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... In Table 6 (columns 3 and 4) are also shown the results for a ‘combined’ model of the third birth interval with and without unobserved heterogeneity. The results for the third birth interval show that all the ... See full document

... Our second expectation was that women who perceive that parents or partners want children would have higher fertility ideals and would be less likely to decrease fertility ideals. In contrast to this second set of ... See full document

... Because this paper relies on techniques from matrix calculus, I begin in Section 2. with a brief review of those techniques. Section 3. analyzes density-dependent models, in- troduces methods for analyzing various ... See full document

... The next step in our analysis is to identify logistic regression coefficients for the independent variables that predict class membership. We present the results of the multinomial regression in Table 3. Our ... See full document

... We advance the existing research by asking what role educational–occupational mismatches play in migration and commuting from eastern to western Germany. Both forms of mobility are overwhelmingly directed from the ... See full document

... (Model 3), which is introduced in the model as four dummy variables: basic education, low professional education, secondary education, and high education (university) 8 ... See full document

... Table 1 shows large variation in NNM across places in India, which suggests that NNM may be influenced by a number of variables other than facility birth, such as the disease environment, underlying maternal health, ... See full document

... The second difference lies in how populations are constructed. For demography, each individual, once born, may vary only by quantitative changes in formal parameters (e.g., age, residence, parity, etc.) specified in the ... See full document

... Model 3 includes the country of residence, and reveals that the contextual level significantly influences the likelihood that a father will spend time caring for his ... See full document

... As expected, higher educational attainment reduces the rate of entry into union (Model 3, Table 4). However, when the level of completed secondary education is taken into account, the previously observed effect of ... 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 women ... See full document

... Assuming that most data on sexual behaviour among young women are wrong and misleading remains in theory a possibility. Indeed, several authors have argued that sexual behaviour surveys have serious biases (Nnko et al. ... See full document

... increase comes from an increase in the ‘None’ status (Table 1). For urban men, the ‘None’ status comprises about 3% of the young adult years in 1982 and rises to almost 15% in 2005. The rise of the ‘None’ status ... See full document

... studies, 3 situation analysis, 4 quasi-experiments, 5 randomized controlled trials, 6 and transcript analysis 7 – provide close-up, detailed views of the content of counseling sessions and the work counselors do ... See full document

... Applying the benchmark setting for the parameters and postulating that the acceptable range for potential partners is only determined by the social pressure and independent of the age of the agent, we obtain the hazard ... See full document

... (Tables 3 and 4) support this finding by showing that the presence of two parents offers a significant benefit for children and is independent of any effects of other ... See full document

... To assess representativeness of the genealogical sample compared to the general population at the time, we compared the households of individuals in our sample found in the 1850 census with a comparable sample from the ... See full document

... Women’s number of siblings is not important for family stability, but men’s sibship size is negatively related to the risk of disruption. Hungarian fathers who do not have any sibling have twice as high risk of family ... See full document

... residents. 3 Those who are promoting the expansion of VCT as a weapon in the battle against AIDS believe that it is critical for people to know their status ... 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