[PDF] Top 20 Volume 37 - Article 7 | Pages 147–188

... Nevertheless, with all things considered – the postponement of motherhood in tandem with increased fertility at older ages, the persistently strong second- and third- birth intensities, [r] ... See full document

... less attractive women may be at greater risk of having unfaithful spouses/partners than more attractive women. We used responses to two questions to create a variable measuring spousal/partner infidelity. Ever-married ... See full document

... However, Spline 4, which corresponds to the first-birth propensities of those women who migrated prior to marriage, looks notably different from the other two splines that pick up the [r] ... See full document

... this article goes beyond previous work by making a cross-national comparison between countries that differ strongly in the extent to which marriage is legally supported and distinct from ... See full document

... section 7, we look not only at cohort rates but also at period age-specific fertility rates from the 1950s onwards and hazard rates for the 1940s and subsequent ... See full document

... Another feature of individual social pathways is the turbulence of partnership trajectories. How is the diversity of states individuals experience throughout their life course related to sex, ethnic background, ... See full document

... Policies that reduce the cost of childbearing have been implemented in Finland since the late 1940s, when the government started paying universal child benefit (Forssén, Laukkanen, and Ritakallio 2003). In the mid-1970s ... See full document

... status. 7 As the education systems differ greatly between the United States, Spain, and France, we rely on the International Standardized Classification of Education (ISCED) to create plausibly standardized ... See full document

... Yicheng’s two-child policy includes the following measures: 1) All couples are encouraged to delay marriage, to postpone parenthood, and to have fewer children; 2) The ‘one child per couple’ norm is enthusiastically ... See full document

... In Figure 3-7 we plot the age decomposition for female and male changes in the crude labour force from 1985 (1987 in case of Spain) to 2000. The overall picture is a decrease in the crude labour force rate at ... See full document

... In a broader sense, our paper can also be placed into the literature investigating the degree of seasonality in births across countries. The existing evidence suggests that sea- sonality of births exhibits substantial ... 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

... Since these coefficients may hide the unobserved effects that children have on women’s work productivity (and thus cannot be interpreted as solely reflecting wage discrimination aga[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

... If during the period of study there is an economic contraction – GDP growth decreases by one percentage point – the total fertility rate in poor states decreases on average by 0.002 (0.0[r] ... See full document

... sense given our application to household services. But making location central to the definition of the household is less self-evident in the case of NIDS than it is for the Ag- incourt HDSS, particularly since moves are ... 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

... 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

... Racial identification. One of the challenges of examining AI/AN fertility is deciding how to define the AI/AN population consistently across census years when racial identificati[r] ... See full document

... We begin with descriptive analysis, comparing households with current migrants and without current migrants by the main independent variables (had a violence event in the village in the [r] ... See full document