Section outline

  • Lecture: Family Demography (marriage and divorce)

    Faculty:  Nadia Diamond-Smith

    Location:  Mission Hall 1108

    • Session Slides:

    • DemogHealthLecture4 Family File

    • Required Reading:

      1. Smith-Greenaway, Emily and Jenny Trinitapoli. 2014. “Polygynous Contexts, Family Structure, and Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa” Demography, 51:341-366
      2. Stevenson, Betsey and Justin Wolfers. 2007. “Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces” Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 21, Number 2,Pages 27–52
    • Stevenson 2007 File
    • Smith-Greenaway 2014 File

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 4 File

    • Datasets:

    • Probabilities of Dying File