THE CONSEQUENCES OF REPRODUCTIVE FAILURE - DEPENDENCE, MOBILITY, AND MORTALITY AMONG THE ELDERLY OF RURAL SOUTH-ASIA
THE CONSEQUENCES OF REPRODUCTIVE FAILURE - DEPENDENCE, MOBILITY, AND MORTALITY AMONG THE ELDERLY OF RURAL SOUTH-ASIA
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10.1080/0032472031000142306
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发表时间：
1986-11-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
CAIN, M
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作者：
CAIN, M
本文探讨了南亚农村人口的经济流动性受其生育结果影响的命题：具体而言，生育失败（定义为未能抚养一个幸存的儿子）带来物质损失。这一主张的基础是这样一个概念，即在这种情况下，儿子是防止老年和其他各种意外情况下收入不足风险的重要保险来源。对南亚几个农村社区老年人生活安排的数据和资产损益历史的分析表明，生育失败的后果包括较高的死亡风险和很可能的财产损失，这些后果对妇女比对男子更严重，孟加拉国农村比印度农村抽样地区严重得多。
This paper examines the proposition that the economic mobility of persons in rural South Asia is affected by their reproductive outcomes: specifically, that reproductive failure (defined as the failure to rear a surviving son) entails material loss. Underlying this proposition is the notion that sons in this setting constitute an important source of insurance against the risk of income insufficiency in old age and in a variety of other contingencies. Analysis of data on living arrangements of the elderly in several rural South Asian communities and histories of asset gain and loss suggest that the consequences of reproductive failure include higher mortality risks and a high probability of property loss, that these consequences are more severe for women than for men, and are considerably more severe in rural Bangladesh than in the sampled areas of rural India.