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... We tested whether relationships with relatives (network size, fre- quency of contact, and availability of practical and emotional support) were activated in response to parenthood, and i[r] ... See full document

... Not surprisingly, the population sizes of the metropolitan places settled by pioneers were relatively large, especially for Salvadorans (397,000), Dominicans (358,000), and Colombians [r] ... See full document

... Appendix 2 and Appendix 3 present the list of districts that experienced the lowest declines in fertility (reduction of TFR of less than 0.5) and highest declines in fertility (reduct[r] ... See full document

... Compared with all other education groups, mothers with some college have the highest rates of labor force participation, but also high rates of part-time employment, non-standard work,[r] ... See full document

... The purpose of the study is to explore the rising phenomenon of young, unmarried, cohabiting couples in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, and to evaluate how characteri[r] ... See full document

... This article provides a structural view of changes in the transition to adulthood in China. Specifically, we trace changes in timing, sequencing, and level of heterogeneity among four synthetic cohorts between ... See full document

... However, if we compare co-resident kin with non-resident kin, we see that mothers-in-law have a significantly positive effect on progression, though only when women do not have living [r] ... See full document

... Specific information on the effect of these incentives in the GGS is lacking, but several studies have shown that the use of this type of incentive can enhance participation (Singer e[r] ... See full document

... The inconsistency score, coded continuously from 0 to 3, measures the number of items (educational attainment, number of children ever born, and number of lifetime sexual partners) for[r] ... See full document

... Conditional age-specific fertility rates provide a more complete account of the evolution of fertility. Firstly, if we consider all birth orders combined, these rates show that fertility levels have decreased in all ... See full document

... Baizan, Beauchemin, and González-Ferrer (2014) found that Senegalese migrants with partners in the origin country who have the potential to adapt to labor market circumstances in Eur[r] ... See full document

... Five different specifications were used: overall immigrant status (specification 1 ); first- (foreign-born) versus second-generation immigrants (Norwegian-born with two immigrant [r] ... See full document

... Persons who are embedded in this kind of network perceive more social pressure regarding family formation, anticipate strong network support in case of parenthood, and, because of [r] ... See full document

... Figure 2 shows life cycle deficit (LCD) by gender, both monetary LCD − difference between consumption and production of market activities − and non-market LCD − based on time use e[r] ... See full document

... argument is that individuals with relatively low levels of human capital, women, and especially women with relatively low levels of human capital are likely to have had less influence [r] ... See full document

... Gender equity theory argues that more women will consider the impact to be unfair in countries where social institutions do not provide strong support to the combination of work and f[r] ... See full document

... In many West African countries, births are concentrated at the beginning of the year; therefore, despite using large units of aggregation, we were able to find consistent seasonal birth [r] ... See full document

... We agree with Zhou and Hou (1999) that if the LLF family planning policy had not raised the age at first marriage of the urban population, the difference in age at first marriage between[r] ... See full document

... Due to the increasing proportion of women of reproductive age living in a consensual union and the similarity of childbearing patterns of married and cohabiting women, the proportion o[r] ... See full document

... that are being documented in smaller population-specific studies (Beguy, Bocquier, and Zulu 2010). Such small geographical areas may experience even more rapid change in local populati[r] ... See full document