Childbearing within Marriage and Consensual Union in Latin America, 1980–2010

This article compares the fertility patterns of women in consensual union and marriage in 13 Latin American countries, using census microdata from the four most recent census rounds and a methodological approach that combines the own‐children method and Poisson regression. Results show that in all these countries, fertility is slightly higher within consensual union than marriage and that the age pattern of fertility is very similar in marital and non‐marital unions. Further analyses show that over the period considered, childbearing within a consensual union has changed from rare to increasingly common, although not yet mainstream, for highly educated women in most countries examined. Results show that in Latin America, at least since the 1980s, women's childbearing patterns depend on their age and on their being in a conjugal relationship, but not on the legal nature of this relationship. The similarities in reproductive behavior between marital and non‐marital unions are not confined to the socially disadvantaged groups, but apply as well to the better off.     

Bayesian Estimation of Stochastic Discount Factors

This article provides a Bayesian method of estimating the marginal posterior distributions for stochastic discount factors associated with observed asset returns. These estimates can be used to provide measures of fit for asset-pricing models and to identify broad features of the characteristics that should be explained. These measures of fit can be used to supplement model-evaluation exercises based on Hansen–Jagannathan bounds     

The Impact of Forced Migration on Marital Life in Chad

Civil war in Chad in the 1990shad a major impact on the family life of large numbers of people who were internally displaced or sought refuge in exile. This article examines the effect of these forced migrations on marriage, in particular the transition from monogamy to divorce or bigamy. It analyses data collected in N'Djamena in 1993–1994. The higher risk of divorce among internally displaced persons compared to that of refugees suggests that they were more vulnerable from a demographic perspective, and that their marital survival strategies may have been less successful. It is suggested that aid agencies should increase assistance given to internally displaced people because they are more at risk. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Emergent Indicators Lock and Unlock Public Organizations: An Ethic of Commitment

This article focuses on management indicators, their emergence, theirs functions and their impact for a public action. It does so through an analysis of the implementation of indicators in three forest management units in Belgium, France and Luxembourg. M. Crozier theory and M. Callon theory are crossed to drawn attention to the manner in which, at the micro-level, indicators are worked out. We argue that these emergent measurements are vectors of a particular ethic of behavior. Our aim is to contribute to the study of indicators in three aspects. First, it offers a more detailed understanding of the double nature of indicators: they constrain action and, at the same time, support actors autonomy. Second, it illustrates the major functions of indicators but also theirs paradoxes: actually, indicators lock and unlock organizations. Third, it brings to light the practical rationality and the ethic of commitment connected to indicators.     

Client satisfaction in program evaluation

Social Indicators Research - This paper uses the basics of the Multiple Discrepancies Theory to analyze the level of satisfaction of clients participating in a government residential rehabilitation...     

On the separability of assembly preferences

Analyses of assembly elections often assume that voters have well-defined preferences over candidates, even though preferences over assemblies are the natural analytic starting point. This candidate-based approach is usually justified by an assumption that preferences over assemblies are separable. We show, however, that if preferences over assemblies are themselves derived from underlying preferences over legislative or economic outcomes, then preferences over assemblies will not in general be separable. Received: 23 June 1997/Accepted: 3 March 1998     

Die Muslime in der Region Midi-Pyrenäen

Building mosques inside towns, organising separate squares for Moslems in our own cemeteries, ruling over slaughtering the hallal way, putting high schools under regional governments — all these questions can be debated in France. This body allows (or imposes) a unity in their voicing to the various representatives so that they can stand up the State Representative. This new and legitimate body tries to solve many problems in its numerous specific commissions. Consequently one has to organise a way of working with the various departments, leaving them sufficient freedom according to their demographic numbers. This has also to take into account the many relations which these communities have with the Moslem Regional Council (CRCM), the different countries they come from and Europe. On the other hand, not every one recognises this new body because they had not all be able to express their votes previously. But ruling Islam in France is already beginning to be organised at county levels.