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... Applying multilevel discrete-time logit models to data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), the author shows that (i) basically all regional heterogeneity in women’s entry[r] ... See full document

... Our presentation has revealed both striking differences and strong similarities between countries when it concerns patterns of family-demographic affairs of children. The USA stands out as an extreme case with its very ... See full document

... The educational composition of the population also appears to determine the course of fertility, at the net of the other observed variables. Greater female access to education and greater educational opportunities ... See full document

... We have applied both approaches to estimate life expectancy at the age that begins the open-ended interval. We select that age to be the lowest integer age above which fewer than 2% of recorded deaths occur. The Gompertz ... See full document

... Table 2 also shows that the majority of first children were conceived outside formal marriage in Ouagadougou. In fact, at the time of conception the majority of future parents are either single (32%) or living in ... See full document

... most severe female deficits of this century occur around 2010 and in 2025-2028 with respectively close to 23% and 24% less females than males. These troughs appear only partly due to abnormal SRB: females aged 22-26 in ... See full document

... At this time there are 37 demographic surveillance system sites active in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Central America, and this number is growing continuously. These sites and other longitudinal population and health ... See full document

... Turkey has experienced intensive social and economical change since the early 20 th century. The size and structure of its population have changed along with alterations of society. Turkish population trends can be ... See full document

... Despite their increased presence in the labour market, mothers continue to reconcile work and family by engaging in part-time work, and often only after children have entered school. Relative to other European countries, ... See full document

... In theory, this system is neutral towards gender roles and it does not necessarily force the woman to withdraw from the labor market after childbirth. In practice, however, it is primarily the woman who gives up ... See full document

... sectors. 15 Since research has also shown the population structure of places to be significantly linked to local poverty rates, we examine four variables related to county-level population structure: net ... See full document

... Children born into two-parent households will experience an environment where eco- nomic resources are more abundant on average compared to single parent households, and are hence expected to achieve better outcomes than ... See full document

... being positively and significantly associated with educational level for women but not for men. This result confirms the hypothesis that higher qualifications also allow greater reside[r] ... See full document

... In fact, a high quality of the housing stock in combination with difficult access to housing for young people might offer the worst opportunities for having children?. Access to housi[r] ... See full document

... Invariants have been empirically observed in animals also on the population level: species differing in body mass, M , by many orders of magnitude tend to have almost equal rates of ener[r] ... See full document

... Cancer among women is not generally more harmful to a marriage than cancer among men, as suggested by some investigators, but there are certain gender differences: whereas colorectal c[r] ... See full document

... the article of Davis, Glass (1965) states that the main mechanism of change is the possibility of intra-generational mobility, since decline in infant mortality and parental control over children cannot induce ... See full document

... The most likely explanation for these high rates of youth poverty may be driven by the fact that young people in social democratic countries leave home at an extremely early age (see F[r] ... See full document

... With regard to the separate items of joint lifestyles, the differences between union types reveal the same pattern, except for visiting family, in which cohabiters with marriage intentio[r] ... See full document

... Nonetheless, most of the empirical work in developing countries that has examined the associations between family size and schooling attainment confirms the negative association: chil[r] ... See full document