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... (Table 1, column f) results in a small net effect of migration on the TFRs, which contrasts with the significantly higher levels of fertility among foreign- than native-born ... See full document

... following consequences: (a) they would stay young longer; (b) they would have a very close emotional relationship with their children; (c) their standing in their social network would increase; (d) their adult children ... See full document

... To estimate the effect of a given parameter on the probability of upward occupational mobility across various labor market sectors, multinomial logit models were estimated in which the[r] ... See full document

... A third possibility, however, is that male best friends may influence each other’s behaviors with respect to whether or not they have EMSPs. Empirically proving social influence is notoriously difficult, but two of our ... See full document

... Table 1 presents the distribution of adults aged 18-79 in France according to their couple ...at 1%, while the proportion of people having a second residence where they live alone is estimated at 3% (not ... See full document

... within 1 km in the same municipality, more than 1 km in the same municipality, within 16 km in another municipality, between 16-50 km in another municipality, more than 50 km or abroad, parents or parents ... See full document

... The overview chapters cover the following topics: 1. Contemporary levels and trends of fertility in Europe 2. Changing ultimate-parity distribution and family size 3. Birth regulation (contraception and induced ... See full document

... Bettio and Villa (1998) contend that the threat of high unemployment rates (particularly for women) in Italy make it virtually impossible for women to risk taking career breaks to have children, due to extreme ... See full document

... approximately 1/10 of the PSUs that have the largest within-PSU variance in education - the precise selection criterion being a standard deviation larger than ... See full document

... Asking questions regarding reproduction is particularly challenging due to the assumption that it is a ‘natural’, biologically-driven act and that decisions about family- formation are private. Direct requests for ... See full document

... Although demographic rates are social facts of the most compelling kind, although “culture” and “population” offer contrasting concepts of social structure, and although the theoretica[r] ... See full document

... factor 1/TMR 30 (t) , while p c (x, t − x) would stay constant at current ...of 1/TMR(t) in Equation (12) to µ(x, t) because of their assumption of cohort-invariant delays of future cohort deaths in the ... See full document

... One alternative structure obtained via a “weak” Skiba point might be summarized, “keep the neighborhood in its current state, even if that initial state is de-populated relative to its n[r] ... See full document

... The binary regressions for the main variables indicated that, after other factors are controlled for, mothers who were older and whose youngest child was older were less likely to report the intention to have another ... See full document

... Given the absence of pronatalism and the established influence of religion on demographic behaviors in Buddhism, in this study we examine whether Buddhist follower[r] ... See full document

... All in all, the study has established that a woman’s educational attainment, premarital sexual activity, premarital childbearing, type of place of residence, region of residence, relig[r] ... See full document

... Other studies have shown that much of the difference in mortality between highly and poorly educated men in Russia is due to the high mortality from cardiovascular diseases in the latter group and, to a lesser extent, ... See full document

... Marital homogamy usually refers to marriage between partners of the same social group. Homogamy based on group affiliation may be – and indeed has been – defined in various ways; either by social background, by ethnic ... See full document

... The study area covers five rural parishes located in Scania, the southernmost province in Sweden: Hög, Kävlinge, Kågeröd, Sireköpinge, and Halmstad (Figure 1). These parishes are not a representative sample of ... See full document

... Our research data set was based on 34,135 individuals who identified themselves as Lutherans in the 1897 census. To analyse the mortality differentials, individual death records were linked to corresponding census ... See full document