Thursday, April 1 / 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM   •   Gardner

Session 20:
Families and Households in Developing Countries

Chair: Mitali Sen, University of Maryland
Discussant: Mark R. Montgomery, Population Council

  1. Are African Families Becoming Overextended? A Historical Analysis of the Effects of Family Extension on Schooling Inequalities in CameroonParfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Cornell University ; David Shapiro, Pennsylvania State University

  2. Births, the Composition of Households, and Their Implications for Household Economy in Market Transition Societies: China and Vietnam ComparedKim Korinek, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Soumya Alva, Westat, Inc. ; Feinian Chen, Texas A&M University

  3. Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child's Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and SchoolingDavid Lam, University of Michigan ; Leticia Marteleto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and CEDEPLAR

  4. Individual, Household and Family Responses to Terrorism: Evidence from Longitudinal Household Survey DataWayan Suriastini, SurveyMETER ; Elizabeth Frankenberg, University of California, Los Angeles ; Bondan Sikoki, SurveyMETER ; Duncan Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles

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