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... 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

... 30‒34, 35‒39, and 40 and ...in 5- year spells (up to 5, 6‒10, 11‒14, 15‒19, 20‒24, 25 or more years), and individuals are censored at partner’s ... See full document

... than two-thirds of these expenses (Singerman 2007). This means that the average Egyptian groom must save his entire earnings for 3.5 years to finance his share of marriage expenditures alone (compared to 0.6 years for ... See full document

... Tables A-1 to 3 show the annual change in ACLE for each decade of the twentieth century, and its decomposition, for three countries: England and Wales, Norway and Switzerland. The first column shows time t, the midpoint ... See full document

... than 5 years’ duration in the United States, which highlights the large role of family and household factors in explaining recently arrived children’s lower schooling ... 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 dependent variable assessed in this paper is the birth registration status of the children, which was derived using two survey questions from the child questionnaire. The first question asks caregivers if the ... See full document

... While the data used in this study gave us the opportunity to trace the effects of living conditions in childhood on health in midlife, we were unable to observe individual health at very advanced ages. Future research ... See full document

... For analytical purposes, we restricted the sample on several fronts. As most cohorts born after 1994 were only followed up to their sixth anniversary, we limited the observation window to the first six years after birth ... See full document

... The present work exploits mortality data from the Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database (CVSDD), which provides detailed information about individuals who died from a particular cause – an important advantage for the ... See full document

... In a second model we add controls for demographic and socio-economic variables, namely age, educational attainment, employment and marital status, number of children under age 18 in the household, and the presence of a ... See full document

... We use EU-SILC 2011 data for the measurement of disability. We apply the Global Activity Limitation Index (GALI) as an indicator for measuring ability limitations in Europe (Van Oyen et al. 2006). It uses a single ... See full document

... Condition (49), as follows from Proposition 3, guarantees the relative tails of longevity ordering of eq. (35). It can be verified for various specific cases such as the power law for the mortality rate and the ... See full document

... To get further insight into the scale of the declining recuperation of postponed marriages and the rising permanent singlehood by level of education, I developed two projection scenarios of CFMR at age 45 for the women ... See full document

... fact have a long-term relationship with the father of the child(ren). The information included in the FFS about the status of couples at the time of the birth of children is very useful in distinguishing between ... 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

... The false positive rate (or type 1 error rate) (Gravetter and Wallnau 2002) measures the increase in the number of erroneous statistical test results that occur due to the omission of a last age interval variance ... See full document

... We graphically represent the observed economic resource transfers within household and family networks, and we use ERGMs to estimate the effects of individual attributes, relationship [r] ... See full document

... 1) Economic Insecurity Hypothesis: The long period of economic recession experienced in Senegal and the associated reshaping of social and economic relationships involved a general de[r] ... See full document

... Although presented as the remedy for economic problems and unemployment since the 1990s, the diffusion of new forms of flexible and temporary work contracts has transformed labor mark[r] ... See full document