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... As has been implied, local and global statistics differ in several important respects, most notably that local statistics can take on different values at each location (see Table 1.1 in Fotheringham, Brunsdon, and ... See full document

... This special collection includes five papers on the causes and consequences of the unraveling of the separate spheres, which have for so long divided the productive activities of men and women into paid workers and ... See full document

... We applied duration of residence as our measure of assimilation because most of the previous studies used this measure (Landale, Oropesa, and Gorman 2000), and we wanted our research to be comparable. However, age at ... See full document

... apparently natural and self-evident. These models rely on a variant of rational choice, treating the motivations of behavior as both causal and transparent, erasing cultural difference through a kind of demographic ... See full document

... Bettio and Villa (1998) contend that the threat of high unemployment rates (particularly for women) in Italy make it virtually impossible for women to risk taking career breaks to have children, due to extreme ... See full document

... This article demonstrates that – with several exceptions – the quality of the material on infant mortality published in the Tafeln around 1850 guarantees reliable comparability between the Empire’s ...This ... See full document

... Although childcare is widely available and affordable (particularly for those with a below-average income), parents are under continuous stress if there is no other person to collect the child in the afternoon. Namely, ... See full document

... Several precautions were taken to ensure that the handling of missing data and model specification did not meaningfully alter results. First, we used multiple imputation to construct 35 complete data sets, which is the ... See full document

... items: an overall question on how satisfied they are with their marriage; whether their sense of emotional security would be better or worse if they were not married; and whether their overall satisfaction with life ... See full document

... Differences between period and cohort indicators are compared separately for each birth order (see Section 6). The indicators were computed for all birth orders specified in the source data, with the last category ... See full document

... supplementary materials (Table S.2 and Table S.3). “Age group” measures respondents’ age in five categories: 18–25 (ref.), 26–35, 36–45, 46–55 and 56–65 years. “Relative age” measures the difference between the ... See full document

... Another way of looking at postconception first marriages is to ask what proportion of all women experienced one by age 35. Table 3a shows that for white women, if we compare within cohort, the lower a woman’s education, ... See full document

... models. However, even the three-parameter zero-inflated gamma count distribution can- not be said to be overfitted. Technically the fit here is to 11 data points for each distribu- tion, namely parities 0 through 10, but ... See full document

... This article proposes a systematic investigation of the role played by traditional social institutions in marriage and fertility decision-making in post-communist ... See full document

... Spousal relations in the nineteenth century were also patriarchal. With the codification of the Dutch Civil Law in 1838 the patriarchal element was reconfirmed. Marriage law stipulated that the husband, as head of the ... See full document

... argument is that individuals with relatively low levels of human capital, women, and especially women with relatively low levels of human capital are likely to have had less influence [r] ... See full document

... We also have evidence for educational differentials in adult mortality and maternal educational differentials in child mortality in South Korea (Choe 1987; Kim 1988; Kim 2004). Hen[r] ... See full document

... The descriptive statistics of mothers’ fertility intentions by grandparental investment indicate that in all four countries, mothers who said they received grandparental child care hel[r] ... See full document

... First, we observe a significant variation in fertility levels across housing types – fertility is highest among couples living in single-family houses and lowest [r] ... See full document

... BF’s assumption about the effect of new mortality conditions on the timing of future cohort deaths produces a situa- tion in which CAL better reflects current mortality conditions, becau[r] ... See full document