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... For our hazard analysis of the divorce risks of Swedish women in their first marriages, we use a unique set of Swedish individual-level register data with ample information on demographic profiles and on social and ... See full document

... Table 4 tells us what happens with the children who are born in a union, which in all countries is the dominating group of children, when it comes to their experience of any dissolution of their family of origin. The ... See full document

... Data collected in Wave II of MDICP (2001) provided early glimpses into the relationship between religion and HIV risk at the individual level, and found that risk behaviors and the perception of risk vary by both ... See full document

... Male and female cancer incidence rates are different. Males have higher incidence rates at older ages than the opposite sex. The stable relationship between the estimations of parameters B and ε D for male and female ... See full document

... Our independent variable is the number of full siblings. This variable was recorded for the first time in wave 5. The number of full siblings was categorised into no siblings, one sibling, two siblings, and three and ... See full document

... Neyer, G., G. Andersson, J. M. Hoem, M. Rønsen, and A. Vikat. 2006b. Fertilität, Familiengründung und Familienerweiterung in den nordischen Ländern, in H. Bertram, H. Krüger, and C. K. Spieß (Eds.), Wem gehört die ... See full document

... While each individual has 10 billion ancestors a thousand years ago, these are not distinct and the actual number of distinct ancestors is much smaller. A female (‘Mitochondrial Eve’) and a male ancestor ... See full document

... less attractive women may be at greater risk of having unfaithful spouses/partners than more attractive women. We used responses to two questions to create a variable measuring spousal/partner infidelity. Ever-married ... See full document

... relocations. 7 As a result, in these contexts the migration propensities of dual-earner couples should be lower than those of male-breadwinner couples, as the employment prospects of men and women, and the ... 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

... So far we have seen that education is an important determinant both for the timing of motherhood and for the proportion that remain childless. Not surprisingly, it also affects a woman's total number of children. Women ... See full document

... The reconstruction of the mortality surface for the total population of England and Wales enabled us to produce new continuous series of life tables for the years around the First World War. As expected, the effect of ... See full document

... Assessing the gender equity of parental leave is not a self-evident process. While differing with respect to the specific technical measurements used, O’Brien (2009) and Ray, Gornick, and Schmitt (2010) assess the degree ... See full document

... a 10 percent decline in the youth share of the population – in 2009 a reduction of roughly ...a 10 percent decline in the youth share corresponds with a ... See full document

... Figure 3(a) and Figure 3(b) show that the convergence patterns are even stronger for female literacy. In the case of relative change the shape of the curve is convex, suggesting that with a higher initial level of female ... See full document

... We incorporate recent developments in the continuous measurement of birth outcomes as advocated by Solis et al. (2000) and others (e.g., Wilcox and Skjœrven 1992), in which birth outcomes are measured as deviations from ... See full document

... If we pose these or similar questions and challenge the myths of low fertility and all the other myths based on it, we will never end up proposing fertility-enhancing policies as a mea[r] ... See full document

... Demographic analysis, as a means to evaluate population age and sex structure, is well developed. Various methods exist to assess age and sex data quality (age ratio score, sex ratio score, age-heaping index (Whipple, ... 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

... 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