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... in nursing homes were those who enter during the 8-year life of the panel. As a result, these data sets systematically understate the mean risk of nursing home admission. This problem is exacerbated by the fact ... See full document

... In Germany and Sweden the dominant gender ideology has played a pivotal role in the implementation of family policies. Gender ideology is highly egalitarian in Sweden, where the welfare system combines policies promoting ... 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

... In 1956, the population pyramid is almost rectangular. This shape is the result of the high mortality which prevailed during the first part of the century 8 and which is related to both the epidemiological ... See full document

... The four models provide an adequate fit to the data in different regions and time periods. Norms of differences and correlations between modeled and observed incidence rates for the same data set in Models 1-3 are ... See full document

... in the effects of birth outcomes. However, as Wilcox and Russell (1983) and others have argued, standardization by conventional means, such as using the white birth weight distribution or another single standard, will ... See full document

... Zeng, Yang, Wang, and Morgan (2002) recently estimated the U.S. race-sex-age- specific occurrence/exposure (o/e) rates of marriage/union formation and dissolution and the race–age–parity–marital-status–specific rates of ... 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

... Of the 3,243 individual respondents in MDICP-3 who identified a congregation where they participate, all but 31 were successfully matched to one of the MRP congregations. Approximately 20 MDICP respondents on average are ... See full document

... The parameters have year-of-birth subscripts because we use dummy variables to estimate separate coefficients for four broad birth cohorts. The intercept term is an estimate of ln ddx (30, ) b because the other two ... See full document

... The FGIs were conducted at the premises of the research design developed by the international project ‘Focus on Partnerships’. Team members collaborated to create a standardized focus group guideline, which was used to ... See full document

... A similar analysis of first union dissolution is reported in Table 4. The first row indicates that the modest increase in the proportion of first unions ending in 5 years (seen in Table 2) is marginally significant (p ... See full document

... The current study uses a large population database linking information from over 75,000 persons across early, middle, and late life to establish how the combination of childhood a[r] ... See full document

... Data from the 1970 South African Census showed that in rural KwaZulu-Natal, 14% of men and 5% of women aged 50 years and older, were reported to have never been married or were living[r] ... 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

... 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

... A study in Nigeria indicates that socioeconomic determinants at the community level explain variation in child mortality across regions, while individual- level characteristics including[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