context influences the adoption of innovative behaviors by exploring the wide-reaching effects of school characteristics on individuals. Findings show that the gender of teachers and of other students, and the level of teacher education are all related to women’s use of contraception; that increased exposure to these school characteristics throughout the study area, but not necessarily at the closest school, is related to higher rates of contraceptive use; and that school characteristics early in the life course can have long-term consequences for individual behavior.

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“…Women are believed to take their responsibility more seriously towards the family than male counterparts and many of them prefer quitting their professional life in favor of household responsibilities [8]. Giving birth to children and raising them continue to be the prime responsibility of women even today [9]. Men on the other hand, giving minimal time to family, are seen as continuing to pursue research activity uninterrupted.…”

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Nobel Nominations in Science: Constraints of the Fairer Sex

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Nobel Prize is the highest honor in the scientific community that is bestowed for the contribution of eminent scientists in various spheres of science. Since its inception in 1901, many renowned scientists have received this award. However, when compared to men, women’s share as recipients is abysmally low. Although the contribution of female scientists has tremendously increased in the last few decades, yet the lack of proportionate increase in recognition is conspicuous by its disproportionate number of women recipients. This paper addresses this issue and underlines some of the reasons contributing to an underrepresentation of women scientists among Nobel Laureates.

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Social Change and the Relationships Between Education and Employment

Cited by 28 publications

References 49 publications

The measurement and prevalence of an ideational model of family and economic development in Nepal

The measurement and prevalence of an ideational model of family and economic development in Nepal

Schools, Their Spatial Distribution and Characteristics, and Fertility Limitation*

Nobel Nominations in Science: Constraints of the Fairer Sex

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