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... Three of them already have a longer tradition in fertility research but draw on general models of human action (economic family theory, value of children theory, theory of planned beh[r] ... See full document

... Besides socio-demographic data on each household member and on the household (family structure, economic conditions, geographical area of residence), the survey provided information on the geographical distance and ... See full document

... All of these approaches produce linear projections that are simple modifications of the basic models (4)–(8). There is also a tradition of theories that model migration as a function of population size, distance, ... See full document

... The improvement in general health in Mongolia starting in the 1940s did not only reduce primary infertility (the proportion of childless women) but also led to a reduction in secondary infertility (the proportion of ... See full document

... that 93% of strictly co-residing women’s father-in-laws were deceased, suggesting that perhaps widowed mothers are more likely to move into their son’s apartment ... See full document

... We used all waves of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), which followed a nationally representative cohort of U.S. children born in 2001 at approximately 9 months, 2 years, 4 ... See full document

... Figure 4 also attests to the need to assess literacy among all adults, including those who went to secondary ...Figure 4, however, merely 61% of secondary-educated Ghanaian women can read, meaning that the ... See full document

... In recent years this scheme has been slowly opened to include workers in other rapidly growing urban sectors, mainly foreign-funded enterprises, private enterprises, and the self-employed (Zhao and Xu 2002). Under this ... See full document

... Potential confounders are included in the empirical model to net out spurious elements of the association between earnings and first birth probability. Being enrolled in full-time education reduces earned income (as less ... See full document

... It should be noted that, in this article, the terms “education” and “schooling” were used interchangeably. In the models, girls’ education was categorised according to the number of years of schooling completed: ... See full document

... This study contributes to the literature in several ways. First, most of the current studies on internal migration focus largely on the social integration of the first generation (see, for instance, Borjas, Bronars, and ... See full document

... Figure 1 shows different patterns by year since migration as a function of citizenship. The effect of migration on motherhood is particularly evident for the Moroccans and the Albanians (the interrelation hypothesis), ... See full document

... Following the tradition of historians that examined long-term, intertwined economic and social trends 4 , Chase-Dunn (1998:xiv-xvi) identifies several structural constants of the world system that he uses to ... See full document

... Concerns about how comprehensive the measure is that is included in the SHARE data relate to a persistently observed yet rarely discussed problem when it comes to the financial support given by parents to adult children. ... See full document

... the parameter estimates from this model for the following simulations. Parameter estimates and the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) for model comparison are given in the Appendix (see Table A-4). The uniform ... 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

... In order to examine one of our key variables of interest, cohabitation, we overcame a data limitation of Cycle 4 (1988) of the NSFG. Unlike more recent cycles, the 1988 cycle did not have a complete cohabitation ... See full document

... Nearing age 40, half of the individuals were in what we call “stable childbearing unions” – in either their first (41%) or second (8%) union in which they became first- time parents. Again, the only gender difference was ... See full document

... The total group of Evangelical women (including women who reported a current religion that differed from the religion in which they were raised) presents much higher odds of being in[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