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... In 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 2). Model 3 shows that ... See full document

... Turkey); 4) north-western European countries, which include Western European countries that are not included in the preceding categories such as the United Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries; and 5) others, ... See full document

... A two-parameter Gompertz function (Pollard 1991) was estimated for each SES group using hazard regression (Hosmer and Lemeshow 1999). The LE60 and its 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were estimated for each group using ... See full document

... One limitation of most prior studies of this issue is that they have used cross-sectional data: these studies are thus incapable of identifying the events in young adults’ life course[r] ... See full document

... We chose other variables that were both available in the data and that researchers typically examine. We focus on race and immigrant status, but look more broadly at a range of demographic and work variables. We use ... 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

... 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

... Table 2 above on the types of jobs held by working women shows that less educated women more often work on the family farm or as wage laborers; college graduates more likely are found in the more secure (and prestigious) ... See full document

... WHO 2016; Bongaarts 2017). We use aggregate information from DHS surveys carried out in developing countries between 1986 and 2015 and contained in the STATcompiler database (DHS Program 2015). We obtain data on ... 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

... While the CM model is commonly used to parametrise first marriage, there are some opposing opinions to its application. Kaneko (2003) applied the RT parametrisation to Japanese female cohorts (1953–1960) and explained ... See full document

... we give an overview of the literature. As far as we know, we are the first to propose and apply a general framework for frontier estimation in the context of life expectancy. In other areas, especially for frontier and ... 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

... 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

... 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

... However, the increase in the number of dissolutions of cohabiting unions and the increase in the formation of higher-order cohabiting unions means that total rates of union dissolution a[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

... 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

... First, most of the studies on family reunification are focused on a single country of origin and study a specific aspect of family reunification: for instance, migrants fro[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