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... Important differences in age-specific rates, as well as changing relative impact of each age group on total rate, are masked under similar fertility levels. In both 1995 and 2009 total male fertility was estimated at ... See full document

... Job insecurity was not asked about during times of unemployment. For better coherence, we modeled job insecurity as a categorical variable with four categories: (0) employed, job very secure (reference category); (1) ... See full document

... Becoming an academic is different from the other professional tracks. Graduate school follows a Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree and is usually a four-year program (but may be extended due to teaching, etc.). Men and women ... See full document

... 6. Likelihood and parameter estimation. The formulation as an absorbing Markov chain may potentially contribute to the computation of likelihood functions from data on individuals. Such approaches have been used ... See full document

... Family literature in the West often discusses how marriage decline is accompanied by a surge in the prevalence of co-residential unions (Bumpass, Sweet, and Cherlin 1991; Heard 2011; Kalmijn 2007). While cohabitation is ... See full document

... First, we distinguished six types of residential contexts according to the size of the municipality of residence (as measured in 1999–2001): 1) cities with a population larger than 400,000, which includes the four ... See full document

... The objective of this paper is to investigate how improvements in both educational attainment (especially among children with a low educated mother or an immigratio[r] ... See full document

... Table 6 show that never-married and widowed singles are more likely than those with a partner to move very close to parents, but these moves are not significantly more likely than moves elsewhere (see first row of ... See full document

... A more direct test to evaluate whether respondents understand the concept of proba- bilistic expectations is to analyze nested events. Nested events are subsets of each other, and thus imply an ordering of the subjective ... See full document

... In addition to testing for a gender difference in transition to adulthood, we examine the influence of specific fields on women’s transition to family roles. As previously described, STEM and business are broadly similar ... See full document

... The independent variables in this study are the grandparental variables, which are time- varying. The transition to grandparenthood (variable ‘Grandparent’) is defined by the birth of the first-born grandchild. ... See full document

... The third model adds basic control variables: husband’s education, wife’s age, number of children under 6 and under 16, number of married women in the household, religion, caste, area of residence, and dummy ... See full document

... In many cases we found patterns in marriage formation and marriage dissolution that were very similar to those observed for the reference group of Swedish-born women with two Swedish-born parents. With some imagination, ... See full document

... We also included a set of variables related to the respondent’s view of women’s roles, her contribution to household goods at the time of marriage, and her relationship quality. Marital relationship quality was a score ... See full document

... such as commitment, romantic love, and risk have different meanings in cohabitation and marriage and we conclude that the individualization thesis best fits young [r] ... See full document

... Based on our background knowledge, we postulate that, in the case of the Czech Republic, both the mother’s and the father’s ages at childbearing can have independent effe[r] ... See full document

... We were able to take a unique approach to the statistical estimation for this analysis due to the existence of bootstrap weights in the main data set used, the National Population Heal[r] ... See full document

... censuses and an adaptation to the accounting procedures in multiregional life tables are used to estimate Black migrants’ expected duration of residence in the South between 1965 and[r] ... See full document

... The second observation is that the introduction of sex-selective abortion as an option in family planning makes it possible for a stopping rule (or combination of rules) to affect the [r] ... See full document

... As noted above, the interval coding of household income, with an open-ended top category, likely results in underestimating racial inequality if whites (or other populations) are overrepresented above the value chosen ... See full document