Child Sex Composition, Parental Sex Preferences, and Marital Outcomes: Evidence From a Matrilineal Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 1126-1143
Author(s):  
Emily Smith‐Greenaway ◽  
Abigail Weitzman ◽  
Abdallah Chilungo
Keyword(s):  
Sex Composition ◽  
Sex Preferences ◽  
Marital Outcomes

scholarly journals ARE THERE SEX PREFERENCES IN BRAZIL?

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (101) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Zanatta Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Demographic Health Survey ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Sex Composition ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Sex Preference ◽  
Sex Preferences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ideal Number

Society ascribes roles and expectations for people based on their sex. When the costs and benefits of each sex are different, people may have different motivations for having sons or daughters because children of different sexes are not substitutable. Sex preferences may then increase fertility, as women and couples who pursue a certain sex composition may progress to additional births. To understand how the social structure has been shaping sex preferences and fertility ideals, it is important to identify the characteristics of women with different preferences. Using responses to questions about an ideal number of children and their sex composition available in the Brazilian Demographic Health Survey of 1996 and 2006, this paper provides evidence that a balanced sex preference exists among most Brazilians; some evidence of a secondary daughter preference is also found. Evidence also shows that “gender indifference” has become more pronounced as fertility declines.

Marital Stability Among Jewish and Mixed Couples Following Immigration to Israel From the Former Soviet Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoav Lavee ◽  
Ludmila Krivosh
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Marital Stability ◽  
Marital Instability ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Marital Outcomes ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

This research aims to identify factors associated with marital instability among Jewish and mixed (Jewish and non-Jewish) couples following immigration from the former Soviet Union. Based on the Strangeness Theory and the Model of Acculturation, we predicted that non-Jewish immigrants would be less well adjusted personally and socially to Israeli society than Jewish immigrants and that endogamous Jewish couples would have better interpersonal congruence than mixed couples in terms of personal and social adjustment. The sample included 92 Jewish couples and 92 ethnically-mixed couples, of which 82 couples (40 Jewish, 42 mixed) divorced or separated after immigration and 102 couples (52 Jewish, 50 ethnically mixed) remained married. Significant differences were found between Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants in personal adjustment, and between endogamous and ethnically-mixed couples in the congruence between spouses in their personal and social adjustment. Marital instability was best explained by interpersonal disparity in cultural identity and in adjustment to life in Israel. The findings expand the knowledge on marital outcomes of immigration, in general, and immigration of mixed marriages, in particular.

ON-THE-FARM TESTS OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND VETERINARY AND SANITARY PREVENTION MEASURES OF CATTLE NECROBACILLOSIS

1970 ◽  
pp. 62-64
Author(s):  
М. G. Vinnikov ◽  
R. N. Melnik ◽  
S. А. Grin ◽  
А. Ya. Samuylenko ◽  
N. V. Melnik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Sex Composition ◽  
Therapeutic Measures ◽  
Age And Sex ◽  
Scientific Achievements

The system of veterinary and sanitary measures in the CJSC "Makeevo" of the Zarayskiy municipal district of the Moscow region was studied during 2015-2016. The tests were carried out on 2232 cattle with age and sex composition: 965 cows, 206 heifers, 186 heifers (2014 year of birth), 52 bulls (2014 year of birth,) 426 heifers (2015 year of birth), 397 male calves (2015 year of birth). The system of veterinary and sanitary measures to prevent infectious diseases of cattle have been developed on the basis of modern scientific achievements, taking into account many years of practical experience in Russia, includes a set of measures: an analysis of the current situation in the farm; identification of urgent priority measures, specialists training on the farm, monitoring of the proposed measures implementation; elaboration of the farm development plan. The results of the recommendations production tests and the system of veterinary and sanitary measures on number of cattle in the dairy farm enterprise through the modernization of the production process are presented. Application of organizational-economic, sanitary, diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic measures was allowed to protect 99.25% of animals from necrobacteriosis.

Context in Selection of Men and Women in Hiring Decisions: Gender Composition of the Applicant Pool

2005 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jos Van Ommeren ◽  
Giovanni Russo ◽  
Reinout E. De Vries ◽  
Mark Van Ommeren
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Gender Composition ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Hiring Decisions ◽  
Sex Composition ◽  
Applicant Pool ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Selection Of

The hypothesis that the sex composition of an applicant pool affects the hiring probabilities of individual job applicants was tested using gender-distinctive information on accepted and rejected job applicants in The Netherlands. The evidence supports this hypothesis, although the effect sizes are moderate. Both men and women have a lower probability of being hired when the applicant pool contains fewer applicants from their own sex.

Transcending the Effects of Sex Composition in Small Groups

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Martin ◽  
Kristin A. Shanahan
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Sex Composition

Family Sex Composition Preferences among Guatemalan Men and Women

1980 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne R. Pebley ◽  
Hernan Delgado ◽  
Elena Brineman
Keyword(s):  
Sex Composition ◽  
Men And Women
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