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... The baseline census was conducted by seven project enumerators between August 2002 and July 2004, who operated from camps erected in the respective enumeration areas. Census interviews of each household were carried out ... See full document

... was taken as 0.10 per year for infected adults, and 0.30 per year for infected children, which is consistent with values found in the literature: a mean survival duration from seroconversion to death of 8-10 years ... See full document

... predated 8 months before the actual birth of the ...censored 8 months before the interview to allow for the possibility that they had a second child shortly following the ... See full document

... Tables 7 and 8 present weighted statistics on married Taiwanese women’s socio- economic status and their sex preference for children at three points in time. As the theory predicts, higher socioeconomic status of ... See full document

... responsive policy. Since 1978, parents have had the legal right to reduce their working hours (with a corresponding reduction in pay) up to 75% until the child reaches 8 years of age. This policy is not explicitly ... 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

... fertility. To test our two first hypotheses, immigrants and their descendants are distinguished and several groups are selected that are representative of the main immigration groups with a variety of human, economic, ... See full document

... The data come from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS). The BHPS is a yearly longitudinal survey that was begun in 1991 with 10,300 individuals from 5,500 households, and now has 18 waves available. 5 Among other ... See full document

... chapter). 8 Foreign-born women also frequently display markedly lower levels of childlessness (see Garssen and Nicolaas 2006 and the Netherlands chapter) and high progression rates to third and higher-order births ... See full document

... be considered: downward transfers of wealth and support (i.e., from grandparents and parents to children), by improving the conditions and life opportunities of children, should over time increase the fitness of ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... Considering that promoting facility birth has been the cornerstone of maternal and new- born health policy in India for much of the last decade, the finding that facility birth is uncorr[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