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... Fostering, i.e., permanently or temporarily raising children that are not one’s biological children, is common in many societies worldwide (Silk 1980; Scelza and Silk 2014). Across 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, ... See full document

... Our second hypothesis posited that respondents in kin unions would report lower matrimonial expenditures compared to respondents in other unions. We found that there was a significant reduction in matrimonial ... See full document

... Although Muslim women have higher birth rates than women of other backgrounds in contemporary France (Toulemon 2004; Westoff and Frejka 2007), there are widespread misconceptions about Muslim fertility and corresponding ... See full document

... A study using data from the United States reported that economic deprivation in the neighborhood did not affect the risk of divorce once couple-level resources were controlled for (Sou[r] ... See full document

... To estimate the degree of mortality advantage among BAF officers, we first predict age-specific death rates using the coefficients of Poisson regression models that estimate the number of deaths during the follow-up ... See full document

... Figure 3 presents the outcomes of a two-dimensional P -splines approach in model- ing and forecasting mortality data for Danish females and US males. The top panels show empirical and fitted as well as forecast trends ... See full document

... Specification of kinship ties between children and their surrounding family makes it possible to adopt different perspectives. The three typologies proposed highlight the nuclear family, classificatory kin, and ... See full document

... terview. Unemployment soared during the economic contraction of the 1990s and many families were affected by job losses. Shortly after reunification, inter-household trans- fers were low: on average, individuals received ... See full document

... In our analysis we focus on three life-cycle factors: educational attainment, income, and relationship stability. Each of these has been associated with teenage motherhood in its own right and has also been shown to be ... See full document

... Zeng, Yang, Wang, and Morgan (2002) recently estimated the U.S. race-sex-age- specific occurrence/exposure (o/e) rates of marriage/union formation and dissolution and the race–age–parity–marital-status–specific rates of ... See full document

... Even if a 2-4% increase in unemployment up to 1993 should reduce birth rates as suggested by the static model, one will not necessarily get a good impression of period total fertility ra[r] ... See full document

... To fill this gap in the literature, this study (a) compares rates of poor overall health and disability of black/white biracial children with those of single-race white and sin[r] ... See full document

... Finally, reaffirming the journal’s Open Science commitments, in place since 2013, we strongly encourage adherence to replicability principles. Henceforward, not only can Replicable status for a paper be earned by ... See full document

... Descriptive statistics for the outcome variable are provided in Table 2 and Figure 1. Table 2 reports the mean length of closed birth intervals by parity and birth cohort [r] ... See full document

... The empirical evidence in the reviewed studies also shows the differentiated influence of environmental stress on types of migration response (Findley 1994; Henry, Schoumaker, [r] ... See full document

... All three models simultaneously project demographic (age, sex, place of residence, immigrant status), ethno-cultural (country of birth, language, and where possible other variables such[r] ... See full document

... This appendix shows that the Canadian General Social Survey is unable to capture period measures of divorce because (1) sample sizes of divorces measured in the c[r] ... See full document

... Newlywed couples in arranged marriages do not seem to have different profile similarity indexes than those in love marriages, save for when the sample is restricted to only those of Kyrg[r] ... See full document

... By studying mobility trajectories, rather than discrete relocation events, research can improve our understanding of mobility processes in a biographical context (Bail[r] ... See full document

... Female education is positively related to marital stability, but this association is only partly explained by educational differences in marital satisfaction and variables that shape att[r] ... See full document