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... In this paper we present a detailed demographic analysis of the change of period fertility that occurred since 1930, based on individual retrospective data, collected in the most recent [r] ... See full document

... eligible. 16 Consistent with its reluctance to impose strong regulations on the labour market or to interfere in ‘private matters’, the Government’s Summary Guidance states that ‘wherever possible employers and ... See full document

... If longitudinal data are available, we can control for unobserved heterogeneity due to unknown omitted variables using a time and/or entity fixed effects regression model 6 . This approach assumes that omitted ... See full document

... authoritarian 6 in their parenting style (Rudy forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for ... See full document

... The statistical data also provide valuable checks of alternative explanations based on direct economic incentives. The possibility, floated at the end of section 4, that the decline in Carnian birth rates might be a ... See full document

... Section 2 suggests several reasons why the coefficient on facility birth estimated by Equa- tion 1 may be downwardly biased. Figure 2 plots coefficients on facility birth that are estimated using Equation 2, which ... See full document

... Our exploratory study of the relationships between housework-sharing and perceived fairness regarding domestic tasks clearly demonstrates that these factors in combination reflect different types of couples rather than ... See full document

... (While this recent movement in the US in the direction of greater inequality has been referred to as evidence for a stall in gender convergence, we would note that several sources over[r] ... See full document

... Relationships (16) and (17) provide an approximate estimate of how period gains in life expectancy are transformed on a cohort basis. Consider individuals that were born in 2010 in a country with a period life ... See full document

... and volume of non-marital fertility; they do not have the exceptionally high teenage fertility rates of the UK and Ireland and furthermore individuals or cohabiting couples producing births outside marriage are ... See full document

... Sequence analysis is well suited to the analysis of life course patterns, because it implements the theoretical concept of a holistic “trajectory” rather than focusing on a discrete “transition” (Aisenbrey and Fasang ... See full document

... fitted for each cause of death. This means that six models were estimated with the binary dependent variables indicating deaths from: 1) airborne disease, 2) food and waterborne disease, 3) other infectious disease, 4) ... See full document

... Similarly, age and sex distributions of the age of partners were derived from the same survey. Mean and standard deviation of partners’ age were fitted for each age and sex pair, from which normal distributions were ... See full document

... We find that relationships between TFR and widely used social, economic, and policy- related factors (rural Hukou, ethnic minority, female education, net migration rate, poor living stan[r] ... See full document

... Applying this line of reasoning to our study on the importance of parents and peers in first union timing, we would expect that in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden[r] ... See full document

... smoking prevalence to vary across each nation did little to increase the explanatory power of the model and introduced considerable randomness to the predictions. Other estimates that a[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

... With respect to socio-economic status, working adult children with young children in the household have a greater need for support (i.e., childcare), and we therefore expect to find th[r] ... See full document

... When the age of the woman is controlled for, the risks of having a second child (Table 6a) decrease significantly for all marriage cohorts of sharecroppers and farmers, for the last t[r] ... See full document

... This study explores the change of married women’s sex preference for children in Taiwan since 1990, finding that there was a substantial decline of son preference and rise of “gender i[r] ... See full document