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... In contrast to the urban adult mortality disadvantage we identify in our SSA data, the empirical literature has been mostly consistent in showing that child mortality is lower in urban areas across much of SSA (Akoto and ... See full document

... As outlined above, a key challenge in studying the relationship between early childbearing and late-life health outcomes is the presence of confounding factors that are potentially driving both the process behind having ... See full document

... After identifying all female internal migrants in the microdata and examining migrant status by sex and age, we analysed the effects of demographic indicators on the likelihood of a girl or woman being identified as an ... See full document

... The results in Table 5 suggest more diverse intermarriage dynamics in the case of native women than in the case of their male counterparts. As in the case of native men, native women who have been previously ... See full document

... In the next step, we explore whether it is common that fathers who stayed home longer with the child also perform a greater share of the childcare when both parents are back at work. In Table 1, the constant is –0.91 ... See full document

... Dependent variables. In our first set of multivariate analyses utilizing wave-one data only, we examine three dependent variables targeting fertility intentions, wants, and ideals. In a subsequent analysis, we utilize ... See full document

... These connections have not been explored that often. There is a burgeoning lit- erature documenting changes in postapartheid poverty and inequality (Leibbrandt et al. 2010; Leibbrandt, Finn, and Woolard 2012) and living ... See full document

... When the post-war reconstruction gave way to the economic boom that put Italy among the ranks of the industrial countries, the cleavage between the two parts of the country was still massive. The boom mostly involved the ... See full document

... The relationship between life lived and left may be especially relevant for the study of populations in which ages are unknown, but individuals are followed until death. In Section 4 we discuss some of the challenges of ... See full document

... Figure 5 shows, for each region, the deviation for aggregated five-year period estimates, when using different regional expected time distributions of births and ... See full document

... this article summarizes and details the current picture of men’s fertility in the Nordic countries with respect to education (Kravdal 2007; Kravdal and Rindfuss 2008; Rønsen and Skrede 2010; Lappegård, Rønsen, and ... See full document

... We have specified all of the covariates as categorical variables as follows (reference category in bold): mother’s age (12-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49), father’s age (15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, ... See full document

... Racial and ethnic diversity across the US population has increased markedly over recent decades, and this trend is expected to continue into the future (Alba and Foner 2015; Frey 2014; Lee et al. 2017; Lichter and Qian ... See full document

... We estimate the survival model for the four reasons for departure simultaneously. The control variables are gender, age group, and country of origin. Results from the flexible model for gender and age are reported in ... See full document

... With regard to the separate items of joint lifestyles, the differences between union types reveal the same pattern, except for visiting family, in which cohabiters with marriage intentio[r] ... See full document

... (2011: 284) state, “Little is known about the background and consequences of life course transitions for migrants and their families.” Second, and related to the first point, in contrast[r] ... See full document

... Compared to Fast 3+ , for example, both women and men in the Slow 2 cluster, characterized by a relatively high age at first union and first birth and by a total fertility of about two [r] ... See full document

... However, since G&L individuals have been shown to endorse the overall value of parenthood as strongly as their heterosexual counterparts (Riskind and Patterson 2010) we do not expect[r] ... See full document

... In accordance with the family ties perspective, I propose a research agenda that addresses four issues, each associated with several scientific challenges: (1) identifying the role of fa[r] ... See full document

... Figure 1b depicts perfect association (or complete agreement) of these two measures: All prospectively unwanted births are also reported retrospectively as unwanted and all prospectively[r] ... See full document