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... Anthropological demography needs to be situated against the context of an evolving world of research in which boundaries between academic disciplines have become much more permeable, i[r] ... See full document

... Net to the characteristics of the women, the higher education level of the father has a negative effect on marriage and a positive impact on cohabitation; the effect is stronger in centr[r] ... See full document

... As a result of this shift, the criteria for evaluating family policy in France, such as the recent changes in parental leave allowance, may take into account not only the trends i[r] ... See full document

... Our results provide some insights into the age patterns of total population losses dur- ing the First World War. Figure 5 shows that the most striking excess male mortality in the total population has affected the ages ... See full document

... We have selected West German women of ages 30-39 at the time of the interview and have grouped them into three categories according to the highest ed- ucational level they have attained [r] ... See full document

... and volume of non-marital fertility; they do not have the exceptionally high teenage fertility rates of the UK and Ireland and furthermore individuals or cohabiting couples producing births outside marriage are ... See full document

... While dilution arguments link declines in fertility to growth in average resource endowments, and the divergence argu- ment links changing family structure to increased inequality, their[r] ... See full document

... A slight increasing tendency could be detected in the 1950s and early 1960s cohorts with around 35 percent of women with second births having a third one, and close to 25 percent of 3-[r] ... See full document

... 2 Migratory antecedents in the south of Veracruz 288 3 Current migration: destinations and determinants 293 3.1 Method, data and variables 294 3.2 The determinants of migration[r] ... See full document

... In the case of a constant annual increase in life expectancy at birth, the prospective median age derived from period life tables always lies above that created using cohort life table[r] ... See full document

... A key question for our analysis is whether there remains any direct effect of social, economic and cultural variables on the duration of the second birth interval in Egypt after contro[r] ... See full document

... Thirdly, and most important, Zambia has conducted in 2001 a detailed Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), which includes all the parameters needed for the model: patterns of fertility,[r] ... See full document

... To take another example that will be discussed later in this paper, medical reports in the 1920s already pointed out the suspected links between tobacco and cancers, and a 1938 article in the journal Science ... See full document

... Cancer among women is not generally more harmful to a marriage than cancer among men, as suggested by some investigators, but there are certain gender differences: whereas colorectal c[r] ... See full document

... an article which reviewed the historical research to date and combined it with contemporary statistical data, Reher (1998) has reaffirmed the validity of the original macro-regional distinction, and shown that a ... See full document

... We find that relationships between TFR and widely used social, economic, and policy- related factors (rural Hukou, ethnic minority, female education, net migration rate, poor living stan[r] ... See full document

... This study explores the change of married women’s sex preference for children in Taiwan since 1990, finding that there was a substantial decline of son preference and rise of “gender i[r] ... See full document

... Applying this line of reasoning to our study on the importance of parents and peers in first union timing, we would expect that in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden[r] ... See full document

... Country is also included as a fixed dummy variable in Model 3 to test for the net effect of country of residence, and a continuous variable indicating the percentage of cohabiting coup[r] ... See full document

... In contrast, the evolutionary synthesis – a collaborative product of research in experimental and population genetics, natural history, and related fields of biology – followed Darwin [r] ... See full document