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... The first term on the right-hand side of (5), the average change, might be called the direct component of change; it captures the level-1 effect. The second component, the covariance term, is the structural or ... See full document

... A third possibility, however, is that male best friends may influence each other’s behaviors with respect to whether or not they have EMSPs. Empirically proving social influence is notoriously difficult, but two of our ... See full document

... Contrary to the French EU-SILC, the single residence rule applies for the persons interviewed in the HILDA survey. Watson and Wooden (2002:7) explained the treatment in the survey of people with multiple ... See full document

... within 1 km in the same municipality, more than 1 km in the same municipality, within 16 km in another municipality, between 16-50 km in another municipality, more than 50 km or abroad, parents or parents ... See full document

... Apparently, researchers need not worry much about the bias, which would not be higher than about 10%, if they use data where the clusters include 25 or more persons and the relevant ICC value is above 0.2. Of course, if ... See full document

... 5. Childbearing during the societal transition in Central and Eastern Europe 6. The diverse faces of the Second Demographic Transition in Europe 7. The rising importance of migrants for childbearing in Europe 8. ... See full document

... Bettio and Villa (1998) contend that the threat of high unemployment rates (particularly for women) in Italy make it virtually impossible for women to risk taking career breaks to have children, due to extreme ... See full document

... conclusions: 1) Findings from two ethnographic studies of low fertility can be compared and generalised if such concepts as ‘comparison’ and ‘generalisation’ are understood in the anthropological ... See full document

... approach, rather than to denigrate theirs. In particular, I use social demography as a comparison because it represents the primary, and in many ways ascendant, alternative to anthropological demography. The classic ... See full document

... One alternative structure obtained via a “weak” Skiba point might be summarized, “keep the neighborhood in its current state, even if that initial state is de-populated relative to its n[r] ... See full document

... Our data are from the first wave of the Generation and Gender Surveys (GGS) from France (collected in 2005), Norway (2007–2008), Bulgaria (2004), and Lithuania (2006). The GGS is a large-scale, cross-national, and ... See full document

... Given the absence of pronatalism and the established influence of religion on demographic behaviors in Buddhism, in this study we examine whether Buddhist follower[r] ... See full document

... All in all, the study has established that a woman’s educational attainment, premarital sexual activity, premarital childbearing, type of place of residence, region of residence, relig[r] ... See full document

... Other studies have shown that much of the difference in mortality between highly and poorly educated men in Russia is due to the high mortality from cardiovascular diseases in the latter group and, to a lesser extent, ... See full document

... Marital homogamy usually refers to marriage between partners of the same social group. Homogamy based on group affiliation may be – and indeed has been – defined in various ways; either by social background, by ethnic ... See full document

... metropolitan areas were chosen from each of the five quintiles of ordered sales prices. The selected metropolitan areas ranged from Toledo, Ohio, with the lowest median sales price of $92,000, to San Francisco, with a ... See full document

... Based on the sample and shown in Figures 6 through 8, within and between sectors, noteworthy distributional differences emerge that are linked to the constructed linguistic groups. Consistently, though, native ... See full document

... We distinguished between three levels of education based on the ISCED classification (UNESCO 2006): no degree or lower secondary education (1), upper secondary education or post-secondary non-tertiary education ... See full document

... (approximately 1% of the total population aged below 16) are in foster care, and the annual number of new placements is approximately 4,000 (National Institute for Health and Welfare ... See full document

... factor 1/TMR 30 (t) , while p c (x, t − x) would stay constant at current ...of 1/TMR(t) in Equation (12) to µ(x, t) because of their assumption of cohort-invariant delays of future cohort deaths in the ... See full document