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... The disposable soma theory is also explicitly applied at the individual level, because trade-offs can also operate at the individual level. For instance, Kirkwood and Rose (1991) consider the case when “reproductive ... See full document

... following consequences: (a) they would stay young longer; (b) they would have a very close emotional relationship with their children; (c) their standing in their social network would increase; (d) their adult children ... See full document

... To estimate the effect of a given parameter on the probability of upward occupational mobility across various labor market sectors, multinomial logit models were estimated in which the[r] ... See full document

... Table 1 presents the distribution of adults aged 18-79 in France according to their couple ...at 1%, while the proportion of people having a second residence where they live alone is estimated at 3% (not ... 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

... 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

... approximately 1/10 of the PSUs that have the largest within-PSU variance in education - the precise selection criterion being a standard deviation larger than ... 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 ...does 4) ... 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

... Despite the distance between the contemporary practice of cultural anthropology and demography, the possibilities for mutually productive intellectual exchange are enormous. Demographic rates are true “social facts,” in ... 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

... The binary regressions for the main variables indicated that, after other factors are controlled for, mothers who were older and whose youngest child was older were less likely to report the intention to have another ... 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

... This article focuses on level-1 vs. level-2 explanations. We present a new method for decomposing change in a population average into two components, one capturing the ef- fect of direct change and the ... See full document

... ber 1, ...September 1, 1939 (the region ceded by the Soviet Union in 1940 (Karelia) is treated as a separate county even though those territories originally belonged to the same county as the part of ... 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

... Likewise, these case studies represent Buddhism across very different economic development levels in 2010: Mongolia is a relatively poor country with a GDP per head of 2,227 USD; Thailand has an intermediate economic ... 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

... leave is 24 weeks with 70% of the average daily earnings and no ceiling on payments. After maternity leave, mothers and fathers alike are entitled for parental leave until the second birthday of the child. The cash ... See full document