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... and 2) to compare the variability of intra-urban 5q0 with characteristics of the environment that may be linked to child mortality (housing, vegetation, health care facility ... See full document

... Wave 2 were new respondents, in these countries we can expect the levels of transfers to be marginally lower, given that the reference period is 12 months rather than the approximate 30 months between waves that ... See full document

... The rapid development of northern manufacturing combined with the socio-economic cleavage profoundly affected migration dynamics. Migration from the south to the north characterised Italian society from the early 20th ... See full document

... Besides socio-demographic data on each household member and on the household (family structure, economic conditions, geographical area of residence), the survey provided information on the geographical distance and ... See full document

... Although the increase expressed in 2005 prices is substantial, in relative terms, peo- ple of younger and older working ages earned less than they did in 1988. It appears that another age group may have gained more ... See full document

... (NUTS 2), but the Italian regions are grouped into Northwest, Northeast, Center, and South and Islands, because the EU-SILC database only gives information for Italian regions at the NUTS 1 ... See full document

... Although gender differences in family-formation trajectories are negligible across all educational groups, there are pronounced differences between educational groups. Never having partnered is most common among women ... See full document

... The most noticeable feature in Belgium is the role of migration-cum- reclassification in overall urban growth. First, as in Sweden, these two components taken together were an essential component of urban growth ... See full document

... decades? 2) Do the changes in divorce patterns vary by sex? and 3) What are the implications of these changes in divorce risk on the outcomes of recently formed marriages? ... See full document

... First, respondents were asked about the size of their networks, gauged based on questions about the number of family members, friends, and neighbours with whom they were on good terms. We truncated the answers to a ... See full document

... Model 2 replaces the separate measures of child information with the composite measure, this variable clearly becomes the most important predictor for wanting another ... See full document

... may care more about their children’s education, and be more likely to give attention to or invest other resources in improving the educational performance of their children (McKenzie and Rapoport 2011). In addition, the ... See full document

... Table 2 shows the other two aspects of the health distribution: first, the average self-rated health status at the beginning of the observation and, second, the experience of a health deterioration, both by the ... See full document

... Fifty years ago, in the first issue of the first volume of the then-new journal Demogra- phy, Nathan Keyfitz described the “population projection as a matrix operator” (Keyfitz 1964). He showed that population ... See full document

... Similarly, the observational field journals we analyzed were written by the same field assistant. It is indeed possible that Kunthani might have focused more on the negative comments that he heard, or that his accounts ... See full document

... Projected age profiles of death rates. Not surprisingly, methods differ substantially in how they project the evolution of age-specific death rates (Figure 1). The Bongaarts’ shifting model, which explicitly assumes age ... See full document

... Ethnic disparity in the contextual factors is indicated in Table 2. Contextual variables are constructed as time-varying variables and their value represent changes in these variables over the period of study. ... See full document

... Nuances on the rural disadvantage are revealed in an analysis of mortality by branch of service, reported in Table 2. Marines have the highest death rate of all branches; the rate is nearly twice that of the next ... See full document

... Potential confounders are included in the empirical model to net out spurious elements of the association between earnings and first birth probability. Being enrolled in full-time education reduces earned income (as less ... See full document

... (Table 2) show that about two thirds of Swedish-born women had been married at least once by age ...Table 2 cover all immigrants regardless of age at migration to ... See full document