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... While increased attention is being paid to the school performance of child workers, the effects of work activities on their health have not received the same attention. Identifying the health effects of child labour is ... See full document

... The official motives for a mass evacuation of children were, as stated by the Ministry of Social Affairs, that children who were particularly exposed to the various adversities of war should be given a better rearing ... See full document

... heterogeneity. 4 In particular, failing to control for unobserved heterogeneity results in an attenuation of the impact of income on mortality toward zero and policymakers may therefore underestimate its ... See full document

... We note two important facts about (10): First, the approximation is precisely what we need in order to numerically compute P(s, t). Secondly, the right hand side of (10) re- turns a step function which simplifies ... See full document

... Sweden is well suited to studies of demographic behavior because high-quality individual-level population-register data is available (SCB 2003, Wallgren and Wallgren 2007) that cover all individuals who contributed to ... See full document

... All countries participating in comparisons possess well developed systems of vital registration and population accounts. The use of mortality records of these countries is widely accepted, and in most cases there are no ... See full document

... As was the case with educational status, we find that the income effect hardly changes at all if we do not control for educational status (results not shown). This is not a simple compositional effect attributable to a ... See full document

... The north-south division in living arrangements of young adults in Western Europe is, however, not simply due to differences in perception and prevalence of youth independence in the two regions. The patterns of leaving ... See full document

... Figure 4 (men) show the result of a multiple decrement life table estimation comparing the chances of survival of women’s and men’s first, and (if applicable) second, and third or higher- order cohabiting union, ... See full document

... and 4) State employees and urban couples are limited to one child only, except under special ...at 30 7 (the birth spacing requirement was adjusted from six years to four years in 2007); ... See full document

... to 30% in 2014 and the proportion of fathers with higher secondary educational qualifications but no tertiary degree increased from a quarter to ...about 4% over time, whereas the proportion of dual ... See full document

... To make the country comparison across the various indicators as well as across cohorts easier we proceed from a grouping of countries based on geographical location and social system: Northern Europe (Finland, Norway, ... See full document

... commenced schooling (0–4 years of age), as well as a school-aged group of children (aged 5–14 years) who would potentially be enrolled in the school system. This further limits the importance, in this study, of ... See full document

... Studying data from national time use surveys conducted in the United States, France, and Spain, we extract information about who undertakes certain activities in order to examine three t[r] ... See full document

... Remarkably, Kyrgyz women showed a much higher cooperation rate in bazaars (77% compared to 55% among both Tajiks and Uzbeks). The ethnic pattern was less obvious in the other two sectors; in fact, both Kyrgyz and Uzbek ... See full document

... A reference to Figure 4 will situate this argument and point us toward the weighting to be used in constructing an index. The marriage-age matrix shows wife’s age at marriage in rows and husband’s age at marriage ... See full document

... In Section 2, we give formal definitions of the tail of longevity and of the relative tail of longevity. Sections 3 and 4 are devoted to proving that redundancy decreases the relative tail of longevity. As ... See full document

... LR test compares the goodness of fit of the current model with interaction effects to the model without interaction effects (but also controlling for all variables); c) interaction effe[r] ... See full document

... To facilitate meaningful comparison between different species, with this paper we provide a systematic discussion of 1) how the time aspect of aging can be measured, 2) how pace measures[r] ... See full document

... A couple’s fertility intention and the influence of these intentions on their final decision are the result of the individual characteristics and attitudes of both partners.. It [r] ... See full document