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... this article enhances our understanding of the relationship between imprisonment and mortality by providing insight into state-level variation in this relationship for black, white, and Hispanic males and ... See full document

... A steadily increasing number of GGS studies have adopted a social network perspective to identify determinants of mental, physical, and economic well-being. Moor and Komter (2011) focus on the relevance of family ties ... See full document

... Among ordered status combinations, fast growth occurs among stay-at-home mothers. In 1982 and 1990 about 4% of urban women are in MP status; in 2005 the percentage triples to 12%. This trend is consistent with the ... See full document

... Table 4 shows comparative rates estimated on the final disposition codes of 14 GGP countries. 11 There is considerable cross-national variation in the reported response rates. Most of the countries were able to achieve ... See full document

... Ghanaian migrants are also reputed to have a “profound transnational engagement”, being connected to both the country of destination and Ghana (Wong 2006: pp. 359). Ghanaian migrants are extensively involved in ... See full document

... children, transfers and age reallocations are not very different by gender. For children under 12, time transfers represent from 60% to 24% of their total LCD, decreasing with age, while public transfers increase. ... See full document

... As with most survey data, we were restricted to births of children whose mothers had not died between the time of their birth and the interview date. The DHS deals with incom- plete observations by employing an ... See full document

... For matching analysis, we chose coarsened exact matching (CEM) to balance the sent-down and non-sent-down groups (Iacus, King, and Porro 2011). CEM is essentially exact matching plus coarsening, a preprocessing procedure ... See full document

... This dataset is well suited for an analysis of the contraceptive practices of never married women, for several reasons. First, the NSFG collects detailed information about sexual activity and contraceptive use, which ... See full document

... We control for factors whose changes are likely to affect the subjective well-being and social networks of respondents. We account for the changes in parental age (linear and quadratic components), marital status ... See full document

... a 12% probability of living outside the predivorce county in the year following divorce, whereas the probability of leaving the original municipality while remaining in ... 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

... From the point of view of modeling mortality levels across countries, a Bayesian approach of- fers an intuitive way to share information across different countries and time periods, and [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

... 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

... 34 years at arrival. We do not go above age 35 at arrival so as to ensure that women remain in the main reproductive age range during the five-year follow-up period, and also to minimize the possibility that ... See full document

... The findings indicated that while better educated women in earlier marriage cohorts (1940s to 1970s) were more likely to divorce, the risk of divorce increased faster and was much high[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