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... of 3 or even 2 years, and it is never above 14% -, being reduced from its initial level of 15% in the 1990-1995 cohorts by excess male mortality of children and young ... See full document

... In the next step, we explore whether it is common that fathers who stayed home longer with the child also perform a greater share of the childcare when both parents are back at work. In Table 1, the constant is –0.91 ... See full document

... year. HRS responses higher than 365 were recorded as “daily”, (i.e. 365 contacts per year). The SHARE respondents were asked: “During the past twelve months, how often did you (or your husband/partner) have contact with ... See full document

... My instrumental variable, an additional sibling in the family due to a twin birth, is based on index persons whose mothers gave birth to twins. I exclude twins themselves from the sample, as twins have different ... See full document

... The universality of marriage in Turkey has been demonstrated in several studies (Ergöçmen 1997, Ministry of Health et al. 1994, Hacettepe University et al. 1999). As a social norm, women are expected to get married no ... See full document

... Table 3 presents the estimates from the discrete-time hazard models of the transition to a second or a higher order birth for native Belgian and second-generation women of Southern Europ[r] ... See full document

... Table 3 presents the results of the Goodman-Grunfeld ...(Table 3) is nowhere near large enough to indicate statistically- significant anti-movement if the opposite one-sided p-value were to be calculated; ... See full document

... The main difference between the US data and the Bulgarian and Finnish data is that the US data come from a nationally representative survey rather than a full census. We use the 1990-1994 waves of the National Health ... See full document

... quadratic nature of this measure itself rather than a reflection of the stabilization process. Another consideration important for practical applications is that the Kullback distance is highly sensitive to the age ... See full document

... A final set of sexual mixing patterns under consideration relate to HIV-status- based partnership formation and dissolution, namely (1) elevated dissolution rates in serodiscordant couples, 13 (2) lower partnership ... See full document

... Mortality differentials from food and waterborne illness declined in the long run, but only after diverging for several decades. Between 1878 and 1882 the skilled and low- and unskilled blue-collar workers were about ... See full document

... The strongest fertility response is elicited by consumer confidence, even though estimated confidence intervals are much wider for CCI than for the other indicators. In this and all the following models the inverse of ... See full document

... and down, values of λ 1 below .8 would lead to unacceptable (negative) fertility values. The constant subordinate eigenstructure assumption was chosen for its mathematical, not its demographic, properties. By restricting ... See full document

... In addition to unpaid work activities performed within the household, unpaid time for helping non- household members (i.e., non-cohabiting family members) is also considered: We calculat[r] ... 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 the comparison of immigrants with the Swedish-born population we have used a simpler procedure. First of all, the life histories are only constructed for women (i.e., not for couples), and we have left out their ... See full document

... For our analytical sample we only considered male respondents with a divorce between 1981 and 2005 and for whom full information was available for the first seven years following the date of marital separation (N = ... See full document

... Norway gave fathers the right to childcare leave in 1977 and to parental leave in 1978. The Norwegian leave length was originally 18 weeks but has been extended over time, and the flexibility in the possibilities of use ... 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

... In recent years, much of the focus in monitoring child mortality has been on as- sessing changes in the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR), which refers to the number of deaths before the age of 5 per 1,000 live births. The ... See full document