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... This article proposes a systematic investigation of the role played by traditional social institutions in marriage and fertility decision-making in post-communist ... See full document

... The method and data we use have known limitations. The most obvious difficulties of the own-children method are establishing the relationship between mother and child from census records, census undercoverage of children ... See full document

... over 29 for men in the Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Finland, and Norway; over 25 among women in most Western European countries, and under 25 among women in most Eastern European countries) (Eurostat ... See full document

... This study analyzes longitudinal data from the BHPS and UKHLS. These data are unique in providing individual-level information on home ownership within households. The analysis[r] ... See full document

... about 6 children and the average child about ...century. 6 Another possible explanation for the rising number of children present is that the children remained for longer in their parents‟ household over ... See full document

... The DEAS provides data on highest educational attainment coded according to the ISCED scheme. Because more differentiated educational categories means fewer cases in each, we dichotomized educational level into higher ... See full document

... The risk of disrupting a first parental union hardly changed over our first two periods (1965-1973, and 1974-middle of 1983), notwithstanding the large increase in female labor force participation which took place at ... See full document

... Survival data analysis methods – Kaplan-Meier graphs for the descriptive analysis and piecewise exponential models for the multivariate analysis – are used to examine the impact over time of the occurrence of an event, ... See full document

... In the first loop of the BUGS code above, the likelihood of the AR(2)-RV model is defined similarly to the SV equivalent. However, the volatility, h[t], which monitored for com- parative purposes, is derived from ... See full document

... A more sophisticated approach is to overlay specific t-values (e.g., +/- 1.96) as isolines (or contour lines) on top of the parameter estimate surface (see Figure 2). 6 The isolines can be defined for any set of ... See full document

... Table 1 shows that the proportion of women experiencing a premarital conception taken to term has a strong association with education. For the most recent cohort of women born 1955-59, premarital conceptions occurred to ... See full document

... As pointed out, we do not assume German citizenship and the German residence permit to have a direct impact on the fertility of women in the traditional migrant- worker groups. However, there are other (West) German laws ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... Furthermore, despite their similarity in educational attainment and in the process of development with women in the Mazandarani-predominated region, including these factors in the anal[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