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... We find that relationships between TFR and widely used social, economic, and policy- related factors (rural Hukou, ethnic minority, female education, net migration rate, poor living stan[r] ... See full document

... The analysis also includes main covariates to control for other state-level characteristics. We use the Human Development Index (HDI) from the United Nations Development Program to measure human development. This index ... See full document

... Around 16% of individuals could not be tracked from wave 1 to wave 2 because the entire household was lost from the sample – in most cases due to the fact that the household moved and could not be traced at the ... See full document

... Anthropological demography needs to be situated against the context of an evolving world of research in which boundaries between academic disciplines have become much more permeable, i[r] ... See full document

... has been steep increase in the prevalence of grandparental coresidence over time (Ellis and Simmons 2014), what matters for our purposes are trends in the stability (not prevalence) of these arrangements. Unfortunately, ... See full document

... As expected, Model 1 in the left panel closely replicates the results of the former non-parametric analysis (Figure 1a). All first-generation migrant women, except those coming from developed societies (Europe, United ... See full document

... An extensive body of research seeks to identify the mechanisms driving the relationship between education and mortality. One branch of this work focuses on the impact of modifiable health behaviors, such as smoking, ... See full document

... government introduced a nationwide experimental rural social pension scheme. A major feature of this New Rural Pension scheme is that the government makes direct contributions: local and central government finance a ... See full document

... Child labor was common, even at very young ages, and it was not until 1833 that it was forbidden to employ children below age 9. This then changed again in 1912 to 13 years (Olsson 1980). In 1875 about 5% of the ... See full document

... The interaction between season-of-birth patterns and compulsory-schooling laws is of- ten used in the labor economics literature to construct an instrumental variable (IV) for the purpose of estimating the causal impact ... See full document

... We reviewed the 30-year (1985–2015) two-child policy experiment carried out in Yicheng, a county in the Shanxi province of China, to assess the impact of this policy on the crude birth r[r] ... See full document

... where ℎ is the hazard of abortion within time interval t , in episode i for individual j ; is length of time in years since age 15 or for second and higher order pregnancies since the[r] ... 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

... How is the diversity of states individuals experience throughout their life course related to sex, ethnic background, educational level, living in an urban or rural context, or growing u[r] ... See full document

... Regarding educational endogamy, the common finding for all the considered countries is the negative impact of homogamy in highly educated couples on fertility: Highly educated partners t[r] ... See full document

... For analyses of perceived risk of HIV infection, women not in the analytic sample were significantly younger, less wealthy, reported a greater number of lifetime sexual partners, and wer[r] ... See full document

... The impact of foreigner fertility on total fertility in Switzerland is clear: It widens the fertility curve and causes the early bulge, although this is now dissipating as the fertility[r] ... See full document

... Our study examines educational differences in the transition to grandparenthood. Comparing East and West Germany, we analyze educational differences in a) the chance of becoming a grandp[r] ... See full document

... Considering that the parents of returned migrants and of nonmigrants experience different risk factors and that return migration may be driven by parents’ adverse physical health, result[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