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... aged 15–24 initiated their first union by living with their partner without any marital ceremony, compared to less than 5% among those of the same age in 1980 (Calvès, Kobiané, and Martel ... See full document

... The own-children method was designed to study fertility using census data so that fertility could be related to characteristics collected by the census but not recorded in vital statistics (Cho, Rutherford, and Choe ... See full document

... commenced schooling (0–4 years of age), as well as a school-aged group of children (aged 5–14 years) who would potentially be enrolled in the school system. This further limits the importance, in this study, of ... See full document

... The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are nationally representative surveys of women of childbearing age carried out in developing countries. There are two samples in our study. One includes every available SSA survey ... See full document

... Nonetheless, most of the empirical work in developing countries that has examined the associations between family size and schooling attainment confirms the negative association: chil[r] ... See full document

... The immigrant population in Norway, comprising immigrants and their descendants, has gradually increased from 1% in the early 1970s to 15% today (Statistics Norway 2016). It is expected to continue to increase ... See full document

... In order to vary the risk of mortality as a function of the age of mother at birth, a death rate multiplier was introduced to rescale the baseline mortality hazard rate sched- ule according to the individual-level ... See full document

... Dumas, Bélanger, and Smith (1998) and Raley (2001) used very different techniques, but they all based their estimates on the conjugal status of the mother at the time of birth rather than the time spent in any conjugal ... See full document

... About 60% of adults living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and that corresponds to a female-to-male ratio of infections of 1.48 (UNAIDS 2010). 4 Empirical estimates of the gender ratio of infections in African ... See full document

... Overall, the opportunities to combine work and family are good in Sweden compared to elsewhere. Parents have statutory rights to parental leave and are generously compensated even in the upper tail of the earnings ... See full document

... Our main new findings, and our corresponding interpretations, are as follows: (1) The second-birth fertility of women whose first birth resulted in twins is much lower than for corres[r] ... See full document

... this article, due to the particular research design of the study and the measurement instruments regarding the custody arrangement and family configurations of ... 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

... They found that TFR decreased almost entirely by quantum decline, as the tempo effect only accounted for TFR change through a peak in the 3−4 worst years of the economic crisis that hit the country between 1998 and 2004 ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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