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... For example, the proportion of sexually active women who are infecund in Asian countries is much higher than in Latin American countries (Stover 1998). There is no direct evidence tha[r] ... See full document

... We focused on infectious diseases that caused significant epidemics in the 19 th century United States (Condran and Murphy 2008) and were continually present in Holyoke between 1850 and 1912. The ten causes in our ... 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

... 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 gender- and union-specific single-year disability rates were combined with the single-year marital-status life tables derived from the Eurostat data to estimate the person years at[r] ... See full document

... Both migration and natural movements may contribute to reclassification. Swedish data to identify births and deaths in the few localities reclassified in the 19 th century were not available to us. However, data ... See full document

... Figures of childbearing intensity have to be read together with the delay in the timing of fertility that we have been observing since the 1955 birth cohort (Figure 7). In the female cohorts born in the late 1960s, the ... See full document

... An additional significant recent change in the Brazilian religious context is the growth in the number of Evangelicals, who represented only 3.4% of the population in 1950. Sixty years later, 22.2% of Brazilians declared ... See full document

... After national unification in 1861, cereals imported from the United States and France caused a market crisis in the agricultural sector. From 1869 a new tax on grinding wheat and cereals (tassa sul macinato) ... See full document

... Just like in Morocco, Moroccans living in the Netherlands postpone the first child (Table 3), although it is unlikely that housing problems play a major role. Among first generation Turkish women, who are in a comparable ... 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

... Demographic and Health Survey data from 31 African countries confirm that there are many instances in which women have several years of primary school but cannot read.. In fact, in some[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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... (Lanzieri 2012). Provided that suitable (statistically robust) data are available, regional and international comparisons are easily accomplished using our framework. Such inter- national or interregional comparisons ... See full document

... This paper shows the changes in the relative importance of various income sources, such as labor income and public and private transfers, among eastern Germans of different age groups fr[r] ... See full document

... Considering also the high percentage in Spain of immigrants from Latin America, it is reasonable to predict that the negative relationship between educational level and single motherho[r] ... See full document