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... For both countries I study the effects of parental leave and public day-care coverage. Two components of the parental leave scheme are important for the price of fertility: (i) the benefit level and (ii) the benefit ... See full document

... Any claim that fertility should be raised rests on three assumptions: first, that fertility levels are too low; second, that low fertility levels will have negative consequences for Europe; and, third, that policies can ... 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

... Fostering, i.e., permanently or temporarily raising children that are not one’s biological children, is common in many societies worldwide (Silk 1980; Scelza and Silk 2014). Across 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, ... See full document

... High cholesterol changes the rate of developing CVD from ( ) to ( ) . Cholesterol level is an intervening variable or mediator. The changes in CVD and cholesterol level are two interdependent parallel processes. ... See full document

... From a complementary angle, researchers (e.g. Lesthaeghe 1983; Mason and Jensen 1995) have called attention to the overly static view of the micro-economic theory – in particular, it tends to conceptualise social ... See full document

... 2. Estimating association of childhood and adult SES with group membership: A regression procedure estimates the association between childhood and adult SES and trajectory group membership. GBT modeling produces for each ... See full document

... As a rule, governments in Central and Eastern Europe opposed the diffusion of hormonal contraception for a number of reasons, some of them publicly enunciated and purposefully promulgated, especially among physicians, ... See full document

... According to the estimates, an increase in unemployment from 2% to 6% is associated with a reduction of fertility by about 0.08, as a combined individual- and aggregate-level effect. Stated differently, if ... See full document

... When mortality rates are changing over time, as it was mentioned, the corresponding lifetime random variable cannot be unambiguously defined and other approaches for obtaining life exp[r] ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... A study using data from the United States reported that economic deprivation in the neighborhood did not affect the risk of divorce once couple-level resources were controlled for (Sou[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