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... The contribution by Treas, Lui, and Gubernskaya (2014, SC19‒2) examines changes in attitudes toward marriage and nonmarital relationships between 1998 and 2008 across 21 countries. Their analysis includes more ... See full document

... this article, based on data from the 2011 Hong Kong census and the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD), we examine the association between education and union formation for both men and women in Hong ... See full document

... Our analysis is based on the baseline dataset from an ongoing, longitudinal project on Women Migration and the Unrest in the Three Southernmost Provinces (2014–2016), conducted by the Institute for Population and Social ... See full document

... than 2% of the population is of AI/AN ancestry, precluding analyses using all but the largest data sets; that there is tremendous heterogeneity among the American Indian population; and that there are concerns ... See full document

... This analysis employs growth curve modeling techniques (Singer and Willett 2003) to investigate how the migration circumstances of adult children may shape typical self- rated physical health trajectories across age ... See full document

... A caveat also applies to our factorial survey, where respondents skew towards large organizations. This means that our findings, while remaining internally valid, are not easily generalized to the Swiss labor market as a ... See full document

... region dummies, and survey year dummies. We find that part of the January effect is not explained by education and other controls for real wages and formal/informal em- ployment. For real wages, the unexplained gap ... See full document

... After surveying the available statistics, Goode (1993) concluded that rates of remarriage after divorce were falling in most Western nations. But he was writing in an era when analysts were focused on legal marriage, ... See full document

... 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 forwarded ...Another 2% attrited due to refusal to ... See full document

... Following these are countries where the early peak, in the process of transitioning to a later peak, passes through a phase of bimodality (Bulgaria to Sweden): This is the stage when the early mode has declined in ... 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

... and 2‒2); eduMM – partners with homogamous medium educational levels (pairings of 3–3 and 4–4); eduHH – partners with homogamous high education (pairings 5–5 and 6–6); eduHYPER – hypergamy, the female ... See full document

... Furthermore, individuals in the group of more highly educated individuals have a higher likelihood of experiencing a LAT partnership or cohabitation than individuals with a lower education (Hypothesis 2). My ... See full document

... Since the onset of the economic crisis there has been a notable decline in immigration flows and in the union formation and fertility of both Spaniards and immigrants (Castro-Martín et al. 2015). Emigration has ... See full document

... Acculturation styles have been addressed by several authors in the scientific literature, including Berry et al. (2006), Berry and Sabatier (2010), Bourhis et al. (1997) and Navas et al. (2007). They all argue that ... See full document

... For cold-blooded animals life runs more slowly when temperatures are lower. In particular, the trajectory of age-specific death rates is stretched out over a longer period of time at lower vs. higher temperatures (Mair, ... See full document

... This paper conducted the following sensitivity checks, and the regression results on informal and formal help remained robust. First, the regressions replaced whether women intended to have a child or not with whether ... See full document

... After I normalize the weights I then calculate the average treatment effect of a second birth at each time t on a mother’s labor market outcomes to estimate the motherhood penalty (i.e., ATT). The main model is a simple ... See full document

... at least some of the reason why foreign born Latina women have lower remarriage rates is because they have lower levels of education and education is positively associated with the chance of remarriage. In Model 6, after ... 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