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... 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

... Using data from all countries and periods, there is a negative cross-sectional relationship between fertility and WPEI (model 1). When introducing controls for period trends (and falling fertility) comparing data points ... See full document

... We replicate Finer’s single-decrement Kaplan–Meier estimates of premarital sex using Cycles 3–6 of the National Survey of Family Growth, the same data as analyzed by him. We then contrast such single-decrement ... See full document

... Fertility in Colombia, as in many other developing countries, follows a long-term decline that is the product of a combination of increasing education, declining mortality rates, and economic growth (Bongaarts and ... See full document

... This is a thorny problem because the baseline hazard functions are different for marriage and unmarried cohabitation and because some couples begin living together without getting married and get married later. A simple ... See full document

... It is difficult to precisely respond to these questions, as it is impossible to know how the women studied would have behaved if they had postponed first childbirth. Several strategies have been used to measure or ... See full document

... This article employs multiple systems estimation to estimate violent mortality, a category that includes both direct killings and forced disappearances, among Salvadorans from 1980 to ...Salvador. 3 In ... See full document

... under 3 in a region is high, fewer women will withdraw from the labor market in connection with maternity and the effect of formal childcare availability will be stronger than in regions lacking this ... See full document

... This article documents gender gaps in university completion across 16 European countries, and considers if the gender gaps vary by parental education among three birth cohorts: 1955-1964, 1965-1974, and ... See full document

... Although cohabitation is becoming increasingly common among young generations in Spain (Domínguez-Folgueras and Castro-Martín 2008) and data from the latest 2001 census confirm that cohabitation is not merely a childless ... See full document

... When men and women are asked about their ideal family size or the number of children they would like to have, the answer is seldom one child. There are many prejudices, based on the work of psychologists, child ... See full document

... A few words are warranted about the choice of the number of cohorts. On the one hand, the larger the number of age cohorts, the better the analysis captures all the details of age-specific variation in disability rates. ... 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

... The association, however, could also be the reverse: It may have been that many children were baptised immediately when parents or other adults involved in childbirth perceived that the child was in danger. This ... See full document

... The story of the “life extension” pill discussed by Bongaarts and Feeney (2003) illustrates the potential advantages of tempo-adjustment in the case of a sudden shift in survival. (See Figure 1a.) On January 1, everyone ... See full document

... Functional limitations are operationalized as an index of three count scales that are consistent across waves (alpha = 0.72) including the following dimensions and items: 1) difficulty with gross motor skills (e.g., ... See full document

... around 3/4 of female re- spondents around age 30 do not co-reside with their mother, and this probability declines with the respondent’s age as a result of the lower probability of having an alive ... See full document

... Regarding indirect-effect coefficients, results confirm the hypothesis that acculturation style mediates part of the effects that indicators of cultural distance have on transnational behaviour and on migration ... See full document

... A descriptive overview suggests a degree of country clustering (Figure 1). In one cluster we find the Mediterranean countries (Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece), with high rates of male and female singlehood. This is ... See full document

... In the past, mortality changes did not correspond exactly to the simple Gompertz model discussed in Section 3, but nonetheless prospective ages computed using period and cohort life tables were quite similar. In ... See full document