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... Around 90 percent of women in the oldest cohorts married for the first time, a figure that does not change appreciably for the war cohorts around 1922. After 1926 it goes up to around 95 percent and remains at that high ... See full document

... The main principle of the financing of day-care centres is that the running costs should be shared between the state, the municipalities and the parents (Ministry of Children and Family Affairs 1988). The intentions were ... See full document

... This study is the first to provide contemporary documentation of birth seasonality for most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Seasonality of births is quantitatively important; amplitudes are large and are a dominant source of ... See full document

... Fertility in Colombia, as in many other developing countries, follows a long-term decline that is the product of a combination of increasing education, declining mortality rates, and economic growth (Bongaarts and ... See full document

... Increasingly, youth in developing countries 2 are diversifying their opportunities through both domestic and international migration (McKenzie 2008; Yaqub 2009a). Though data detailing precise estimates by age are ... See full document

... unknowns), 10% are craftsmen and laborers, and 8% are merchants. Only 2% of fathers were employees, only 2% servants (mainly in the urban houses), and 5% land owners (who, mainly in the rural ... See full document

... In constructing the estimates in Table 1, both we and Finer compared the sex and marriage data to determine which occurred first. If marriage occurred first, both we and Finer censored a woman’s sexual intercourse ... See full document

... As highlighted in Section 3.3, I have defined adolescent mothers as those having had their first child aged 18 years old or younger. A sensitivity analysis was run to ensure that the results presented in this study are ... See full document

... Figure 2 and 3 depict this decomposition: Figure 2 reports the ‘baseline’ hazard functions, ...Figure 2, the difference between the hazard functions of the three types of union within each ... See full document

... The final two data sources were the products of the United Nations-sponsored Truth Commission for El Salvador (Betancur, Figueredo Planchart, and Buergenthal 1993). These datasets, which we refer to as UNTC and ... See full document

... The results obtained are consistent with the hypothesis, derived from the main existing theoretical perspectives on the issue, that an increase of childcare coverage has a positive effect on fertility. Across different ... See full document

... Table 2 provides the adjusted odds ratios from the logistic regression models on low birthweight. Differentials in infant’s low weight by mother’s marital status attenuate once the compositional variables are ... See full document

... In Western Europe, the decline in childlessness in the 1930-1945 cohorts is followed by a fairly pronounced rise, except in France, where it is much smaller and restricted to the 1960s cohorts. France consequently stands ... See full document

... still a large excess of females in the first half of the 1980s (10%), and then female deficit increases in three steps until 2014-2015. From 5% in the first half of the 1990s, female deficit reaches 17% in the mid ... See full document

... however, excluding individuals under 65 omits many three-generation households where the oldest generation is younger (Mutchler and Baker 2004). In the US, three- generation households have been increasing in prevalence ... See full document

... Studies on the economic consequences of partnership dissolution have shown that women (and their dependent children) are often the losers of divorce; they experience a considerable los[r] ... See full document

... The fertility of secular women of European origin born before 1964 was below the replacement level: completed cohort total fertility rates of these women comprised 2.0 children per wom[r] ... 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

... Figure 2, which reflects distances between the projected population of Austria and the population of people aged 10-20 in 1985 (mortality and fertility correspond to the Austrian rates in ... See full document

... later article, McDonald (2013) is explicit in that his theories are predictive for the macro-level association between fertility and gender equality and not for couple-level measures of gender ... See full document