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... 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 occupations ... See full document

... Millions of Chinese migrant parents face the dilemma of whether to bring their children with them to cities or to leave them behind in the countryside. Which of the two migration strategies would benefit their children ... See full document

... As we shall see below, the results are quite different depending on which index is used. It is well known that the CBR is influenced by the population structure, and therefore its variability can be due not only to ... See full document

... Table 5, Model 1 shows that participation in an ICT screen-viewing activity was not related to BMI for men in urban areas, and this pattern remains after controlling for SES indicators (Model ...Model 5 ... 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

... One of the contributions of the present study is precisely its use of a large number of countries over a lengthy historical period. We show that aggregated data (from both the national and the provincial sphere) can lead ... See full document

... High cholesterol changes the rate of developing CVD from ( ) to ( ) . Cholesterol level is an intervening variable or mediator. The changes in CVD and cholesterol level are two interdependent parallel processes. ... See full document

... or near Western Europe (Austria, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg); 3) Eastern European countries, for which migration to Switzerland is more recent (ex- communist states including former Yugoslavia, plus ... See full document

... Total demand and contraceptive use are fundamental measures of access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Universal access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) by 2030 corresponds to targets 3.7 and ... See full document

... The title of the special collection suggests demographic changes that Goode did not foresee. In addition to ‘divorce’ one finds the word ‘separation,’ and in addition to ‘remarriage,’ one finds the term ‘repartnering.’ ... See full document

... than 5 million in 2015 (Figure 1), and the estimated number of migrants amounts to 7 million, including legal and illegal nonresidents (Blangiardo 2016) and those who have become Italian citizens (Strozza ... See full document

... Concerning potential determinants of aspirations within ethnic groups, we anticipated in Hypothesis 2 that minority students who recently arrived in Spain during primary or secondary education have higher educational ... See full document

... examining 5-year-old children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors, an immigrant advantage has been documented in externalizing behavior in the United States only, but immigrant disadvantages in ... See full document

... 2016). As a consequence, women take on more housework than men, especially when children are present in the family (Bühlmann, Elcheroth, and Tettamanti 2010). Secondly, in the dataset the division of housework between ... See full document

... While the rational choice theory of fertility in its original form addressed completed fertility, the topic of this study is the transition to parenthood – both whether and when a first child is born. While theories of ... 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

... 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

... We selected a stratified sample of (a) sibships in which one sibling (male or female) died between 15 and 59 years old (n=592) and (b) other sibships in which no adult death was recorded[r] ... See full document