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... Studying data from national time use surveys conducted in the United States, France, and Spain, we extract information about who undertakes certain activities in order to examine three t[r] ... See full document

... First, different methods provide consistent estimates in a substantial number of cases (Figure 3, Figure 4, Appendix Figure A-1). For instance, date-of-last-birth and own-children estimates are very close in Kenya ... See full document

... Because cities are places of intense connectivity, the challenge of the urban object is as a “connectome” (Seung 2012). How are we connected? How does the structure of connections change? How does it make us what we are? ... See full document

... Figure 3 shows the IMR trajectory of each of these clusters, Figure 4 the locations of the RDs of each cluster. To a striking degree, the RDs which we clustered for their statistical similarity also cluster ... See full document

... The higher propensity for women of Turkish descent to have a first child compared to native French women (Model 1) decreases once partnership formation is controlled for (Model 2), meaning that part of their higher first ... See full document

... The situation might have changed by the late 19 th century. While the Church was, for a period at least, stubborn in defending the quamprimum principle, many doctors began to stress the dangers of early baptism (see also ... See full document

... Figure 4 compares the fits of the regular Poisson, gamma count, and zero-inflated gamma count models to the empirical HFD completed-cohort birth parity distributions, in terms of mean squared error based on the ... See full document

... countries. 4 Using US data, Torr and Short (2004) find a U- shaped relationship between couples’ distribution of household labor and the transition to second birth, with a higher probability of second birth for ... See full document

... Conditional on wanting to become parents, women working in more sociable environments were only marginally different from others regarding their expected timing of entering parenthood. It is somewhat surprising, however, ... See full document

... However, when we disaggregate the employment measures by sector we find the interaction terms between regions and employment are significant only for services and the professional-technical sectors (Table A-4). ... 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

... Thus, in all regions we find the same stylized fact: more-educated women wait longer before having their first child than less-educated women, but ultimately, among women at the end of their childbearing years, highly ... See full document

... While the bivariate probit model and partial linear regressions are formally identified with exclusion restrictions in the main analysis, doubts remain about the validity of the identifying instruments and the inferences ... See full document

... found. However, labourers’ children residing in areas with mixed soils (foremost a mix of clayey till, clay/clay-till, and sandy soils) experience in general a lower risk of dying compared to children residing in areas ... See full document

... A reference to Figure 4 will situate this argument and point us toward the weighting to be used in constructing an index. The marriage-age matrix shows wife’s age at marriage in rows and husband’s age at marriage ... See full document

... Women’s employment increases their independence and, as a result, the risk of marital disruption, whether by overthrowing traditional marriage norms, by facilitating divorce[r] ... See full document

... In Section 2, we give formal definitions of the tail of longevity and of the relative tail of longevity. Sections 3 and 4 are devoted to proving that redundancy decreases the relative tail of longevity. As ... 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

... Thus, family real estate wealth significantly and substantially increased the likelihood of death while the three variables designed to assess the healthy migrant effect (country of bi[r] ... See full document

... Note : 95% Confidence Intervals reported. See Table 1 for sample descriptions... Table A-1: Total fertility rate response to structural, economic, and financial uncertainty indicators. [r] ... See full document