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... The observation period, as already mentioned, was rather short. It was assumed that women who decided to have a child in Italy and who recorded that child in the municipal population register would stay in the host ... See full document

... Despite the distance between the contemporary practice of cultural anthropology and demography, the possibilities for mutually productive intellectual exchange are enormous. Demographic rates are true “social facts,” in ... See full document

... We distinguished between three levels of education based on the ISCED classification (UNESCO 2006): no degree or lower secondary education (1), upper secondary education or post-secondary non-tertiary education (2), and ... 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

... The dependent variable is whether an individual migrated from one state to another (1) or not (0), over the period that their marital union dissolved. The measurement is based on transition data: a move is recorded when ... See full document

... where z(x) ¯ is the mean value of frailty among survivors at age x. It appears that such a logistic curve may capture the pattern of human mortality from age 35 or so to the most advanced ages (Thatcher, Kannisto and ... See full document

... In general, the households that experience the event of childbearing are likely to be differ- ent from those who do not in many respects. Examples include educational achievement, working status, preference for having ... See full document

... The conventional approach would attribute deviations in TMR 30 (t) to the fact that the proportions of cohort survivors, representing individuals exposed to past mortality levels, tend to be smaller than proportions of ... See full document

... Finally, Table 4 presents the models on third birth. Couples residing in single- family houses had a 34% higher risk of third conception than couples living in apartments, while the risk of couples in terraced ... 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

... Other studies have shown that much of the difference in mortality between highly and poorly educated men in Russia is due to the high mortality from cardiovascular diseases in the latter group and, to a lesser extent, ... See full document

... estimates by repeatedly running a fully adjusted multivariate model predicting financial capital, including a different buffer zone radius at each time (see Appendix Table A1). Although we observed a slight increase in ... See full document

... The information in Table 4 is also useful for examining the effects of EU expansions in 2004 and 2007. Overall, we find that most countries in the EU/EFTA exhibited lower levels of retention in 2007 compared to ... See full document

... Figure 4 compares the fits of the regular Poisson, gamma count, and zero-inflated gamma count models to the empirical HFD completed-cohort birth parity distributions, in terms of mean squared error based on the ... See full document

... The influence of socioeconomic characteristics is more complex. In absolute terms, financial hardship and Family Stress models propose that greater income, resources from employment, and educational attainments reduce ... 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

... Millions of Chinese migrant parents face the dilemma of whether to bring their children with them to cities or to leave them behind in the countryside. Which of the two migration strategies would benefit their children ... See full document

... This study also has notable limitations that provide opportunities for future research. First, we find a robust relationship between the attainment of adjacent generations and the survival of older men, but because ... See full document

... Based on existing theory, empirical research, and the specific contexts of rural and urban China, we hypothesized that (1) childless couples have a higher divorce [r] ... See full document

... If recent cohorts of women are postponing their fertility with the intention of having children later in their life courses, then rates of entry into motherhood and progression to sub[r] ... See full document