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... Union status is classified into four categories: cohabiting – never married, 6 currently married – first marriage, single - never married, and any previous marriage. We group together all women who had a first marriage ... See full document

... 2000. 5 If confirmed, this fertility increase, which was preceded by a deceleration in the rate of fertility decline, raises environmental and economic concerns, especially since the country’s economy has been ... 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

... available. 5 Among other issues, each wave contains information on employment status and family events that occurred in the last year, and this information is recorded on a monthly ... See full document

... The “Attendance at Religious Services” variable has been replaced by the “Estimated Religiousness” variable in the zero-inflated Poisson regression model and also in an or- dered probit regression model (see Table A–2 in ... 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

... Since international labour migration from Tajikistan is a relatively recent phenomenon, its impact on completed fertility levels is not yet clear. Lindstrom and Giorguli Saucedo (2002; 2007) show that Mexican couples are ... See full document

... Both the survey and the focus group meetings with employers showed that they set great store in optimally employing their staff. In order to see how employers actually behave one has to think of a counterfactual ... See full document

... explains 5% of sisters’ similarity in age at first birth (Model 2), mother’s age at first birth explains nearly 19% (Model 3), and these two family-specific factors together explain almost ...Models 5 ... See full document

... The results in Table 5 suggest more diverse intermarriage dynamics in the case of native women than in the case of their male counterparts. As in the case of native men, native women who have been previously ... 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 ... See full document

... Second, data from the two last national censuses indicate that the proportion of the population self-identifying as black has increased for the first time since the 1940s. From 5% of the total population in 1991, ... 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, ... See full document

... In previous research the widely held view is that there was a change in the association between social status and fertility in conjunction with the fertility transition, implying 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

... 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

... The transition from fall to rise in TFR1 occurred when the increase in the width of the curve more than compensated for any further falls in peak rates; this explanation is valid for [r] ... See full document

... Nevertheless, with all things considered – the postponement of motherhood in tandem with increased fertility at older ages, the persistently strong second- and third- birth intensities, [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

... In England & Wales the process of childbearing postponement also has the characteristic that fertility of young women starting with the cohorts of the early 1940s is declining from[r] ... See full document