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... 4. Unfortunately, information on other potentially relevant factors, such as educational level or social background, was not provided with the data. Moreover, information on municipal employment levels – as was ... See full document

... Panel 1 shows that while individuals from the higher and middle classes on average attained the highest occupational status at marriage, their prospects in life were the most influence[r] ... See full document

... Fig. 4; for the Ukraine, see Perelli-Harris 2008, Figure 5; for an investigation with particularly clear results, see Koytcheva 2006, who studied patterns for first and second births in Bulgaria in her Chapter ... See full document

... The principal reasons for the relatively high levels of childlessness among the cohorts born around 1900, and among those of the 1960s, were very different. Quite large proportions of women born in the late 19 th and ... See full document

... To take another example that will be discussed later in this paper, medical reports in the 1920s already pointed out the suspected links between tobacco and cancers, and a 1938 article in the journal Science ... See full document

... Three models based on the aforemen- tioned general specification ( 1 ) are estimated: Model ( 1 ) estimates the overall association of marriage between the biological parents within the [r] ... See full document

... and 4) to compare the results based on parish registers with information obtained from the Population and Housing Censuses of 1991 and 2001, and from the Namibia Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS) of 1992 and ... See full document

... Because Demographic Research has an arrangement with Special Collections, it has been possible to publish this collection in one go in mid-2008, as the first part of Volume 19. The editors chose to use this medium ... See full document

... mortality. 4 For period life expectancy at age 65, our results indicate a lower bound of six years on the difference between the lowest and the highest earnings group considered in our ... See full document

... As compared to second-generation women, third-generation women in the earlier period had a higher risk of a recent birth and higher cumulative fertility as compared to non-Hispanic whi[r] ... See full document

... The analysis is based on the 1996 Fertility and Family Survey (FFS) data for Italy and Spain. This survey was conducted in the 1990s in many member states of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and was ... See full document

... birth. 4 The benefit received during the leave is closely connected to previous labor- market activity: Leave-taking mothers and fathers receive an allowance of a high percentage (currently 80%) of their pre-birth ... See full document

... Associations between early fatherhood and both allostatic load and health limitation were mediated through smoking, wealth, and physical activity, although significant direct associat[r] ... See full document

... Using a quasi-longitudinal approach, we compare the relative country ranking in standardised mathematical test scores of young teenagers in 1964 from the First International Mathem[r] ... See full document

... The countries included in the HMD have been excluded from Figure 6a, but a comparison using results from Table 1 and Figure 4 is instructive. The life expectancy crossing occurred between the levels of 65 to 75 ... See full document

... Women’s employment increases their independence and, as a result, the risk of marital disruption, whether by overthrowing traditional marriage norms, by facilitating divorce[r] ... See full document

... One limitation of most prior studies of this issue is that they have used cross-sectional data: these studies are thus incapable of identifying the events in young adults’ life course[r] ... See full document

... Figure A.4: Comparison between observed mortality and hypothetical mortality: NUTS 2 regions (provinces) in the Netherlands with SDR at ages 80 and above significantly lower, signific[r] ... See full document

... The objective of this paper is to investigate how improvements in both educational attainment (especially among children with a low educated mother or an immigratio[r] ... See full document

... gross domestic product per person in purchasing power parity. Their infant mortality rate was around 4 deaths per 1000 live births, female life expectancy at birth was around 80 and male life expectancy about 75 ... See full document