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... This is done by using a logistic regression model that is designed to capture (i) the association between years of schooling and women's age at union formation;[r] ... See full document

... The demographic transition in China took place at an extraordinarily rapid pace (Coale 1984; Hussain 2002). It has often been attributed to the Chinese government’s effective family planning policy (Greenhalgh and ... See full document

... Likewise, these case studies represent Buddhism across very different economic development levels in 2010: Mongolia is a relatively poor country with a GDP per head of 2,227 USD; Thailand has an intermediate economic ... See full document

... During the early phases of the health and family planning programmes in India, sterilisation services were introduced only in few Indian states for men especially in large cities such as Madras and Bombay; the programme ... See full document

... Table 3 shows differences in couple resemblance by couple type estimated from Model E1 (results are weighted using household-level probability ...Table 3 are odds ...Table 3 (see Appendix A for ... See full document

... Our analyses examine several individual and marital union characteristics, which the previous literature suggests may be associated with EMSPs. At the individual level, these include age, educational attainment, and ... See full document

... In the third model, we additionally include a control for partner's education. Like women, highly educated men at parity one have a higher chance of having a second child: it is 23% higher than for the reference group ... See full document

... Table 3 shows the results of the regression analysis with separate models for age groups 20–29 and 30–45 years, as previous research indicates more pronounced negative association between economic uncertainty and ... See full document

... Results from the interaction model estimating the association between the key independent variables and the probability of taking a first trip to the United States demonstrate that migration prevalence is positively and ... See full document

... By combining these results with the analysis in the previous Section (see Figure 3), some important points arise regarding the correlation between GDP and life expectancy. One issue is the causality going from ... See full document

... is 3 years old, and to receive a benefit of approximately €300 per month (Haataja 2006; Vikat ...age 3 since 1985 and under age 7 since 1996) is a universal right guaranteed by law, and public nurseries are ... See full document

... undertaking 28 , and historians have emphasised that early converts throughout the region tended to come from “subordinated rather than dominant groups” (Hunt 1999: ... See full document

... The DHS Program (dhsprogram.com) has collected data in more than 90 countries, beginning in the mid-1980s. Three questionnaires are used in the standard DHS survey: a household questionnaire, a questionnaire for women ... See full document

... In Italy, the foreign presence is a rooted reality, and the number of foreign families has increased rapidly over the last two decades (Blangiardo and Terzera 2008; Bonifazi et al. 2009; Istat 2013a) as documented by the ... See full document

... the 3 age group model. Table 3 shows that the age patterns of fertility are quite reasonable in that model, and 15 year age groups coincide closely with the typical beginning of reproduction, the mean age ... See full document

... Today and in the coming decades, the children born into this climate of strong son preference are reaching adulthood. According to the United Nations population projections for China, there were 106 men aged 15-49 for ... See full document

... This article is concerned with sensitivity analysis of life disparity with respect to changes in mortality rates. A relationship is derived that describes the effect on life disparity caused by a perturbation of ... See full document

... Figure 3 shows that at any given time the ratio increases with age. For younger ages it is below one, indicating that changes at those ages have more impact on cohort than period life expectancy. With mortality ... 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

... Hypothesis 2: Double-veto power effect. To test this hypothesis, I compared the fit of a model with a linear specification of both partners’ combined desires in which disagreement had a score midway between agreement on ... See full document