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Shelley Clark

Department of Sociology, McGill University, QC, Canada • Personal webpage • shelley.clark(at)mcgill.ca
Families and households

The rise of nontraditional rural families in Canada and the USA 

June 17, 2024June 17, 2024 Shelley Clark and Matthew Brooks

What has happened to traditional two-married-parent families in rural America and Canada? Shelley Clark and Matthew Brooks explore changes in rural and urban families over the past three decades to … Read more

Gender issues

Free childcare could increase African women’s economic empowerment

March 10, 2021December 2, 2019 Shelley Clark, Caroline Kabiru, Sonia Laszlo and Stella Muthuri
Africa, Children, Gender issues, Women, Work

Offering free daycare services could substantially increase female employment in Africa. Results from a randomized control trial conducted by Shelley Clark, Caroline Kabiru, Sonia Laszlo, and Stella Muthuri in an … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Recent trends in premarital fertility in sub-Saharan Africa

March 6, 2021July 3, 2017 Shelley Clark, Alissa Koski and Emily Smith-Greenaway
Africa, Mortality, Youth

Age at first marriage has been rising throughout sub-Saharan Africa for more than twenty-five years. The median age at first marriage has increased by an average of 1-2 years across … Read more

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