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... The individual-level data for the empirical analysis of immigrants’ marital choices is drawn from the 2007 National Immigrant Survey (NIS), released by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics. This partly ... See full document

... To summarize, the bias increases with decreasing absolute cluster size, given their relative size. Conversely, given the size of the PSU population, the bias increases with decreasing relative size (% extracted). The ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... ‘Qualitative analysis,’ Bernard (1995, p.360) argues, ‘is the search for patterns in data and for ideas that help explain the existence of those patterns. It begins even before you go to the field and continues ... See full document

... Although demographic rates are social facts of the most compelling kind, although “culture” and “population” offer contrasting concepts of social structure, and although the theoretica[r] ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... Given the absence of pronatalism and the established influence of religion on demographic behaviors in Buddhism, in this study we examine whether Buddhist follower[r] ... See full document

... (approximately 1% of the total population aged below 16) are in foster care, and the annual number of new placements is approximately 4,000 (National Institute for Health and Welfare ... See full document

... Data. The 2010 ACS interviewed approximately 1.9 million U.S. housing units, or 2.4% of all occupied U.S. housing units, and 145,000 persons in group quarters. 5 We used the one-year public use 2010 ACS, which contains a ... 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