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... reduces first birth rates at all ages (except for age 40–44). However, the greatest impact is found at younger ages. The first explanation could be that young people can more easily revise their fertility plans. The ... 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

... Birth order is quite naturally highly correlated with the number of children present in the household (r = 0.73). The number of children present will tend to be higher for the men born as middle children. The measure of ... See full document

... In addition to documenting these broader patterns, economic historians and other social scientists have examined connections between the economy and fertility behavior over the long-term in the US, but the variation that ... See full document

... As illustrated in Table 2, only 34.4 percent of the women gave an indication that they can reject sexual intercourse from their husbands if and when they so desire, while the remaining majority (65.6 percent) believed it ... See full document

... We do not assume legitimacy to be of major importance for our study population. Legally, German citizenship is not accorded by childbirth. Before 2000, it was based on descent (ius sanguinis) 3 . An application for ... See full document

... where ρ(a, t) is the rate of progress in reducing death rates. The first term on the right side of (4) represents the compression of mortality at younger ages, and the second term the expansion of mortality at ... See full document

... for women in East Germany. Furthermore, these results are robust to other specifications with different sets of controls (see Models 1 to 4). These findings come as a surprise, because in East Germany women do not ... See full document

... at ages 1, 2, 3 and 4 and reaches a maximum at age 5 of 50.44, with an inverse value of 0.0198. At age 4 the central death rate is 0.0237 > 0.0199, the inverse of remaining life expectancy at age ... See full document

... For both men and women in the two periods, controlling for all the other factors (model 4), the highest probability of moving from singlehood to first marriage is for those who were not enrolled in education for ... See full document

... Transition to marriage among women in Baluch- and Lur-predominated regions: Compared with other ethnic groups, Lur and Baluch women adhere to a more traditional family system. Yet, Lur women have experienced a remarkably ... See full document

... Section 4 consists of a discussion and conclusions, and includes a consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of the components-of-change pyramid and potential further ... See full document

... The improvement in general health in Mongolia starting in the 1940s did not only reduce primary infertility (the proportion of childless women) but also led to a reduction in secondary infertility (the proportion of ... See full document

... The trend in the mean age at first marriage evolved in parallel with the trend in period first marriage rates. Marriage postponement started shortly after the onset of the decline in first marriage rates; countries that ... See full document

... pattern of high fertility continues for U.S.-born third-generation women in the 20-24 age group, so that their fertility is closer to recent immigrants than to the other two groups. For the younger age groups, greater ... See full document

... formal care facilities. Former research about grandparents and child care shows that, in addition to individual characteristics of grandparents, parents and children, contextual factors such as the availability of formal ... See full document

... Women’s number of siblings is not important for family stability, but men’s sibship size is negatively related to the risk of disruption. Hungarian fathers who do not have any sibling have twice as high risk of family ... See full document

... Table 2 presents the results of the four piecewise exponential regression models. The table shows the estimated relative risks for each group compared to the reference category for each independent variable. The first ... See full document

... In model 1, we regress migration against educational attainment classified into four levels – less than primary, primary, secondary, and tertiary education – based on the International S[r] ... See full document

... LAMBdA estimates have been adjusted for relative completeness and age misreporting (Beltrán-Sánchez et al. More specifically, the life tables available in LAMBdA have been const[r] ... See full document