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Expectations for male provision and women's sexual health risks in sub-Saharan Africa
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Stoebenau took a mixed-methods approach to develop the Gender Role and Male Provision Expectation scale
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Spousal migration and married adults’ psychological distress in rural China: The roles of intimacy, autonomy and responsibility
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Spousal separation due to migration is a prevalent phenomenon in the developing world, but its psychological consequences for left-behind partners are largely understudied. Using data from 2010, 2012 and 2014 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this paper first examined whether spousal migration causes rural married adults any psychological distress; this finding was then advanced by testing the mechanisms that could potentially explain the linkage between these two variables. Inverse Probability Weighting (IPW) for multivalued treatment effect models and paired Propensity Score Matching (PSM) have been used to correct the potential selection bias of spousal migration. The results show that prolonged spousal separation through migration increases the depressive symptoms of married adults in rural China, and the detrimental effects on left-behind spouses' psychological well-being can be explained by the reduced level of emotional intimacy between husband and wife, and partially by women becoming the master of the household. Considering that being the master of the household is accompanied by elevated stress levels associated with increasing family responsibilities, further examination showed that economic resources can buffer the negative effect associated with being the master of the household when the spouse migrates. However, we did not find that time use is an effective mechanism to link spousal migration and left-behind spouses’ well-being.
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Feinian Chen, Ph.D.
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Feinian Chen Publications
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Local violence accelerates cohabiting union transitions among disadvantaged women
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Mónica Caudillo investigates this using national survey data from Mexico
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What is behind gender inequality in college ?
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Women are completing university in greater percentages than men but do not choose high-income fields
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Frances Goldscheider honored by Stockholm University
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Awarded honorary doctorate for contributions to Social Science
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Cohen contests birthrate decline thesis
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Challenges are real but manageable; better to focus on the well being of those who are here.
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Cohen: How to Live in a World Where Marriage Is in Decline
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As marriage rates continue to fall, policies that try to steer people into marriage through financial incentives are only hurting children
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Why Women Live Longer
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Faculty Associate Philip Cohen points to male smoking habits as an important factor in understanding the relative longevity of women
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Philip Cohen Takes a Stand in Controversy Over Gay Parenting Study
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Cohen calls for the resignation of the editor of Social Science Research after accusations of conflict of interest in the peer review process
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MPRC Founding Director Suzanne Bianchi Passes Away at 61
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Her contributions to sociology and family research remain influential
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