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... birth. 4 The benefit received during the leave is closely connected to previous labor- market activity: Leave-taking mothers and fathers receive an allowance of a high percentage (currently 80%) of their pre-birth ... See full document

... Panel C documents the trends in labor force participation for mothers with some college education and Panel D shows the trends for college-educated mothers. At first glance, the patterns for mothers with some college and ... 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

... In both countries, the education of the partner plays a major role in explaining higher order fertility for women with a university degree. Especially when both partners have a higher education, the probability that both ... See full document

... The two leading behavioral risk factors in the United States, smoking and obesity, did not emerge as separate factors in the analysis. The identification of smoking and obesity as separate factors may have been prevented ... See full document

... First, the occupations mentioned in the Antwerp data have been coded into the HISCO classification, using the guidelines involved in that coding scheme (van Leeuwen, Maas and Miles 2002). Next, standardized recoding ... See full document

... Human mortality has undergone remarkable declines over the years. The increase in life expectancy is probably the best expression for the dramatic mortality decline in the last 170 years (Oeppen and Vaupel 2002). ... See full document

... transformation. 4 Given the skewed distribution of the contact variable (most mothers have frequent contacts with their children), a value of 1 was added to the measure and the new variable was transformed by ... See full document

... In this paper, we use longitudinal panel data from rural Malawi to examine whether individuals move after experiencing different types of small-scale shocks. We have four goals in this paper, which are to examine: (1) ... See full document

... The bulk of the pertinent research at the individual level relies on longitudinal measurement, with desires or intentions at an earlier time compared to later childbearing. 4 Most often the observation period is ... See full document

... The composition and age structure of the population may also explain asylum application patterns since some segments of the population are more likely to migrate than others. Specifically, we find that the higher the ... 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

... A larger branch of research focuses on unemployment. Among studies on the United States, Morgan, Cumberworth, and Wimer (2011) show the negative correlation between unemployment rates and the change in fertility rates in ... See full document

... In Western countries the large majority of men (around 80%) become biological fathers at some point in their life course (Priskorn et al. 2012; Ravanera and Beaujot 2014; Rotkirch et al. 2015). The educational level of ... See full document

... We perform two decompositions. The first one aims at disentangling the extent to which the increase in the share of total fertility attributable to unpartnered women is related to changes in the proportion of unpartnered ... See full document

... has 14 years of data; in Slovenia (27 years of data total), the 25-year window is nearly the same test as the overall series; and in Lux- embourg, the 25-year window has a similar character as the overall 50-year ... See full document

... Going further, we calculated the sex ratio of a marriage market where males and females are of the same ages. This just reflects SRB and differential mortality until marriageable ages. As expected given that most of the ... See full document

... Beyond complexity, there is a serious problem with the n age group IDM as a vehicle for analyzing human populations. The pattern of fertility change required by the constant subordinate eigenstructure assumption becomes ... See full document

... this article, we study the interrelationships of different aspects of partner selection on the one hand, and SES attainment and intergenerational SES mobility on the ...This article refers to two previous ... See full document

... This article has examined the recently proposed PGW method to estimate smoking- attributable mortality in high-income ...This article has presented a modified version of the PGW method, the PGW-R method, ... See full document