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... While female respondents are less likely to made financial or non-financial transfers to their fathers as compared to their mothers (Figure 4b), the broad age-patterns are similar: condi[r] ... See full document

... In addition to the TFRs, age-and parity-specific fertility rates (ASFRS and PSFRS) are calculated and plotted by calendar year in order to find out whether the change in fertility [r] ... See full document

... We analyze the role of informal childcare provided by grandparents on mothers’ labour force participation keeping unobserved preferences into account.. METHODS.[r] ... See full document

... Studies on the economic consequences of partnership dissolution have shown that women (and their dependent children) are often the losers of divorce; they experience a considerable los[r] ... See full document

... Fertility is also lower in less expensive markets for all education levels, labor force participation and for first births to white and black women.. However, it is not very different [r] ... 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

... With respect to premarital conceptions (taken to term), as far back as birth cohorts born in 1925-29 for whites, and 1930-34 for blacks, more educated women had lower probabilities of [r] ... See full document

... Our dependent variable is where the focal child lives: with the mother (mother sole custody), with both parents (shared residence), or with the father (father sole custody). The following interview question was used to ... See full document

... Even when we model a 50% increase in current rates of switching, tilting even more in favor of religious disaffiliation, the unaffiliated share of the world’s population would still be[r] ... See full document

... the article, the unexpected positive effect of women‘s high education in Southern Europe boils down to a strong time-squeeze effect, which in the event history models may more than compensate for the lowest ... See full document

... We then discuss our projections for four countries chosen as examples of possible future trends in the gap between female and male life expectancy: continued decline in the gap for a cou[r] ... See full document

... We look, in particular, for causes of death associated with four behavioral risk factors: smoking, obesity, alcohol abuse, and illicit drug use.. Obesity is not technically a behaviora[r] ... See full document

... We thus expect that frequent migrants had higher risks of union disruption in the Soviet period than they had in the transition period and this effect resulted from the differen[r] ... See full document

... What happens if the conditioning on survival to mid-adult ages is dropped and variable increments to life are substituted for the constant increment to life used in the Bongaarts-Feene[r] ... See full document

... In the case of a constant annual increase in life expectancy at birth, the prospective median age derived from period life tables always lies above that created using cohort life table[r] ... See full document

... The slight upturn in fertility rates since 1999 is due, in strictly demographic terms, to two effects: the small increase in the first-order rate among Spanish women and the contribution of foreign women. The ... See full document

... In many West African countries, births are concentrated at the beginning of the year; therefore, despite using large units of aggregation, we were able to find consistent seasonal birth [r] ... See full document

... In the case of St Petersburg, the high prevalence of disability may be attributed to a large cohort of survivors of the 1941-1944 Siege of Leningrad, many of whom legally qualify for spe[r] ... See full document

... this article we attempt to determine who are the women and men who have only one child, by identifying the most significant criteria: What is the role of the biological or physiological factors related to late ... See full document

... Model 1 for 2007 did not include mother’s cohabiting status and education in order to use the same variables as in the model for 1996, but we did incorporate these variables into Model[r] ... See full document