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... One limitation of most prior studies of this issue is that they have used cross-sectional data: these studies are thus incapable of identifying the events in young adults’ life course[r] ... See full document

... When the control variables were entered, the positive effects of family-centered, disintegrated, and polarized networks, compared to family-remote networks, remain stable. The fact that the positive effect of ... See full document

... A well-known assumption of the model in (2) is that the dynamics follow a first- order Markov process (Rogers 1975, 1995), meaning that all age-specific transitions are governed by the transition probabilities shown in ... See full document

... In Table 5, Model 1 shows that participation in an ICT screen-viewing activity was not related to BMI for men in urban areas, and this pattern remains after controlling for SES indicators (Model 2). Model 3 shows that ... See full document

... When implementing CEM, one needs to strike a balance between too much coarsen- ing and not enough coarsening. Not enough coarsening means a lot of cases cannot be matched and will be discarded; too much coarsening means ... See full document

... The dependent variable is whether an individual migrated from one state to another (1) or not (0), over the period that their marital union dissolved. The measurement is based on transition data: a move is recorded when ... See full document

... Since the early work of Breiman and colleagues (Breiman et al. 1984), classification and regression trees (CART) have developed, and a wide range of methods exists today (Ritschard 2013). As mortality is mainly driven by ... 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 ... See full document

... The unweighted average response rate across the 14 countries included in Table 4 is just below 60%, so four out of ten respondents were not interviewed. To put this response rate into perspective, it can be ... 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

... To investigate the implications of the expanding educational gap in marital instability for recently formed marriages, duration-specific divorce rates by sex and education (i.e., less than high school, high school, and ... 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

... Section 4 we focus on the same variables as Preston and investigate the relationship between life expectancy at birth (average as well as sex-specific) and the logarithm of gross domestic product per capita ... See full document

... Other studies have dealt with the importance of social background, measured either as the social class or education of parents (e.g. Bumpass et al 1991; Hoem and Hoem 1992; Bracher et al 1993; Hansen 1995; Berrington and ... See full document

... Two types of indirect methods for estimating child mortality rates from summary birth histories (number of children ever born and children dead) are currently available to users: model-b[r] ... See full document

... Pooling data from the 2006 ‒ 2010 and 2011 ‒ 2013 NSFG, we fill this gap in the literature by focusing on the largest Hispanic national origin group, Mexican Americans, and assessing t[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

... 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

... The cornerstone of mortality- and life-expectancy forecasting in developed nations, the Lee-Carter model relies on assumptions of there being a dominant singular value that captures most[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