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... Regarding the effects of the control variables, ethnically mixed parentage and early exposure to the minority language enhance the probability that majority women would enter into an exo[r] ... See full document

... The conference was jointly organized by the Center for Healthy Aging and Development Studies (CHADS), the National School of Development at Peking University, the China Population and De[r] ... See full document

... Results show that (1) minority students have higher college aspirations than students of Spanish origin after accounting for parental socioeconomic status and educational performance; (2[r] ... See full document

... Given the negative relationship observed between the effort made by countries to provide social transfers for the elderly and the marital fertility index during the periods 1880–1930 and[r] ... See full document

... The second important contribution of our article is that we showed that the correlation between employment and marital instability can be affected by selection mechanisms. The multi-process specification changed ... See full document

... Because educational adaptation patterns appear to differ significantly among Hispanic and black girls and boys, we draw on the immigrant optimism and segmented assimilation perspectives [r] ... See full document

... This article has two aims. First, we introduce ‘expected years ever married’ (EYEM) as a new alternative index to describe the transition from never married to ever married status. Second, the changes over time in ... See full document

... Figure 1 shows the ICT screen-viewing activities by gender and geographical location during the survey years 2006–2011. As Figure 1a illustrates, TV viewing in China has mirrored the soc[r] ... See full document

... The empirical results of this study highlight the long-overlooked role of traditional culture in accounting for demographic outcomes in contemporary China. In general, marriage and family decisions are the joint ... See full document

... Regardless of whether the ultimate aim is to compare marital fertility patterns in different countries or to undertake a detailed study of a single country over a long time period during[r] ... See full document

... As noted, we determined whether an occupation masculinized or feminized by looking at the overall change in female representation between 2000 and 2014: We coded a person as being in a m[r] ... See full document

... This study shows with hard, reliable data, independent of traditional statistics, that elderly males in tropical Latin America enjoy an exceptionally high life expectancy and that SES gr[r] ... See full document

... The preface by Yi Zeng ( 2018 ) and the three papers in this Special Collection of Demographic Research demonstrate that significant progress has been made in the understanding of the c[r] ... See full document

... The cornerstone of mortality- and life-expectancy forecasting in developed nations, the Lee-Carter model relies on assumptions of there being a dominant singular value that captures most[r] ... See full document

... Using unit level data from the National Employment Survey in urban areas of India, Klasen and Pieters (2015) have confirmed that rising levels of household income play an important role [r] ... See full document

... f ( X t ) = δYt -1 + v k X t- k (3) We consider male and female unemployment rates in the three different geographic areas (i.e., the northern, central and southern regions o[r] ... See full document

... The positive correlation between earnings and fertility estimated in Model 1 could indicate that the income effect dominates the substitution effect – either because individuals with [r] ... See full document

... Male empowerment (male power advantage induced by higher educational level, being older, and doing less housework than the female partner) correlates with early childbearing and positive[r] ... See full document

... Respondent- driven sampling (RDS), a technique originally developed to sample hard-to-reach populations in high-income countries, may offer an improved approach for surveying hard-to-rea[r] ... See full document

... variable. Second, we re-estimate the main models, using the father’s country of birth instead of the mother’s country of birth. Third, we include additional control variables at the individual level (i.e., religious ... See full document