Sexuality, Reproduction, Fertility, and Families
What factors influence decisions to enter into a sexual relationship, have a child, cohabit, or end a marriage? Critical to understanding population change is understanding sexuality, reproduction, fertility, and family formation and dissolution. CPC faculty fellows study the development of sexuality, gender identity, and sexual orientation across the life course, choices about entering relationships, becoming pregnant and formalizing a union, and the social, biological, and cultural factors that influence how sexually transmitted infections spread.
Associated Projects
Add Health Parent Study: Phase I
The Add Health Parent Study (2015-2017), gathered social, behavioral, and health survey data in 2015-2017 on a probability sample of the Add Health parents who were originally interviewed in 1995. Data for 2,013 Wave I parents, ranging in age from 50-80 years and representing 2,244…
Agricultural intervention for food security and HIV health outcomes in Kenya
Despite major advances in care and treatment for those living with HIV, morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) remain unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), largely due to the parallel challenges of poverty and food insecurity. Food insecurity and poverty contribute to…
Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls and young Women to Reduce Sexual Risk in Tanzania: A Qualitative and Behavioral Economics Assessment of the CARE Study
The proposed study will examine the experiences of adolescent girls and young women (AGYM) who have been part of the CARE study, a cluster randomized controlled trial being implemented by Jhpiego / Sauti as part of DREAMS, a PEPFAR funded initiative designed to evaluate a…
Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey
Cebu was originally designed as a study of infant feeding patterns and how feeding decisions within a household interact with various social, economic, and environmental factors to affect health, nutritional, demographic, and economic outcomes. The study later expanded to include outcomes such as birth weight…
China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)
CHNS examines how the social and economic development of Chinese society is affecting the health of its population. When the survey began in 1989, researchers used survey questions as the main tool for data collection but have since expanded to include collecting biological measures like…
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