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... In three high fertility populations (the Ache in Paraguay, the Hadza in Tanzania and the Hutterites of North America) mean lifetime reproductive output is, unsurprisingly, higher than in[r] ... See full document

... Adult learning programs also offer formalized opportunities to learn how to read outside of the school setting (Abadzi 1994; Abadzi 2003; Lauglo 2001; Stromquist 2006). Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data show that ... See full document

... The analysis is based on data on births, earnings, unemployment benefits, health related benefits, and educational attainment and enrolment taken from administrative registers. Our starting point is men and women who ... See full document

... These outcomes contradict a common finding in the literature on conjugal union in Latin American countries that identifies an association between the timing of the union and the type of union chosen. That is, previous ... See full document

... age 20 indicates that most people entered the labor market early; less than one percent of the population were enrolled in tertiary education (Statistisches Amt der DDR ... See full document

... Single parenthood arises from widowhood, out-of-wedlock birth, divorce, and remarriage. Single parenthood is an option for very young girls who get pregnant out of wedlock, most of them from working-class or underclass ... See full document

... From 1987 onwards the union histories cover not only marriage but also cohabitation. Finnish registers’ information on place of residence includes the specific dwelling, thereby enabling the linkage of individuals of ... See full document

... Before proceeding with our decomposition findings, we briefly discuss the population shifts during the period of our study. Table 1 shows large demographic shifts among American women. The female population aged 15–44 ... See full document

... The most noticeable feature in Belgium is the role of migration-cum- reclassification in overall urban growth. First, as in Sweden, these two components taken together were an essential component of urban growth ... 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

... The objective of this paper is to reconstruct fertility levels and trends in Mongolia before 1960 in order to offer an alternative view of historical fertility change in the country. The paper opens with an overview of ... See full document

... One thing to note is that the question varies depending on whether the respondent took part in a previous round of SHARE. A new respondent was asked if s/he had given any financial or material gift in the last 12 months. ... See full document

... If mothers-in-law experience more years of disability while co-residing with their daughters-in-law, we might see less labor force participation, less time spent working, and les[r] ... See full document

... By describing mobility patterns across dynamic household and neighborhood characteristics, we provide context for future studies that seek to examine the effects of child residential m[r] ... See full document

... Fifty years ago, in the first issue of the first volume of the then-new journal Demogra- phy, Nathan Keyfitz described the “population projection as a matrix operator” (Keyfitz 1964). He showed that population ... See full document

... LR test compares the goodness of fit of the current model with interaction effects to the model without interaction effects (but also controlling for all variables); c) interaction effe[r] ... See full document

... For non-resident fathers, parents’ repartnering is associated with lower father-child contact, at least as regards high and middle-high contact, and this is particularly true if t[r] ... See full document

... Thus, family real estate wealth significantly and substantially increased the likelihood of death while the three variables designed to assess the healthy migrant effect (country of bi[r] ... See full document

... Migrants do not share the same benefits as urban residents, even though they have made a significant contribution to China’s economic development (Smart and Smart 2001; Watson 2009). [r] ... See full document

... The aim of this paper is to study the effect of geographical origin – i.e., being born of northern parents (“northerners”), being born in the north from southern migrants to the north [r] ... See full document