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... In this study we used data from the third wave of the European Social Survey (ESS), a repeated cross-sectional survey designed to measure social attitudes and values using face-to-face interviews. The ESS aimed to be ... See full document

... Under state socialism Poland had a stable non-marital birth ratio of around 5% until the mid-1980s (Szukalski 2004). Thereafter the ratio rose steadily to 22% in 2012 (Eurostat 2013). The forces driving this upward trend ... See full document

... Table 4 presents predicted marginal percentages of each health condition resulting from Model 7, which includes all covariates. Figure 2 illustrates generational patterns in these percentages. If generational and ... See full document

... Part 2 of the Appendix, we plot divorce rates measured with tax data and vital statistics for the province of Quebec and the rest of Canada, and we find that levels and trends across the two data sources are quite ... See full document

... This study has several limitations. First, we pooled data over 16 years to obtain a large sample of Latino subgroups by nativity and country of origin. The benefit of a pooled sample lies in the increase of the ... See full document

... As Figure 4 shows, over time the pattern prevalent in Kidul in 2000 is reinforced: balanced support flows are confirmed as the ideal and the statistical norm which is being achieved more often by 2005. There is a ... See full document

... Finally, a referee pointed out that the parity of the father is not necessarily the same as parity of the mother. To consider a possible ‘recirculation’ of parents, we acquired further tables from the Fertility Database ... See full document

... This study is the first to provide contemporary documentation of birth seasonality for most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Seasonality of births is quantitatively important; amplitudes are large and are a dominant source of ... See full document

... Increasingly, youth in developing countries 2 are diversifying their opportunities through both domestic and international migration (McKenzie 2008; Yaqub 2009a). Though data detailing precise estimates by age are ... See full document

... Only 2% of fathers were employees, only 2% servants (mainly in the urban houses), and 5% land owners (who, mainly in the rural parishes, were usually farmers with a small or very small ... See full document

... Panel B resolves this apparent anomaly by estimating the percent in three states – an origin state in which women begin life as never-married virgins and two destination states for sex or marriage, depending on which ... 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

... Malaysia, 52% Thailand), stating that religion is very important in life (93% Malaysia, 95% Thailand), praying five times per day (72% Malaysia, 75% Thailand), displaying Quranic verses in the home (97% Malaysia, ... See full document

... Figure 2 and 3 depict this decomposition: Figure 2 reports the ‘baseline’ hazard functions, ...Figure 2, the difference between the hazard functions of the three types of union within each ... See full document

... The two leading behavioral risk factors in the United States, smoking and obesity, did not emerge as separate factors in the analysis. The identification of smoking and obesity as separate factors may have been prevented ... See full document

... Around 90 percent of women in the oldest cohorts married for the first time, a figure that does not change appreciably for the war cohorts around 1922. After 1926 it goes up to around 95 percent and remains at that high ... See full document

... (model 2), there is a U-shaped pattern similar to what is predicted by fertility-equality reversal theories and shown earlier in scatter plots (Figure 1a and ... 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

... 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 this ... See full document

... The rationale is three-fold. First, I wanted a general mathematical representation of Bongaart’s “life extension” pill (Bongaarts and Feeney 2003) allowing for continuous variation in age and time. This is accomplished ... See full document