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... this article summarizes and details the current picture of men’s fertility in the Nordic countries with respect to education (Kravdal 2007; Kravdal and Rindfuss 2008; Rønsen and Skrede 2010; Lappegård, Rønsen, and ... See full document

... While STEM and business may not emphasize an orientation toward family life, graduates of these fields are more likely to attain economic stability, indicated by higher earnings, more structured career trajectories, and ... See full document

... Much interest has been devoted to the association between education and fertility, especially educational attainment and fertility. Typically, studies have focused on women and assumed a negative relationship between ... See full document

... The organization of this paper is as follows. Section 2 derives the matrix model, using methods developed for populations in which individuals are jointly classified by age and stage. Section 3 derives the fundamental ... See full document

... Additional analyses were carried out to explore the perceived key factor for a happy marriage. The results in Table 4 show a convergence of value in the most selected factor for both single men and women between 1998 and ... See full document

... and 5 present the results from the interaction between marital status and number of older sisters and marital status and number of older brothers, respectively, separately for men and women in the ... See full document

... We therefore perform our statistical analysis on an additional dataset derived from a 10% random sample of the 1984 Costa Rica census data. Census data were collected by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses ... See full document

... Children born into polygamous families appear to be less likely to attend post- primary school, a finding that is consistent with the idea that larger numbers of half- siblings will serve to ‘dilute’ the resources ... 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

... Model 5 by fitting a simultaneous-equations model that included the equation for union dissolution, as fitted in Model 4, and equations of the risk of marriage and cohabitation for single and separated people (but ... 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

... this article we evaluate whether SSA urban–rural adult mortality differences for men and women support the case for an urban advantage or penalty, providing a series of empirical robustness tests to further ... 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

... Estimates of the cumulative fractions ever married at different ages (Table 2) show that about two thirds of Swedish-born women had been married at least once by age 55. These statistics cover a synthetic cohort (1983 ... 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

... Given the data limitations discussed in Section 1, we use microdata from four decennial censuses provided by the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series USA (IPUMS-USA) Project (see Ruggles et al. 2010) to estimate the ... See full document

... As we noted earlier, there is considerable evidence that event (transition) probabilities vary not only with the current state, but also with the duration spent in a given state (e.g., Wolfson et al. 1993); i.e., that ... See full document

... The analysis reported in this paper uses a sub-sample consisting of all original sample members aged at least 34 years-old at 1-December-93 (so as to avoid right- censoring problems for very young individuals; see note ... See full document

... There are several reasons for revisiting the issue of historical spatial continuity in Belgium. The first one is that we now possess many more SDT indicators than could be used in the 2002 Lesthaeghe and Neels ... 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