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... For example, for Norway Lappegård (2001) finds that childlessness is almost as low among nurses and teachers with a university degree as among women with no education beyond secondary sc[r] ... See full document

... This chapter outlines the positions in the current debate about the possibility of using public policies to influence fertility. We note the polarization between, on the on[r] ... See full document

... The evidence for Hypotheses 1 and 2 and the conclusion that Yazd women see modern families and modern societies related and development as an influence on family change is especially s[r] ... See full document

... Even if a 2-4% increase in unemployment up to 1993 should reduce birth rates as suggested by the static model, one will not necessarily get a good impression of period total fertility ra[r] ... See full document

... Whereas all-cause mortality has increased over time for men in the LRC cohort with low or middle education, there are indications that those with high education have not experienced an i[r] ... See full document

... The majority of these near-poor families are working families still struggling to meet their basic needs but at the same time facing reduced benefits and increased taxes (Note 5). It is [r] ... See full document

... We estimated the completed cohort proportion women who ever married by extrap- olating the observed experience of cohorts using the Coale-McNeil model (Coale and McNeil, 1972) [Note 10]. This model has often been ... See full document

... every 10 Dutch individuals born in the 1940s cohabited prior to marriage, compared to 9 in 10 born in the ...in 10 cohabitors born in the 1940s married their partner within five years, whereas in the ... See full document

... We might therefore expect cohabiting women to report higher levels of conflict about housework than cohabiting men, and for the gender difference to be larger than it is within married[r] ... See full document

... The article begins by providing general information about 22 surveillance sites from Africa and Asia, with sizes of monitored populations varying from around 8 to 215 ... See full document

... For example, childless male cohabiters are more worried than their female partner that another lifestyle will be expected after a marriage, and they voice more doubt about the value of[r] ... See full document

... antecedents. 10 Furthermore, since their creation, the common lands have worked as collective units, where the common land authorities have managed the local resources and have had the responsibility of coping ... See full document

... As mentioned above, structural factors evidently contributed to the rapid conversion of consensual unions into marriage in the Baltic countries before the 1990s compared to [r] ... See full document

... Demographic analysis, as a means to evaluate population age and sex structure, is well developed. Various methods exist to assess age and sex data quality (age ratio score, sex ratio score, age-heaping index (Whipple, ... See full document

... 3 in most cases. This is a predictable result because the models have, in essence, the same incidence rate until age T and then differ either in the slope of the “vitality” function or the intensity of stress events in ... See full document

... Although presented as the remedy for economic problems and unemployment since the 1990s, the diffusion of new forms of flexible and temporary work contracts has transformed labor mark[r] ... See full document

... More specifically, the objectives of the present research are to: (1) apply alternative measurement strategies that preserve the continuous metric of birth weight and gestational age [r] ... See full document

... If we pose these or similar questions and challenge the myths of low fertility and all the other myths based on it, we will never end up proposing fertility-enhancing policies as a mea[r] ... See full document

... this article, we extend this research by examining the relationship between military service and the likelihood that cohabiting unions will be converted into ... See full document

... The interviews with national leaders included five main sections: (1) the history of the religious organization in Malawi and an overview of its organizational structure; (2) doctrinal[r] ... See full document