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... Based on previous studies, we find it reasonable to expect that Swedish-speakers are less likely than Finnish-speakers to retire very early. The purpose is therefore to study if this is the case, and to analyse whether ... See full document

... Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of the analytical sample. Nearly half (49%) of the elderly reported no feelings of loneliness, 32% felt lonely some of the time, and 19% were mostly lonely. The majority ... See full document

... Reflecting the ethnic structure of the population, most internal migrants are ethnic Kyrgyz. Internal migration is also characterized by the predominance (up to 80%) of working-age individuals. Moreover, a peculiar ... See full document

... The Indian population comprises several distinct communities (Table 1) that share common values and norms with regard to family formation, including arranged and patrilocal marriage and the dowry system. Marriage is of ... See full document

... In Dakar the majority of the population are Muslims, whereas in Lomé the majority are Christians and Animists. In Senegal about nine out of ten (94%) individuals are Muslims (Ndiaye, Gaye, and Ayad 1997); in Togo about ... See full document

... in English and had response rates of about 76% in both years (National Opinion Research Center 2007, Table A.6). We combine the two years when possible to increase the number of individuals in cohabiting and LAT ... See full document

... Korean government announced a program called the Saeromaji Plan as a response to low fertility and population aging, and strengthened the role of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in developing and implementing ... See full document

... Although we have refrained from assessing any relationships, it is not unlikely that the timing of policy reforms has helped stabilize fertility trends and even helped increase fertility. We find strong indications of ... See full document

... The channels through which this influence has been exerted are mainly two: opportunity cost and resource availability. Regarding the opportunity cost, it seems obvious that for a farmhand the harvest months (generally ... See full document

... As we might expect, we find the highest proportion of children living with a lone mother, or not with a mother at all, in the USA. On average, as much as 22 percent of children here live in a one-parent family (or in any ... See full document

... The approach is then applied to analyze trends in inequality between men and women in the distribution of ages at death. Observed death distributions indicate that, since 1970, mortality in 4 Western countries ... See full document

... Spatial momentum is greater when the initial proportion urban is low, when there is substantial net rural to urban migration, and when the difference between the rural and urban rates of[r] ... See full document

... to 49 years increased their unpaid work by an average of 13 minutes per day from 1h 32min in 2009 to 1h 45min in 2014, whereas the levels of their unpaid work had slightly declined between 2003 and ... See full document

... activities? 3) Among those with siblings, how do children’s time and activities with siblings vary by social class and by the gender and age mix of the siblings? We focus on middle childhood (ages 6–12 years) and ... See full document

... The second reason why the lifestyle framework is used is more existential: those participants who have settled in these southern coastal areas see the move there as a “project of the self” (Benson and Osbaldiston 2014: ... See full document

... Figure 3) one can conclude that if the seasonality of births is determined by biological rhythms, they are strongly disturbed by cultural, social, and economic ... See full document

... The negative association between family size and school attendance for children aged 8–17, seen in the descriptive analysis above, is again evident in the regression results in Table 3. Children from small ... See full document

... The reasons for moving taken into consideration in this study are (a) moving for homeownership, as buying a home is typically associated with high expenses; (b) moving for marriage, as f[r] ... See full document

... In most countries, attitudes in favor of gender equality and high fertility intentions may be negatively correlated, but, from one country to the next, the mean ideal family size and e[r] ... See full document

... For couples with two or three children who were observed in the period 1971  1985, the difference between families with same-sex children is even larger, a 11  13 per cent[r] ... See full document