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... 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 Demographic Research has an arrangement with Special Collections, it has been possible to publish this collection in one go in mid-2008, as the first part of Volume 19. The editors chose to use this medium ... See full document

... 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

... economic downturn. We first note that shifts between 2009 and 2015 in the overall TFRs of countries differed considerably. The TFRs of the total population declined in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Finland, the United ... 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

... approximately 1/10 of the PSUs that have the largest within-PSU variance in education - the precise selection criterion being a standard deviation larger than ... See full document

... Germany benefited from sizeable reductions in the crude death rate in the years after reunification. On the other hand, its neighbors Denmark and the Netherlands experienced only small changes during this period. The ... See full document

... Descriptive statistics reveal that the occupational structure of the Tartu population was dominated by manual workers, who accounted for over three-fifths of the gainfully employed; the second largest group was comprised ... See full document

... conclusions: 1) Findings from two ethnographic studies of low fertility can be compared and generalised if such concepts as ‘comparison’ and ‘generalisation’ are understood in the anthropological ... 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

... 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

... 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

... Marital homogamy usually refers to marriage between partners of the same social group. Homogamy based on group affiliation may be – and indeed has been – defined in various ways; either by social background, by ethnic ... See full document

... identity: 1) women who identify as AI/AN only, 2) any woman who identifies as AI/AN, whether identifying one or more races, and 3) women who list a specific tribe or American Indian for the ancestry ... 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

... Italy shows trends similar to those of other southern European countries. Despite the strong family attachments and the prevalence of traditional family forms within the country, Italy has long been characterised by ... See full document

... We employ a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach developed by Girosi and King (2008) to incorporate both the key risk factors of smoking and obesity and the long- standing demographic[r] ... See full document