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... Respondents were first asked if they had experienced each of the six shocks above in the previous five years (i.e., since 2003), what year the shock took place, and whether the shock cau[r] ... See full document

... Education influences fertility also indirectly. Assuming that highly educated women have their first child later in life than their counterparts with lower qualifications (Blossfeld and Huinink, 1989, 1991), one can ... See full document

... Second, we measure the extent of selective omissions, i.e., whether the probability of listing a deceased sibling during the survey varies by cause of death (external vs. other). Third, we measure misclassifications in ... See full document

... study population and suspicion over signing documents, verbal consent was preferable to written consent so as to reduce potential embarrassment and underscore the participants’ agency. Participants were offered the ... See full document

... Potential confounders are included in the empirical model to net out spurious elements of the association between earnings and first birth probability. Being enrolled in full-time education reduces earned income (as less ... See full document

... In Italy, the foreign presence is a rooted reality, and the number of foreign families has increased rapidly over the last two decades (Blangiardo and Terzera 2008; Bonifazi et al. 2009; Istat 2013a) as documented by the ... See full document

... Our feminizing male occupations (n = 41) are comparable to the 33 feminizing occupations in Reskin and Roos’s (1990) Table 1.6. Another set of mixed occupations (n = 14) feminized as well, and seven female ... See full document

... characteristics that are associated with repartnering for women who have ended a previous partnership in 14 countries. In line with prior research (e.g., De Graaf and Kalmijn 2003; Ivanova, Kalmijn, and Uunk ... See full document

... The socio-economic composition 7 of the realized GGS sample does not show any peculiarities apart from typical survey bias problems, which can be shown by comparing the characteristic distribution of the German GGS with ... See full document

... The DHS have collected relevant schooling information within 38 nations, including 23 in Africa, 3 in South Asia, 7 in Latin America, and 5 in the Middle East and West/Central Asia (DHS 2003). The diversity in ... 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

... 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

... On the other hand, some studies suggest a revival of ancestor worship in the Reform Era. Readers should note that the suppression during the Mao era did not totally succeed in eliminating ancestor worship from society. ... 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

... We could then use the variable ‘origin’ to divide the population into native Swiss, immigrants (the first generation), and their descendants (the second generation). Natives are individu[r] ... See full document

... Despite the mention to universal access, global monitoring of these aims has cen- tered on women married or in-union (UN 2016; UNFPA 2010). As a result, groups with special needs, such as sexually active unmarried ... See full document

... Using EU-SILC panel data to investigate full-time employment as a predictor of partnered women’s risk of first birth in Poland, we first multiply imputed employment status two years[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

... 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

... As a result, estimates in Panel B are based on the entire sample of 2,928 NSFG women born in 1939–1948 through age 30, but restricting samples to those exact age t or older at survey mea[r] ... See full document