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... Third, because Chow and Chen (1994) found that Chinese women actively seek upward social mobility in the marriage market in contemporary China, the female occupational hypergamy speci[r] ... See full document

... Across the Arab region the economic challenges young people face are believed to impede their timely entry into marriage (Dhillon 2007; Hasso 2011; Singerman 2007). This is also true in Egypt, the region’s most populous ... See full document

... Figure 2 plots the cohabitation-vs.-marriage hazard ratio of parental separation from Model 3. All covariates were set to their overall mean; only the contextual proportion of births within cohabitation was allowed to ... See full document

... Adult learning programs also offer formalized opportunities to learn how to read outside of the school setting (Abadzi 1994; Abadzi 2003; Lauglo 2001; Stromquist 2006). Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data show that ... See full document

... The hazard regression models for union formation transitions use age groups as the baseline. Women become at risk of union formation at the age of 15, and age is categorized as under 20, 20‒24, 25‒29, ... See full document

... 0‒19, 20‒64, and 65+ for ln(SDR), showed, for example, that sigma convergence again was not statistically significant, except for males aged 0‒19 (unweighted variance ... See full document

... The FGIs were conducted at the premises of the research design developed by the international project ‘Focus on Partnerships’. Team members collaborated to create a standardized focus group guideline, which was used to ... See full document

... As migration increases around the world, interest in the role of migration for children’s health and well-being continues to grow. Most needed are comparative studies that give greater insight into how children’s ... See full document

... of 20 and 44. Singles are the dominant group among 20- to 24-year-olds, at ...group 35–39, and ...group 35–39, constituting a higher share of the population than families with one child or ... See full document

... Previous research has shown that the first occupation after arrival in the destination country is the single most important determinant of the subsequent occupational trajectories among migrants (see McAllister 1995). ... See full document

... Women who marry someone they have known for a short time and whose relationship is not embedded in family ties are more likely to divorce early.. These impulsive marriages reflect cha[r] ... See full document

... (While this recent movement in the US in the direction of greater inequality has been referred to as evidence for a stall in gender convergence, we would note that several sources over[r] ... See full document

... Although cause-specific modal ages at death differ greatly in level, our results indicate that modal age values for leading causes among Canadian males and females increased steadily[r] ... See full document

... The main driver of declining youth crime in Denmark is that fewer young people are experiencing contact with the criminal justice (extensive margin), and not lower rates of criminal re[r] ... See full document

... Mexico’s cohabitation boom of the 2000s was driven by cohorts born after 1975, whose cohabiting unions are less likely to transition to marriage than those formed by earlier cohorts.. [r] ... See full document

... We use instrumental variable models with multiple births as instruments to examine the causal effects of family size on the health outcomes of children, as measured by receiving medici[r] ... See full document

... variable. Second, we re-estimate the main models, using the father’s country of birth instead of the mother’s country of birth. Third, we include additional control variables at the individual level (i.e., religious ... See full document

... After discussing the rationale for including social network indices in the GGS, we provide descriptive information on social network characteristics and an overview of substantive ques[r] ... See full document

... Deaths come from the Mortality Information System of the Ministry of Health (SIM/Datasus). The SIM is a database that contains information about persons who died since 1979 in Brazil. Because the data are available only ... See full document

... In this paper we propose the use of the inhomogeneous K -function (Baddeley, Møller, and Waagepetersen 2000) to study spatial attraction in the household locations of some groups of fore[r] ... See full document