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... Hypothesis 2: Double-veto power effect. To test this hypothesis, I compared the fit of a model with a linear specification of both partners’ combined desires in which disagreement had a score midway between agreement on ... See full document

... Table 3 shows that the real GDP per person increased by more than three times over the period 1970 to 1995, and total fertility rate fell by around 50% over the same ... See full document

... The intensity of fertility intentions changed between the two waves. To find out whether a further polarization of the family planning took place, we first present a mobility table, separately for the younger and the ... 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

... The demographic restructuring of Western societies in recent decades has been accompanied by transformations in housing systems (Graham and Sabater 2015). In Britain, increased separation and divorce rates since the ... 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

... 3. Introducing the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) and the Migration between Africa and Europe Project – Senegal (MAFE) 15 In order to illustrate some challenges to and the potential of comparative international ... See full document

... lifetimes. 26 Even so, the observation of a complete marital history requires a couple to be continuously resident in a parish, and there is debate about how far this select population of ‘stayers’ (the ... See full document

... Other authors have considered the demographic balance for years adjacent to the census in order to check the consistency of births, deaths, and census counts (Findl 1979; Ediev and Gisser 2007:338). Those works indicated ... See full document

... of 3 are in public childcare (6% according to the OECD Family Database), but between the ages of 3 and 6, most are in public care ...of 3 are in public childcare (CRRU, ... 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

... To gain some insight into the relationship between zero inflation on the one hand and the regular Poisson and gamma count distributions on the other (the negative binomial and COM-Poisson models add no information since ... See full document

... The interpretation of changing educational differentials in fertility over time is made complex by the changing composition of the British population by education. As shown in Figure 1, the proportion of the female ... See full document

... Finally, Hypothesis 4 focuses on the degree to which the migration behavior of former partners is correlated. The argument is that because of joint or shared custody and visitation agreements, the migration decisions of ... See full document

... Today and in the coming decades, the children born into this climate of strong son preference are reaching adulthood. According to the United Nations population projections for China, there were 106 men aged 15-49 for ... See full document

... This article is concerned with sensitivity analysis of life disparity with respect to changes in mortality rates. A relationship is derived that describes the effect on life disparity caused by a perturbation of ... See full document

... Figure 3 shows that at any given time the ratio increases with age. For younger ages it is below one, indicating that changes at those ages have more impact on cohort than period life expectancy. With mortality ... See full document

... This is done by using a logistic regression model that is designed to capture (i) the association between years of schooling and women's age at union formation;[r] ... See full document

... and 3 = three or more ...(= 3) was used for those who did not provide information on this question (no imputation was performed, as there are more missing cases than parental ...and 3 = 1965–1972) ... See full document

... In analysing fertility behaviour we have to distinguish between western and eastern German couples. Following the reunification of Germany, the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) adopted the political system of the ... See full document