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... The analysis is carried out using data from the most recent retrospective survey, l’Enquête sur la Population et la Santé Familiale (EPSF) 2003/04, conducted in Morocco as part of the Demographic and Health Surveys. It ... See full document

... Since the onset of the economic crisis there has been a notable decline in immigration flows and in the union formation and fertility of both Spaniards and immigrants (Castro-Martín et al. 2015). Emigration has ... See full document

... Just like in Morocco, Moroccans living in the Netherlands postpone the first child (Table 3), although it is unlikely that housing problems play a major role. Among first generation Turkish women, who are in a comparable ... See full document

... Childhood behavioural problems also affect well-being in late adolescence and early adulthood (Moffitt 1993; Hobcraft 1998; Schoon, Sacker, and Bartley 2003; Sigle-Rushton 2004), and behavioural problems in adolescence ... See full document

... A direct assessment of the selection of HIV positive women into polygynous unions requires a measure of HIV status for all women at the time of marriage. Unfortunately, these data are not available. Instead, we examine ... See full document

... In the last 60 years, Slovakia has experienced comparatively high and most recently very low fertility, long periods of stable fertility alternating with periods of changes, periods of substantial as well as lesser state ... See full document

... Behavioral risk factors such as excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, leisure time inactivity and especially smoking are mentioned as major causes for socio- economic mortality differentials: Based on a prospective ... See full document

... Applying multilevel discrete-time logit models to data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), the author shows that (i) basically all regional heterogeneity in women’s entry[r] ... See full document

... Despite their increased presence in the labour market, mothers continue to reconcile work and family by engaging in part-time work, and often only after children have entered school. Relative to other European countries, ... See full document

... Delayed entry into parenthood has become a universal feature of European fertility trends (Kohler, Billari and Ortega 2002; Sobotka 2004a; Frejka and Sardon 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007). By the early 2000s, practically ... See full document

... For example, the proportion of sexually active women who are infecund in Asian countries is much higher than in Latin American countries (Stover 1998). There is no direct evidence tha[r] ... See full document

... This article integrates two methods that analyze the implications of various causes of death for life expectancy. One of the methods attributes changes in life expectancy to various causes of death; the other ... See full document

... Women who attend religious services weekly are more likely to use modern contraception than those who do not; however, contrary to our expectations, there is no relationship between ex[r] ... See full document

... To capture the relationship between son preference, marriage and the value of children, we introduce the notion of perceived present values of married and unmarried sons and daughters (A[r] ... See full document

... We may compare this data with the results of the survey carried out in the framework of the Population Microcensus of 1994, which took place under the evident influence of the social s[r] ... See full document

... Until the 1990s, the future population decline was not clearly evident to non-demographers due to more than 30 years of immigration from other republics of ex-Yugoslavia (between 1975 [r] ... See full document

... The policymakers’ awareness of the importance of policies supporting families, especially those with children, is relatively recent and dates back to the second half of the 1[r] ... See full document

... The gender- and union-specific single-year disability rates were combined with the single-year marital-status life tables derived from the Eurostat data to estimate the person years at[r] ... See full document

... Another impression from the interactions of marriage attributes with ethnicity and calendar period is that Kurdish speaking women who married in more traditional ways seem to constitut[r] ... See full document

... Examples of promising research topics in the biodemographic aspects of ecology, evolution and behavior include studies concerned with eco-gerontological rules that describe the relations[r] ... See full document