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... The most likely explanation for these high rates of youth poverty may be driven by the fact that young people in social democratic countries leave home at an extremely early age (see F[r] ... See full document

... Even with a focus on areas with denser coverage of the target populations, there is, however, extensive screening, which is not only costly, but can also have implications for the effectiveness of interviews. Robust and ... See full document

... Although the interpretation of the two parameters a and b is controversial, Taylor (1961: 735) calls the constant a a (less relevant) computing factor and suggests that the slope b is a species-specific index of ... See full document

... This paper offers a unique contribution by extending existing research on fertility intentions in several ways. First, focusing on mother’s working status and educational level when the daughter was 15 years old ... See full document

... The four techniques showcased in this paper mark only a tiny spot in the space of possible visualizations concerning proportions structured by period and age. Typi- cally the number of effective visualizations for a ... See full document

... Table 2 provides further descriptions of the context and characteristics of nonmarital relationships reported during the sexual network survey. Several characteristics of rela- tionships differed significantly ... See full document

... Regression results for each country are in Appendix Table A-2. The estimated coefficients differ across countries, and the vast majority of these coefficients are highly significant. There are some consistent ... See full document

... Relatedly, family ties outside the household are increasingly part of the analysis of spatial mobility (Mulder and Cooke 2009). Growing family instability and diversity imply that close family members increasingly live ... See full document

... The geographical context of our study is Europe, where levels of cultural and/or ethnic heterogeneity in populations have increased since the 1950s due to continuous or growing immigration streams (Coleman 2006). ... See full document

... We therefore focused on another important mortality indicator, life expectancy at birth, separately for women and men, and given the increasing importance of elderly mortality in determining the current level of human ... See full document

... cases. 15 The truth probably lies somewhere in-between: some but not 15 Eubank (1916:38) notes that desertions may in fact be quite gradual: “Desertion is by no means always ... See full document

... To deal with the non-random assignment, I also controlled for covariates. For time-variant covariates, denoted by the vector W, I controlled for the elders’ number of children (1, 2, 3, 4+) and for whether elders ... See full document

... Each congregation leader participated in a structured interview, completing a 12-page questionnaire that covered six key areas. We asked each leader about (1) what they believe the Bible (or Koran) has to say – if ... See full document

... Within Malawi, the specific site of the study – Kayesa village, Mchinji District, in Malawi’s Central Province – has two advantages. First, it can be considered broadly representative of villages in the area. At the time ... See full document

... Table 2 and confirm that there is considerable variation on all variables, allowing for substantial analytic ...(χ 2 tests), rather than individual coefficient tests, since the ... See full document

... 2004). 2 However, Bongaarts and Feeney’s successive work on mortality tempo effects still is generally rejected (see Guillot, 2003b, 2006; Le Bras, 2005; Wachter, 2005; Wilmoth, 2005; Rodríguez, ... See full document

... As illustrated in Table 2, only 34.4 percent of the women gave an indication that they can reject sexual intercourse from their husbands if and when they so desire, while the remaining majority (65.6 percent) ... See full document

... the 50-year kelp boom, which began around ...2001). 2 In response to the increased demand for labor in kelp harvesting and processing, the Northern Isles and Orkney as a whole appear to have experienced a ... See full document

... 2. The second aspect refers to “educational homogamy”, which is relatively common in Germany. (For a detailed discussion, see Wirth 2000.) For example, 60 percent of all women in our sample live with a partner ... See full document

... have: 2 percent of women with no children and 78 percent of women with two live children (Ministry of Health et ...widespread 2 , three child mothers increasingly form a special group with special ... See full document