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... Figure 18: Estimated male SMAL from OLS model with proportion of males in service after exiting the parental home as the predictor, England and Wales, 1881.. Source: Schürer and Woolla[r] ... See full document

... The first, self-reported general health, is assessed by asking the respondents how they would consider their current health status. Using this indicator, we construct a variable that equals 1 if the respondent was in ... See full document

... To a large extent, research on the fertility of descendants of immigrants has been confined to classical immigration countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia, which are countries that were built by ... See full document

... With an average of 7.4 children per woman in 2010–2015, Niger is the country with the highest level of fertility in the world (UNPD 2017). The level of fertility remained stable over the last decades. Given the ... See full document

... Two approaches were used to estimate the constant K, a direct life table calculation based on numerical integration of the right side of (9), and an approach relying on the relation K = −h(κ )β −1 for a Gompertz ... See full document

... The columns in Table 7 show five contrasts where the retrospective and prospective report of wanted wanted (rWpW) is the baseline comparison group for all other contrasts. The first column shows the unwanted unwanted ... 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

... respondents’ situation at age 10: coresidence with biological parents (with both, with only one, with none); coresidence with at least one grandparent (yes or no); household’s overcrowding rate (number of people living ... See full document

... As can be seen in Table 4, couples formed by a native man with primary or secondary education and an immigrant woman with higher education than his are systematically less likely to happ[r] ... 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

... Section 4 we discuss some of the challenges of applying theoretical relationships to em- pirical data, especially due to the fact that in real-world scenarios time is not continu- ous, and some adjustments are ... See full document

... Although these theoretical premises are widely accepted, relatively few studies have empirically examined the change in family constellations during the transition from the pre-modern to the modern demographic regime. ... See full document

... As noted above, a major concern of the literature dealing with households in South Africa has been the question of whether households should be viewed through the lens of the ‘nuclear’ family or not. Nevertheless against ... See full document

... the 95% CI (Table 2). Among women, the MHAS estimate (23.4 years) and its 95% CI is slightly higher than that from the Mexican vital statistics, whereas the CRELES estimate ... 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

... We have observed yet another uniform trend reversal towards the end of the 1990s, however (Andersson and Liu 2001): Birth propensities of mothers (Figures 2-3) and childless women aged 3[r] ... See full document

... 2006) 4 shows, that, on the one hand, new sex preferences (in favor of girls) are likely to have evolved in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden as recently as in the 1980s, while, on the other hand, culturally rooted ... See full document

... To summarize, it seems one reason deviations in the estimates for the vocational degree category in the imputed, as compared to the original, histories are so small is that gaps between successive vocational training ... See full document

... Projected age profiles of death rates. Not surprisingly, methods differ substantially in how they project the evolution of age-specific death rates (Figure 1). The Bongaarts’ shifting model, which explicitly assumes age ... See full document

... This study contributes to the literature in several ways. First, most of the current studies on internal migration focus largely on the social integration of the first generation (see, for instance, Borjas, Bronars, and ... See full document