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... The objective of this paper is to investigate how improvements in both educational attainment (especially among children with a low educated mother or an immigratio[r] ... See full document

... A second economic consideration related to kin marriage is the reduced matrimonial expenditures involved in such unions (Caldwell, Reddy, and Caldwell 1983; Casterline and El-Zeini 2003; Hoodfar 1997; Reilly 2013; ... See full document

... These mortality inequalities mean that a large number of twins are missing. In 2006 there were about 125 million individuals in the world who had been born as twins (Oliver 2006). This figure represents about 1.6% ... See full document

... Spousal age difference. We base our measure of gender relations on spousal age differences, one of the few indicators of gender relations, which are generally quantifiable and comparable across time, space, and social ... See full document

... 5. We encourage authors to reflect unflinchingly on the quality of the data they use and expect frank acknowledgement of the various imperfections that characterize their data sources. Analyses that extend beyond the ... See full document

... In Table 6 we display the results from adding the life-cycle factors to our preferred specification from column 3 of Table 2. As we explain in the discussion section below, a caveat of this approach is that these ... See full document

... We carried out this analysis and present the results in Figure 6, which compares the cohort economic dependency ratios of foreign- and native-born by education level. The cohort economic dependency ratio (CEDR) is ... See full document

... 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

... We use a combination of Labor Force Survey and Demographic Statistics data on population and Vital Statistics on births to estimate male fertility indicators and fertility [r] ... See full document

... Migration status: Migration status may influence women’s fertility preferences and behaviors through processes of socialization and adaptation, thus we include indicators for first-generation migrant origin, ... See full document

... Although betrothal affirmed the status of women, an unmarried woman was not autonomous but was under the authority of a male person, usually her father, who acted as a guardian (giftoman) on her behalf (Giftermålsbalken: ... See full document

... In all columns, newlywed couples (i.e., at zero years of marriage duration) in capture-based marriages turn out to have a significantly lower profile similarity index than newlywed couples in love marriages, and at least ... See full document

... The first set of explanations presented above suggested that marital satisfaction strongly attenuates the negative educational gradient of divorce. We measured marital satisfaction using the question “How satisfied are ... See full document

... What remains an open issue is whether the social policies of the governments in the Nordic countries will be sufficiently influential for couples and women of the young generations, those born in the late 1960s and ... See full document

... One can think of basically two different explanations for the relationship between unemployment spells and fertility that we have found for childless women and for mothers of two children (Note 6). On the one ... See full document

... Figure 6 also shows that the within-country variability in the prevalence of female- breadwinner couples is high in some countries while low or absent in ... See full document

... Studies unpacking the persisting gender inequalities that follow family moves have often focused on long-distance relocations, but most moves in connection with starting a family occur over short distances. These moves ... See full document

... access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany (CC BY 3.0 DE), which permits use, reproduction, and distribution in any medium, provided the ori[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

... (2016: 41) went one step further and showed that age-specific migration rates in the CCP were “slightly lower than those in the ACS data;” however, they provided estimates for only two years, 2006 and ... See full document