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... A generally negative effect is estimated for enrollment, as expected (Table 5). Moreover, the educational level has a positive effect on second births and no effect on third births. (This is not strongly ... See full document

... The cognitive status of HRS participants who were unable to complete a direct interview is categorized using questions from a proxy interview (Crimmins et al. 2011): (1) proxy-reported memory ability (0 points ... See full document

... The decomposition analysis has two components: first, the examination of overall decompositions; and, second, the examination of detailed decompositions, in which the education gender gap norm differential may be ... See full document

... Suppose now that at time zero the force of mortality declines 20% at all ages. The con- ventional period life expectancy, being just a summary of age-specific mortality, would increase instantly to 80.97 to reflect this ... See full document

... week) and part-time (4-39 hours) employment spells. In the situation where the number of working hours was unknown, we created a separate level with unknown working hours. We also distinguished between different ... See full document

... Life expectancy in reliability and survival analysis studies is the simplest characteristic of a lifetime distribution, as it usually has a clear cohort-type meaning. In demography, however, the period life tables are ... See full document

... fact have a long-term relationship with the father of the child(ren). The information included in the FFS about the status of couples at the time of the birth of children is very useful in distinguishing between ... See full document

... Historically, polygyny was commonly permitted worldwide; over 80% of the 186 preindustrial societies included in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, a representative database of coded ethnographies spanning all major ... See full document

... We focus on key pathways to union formation with a minimal specification that incorporates socio-economic proxies (education, rural, and ethnicity) and life events (first intercourse and[r] ... See full document

... examining 5-year-old children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors, an immigrant advantage has been documented in externalizing behavior in the United States only, but immigrant disadvantages in ... See full document

... The fixed-effect model also provides regression estimates for each country. Figure 5 compares fixed-effects model estimates with observed trends in three sub-Saharan countries: Kenya, Malawi, and Ghana. Each ... See full document

... We can also see the role that cohabitation plays in shifting the age at marriage. Most studies analyzing cohabitation and marriage use competing risk hazard models to model choices between the two types of union (e.g., ... See full document

... Even in the countries where cohabitation is widespread, however, an individual’s claim to benefits – such as a spouse’s pension or the right to inherit property – is often stronger for those who are legally married. ... See full document

... Our analyses in the previous sections have emphasized various indicators of completed cohort fertility such as parity progression ratios, lifetime birth probabilities and the index of total fertility. The relevant ... See full document

... What remains an open issue is whether the social policies of the governments in the Nordic countries will be sufficiently influential for couples and women of the young generations, those born in the late 1960s and ... See full document

... Second, men’s move from the household economy to work in the public sphere of manufacturing and services was just as revolutionary as the more recent changes for women. Men’s move is normally described simply in terms of ... 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

... Five objections are discussed: the model does not necessarily lead to a fertility increase; aggressiveness will lead to an imbalance of labor supply and demand, and is likely to confr[r] ... See full document

... More specifically, the objectives of the present research are to: (1) apply alternative measurement strategies that preserve the continuous metric of birth weight and gestational age [r] ... See full document

... In England & Wales the process of childbearing postponement also has the characteristic that fertility of young women starting with the cohorts of the early 1940s is declining from[r] ... See full document