Caroline Bledsoe

4.3k citations
63 papers · 2.3k indexed · h-index 26

Impact in

    • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
    • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
    • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Papers in

    • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences 11
    • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics 6
    • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare 9

Caroline Bledsoe

56 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers

Caroline Bledsoe
Comparison fields: 5 of 113
  • Gender Studies 694
  • Safety Research 399
  • Demography 467
  • Anthropology 231
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 458
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Caroline Bledsoe, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 200555
2
Reproductive Relativity: Time, Space and Western Contraception in Rural Gambia
20054
3
Designing New Models for Explaining Family Change and Variation
200411
4 200432
5 2003135
6 200225
7
The bodily costs of childbearing: Western science through a West African lens
20011
8 200110
9 200086
10
Critical Perspectives on Education and Fertility in the Developing World
19992
11 1995176
12
`Children are like young bamboo trees': potentiality and reproduction in sub-Saharan Africa
199437
13
The impact of family and budget structure on health treatment in Nigeria.
199125
14 199114
15 19913
16
School fees and the marriage process for Mende girls in Sierra Leone
199035
17 1988101
18
Territory and matrilateral kinship in the history of a Kpelle chiefdom
19871
19 19821
20 197622

About Caroline Bledsoe

Caroline Bledsoe is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Safety Research, Theoretical Computer Science, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Anthropology, having authored 63 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (11 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (10 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (9 papers), Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 papers), Reproductive Health and Technologies (4 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 papers) and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Gender Studies (694 citations), Safety Research (399 citations), Demography (467 citations), Anthropology (231 citations) and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (458 citations). Caroline Bledsoe has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Spain and Nigeria. Frequent co-authors include Allan G. Hill, Suzanne de Castell, Douglas C. Ewbank, Uche C. Isiugo-Abanihe, Gilles Pison, P. Langerock, Umberto D’Alessandro, Susan Watkins, Peter Schneider and Anthony T. Carter. Their work appears in journals such as Population and Development Review, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Social Science & Medicine and Anthropological Theory.

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