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... individual, including retrospective reports of jobs held in years prior to the first wave of data collection, up to the latest survey round. The analysis includes measures of whether individuals were currently employed ... See full document

... Starting from the first model in Table 5, working in a place with long career ladders is strongly associated with men’s preferred number of children. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that work ... See full document

... Above, we have seen substantial similarity in the dynamics of same-sex and opposite-sex unions, specifically with respect to the relationship between union dissolution on the one hand and education and age at union of ... See full document

... models. However, even the three-parameter zero-inflated gamma count distribution can- not be said to be overfitted. Technically the fit here is to 11 data points for each distribu- tion, namely parities 0 through 10, but ... See full document

... Classifying children and their fathers by single year of age is not straightforward when they do not share the same household or the father is deceased. For these unmatched children the father’s age must be estimated. ... See full document

... consequences.” 5 In 1826, Giovanni Contarini, a Venetian government adviser, wrote a report to Vienna indicating that, among the leading causes of death of children, “the very special cause, perhaps the one which ... 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

... (1995:202) argue that in those countries where divorce is still rare women with high educational levels have a higher risk of marriage dissolution than women with lower education becau[r] ... See full document

... For butchers, a highly regulated and well-capitalized trade, sales were restricted to the public markets, seven in 1880 (Figure 3). Lovell’s directory lists both home address and the market stall. Over half a century ... See full document

... Figure 10 reports age- and parity-specific elasticity of fertility rates to female unemployment rate (see Figure A-5 in the Appendix for total and youth unemployment rates and Table A-3 for complete models). The ... See full document

... This research expands the current knowledge base in the following ways. First, we document the educational experience of orphans in the West African country of Nigeria, a country with an estimated 7.3 million orphaned ... See full document

... We can also see the role that cohabitation plays in shifting the age at marriage. Most studies analyzing cohabitation and marriage use competing risk hazard models to model choices between the two types of union (e.g., ... See full document

... 5. In literature, the Italian society is generally portrayed as having a less favourable attitude towards alternative unions to marriage if compared to other western countries. This limited social approval is ... See full document

... Figure 5 provides details of the availability of grandparents in aggregate age groups. In all of the countries for which data are available, the ties persist well into young adulthood. The proportion of young ... See full document

... What is important is the fact that while the United Nations (1982) seemed to be aware of the existence of other decomposition formulas it failed to realize that all these proce- dures would give the same results if ... See full document

... Because the studied age group of 1–15 years may be heterogeneous, as a sensitivity analysis we also studied separately the age groups 1–4 and 5–15. We first performed ANOVA tests, which revealed that there were no ... See full document

... This article discusses how fertility relates to social status with the use of a new dataset, several times larger than the ones used so far. The status-fertility relation is investigated over several centuries, ... See full document

... The regional heterogeneity identified in this article suggests that region-specific contextual factors are important determinants of the link between the timing of first birth and birth intensity. In the Nordic ... 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

... The second aim was to investigate the variation in mortality risks, thereby providing insight into the factors that affected the health of the population in question. More specifically, [r] ... See full document