中国的婚居模式与生育行为

本文使用1993、1997和2000年“中国健康与营养调查”纵向追踪数据,探讨在社会转型、经济转轨、人口转变的社会环境下,婚姻居住模式或家庭结构与生育行为之间的关系。运用事件史分析技术(event history analysis),采用离散时间事件模型(discrete time hazard model),我们发现,居住模式影响妇女的生育行为,但其影响因孩次和居住制度而异:对二孩递进的作用大于对一孩递进的影响;从妻居对生育行为的影响不同于从夫居。家庭结构与生育行为的关系反映了代际之间的互动和影响,也反映了不同居住制度下妇女在家庭、家族中的地位和家庭权力结构关系。     

KINSHIP,RECIPROCITY AND VULNERABILITY: SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE INFORMAL ECONOMY

This paper examines the notion that informal interhousehold transfers of goods and services in the communal economy are based upon reciprocity. Patterns of interhousehold transfer of goods and services are described, and the significance of kinship (or familial obligations) in shaping patterns of informal exchange are discussed. Data from a 1990 survey of household and residential organisation in Brisbane are used. Differences in income, labour force participation and the density and character of householders' social networks are considered as factors shaping contemporary interhousehold economic activity. Implications for our understanding of people's economic vulnerability are drawn from the observations.     

Better know an HRD scholar: a conversation with Karen Watkins

This article contains a conversation with Karen Watkins and is part of a series that focuses on HRD scholars, the aim being to understand better the people behind the names we see in print. At the time of writing, Karen was Professor of Adult Education. She was a founder and the second President of the Academy of Human Resource Development as well as a recipient of that organization's Outstanding Scholar Award.