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... At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lexis counterattacked (Note 18) in a footnote at the bottom of page 3. In this very long footnote, Lexis speaks about several scientists who have worked in the field of ... See full document

... wellbeing affected and which relationship structures are detrimental. Utilizing sibling samples from the U.S. and Sweden, Björklund et al. ( 2004 ) find that the negative effect of living in a non-intact family on child ... See full document

... The temporary nature of the relationship is also reflected in the greater proportion of students who have an LAT partner (79% of men and 67% of women) (Table 3). It is also among students that the proportions with ... See full document

... Longitudinal (or panel) household data can have considerable advantages over more widely available cross-sectional data for social science analysis. Longitudinal data permit (1) tracing the dynamics of behaviors, (2) ... See full document

... Desai (1995: 196) has pointed out that the resource dilution thesis is based on three assumptions: “(1) Parents, rather than the state or extended kin groups, provide the bulk of economic and non-economic resources ... See full document

... In a tradition going back to the seminal book by Gary Becker (1981), economists typically hypothesize that fertility will decrease as women’s educational levels increase, because childbearing intensities are dominated by ... See full document

... The decline in the shares of large families was another prevailing trend (panels D, Figures 1, 2 and 3). Detailed analyses show that it was mainly the proportions of really large families of four and more children ... See full document

... Our analytical strategy consists in comparing the coefficients assessing migrants’ health advantages across nested models, successively adding our independent variables of interest. A series of methodological papers warn ... See full document

... Earlier research on fertility trends in the historical Ovamboland region has shown that in 1925, total fertility was almost eight and total marital fertility around ten (Notkola and Siiskonen 2000). Fertility declined ... See full document

... The overview chapters cover the following topics: 1. Contemporary levels and trends of fertility in Europe 2. Changing ultimate-parity distribution and family size 3. Birth regulation (contraception and induced ... See full document

... In terms of variables related to pension payments, the two most important ones are those described in the last section. Note that EP pers is on average about 3.1 points (6.6 percent) higher than EP CP in columns 1 and 5 ... See full document

... The estimates obtained through the simultaneous approach are shown in the column named Model 3, in Table 1 for Italy and Table 2 for Spain. We discuss the estimates of the simultaneous modeling and compare them to ... See full document

... For the comparison of immigrants with the Swedish-born population we have used a simpler procedure. First of all, the life histories are only constructed for women (i.e., not for couples), and we have left out their ... See full document

... and 3 (2006−7) (Banks et ...Wave 3 included a retrospective life course interview which collected information about childhood and adult life prior to joining the ... See full document

... Trends in the role of religion in mortality, for example, might still have played a role. Mackenbach, Kunst, and Looman (1991) showed that the convergence towards the mean of regions in the southeast in the Netherlands ... See full document

... Model 3 shows that playing computer games was related to higher BMIs for rural men, and this pattern remains after controlling for SES indicators (Model ... 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

... A descriptive overview suggests a degree of country clustering (Figure 1). In one cluster we find the Mediterranean countries (Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece), with high rates of male and female singlehood. This is ... See full document

... To measure respondents’ race and ethnicity, we contrasted non-Hispanic Whites, non-Hispanic Blacks, Mexicans, and other Hispanic respondents. We adopt a ‘subjective’ measure of race and ethnicity based on respondents’ ... See full document

... Lesthaege and Neels made use of a set of concepts (in Boudon’s sense) that Ansley Coale introduced 40 years ago. Dissatisfied with a pure macro-analytical approach, Coale proposed a simple, general framework within which ... See full document