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 y-west-bank-palestine/
SUMMARY:Marriage and Fertility under Occupation: A Study of the West Bank o
 f Palestine
DESCRIPTION:\n\nRHODE ISLAND\n\nRegistration is now open! \n\nPlease be a
 ware\, that upon start of the event\, unclaimed lunches and seats will be 
 given to those on standby\, even if you have registered.\n\nPriority will 
 be given to the Brown community.\n\nThis event is part of the Middle East
  Studies Luncheon Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract:\n\nThis paper investigates 
 the effects of the Israeli Occupation on the rate of marriage and fertilit
 y in the occupied Palestinian territories. We test three alternate theorie
 s that: (1) higher fertility is a political response to the existential th
 reat associated with the expansion of settler communities (the minority st
 atus hypothesis)\, (2) larger numbers of checkpoints in a place isolate it
  from neighboring places\, and narrows the accessible marriage market poss
 ibly increasing the age at marriage (the marriage market hypothesis)\, and
  (3) for families under stress the responses to both checkpoints and large
 r settlement populations will be to ‘double down’ on family – an ear
 lier age at marriage and higher fertility within marriage despite fracturi
 ng of the marriage market (the family security hypothesis). This study use
 s data from the Palestinian Censuses of 1997 and 2007\, conducted by the P
 alestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). The West Bank is divided i
 nto 31 distinct geographic areas in this study\, distinguishing urban\, ru
 ral\, and refugee camp localities in each of the 11 governorates. We test 
 the hypotheses for women age 10 to 49 years in 2007\, controlling for char
 acteristics of their place of residence in 1997\, marriage and fertility r
 ates in 1997\, and change in level of development from 1997 to 2007. The n
 umber of military checkpoints and the penetration of the settler populatio
 n in each governorate measure the intensity of the Israeli Occupation. We 
 find that marriage rates are higher among women who live in governorates w
 ith a larger number of checkpoints and a higher penetration of Israeli set
 tlers\, consistent with the family security hypothesis.\n\nBio:\n\nYara Ja
 rallah is a PhD candidate in Sociology and Population Studies. Her current
  research investigates changes in the family\, including fertility and uni
 on formation\, in light of political conflict and structural forces of con
 trol in two countries of the Arab World. She presented her work regularly 
 at regional and international conferences and her work received support fr
 om the PSTC\, Hewlett Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau. She 
 is co-author of three peer-reviewed publications\, including a paper on fe
 rtility decline in the West Bank and Gaza that appeared in the Journal of 
 Population Research. Before coming to Brown she held positions with the Un
 ited Nations Population Fund\, the American University of Beirut and Birze
 it University. Jarallah holds an MSc in Population Health from the America
 n University of Beirut and a BA in Economics and Business from Birzeit Uni
 versity.\n\n\n
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