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... The number of children in the family can be measured in a number of different ways; for example as the total number of children ever born in the family, the total number of surviving children (Van Bavel 2006; Van Bavel ... See full document

... In terms of student status, the theory of career uncertainty and the ideational theories predict that student status will be associated with higher odds of cohabitation vs.. 4.1.2 Educ[r] ... See full document

... We test two adult mortality questionnaires: (1) the standard DHS questionnaire and (2) the siblings’ survival calendar (SSC). The SSC incorporates supplementary interviewing techniques to limit omissions of ... See full document

... We also look at family planning, which is interesting in the context of Egypt where the mean ideal number of children for all women between 1988 and 2014 indicates that the family norm of around three children is ... See full document

... On average, the main receivers of services produced within the households are clearly young children in the 14 countries. The biggest givers are their mothers, usually women at age 25 to 45. Above this age the surplus ... See full document

... models 2 to 4 we include the traditional measures of parental fertility ...(Model 2), mother’s age at first birth explains nearly 19% (Model 3), and these two family-specific factors together explain almost ... See full document

... Table 2 displays neighborhood and geographic characteristics over time. In contrast to household factors, neighborhood characteristics generally improved among movers relative to non-movers. The Townsend Index, a ... See full document

... In fact, proximity to only two types of sites is associated with the presence of orphans in both bivariate and multivariate specifications. Specifically, orphans tend to be further from the closest shop – this generally ... See full document

... Figure 2, illustrating the crude correlation between age-specific fertility rates and FLP, conveys a first impression of the variety of ...to 29 and 30 to 34 do not meet our hypotheses of negative ... See full document

... In the CWSC, TI was essential for gaining access to participants and events in two critical ways: (1) repeated and (2) intimate. By its very design, the CWSC PIs assigned each LRA two “contact groups” – groups of ... See full document

... (Table 2), I also show that although a large set of individual characteristics are accounted for, churchgoing Catholics have more children than others (non-churchgoing Catholics and ... See full document

... Ethnic disparity in the contextual factors is indicated in Table 2. Contextual variables are constructed as time-varying variables and their value represent changes in these variables over the period of study. ... See full document

... For Hungary, our policy variable is based also on three periods but they mark much less radical policy changes than in Sweden, at least for gender relations. In the first period (from the mid-1960s to 1981), a long ... See full document

... As illustrated in Table 2, only 34.4 percent of the women gave an indication that they can reject sexual intercourse from their husbands if and when they so desire, while the remaining majority (65.6 percent) ... See full document

... In recent years, researchers and policy makers have become increasingly interested in the effects of migration and remittances on the development of communities of origin in developing countries (de Brauw and Rozelle ... See full document

... The Work and Family Survey includes three questions concerning the key financial concepts of compound interest, the impact of inflation on real income, and the importance of diversification on investment. The three ... See full document

... Table 2 presents the results of the four piecewise exponential regression models. The table shows the estimated relative risks for each group compared to the reference category for each independent variable. The ... See full document

... For both men and women from all origin regions, the estimated number of naturalized citizens in the ACS is substantially and significantly higher than the OIS- based estimates among imm[r] ... See full document

... variables; 2) test of the parameter instability (Zeileis and Hornik 2007) using the partitioning variables; 3) if there is an instability, computation of the best partition – for categorical variables it tests all ... See full document

... Explicit decompositions of chronological age groups into remaining lifespan classes is, to our knowledge, only found in Brouard (1986), who redistributed population pyramids by remaining[r] ... See full document