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... On the other hand, class differences in airborne disease mortality and perinatal causes continued to exist until the end of observation in 1926, suggesting that these causes may have bec[r] ... See full document

... study population and suspicion over signing documents, verbal consent was preferable to written consent so as to reduce potential embarrassment and underscore the participants’ agency. Participants were offered the ... See full document

... aged 15 and older the further variable refers to the occupational group of their husband or father if they resided in the household at the time of the ...age 15 only the family-level information for ... See full document

... Figure 9 shows the age-specific fertility rate’s elasticity to unemployment measures (Panel (a)) and economic and financial uncertainty (Panel (b)) (complete results are reported in Table A-2 in the Appendix). The ... See full document

... The DHS Program (dhsprogram.com) has collected data in more than 90 countries, beginning in the mid-1980s. Three questionnaires are used in the standard DHS survey: a household questionnaire, a questionnaire for women ... See full document

... The same set of control covariates is used to analyse the transition to the first, the second, and the third birth, with the covariates being added step by step in order to analyse how the specific effect of origin is ... See full document

... When the age of the woman is controlled for, the risks of having a second child (Table 6a) decrease significantly for all marriage cohorts of sharecroppers and farmers, for the last t[r] ... See full document

... We now turn to one such phenomenon. Both male and female occupation could be a strong influence on IMR: they may be thought of as mediating the impact of remoter, spatial factors stemming mainly from the geography of ... See full document

... To study occupational mobility between generations (father and son, or father and son- in-law) we tracked samples of individuals married in the interval 1881‒1901. Moves to higher-status streets proved as effective as ... See full document

... In principle, family dissolution may affect children of any age (Liu 2007; Palosaari and Aro 1994). This general notion is mirrored in the literature, as there does not seem to be any widely used theory-based age limit ... See full document

... Despite their increased presence in the labour market, mothers continue to reconcile work and family by engaging in part-time work, and often only after children have entered school. Relative to other European countries, ... See full document

... Between 36% (Portugal) and 90% (Finland) of married/cohabiting couples across Europe report having disagreements over housework (van der Lippe, Voorpostel, and Hewitt ... See full document

... With regards to the quality of the geocoding, the linkage between the poll tax registers and the digitized property units has been carried out on two levels of detail: on the exact property unit and on the address level ... See full document

... For migrants aged 25‒29 years at arrival, there is a large increase in rates of childbearing in the first two years following arrival for women migrating from Pakistan and Bangladesh[r] ... See full document

... In other ways, however, a demographer’s life has become more complicated. The life course of mid-20 th -century America used to be commonly characterized as an unwavering linearity of courtship, followed by marriage, and ... See full document

... The postponement of first childbirth has been occurring in most European countries for some decades now. In France, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway, for example, the mean age of women at first childbirth ... See full document

... Biological children also possess an educational advantage among maternal/double orphans, and in the same group, children who are relatives of the household head have the lowest probabili[r] ... See full document

... We explore whether women’s paid employment is associated with reductions in women’s stated son preference in India and whether these results vary by employment sector (agriculture, manuf[r] ... See full document

... Villavicencio and David 2000; Miller 2008; Jacob 2013). “Children conceived or born out of a void or annulled marriage are considered illegitimate and an amended birth certificate indicating the new civil status of the ... See full document

... Gender-role attitudes are measured by the two-pronged question: “What kind of family do you prefer with regard to: 1) housework, and 2) income?” 8 If a male responds that housework should mainly be the wife’s ... See full document