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... This article examines whether increased years of schooling exercised a consistent impact on delayed childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa. Data were drawn from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in eight ... See full document

... Although the Hungarian society has been witnessing postponement overall, we assume that different social groups perceiving different pressures and adhering to different values adjust at different pace and perhaps develop ... See full document

... A more problematic aspect, however, is that, in spite of improved statistical bulletins and data processing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were deficiencies in MNP coverage. An INE survey (1987) revealed the ... See full document

... Nonetheless, a two-way interaction between educational level and calendar period reveals an important change in the educational gradient in the patterns of first union formation. While in the second half of the 1990s the ... See full document

... Because 46% of men and 42% of women reported having no children, there may be a problem of overdispersion, i.e. the variance of CEB is greater than the mean. So I estimate the negative binomial regression models (NBRMs) ... See full document

... Between 1974 and 1995, all five adoptions mentioned on People’s cover occurred within marriage. After 1995, adoption increasingly became a route to nonmarital parenthood for celebrities, with 17 of 26 adoptions in this ... See full document

... Developmental disability: We distinguish between children diagnosed with a developmental disability and those without any developmental disability. Children are said to have a developmental disability if their parents ... See full document

... Marital status was measured in each census year, and was not updated during the subsequent five-year follow-up period. At ages above 50, (re)marriage rates have been low in past decades but are increasing among the ... See full document

... That first and second births are indeed squeezed more together for older than for younger one-child mothers was shown by Strandberg-Larsen et al. (2007), who in their recent study of second-birth rates in Denmark for the ... See full document

... on self-efficacy is rich with suggestions for strengthening this construct. Bandura (1977) specified four channels through which self-efficacy can be learned and strengthened: (1) successful performance of the behavior ... See full document

... The idea of the second demographic transition was first suggested by Ron Lesthaeghe and Dirk van de Kaa in 1986, when it referred to interrelated changes in fertility, family formation, and partnership behaviour, which ... See full document

... decision-making. 8 Second, the prerequisites, while being of a general nature, refer systematically to three concrete dimensions assumed to be involved in ... See full document

... All projections of fertility, mortality and migration used in producing global population projections are based in some manner on expert opinion informed by current conditions, past tren[r] ... See full document

... Only the interaction terms that were statistically significant—indicating differential trends—are reported in the rightmost columns of Tables 3 and 4. In models 2 and 3 of Table 3, the coefficient for marriage ... See full document

... The U.S. data come from the 2003-2007 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a nationally representative cross-sectional time-use survey launched in 2003 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The ATUS interviews a ... See full document

... Bongaarts and Feeney (2002, 2003) argue that tempo biases occur in mortality as well. Using an artificial example, Feeney (2003, Figure 4) has demonstrated that cohort changes in the death distribution within an ... See full document

... Permanent identifiers for the primary subjects under demographic surveillance (in- dividuals and households) are a prerequisite for the generation of consistent and high quality DSS data. The Karonga CRS utilises a ... See full document

... Unfortunately, recent information on the Women’s Bureau sample is not available. Data on samples of the cohort of women in a similar age bracket and with the same educational attainment can be obtained, however. ... See full document

... In particular, the changing emphasis on child quality, coupled with the decline in extended family support with respect to childrearing, is promoting the adoption of innovative fertili[r] ... See full document

... Five objections are discussed: the model does not necessarily lead to a fertility increase; aggressiveness will lead to an imbalance of labor supply and demand, and is likely to confr[r] ... See full document