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... We also have evidence for educational differentials in adult mortality and maternal educational differentials in child mortality in South Korea (Choe 1987; Kim 1988; Kim 2004). Hen[r] ... See full document

... In this paper we investigate the short-term dynamics of fertility intentions and of partner search among 35–37-year-old childless men and women without a partner. For women in this age range the decline in fecundity is ... See full document

... For the 2009 cross section we have two measures that tap the more-willing versus less-willing continuum: a) the date during the fieldwork the completed questionnaire was picked up; and b) how many times a fieldworker ... See full document

... TMR 30 (t) to the fact that the proportions of cohort survivors, representing individuals exposed to past mortality levels, tend to be smaller than proportions of survivors in the synthetic cohort for year t , ... See full document

... second shift is what tends to cause the most strain on women. The reconciliation of roles within and outside the family is more difficult for a working mother than for a father, and often the strategies adopted are ... See full document

... Based on existing theory, empirical research, and the specific contexts of rural and urban China, we hypothesized that (1) childless couples have a higher divorce [r] ... See full document

... The main problem in Slovenia is not that women are not having any children or that they do not want to have them. The norm of two children has been characteristic for the Slovenian population for decades. However, since ... See full document

... Vaupel, J.W. (1992). Analysis of population changes and differences: Methods for demographers, statisticians, biologists, epidemiologists, and reliability engineers. Paper presented at the PAA Annual Meeting, Denver, ... See full document

... Roughly 30% of this group originates from Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, 15% are of Turkish or Moroccan origin, and the remaining 55% originate from other countries in Africa, Europe, and ... See full document

... Within each educational group we see this negative relationship between age at first birth and completed family size. 10 However, this gradient is less steep for those with higher levels of education, as compared with ... See full document

... Millions of Chinese migrant parents face the dilemma of whether to bring their children with them to cities or to leave them behind in the countryside. Which of the two migration strategies would benefit their children ... See full document

... Although demographic rates are social facts of the most compelling kind, although “culture” and “population” offer contrasting concepts of social structure, and although the theoretica[r] ... See full document

... Health is perhaps every human being’s most valuable asset. Health is, however, something that is unevenly distributed in society. The question of why some are more exposed to disease than others has received a great deal ... See full document

... Although natural resources play a central role in rural livelihoods across the globe, little research has explored the relationship between migration and natural capital use, particula[r] ... See full document

... Whereas all-cause mortality has increased over time for men in the LRC cohort with low or middle education, there are indications that those with high education have not experienced an i[r] ... See full document

... [3], we can see that the infants of immigrants from countries with a high SIMR has a significantly higher mortality rate in Norway than infants with a non-immigra[r] ... See full document

... The descriptive statistics of mothers’ fertility intentions by grandparental investment indicate that in all four countries, mothers who said they received grandparental child care hel[r] ... See full document

... First, we observe a significant variation in fertility levels across housing types – fertility is highest among couples living in single-family houses and lowest [r] ... See full document

... In analogy with the usual way of producing a period-based Total Fertility Rate, we have computed an age-cumulated measure of fertility by duration of stay in Sweden as the sum over al[r] ... See full document

... argument is that individuals with relatively low levels of human capital, women, and especially women with relatively low levels of human capital are likely to have had less influence [r] ... See full document