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... Secondly, by extending research to Eastern European countries, the programme has not only identified crucial regional differences in co-residential arrangements and intergenerational e[r] ... See full document

... the 18 th century, the gradual spread of schools of midwifery, licensed midwives, and doctors paid by municipalities may have contributed to the widespread dissemination of these practices, starting in the cities ... See full document

... In Western Europe, the decline in childlessness in the 1930-1945 cohorts is followed by a fairly pronounced rise, except in France, where it is much smaller and restricted to the 1960s cohorts. France consequently stands ... 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

... As highlighted in Section 3.3, I have defined adolescent mothers as those having had their first child aged 18 years old or younger. A sensitivity analysis was run to ensure that the results presented in this ... See full document

... We pool data from the retrospective marital and fertility histories from the June 1980, 1985, 1990, and 1995 U.S. Current Population Surveys (CPS). These June CPS fertility and marital supplements were administered to ... See full document

... In what follows below, we replicate Finer’s Kaplan–Meier estimates of cohort trends in premarital sex for NSFG women born 1939–1948, 1949–1958, 1959–1968, 1969– 1978, and 1979–1988 at exact ages 15, 18, 20, 25, ... See full document

... than 18 years old represent approximately one-fourth of all migrants, and the proportion of youth as migrants is increasing (Global Migration Group 2014; Yaqub ... See full document

... WOC respondents, like Edith, often appear to be going along with what the interviewer is saying as a response to a formulation. To say “no” to a formulation, a respondent must do more interactional work, particularly ... See full document

... Figure 2 shows the proportion of female and male respondents with living parents, by age of the respondent. The pattern is strikingly similar for both male and female respon- dents. About 83–94% of men and women in the ... See full document

... Aside from the baby boom of the 1940s and 50s and the slow fertility increase starting in the 1970s, 10 fertility in the U.S. has been declining since the mid-1800s. A variety of reasons for this overall negative trend ... 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

... 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

... 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