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... Overall, the opportunities to combine work and family are good in Sweden compared to elsewhere. Parents have statutory rights to parental leave and are generously compensated even in the upper tail of the earnings ... See full document

... Yet, although a large amount of research addresses the importance of geographical proximity for kin support, only a few studies have considered the location of parents and children as triggers for moving. Furthermore, ... See full document

... 2016, 2017). Population size, as a typical gravity variable, has been demonstrated as effective in driving continued migration flows in China since the late 1970s (Fan 2005). The signs of population size at the origin ... See full document

... use 15 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel and show that unemployment alters the set point of life satisfaction because individuals do not entirely return to their prior levels of subjective ... See full document

... With regard to the separate items of joint lifestyles, the differences between union types reveal the same pattern, except for visiting family, in which cohabiters with marriage intentio[r] ... See full document

... The study observes individuals beginning at age 58. This restriction is applied because the Swedish pension system allows retirement with a reduced benefit at age 58 through occupational pension schemes. Unfortunately, ... See full document

... The immigrants themselves are divided between women born abroad who arrived in Sweden during childhood (‘Immigrated as child’ while aged 15 years or less; these migrants are sometimes[r] ... See full document

... Medicaid is an important source of financing for births for low-income women and families, and during the period 2014-2016, more than 40% of births were financed by Medicaid, even though the poverty rates during the same ... See full document

... Cohabitation represents freedom and independence in young adulthood. People build up commitment in cohabitation without feeling limited in terms of opportunities. Cohabitation signifies greater individualism than ... See full document

... Dumas, Bélanger, and Smith (1998) and Raley (2001) used very different techniques, but they all based their estimates on the conjugal status of the mother at the time of birth rather than the time spent in any conjugal ... See full document

... this article, due to the particular research design of the study and the measurement instruments regarding the custody arrangement and family configurations of ... See full document

... Our main new findings, and our corresponding interpretations, are as follows: (1) The second-birth fertility of women whose first birth resulted in twins is much lower than for corres[r] ... See full document

... Nonetheless, most of the empirical work in developing countries that has examined the associations between family size and schooling attainment confirms the negative association: chil[r] ... See full document

... aged 15–24 initiated their first union by living with their partner without any marital ceremony, compared to less than 5% among those of the same age in 1980 (Calvès, Kobiané, and Martel ... See full document

... A growing number of medical, epidemiological, and historical demographic studies find a relationship between early life conditions and later life mortality (Oris 2005; Bengtsson and Mineau 2009; Ben-Shlomo and Kuh 2002; ... See full document

... We control for several family-level characteristics that potentially confound the effect of the number of siblings on children’s secondary school attendance, including gender, birth or[r] ... See full document

... At the post-primary level, firstborn girls from small families appear to be substantially less likely to be enrolled compared with those hailing from large families; in sharp contrast,[r] ... See full document

... This is due to the fact that, as we have shown in the above, in the case when there is a negative effect of age at first birth on the second birth intensity and the only effect of educat[r] ... See full document

... Second, we observed differences in fertility timing across contexts for the most recent period – the mean age at childbearing was higher in the central cities than in suburbs (although[r] ... See full document

... However, once observed characteristics of women and unobserved selection effects were properly controlled for, the risks of marital dissolution for those who cohabited prior to marriag[r] ... See full document