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... The decomposition analysis has two components: first, the examination of overall decompositions; and, second, the examination of detailed decompositions, in which the education gender gap norm differential may be ... See full document

... Figure 6 ‒ showing smoothed values based on a LOWESS regression model ‒ indicates that there is no tempo effect across the overall fertility and that the mean age at birth is rather stable at around 28 years, ... See full document

... Figure 3 reports the age-specific fertility rates of women aged 20–49 by conjugal status. Few women are cohabiting, and even fewer are married before age 20, but ASFRs are very high among them. As we pointed out in ... See full document

... The labor force is equivalent to the economically active population of a country, and is composed of everyone who is either employed or unemployed. Employment (civilian and non-civilian, including conscripts) is defined ... See full document

... Goldstein, Sobotka, and Jasilioniene (2009) drew a similar conclusion to the authors above, that it is the stabilisation of young fertility (below age 28) together with a continuous increase in late fertility (>28) ... See full document

... The data come from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS). The BHPS is a yearly longitudinal survey that was begun in 1991 with 10,300 individuals from 5,500 households, and now has 18 waves available. 5 Among other ... See full document

... Based on these compiled models, Figure 6 illustrates within-country effects of FLP more specifically by describing its yearly effect on fertility in both total and age- specific terms. As a result of considering ... See full document

... To account for potentially confounding factors in the relationship between women’s autonomy and child’s enrollment, we include a set of other controls in our multivariate analysis. Our model includes the characteristics ... See full document

... In the Tajik case, therefore, the remaining cross-process covariance between migration and fertility at the community level may be more likely simply to reflect selection on ‘unobserved’ characteristics associated with ... See full document

... Adding the dimension of age into the household economy, and incorporating transfers of household goods and services in the general reallocation system is a new direction of research that extends the basic NTA and HSA ... See full document

... 5. We encourage authors to reflect unflinchingly on the quality of the data they use and expect frank acknowledgement of the various imperfections that characterize their data sources. Analyses that extend beyond the ... See full document

... The child survivorship method and the logit relation model have been widely used to estimate life tables in the absence of reliable vital statistics data. This technique tends to be particularly robust in societies in ... 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 years, 5 ... See full document

... Even in the countries where cohabitation is widespread, however, an individual’s claim to benefits – such as a spouse’s pension or the right to inherit property – is often stronger for those who are legally married. ... See full document

... substitution effect might only dominate when unemployment is perceived as being truly temporary. Research suggests that displacement is associated with subsequent unemployment, long-term earning losses, and lower job ... See full document

... Table 1 shows Cameroon’s transition in some detail. It shows, for successive time peri- ods ( < 1980, 1980-84, 1985-89, 1990-94, and 1995-98), the fertility levels within family type as well as the prevalence of each ... See full document

... Men active in the labour market are differentiated according to their partner. Those who cohabit have a lower risk of dying (rate of 2.3‰) than those who do not (rate of 3.9‰). Workingmen living alone follow different ... 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

... Like education, other forms of social status may also interact with gender to influence men’s and women’s relative risk of migration, but we lack studies of how the gender disparity [r] ... See full document

... I find that both the Family Values and Parental Fertility score variables have a positive and significant impact on the respondent’s fertility: having been raised in a large family in wh[r] ... See full document