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... quadratic nature of this measure itself rather than a reflection of the stabilization process. Another consideration important for practical applications is that the Kullback distance is highly sensitive to the age ... See full document

... Figure 2 for a single age interval, we distinguish in our accounting procedures between Blacks who have never lived in the South and Blacks who have ever lived in the region in the left- and right-hand sides of ... See full document

... Women’s labor force participation remains low in Egypt, with the World Bank reporting 27% of adult women in the labor force in 2006 (World Bank 2010). Some estimates have put this number higher, closer to 60%, ... See full document

... The second model adds other family income to the education categories. Not surprisingly, the estimated effect is quite large: a doubling of other family income (a little more than half a standard deviation) would reduce ... See full document

... The independent variables in this study are the grandparental variables, which are time- varying. The transition to grandparenthood (variable ‘Grandparent’) is defined by the birth of the first-born grandchild. ... See full document

... • births to refer to all variables in the birth history, unions to refer to all vari- ables in the union history, and all to extract all variables in the dictionary. These three conventions may be freely combined in a ... See full document

... unknown; 2) the timing of engagement among couples who would later marry is unknown; 3) the limited number of years available for follow-up restricts us from tracking long-term employment trajectories; and 4) the ... See full document

... Job insecurity was not asked about during times of unemployment. For better coherence, we modeled job insecurity as a categorical variable with four categories: (0) employed, job very secure (reference category); (1) ... See full document

... To summarize major findings, among unmarried high school dropouts and among married teenage high school dropouts, US-born women tended to have a higher likelihood of using Medicaid for birth delivery than that of their ... See full document

... The moves of parents and children were measured according to four categories: 0 = no move, 1 = moves very close, 2 = moves close, and 3 = moves elsewhere. The choice of this measure is based on the assumption that ... See full document

... only 8% of married MDICP respondents report hav- ing more than one partner in the last twelve months, and among those, 58% never used condoms with their last extramarital ... See full document

... Table 2 provides the results for six models, which become increasingly complex. In Model 1 we considered the effect of partnership status on union dissolution, controlling only for the duration of the relationship ... See full document

... Sweden; 2) other cities with populations of more than 100,000; 3) larger towns with 50,000–100,000 inhabitants; 4) towns with 10,000–50,000 inhabitants; 5) small towns with 5,000–10,000 inhabitants; and 6) rural ... See full document

... This simulation study was constructed to demonstrate how the effect of education changes when replacing Model (1) with Model (2) in the case where the effect of age at first birth on the second birth intensity is ... See full document

... aged 8–17, seen in the descriptive analysis above, is again evident in the regression results in Table ...order 2+: they move from being relatively disadvantaged in larger families to relatively advantaged ... 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 ... See full document

... partner who specializes in childrearing should the relationship end. Examples include a married partner’s (usually a wife’s) right to claim a portion of a former spouse’s pension benefits in the U.S. 7 or the right to ... 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

... seminal article ‘European marriage patterns in perspective’ Hajnal distinguished an Eastern European pattern that was completely different from the Western European ... See full document

... and Philipov 2002; Andersson 2004b). This is primarily dictated by a very high acceptance of cohabitation among Swedish-born natives. According to Dribe and Lundh (2012), around one half of natives in endogamous unions ... See full document