Survey of Urban Life in Kisumu
Nancy Luke, Co-Principal Investigator
Kaivan Munshi, Co-Principal Investigator
This interdisciplinary research project examines marriage, nonmarital sexual relationships, and migration as sites for the exchange of resources in contemporary urban Africa. Data collection includes a survey of 2700 males and a qualitative component undertaken in Kisumu, Kenya, in 2001.
Funding
- The World Bank
- Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), University of Pennsylvania
- Mellon Foundation through the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
- Population and Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
Publications
Nancy Luke. 2010. "Migrants' Competing Commitments: Sexual Partners in Urban Africa and Remittances to the Rural Origin." American Journal of Sociology 115(5):1435-1479.
Nancy Luke. 2008. "Economic Status, Informal Exchange, and Sexual Risk in Kisumu, Kenya." Economic Development and Cultural Change 56(2):375-396.
Nancy Luke and Kaivan Munshi. 2006. "New Roles for Marriage in Urban Africa: Kinship Networks and the Labor Market in Kenya." Review of Economics and Statistics 88(2):264-282.
Nancy Luke. 2006. "Exchange and Condom Use in Informal Sexual Relationships in Urban Kenya." Economic Development and Cultural Change 54(2):319-348.
Nancy Luke. 2005. "Confronting the 'Sugar Daddy' Stereotype: Age and Economic Asymmetries and Risky Sexual Behavior in Urban Kenya." International Family Planning Perspectives 31(1):6-14.
Nancy Luke. 2005. "Investigating Exchange in Sexual Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa using Survey Data." In Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Iqbal Shah, and Shyam Thapa, eds. Sex without Consent: Young People in Developing Countries. London: Zed Books.
Nancy Luke, Kaivan Munshi, and Mark Rosenzweig. 2004. "Marriage, Networks and Jobs in Third World Cities." Journal of the European Economic Association 2(2-3):437-446.
Nancy Luke. 2003. "Age and Economic Asymmetries in the Sexual Relationships of Adolescent Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa." Studies in Family Planning 34(2):67-86.
Work in Review
Nancy Luke and Gayatri Singh. "Remittances across Migrant Generations: New Theory and Evidence from Urban Kenya." (In review.)
