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... Prior to accounting for marital expectations, we find that women who cohabited with the baby‟s father and have other children with him are significantly less lik[r] ... See full document

... We extend the current state of European research on serial cohabitation by providing unprecedented estimates on serial cohabitation for women and men from West Germany, born between 1971 and 1973. We examine the ... See full document

... Figure 3 shows the 95% confidence band for the coefficients of the interactions, with 1984 as the baseline year. Almost all the coefficients were significantly negative before 1985, indicating a significantly ... See full document

... Model 3 and Model 4 (both contain controls for a respondent’s gender and parental education but are otherwise identical to Models 1 and 2, ...Model 3 and Model 4 returns L 2 = ...Model 3 over Model ... See full document

... Tables 3 to 6 give the results from logit models for participation in childcare and linear regression models for the minutes of active fathers’ involvement. Separate models are presented for physical care and ... See full document

... First, we expected the reproductive phase of childbearing trajectories to become shorter over time and result in fewer children. This hypothesis was supported by our data. On the basis of the cluster analysis we ... See full document

... Furthermore, I construct a time-varying covariate of schooling to higher education, i.e., four-year university or two-year junior college. In the absence of retrospective educational histories, I manipulate the calendar ... 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

... in background/life cycle variables on the likelihood of pregnancy in a multivariate context. The results are shown in the second column of Table 3. Together, life cycle factors explain a sizeable amount of ... See full document

... system 3 , for example, where benefits are based on prior earnings, is likely to strengthen the positive relationship between women’s labor- market participation and their ... See full document

... In analysing fertility behaviour we have to distinguish between western and eastern German couples. Following the reunification of Germany, the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) adopted the political system of the ... 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 can be used as an intrinsic time ... See full document

... model 3, the estimated variance of unobserved heterogeneity is equal to ...model 3) – leads to statistically significant differences in this ...table 3 reports life expectancies at the 25 th , 50 th ... See full document

... In order to test the utility of the new family of spline-based models, I fit both the QS model and the single-year CT model to each of a set of 226 national and area fertility schedules, from the U.S. Census Bureau’s ... See full document

... Suppose now that at time zero the force of mortality declines 20% at all ages. The con- ventional period life expectancy, being just a summary of age-specific mortality, would increase instantly to 80.97 to reflect this ... See full document

... In recent decades, childbearing trends in Sweden have been highly volatile (Andersson 1999; for a comparison with neighboring Denmark and Norway, see Andersson 2004). First-birth fertility of younger women declined ... See full document

... This article has three main objectives: 1) to illustrate the growing female advantage in university completion across European countries, 2) to provide evidence on whether gender differences in university ... See full document

... The story of the “life extension” pill discussed by Bongaarts and Feeney (2003) illustrates the potential advantages of tempo-adjustment in the case of a sudden shift in survival. (See Figure 1a.) On January 1, everyone ... See full document

... In this paper, we focus on Australia, France, Germany, and Russia. These countries, often grouped in liberal (Australia), conservative (France and Germany), and post socialist country types (Russia), provide divergent ... See full document

... In the present study, we analyze a nationally representative sample of college graduates to examine the relationship between student loan debt and marriage in young adulthood, whether [r] ... See full document