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... Using a quasi-longitudinal approach, we compare the relative country ranking in standardised mathematical test scores of young teenagers in 1964 from the First International Mathem[r] ... See full document

... and 4) the combination of these limitations means that we cannot reliably establish temporal ordering of contemporaneous marriage and employment transitions among respondents who experienced both ... See full document

... Now imagine that there is some unspecified set of stopping rules or mixture of stopping rules that prevails in the population of Alpha, with possible sex-selective abortion incorporated into the rules. Thus we move away ... 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 ... See full document

... Tables 4 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

... 2009). 4 Although AIDS-related themes are the intended focus of many stories in the journals, especially in the early years, the conversational context in general is casual, with easy laughs and easy sharing of ... See full document

... (column 4). The predicted probabilities in Table 4 show that, irrespective of birth order and gender, children born into small families are more likely to attend school than ... 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 4, we included a person-level heterogeneity ...Model 4, and equations of the risk of marriage and cohabitation for single and separated people (but excluded an equation for the hazard of marriage for ... 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

... Note that for those with children aged 1 to 4, moves very close to parents are less likely than for those without children when compared with making no move at all, but more likely whe[r] ... See full document

... and 4 show that, as hypothesized, the origin and destination effects of population size are significantly positive, exerting strong push and pull forces on interprovincial migration in China from 1985 to ... See full document

... Model 4 suggest that transitioning to parenthood and having increased job insecurity at the same time has a positive effect on well-being, though again insignificantly (men: p < ... 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

... The economic, cultural and psychological factors that underlie the transition to adulthood are, unsurprisingly, interrelated and complex. Several factors have been quoted as being crucial in understanding its ... See full document

... As CLHLS was a demographic survey rather than a specific psychological study, we did not have as many indicators as the resilience scale typically used in the psychological studies, such as the Connor-Davidson Resilience ... See full document

... Table 2 above on the types of jobs held by working women shows that less educated women more often work on the family farm or as wage laborers; college graduates more likely are found in the more secure (and prestigious) ... See full document

... A well-known assumption of the model in (2) is that the dynamics follow a first- order Markov process (Rogers 1975, 1995), meaning that all age-specific transitions are governed by the transition probabilities shown in ... See full document

... traditional 4-category variable (married, single/unmarried, divorced, or widowed) is that it is possible to separate cohabiting couples (with joint children) from those who never ... See full document

... The general goal is therefore to conduct the analysis in two distinct but tightly coupled phases: statistical estimation followed by microsimulation modelling. Since this is an exploratory analysis, we focus in both ... See full document