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... The last field in the Influences table in Figure 7 is of special interest. This field contains the ID of the observation action associated with each influence. The various influences associated with Beatrice’s ... See full document

... Turkey has experienced intensive social and economical change since the early 20 th century. The size and structure of its population have changed along with alterations of society. Turkish population trends can be ... 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

... of 15 European countries and corresponding data from the USA in order to find out what kind of family circumstances children are born into and what experience they subsequently have of various ... See full document

... Table 2 also shows that the majority of first children were conceived outside formal marriage in Ouagadougou. In fact, at the time of conception the majority of future parents are either single (32%) or living in ... See full document

... In CRELES, a few foreigners ( n =49) were censored early, at the date of last contact. The unweighted number of deaths was 579 in CRELES and 140 in SEBAS.. parameters for a given as[r] ... See full document

... Apart from smoking-related cancers Israeli Jewish males also demonstrate survival advantage relative to other males for other major behaviourally induced types of mortality: external causes (broadly related to risk ... See full document

... age 15, the place of residence at each wave of the GGS, and the date of immigration into the country (in the case of immigrants) are included in most national GGS ... 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

... In theory, this system is neutral towards gender roles and it does not necessarily force the woman to withdraw from the labor market after childbirth. In practice, however, it is primarily the woman who gives up ... See full document

... In a study on the effect of educational attainment on first, second and third births in Norway, Kravdal (2001) found significantly higher second and third birth rates for women with the [r] ... See full document

... Our analyses indicate that the LNS was able to trace the large majority of sexual relationships reported by survey respondents: for example, when a survey respondent reported that his/he[r] ... See full document

... aged 15-64 could be overwhelmingly educated to at least the secondary level, with the proportion of tertiary education running, at almost 20%, twice as high as the proportion of those failing to complete primary, ... See full document

... Nonetheless, most of the empirical work in developing countries that has examined the associations between family size and schooling attainment confirms the negative association: chil[r] ... See full document

... sectors. 15 Since research has also shown the population structure of places to be significantly linked to local poverty rates, we examine four variables related to county-level population structure: net ... See full document

... the article of Davis, Glass (1965) states that the main mechanism of change is the possibility of intra-generational mobility, since decline in infant mortality and parental control over children cannot induce ... See full document

... In the second part of the analysis, factors associated with spatial variation in lung cancer mortality are analysed based on consumption data collected in a countrywide survey in 2001–2007 (Target Group Index). A ... 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

... Invariants have been empirically observed in animals also on the population level: species differing in body mass, M , by many orders of magnitude tend to have almost equal rates of ener[r] ... See full document

... Nevertheless, research on neighborhood effects in urban India must confront the same problems as studies conducted in urban America: namely, the self- selection of individuals into neig[r] ... See full document