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... But even if returning Mexican families face barriers to school enrollment, should we expect the same association in Mexico between duration of residence and school enrollment as observ[r] ... See full document

... Instead of referring to age and time as continuous variables, let’s consider age and time intervals or categories, all of the same width. For instance, all individuals with ages between 0 and 1 are assigned to the age ... See full document

... In this dataset, causes of death are classified according to the World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases (ICD). As our study period extends from 1974 to 2011 it covers three revisions of the ... See full document

... The International Social Survey Program (ISSP), which is the largest programme of cross-national research in the social sciences, collected network data in 1986 and in 2001. The ISSP has opted for a role-relation ... See full document

... one partner. 85% of partnered individuals in owner-occupancy owned their homes jointly with their partners, compared to only 8% of partnered individuals who were sole homeowners (and, consequently, 8% of ... See full document

... First union duration. The mean duration of first union varies from 7–8 years in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Russia, and the Netherlands to over 11 years in Belgium and Poland (Table 3). However, dissolved first ... 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

... Senegalese migration to Europe has its roots in colonialism. The first migrations resulted from recruitment efforts by the French army and administration during colonial times. Starting in the 1950s, rapidly expanding ... See full document

... In these Swedish data, the entropy measure g (for ages above 30) is close to 9 back to about 1945, a level reached after a gradual long-term drop from Nineteenth Century values around 13. The gradual changes in g imply ... See full document

... Five objections are discussed: the model does not necessarily lead to a fertility increase; aggressiveness will lead to an imbalance of labor supply and demand, and is likely to confr[r] ... See full document

... This supports the substitution hypothesis (in people’s adult life the original primary ties with parents and siblings are being substituted by new ties with partner and children) rathe[r] ... See full document

... LE standard errors are increased by proportionately large amounts.. population error results in a slight incremental impact on statistical tests, with a 1.4% increase in false positive [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

... 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

... Whereas the dissolution risk of directly married couples went down in Europe during the diffusion of premarital cohabitation, the family dissolution risk of children born within marr[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

... Demographic and Health Survey data from 31 African countries confirm that there are many instances in which women have several years of primary school but cannot read.. In fact, in some[r] ... 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, 30‒34, ... See full document