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... When talking about the effect of adding educational attainment to the dimensions that labor force participation is disaggregated by, one has to distinguish between the effect on aggregate participation rates and the ... See full document

... Therefore it is important to consider this fertility increase as it could have significant consequences for the country if it continues. This article is divided into four sections. After a presentation of the ... See full document

... didactic article on the computation of fertility measures from event history models estimated with logistic regression, they steered clear of the difficulty by limiting the space state of conjugal status to ... See full document

... U.S. migrants in the MxFLS are individuals who migrated “permanently” to the United States between 2002 and 2005, with “permanent” migrations defined as those of a year or longer; specifically, the definition includes ... See full document

... The 15 countries studied cover both Western and Eastern Europe, regions which had, until recently, quite different fertility patterns. Since 1989, however, the early and almost universal entry into motherhood seen ... See full document

... Interestingly enough, the results I find are also in line with the rational actor model described by Pollak and Watkins and developed jointly by economists and demographers. This model argues that given agents’ ... See full document

... For the CWSC study, LRAs varied in their ability to do this type of work, which complicated efforts to standardize the process of data collection across LRAs within the team. This, in turn, had an effect on data quality ... See full document

... aged 15-49 years, with exact dates of birth, together with the international migration history of each member of the household, providing a valuable chance to link fertility and migration ... See full document

... However, a limitation of these studies is that they consider only one aspect of family background: parents’ number of children or their age at parenthood. Family background represents a broader set of life ... See full document

... In developing this procedure we depart from Bruil and van Tongeren (2014), who imputed production values of unpaid household labour by age group and gender to the Dutch census for estimating consumption by age. ... See full document

... Note: The dotted black line represents the 45-degree line, in which the reported proportion of deaths due to external causes is equal to the hypothesized true proportion of deaths due to external causes in the ... See full document

... In this regard, the high proportion of women aged 25 to 29 – the peak ages of cohabitation in many European countries– who have a stable partner living apart (23%) compared to thos[r] ... See full document

... Because theories of fertility decision-making as well as policy recommendations often focus on the role of individuals in creating macrolevel change, it is important to also measure pers[r] ... See full document

... With respect to socio-economic status, working adult children with young children in the household have a greater need for support (i.e., childcare), and we therefore expect to find th[r] ... See full document

... The inclusion of the direct effect of age at the time of the DHS interview on each type of cohabitation combined with the indirect effect of this variable controls for two potential li[r] ... See full document

... Compared to the traditional couple in terms of employment status, cohabiting couples with an inactive female partner and an unemployed male partner are around two[r] ... See full document

... Starting with the respondent‘s own education, it is not the difference in educational attainment at the higher levels of education that matters in explaining the differences in the nor[r] ... See full document

... Another impression from the interactions of marriage attributes with ethnicity and calendar period is that Kurdish speaking women who married in more traditional ways seem to constitut[r] ... See full document

... Thirdly, and as a consequence, the socioeconomic gradient ‒ the shape of the inequalities according to social position ‒ is flatter among individuals with a foreign backgro[r] ... See full document

... This method enables us to model the variation of the effect of total and age-specific female labor force participation on the respective fertility rates while, at the same time, allow[r] ... See full document