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... This study examined the effects of parental union dissolution – divorce or a father‘s death – on child mortality and schooling in Burkina Faso, using data from a detailed national retrospective family-life survey. The ... See full document

... Lagos, although clearly the Nigerian melting pot, still remains primarily a Yoruba city. The ethnic composition shows a high representation of the Yoruba people (57.1 percent). The Igbo constitute the second largest ... See full document

... As a source of such data, we are working with the Young Women’s Project (YWP; Fortenberry et al. 2002), an extensive longitudinal study that tracked the manifestations of mate choice decisions in terms of relationships, ... See full document

... Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), propensity score matching is used to match married individuals with comparable single individuals to create counterfactual migration behavio[r] ... See full document

... Given that it is difficult to find cohort specific mortality data where information is also available to calculate the contextual sex ratio at the time of sexual maturity for those indiv[r] ... See full document

... The eight parameters of the Heligman-Pollard model control three separate additive components corresponding to three age ranges of the mortality schedule (child mortality, young adult mo[r] ... See full document

... Women who had expected an egalitarian balance between work and family life but found themselves doing most of the housework delayed (perhaps indefinitely) having a second child more [r] ... See full document

... Register-based estimates of parents‘ separation have been consistently higher for children born to cohabiting than to married couples, as sample survey analyses hav[r] ... See full document

... The subsections introduce the autoregression models, stochastic volatility, random variance shifts, Bayesian inference and model uncertainty used in this paper.. Let p t be the populatio[r] ... See full document

... The lack of significant differences in disruption risks between housewives and employed women who work full time or part time can be related to the limited influence of women’s work stra[r] ... See full document

... Explicit decompositions of chronological age groups into remaining lifespan classes is, to our knowledge, only found in Brouard (1986), who redistributed population pyramids by remaining[r] ... See full document

... The estimated coefficient for the earliest years covered is, unexpectedly, weakly negative (Figure 1). There are several possible explanations for this. The weak ass[r] ... See full document

... Bean, Mineau, and Anderton demonstrate the importance of geographic fertility differentials within Utah, so we also control for the woman‟s birth along the more densely populated Wasatch Front (Utah, Salt Lake, Weber, ... See full document

... Variables that have a confirmed influence on stillbirth risk, such as weight at birth, duration of gestation, mother’s age, limited schooling, etc., express that in[r] ... See full document

... Compared to the respective levels in the countries of origin, the share of extra-marital births at the total number of births of immigrant women to West Germany is higher, [r] ... See full document

... Due to the increasing proportion of women of reproductive age living in a consensual union and the similarity of childbearing patterns of married and cohabiting women, the proportion o[r] ... See full document

... Within the past decade, more highly educated women have begun to postpone first births, while women with less than college education have maintained the previous age patter[r] ... See full document

... In particular, the correlation of e † with the other measures is never less than 0.952, according to our calculations based on 5830 period life tables from 1840 to 2007 available from th[r] ... See full document

... We predicted that unemployment duration would affect the timing of motherhood positively for women in East Germany with both high and low levels of education.. The data confirmed our [r] ... See full document

... In any case, (9a) indicates that remaining life expectancy will rise, stay constant or fall depending on whether the force of mortality exceeds, equals, or is less than the inverse of re[r] ... See full document