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... over age 75, for instance, the relative risk of death has been found to decrease with increasing BMI (Oreopoulos et al. 2009). Another confounding effect is reverse causality, i.e., disabled persons will not be ... See full document

... After the country’s pacification and the first multi-party election in the mid-1990s, Mozambique had low educational outcomes, worsened by the lack of infrastructure, paucity of schools in the rural areas, difficulty in ... See full document

... Recent labour migration should be distinguished from earlier migration movements. Tajikistan was affected by a huge wave of out-migration of the non- ethnically Tajik population in the years before and after independence ... See full document

... Due to its limitation to France, this study is characterized by several specificities. First, despite its Catholic identity, France is very secularized (Hervieu-Leger 2004) and it was the first European country to become ... See full document

... In models 2 to 4 we include the traditional measures of parental fertility behavior. The mother’s age at first birth and number of siblings explain approximately the same share of sister correlations as the father's age ... See full document

... However, recent qualitative work has shown that perceptions among South Asians of girls‘ education and gender norms in general are changing rapidly. Today, local populations take great pride in the expansion of girls‘ ... See full document

... Table 3 displays the results of the discrete-time multivariate analysis for immigrants’ marital choices in Spain. We start by discussing the findings where gender differences are not very pronounced. The results ... See full document

... There is a debate in the literature (Heuveline and Timberlake 2004; Perelli-Harris 2014) regarding whether, in certain contexts, cohabitation may be seen as “indistinguishable” from marriage (Kiernan 2001: 3). One ... See full document

... While most developing countries have experienced declining mortality and fertility rates, two regions that seem to contradict or singularize the general theory of the demographic transition are drawing the attention of ... See full document

... Frejka (2012) compared the trends for ‘young’ fertility with ‘older’ fertility and proposed a four-phase postponement and recuperation model to explain fertility dynamics, using data mainly from Denmark, Norway, Belgium, ... See full document

... 27 EU member countries by qualification levels until 2020 using complex supply-and demand-side models. By contrast, this paper employs a shift-share approach and only deals with the supply side of labor, since the goal ... See full document

... Approximately 6,350 children had a valid kindergarten sampling weight and the biological mother as the respondent for all waves. Of these, 6,250 had complete data on moving. Some parents reported that they did not move, ... See full document

... variables; 3) if there is an instability, computation of the best partition – for categorical variables it tests all possible partitions for a binary split – and split of the data; 4) repetition of the procedure ... See full document

... The temporary nature of the relationship is also reflected in the greater proportion of students who have an LAT partner (79% of men and 67% of women) (Table 3). It is also among students that the proportions with ... 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 ... 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

... 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

... We draw on the experiences of three projects conducted in the Agincourt Health and socio-Demographic Surveillance System (AHDSS) site in Mpumalanga Province, South [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

... In the light of the recent discussions about the statistical rigour of empirical research, including the interpretation and use of p-values and the importance of the theoretical underpinnings of population studies, the ... See full document