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... Fertility is lower when men experience unemployment. Facing unemployment significantly influences the timing of first childbearing: men who were unemployed one year previously are likely to postpone the arrival of the ... See full document

... Looking at the psychological indicators, we can see that self-esteem is negatively correlated with leaving the short-term intentions status (p = 0.09). This finding is in line with the argument that men and women with ... See full document

... Unfortunately, DHS (and similar) surveys do not provide information about all women in the PSU. It is typically only about 25 women (i.e. 1/10 of the women of reproductive age) who are interviewed in each PSU. ... See full document

... The individual-level data for the empirical analysis of immigrants’ marital choices is drawn from the 2007 National Immigrant Survey (NIS), released by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics. This partly ... See full document

... economic downturn. We first note that shifts between 2009 and 2015 in the overall TFRs of countries differed considerably. The TFRs of the total population declined in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Finland, the United ... See full document

... Based on the sample and shown in Figures 6 through 8, within and between sectors, noteworthy distributional differences emerge that are linked to the constructed linguistic groups. Consistently, though, native ... See full document

... A third possibility, however, is that male best friends may influence each other’s behaviors with respect to whether or not they have EMSPs. Empirically proving social influence is notoriously difficult, but two of our ... See full document

... within 1 km in the same municipality, more than 1 km in the same municipality, within 16 km in another municipality, between 16-50 km in another municipality, more than 50 km or abroad, parents or parents ... See full document

... The overview chapters cover the following topics: 1. Contemporary levels and trends of fertility in Europe 2. Changing ultimate-parity distribution and family size 3. Birth regulation (contraception and induced ... See full document

... the article I include, where appropriate, a selection of the research results in order to demonstrate the reasons for and effectiveness of the methods I employed to reach certain ... See full document

... Figure 1, which uses fertility estimates published by Vital Statistics, makes clear that TFRs for AI/AN women are now lower than the TFRs for both white and black women (Martin et ... See full document

... One alternative structure obtained via a “weak” Skiba point might be summarized, “keep the neighborhood in its current state, even if that initial state is de-populated relative to its n[r] ... See full document

... income, 40−44 year old Buddhist women have the lowest number of children ever born of any religious group, approximately half a child lower than the Christian majority (who have about ... See full document

... All in all, the study has established that a woman’s educational attainment, premarital sexual activity, premarital childbearing, type of place of residence, region of residence, relig[r] ... See full document

... Marital homogamy usually refers to marriage between partners of the same social group. Homogamy based on group affiliation may be – and indeed has been – defined in various ways; either by social background, by ethnic ... See full document

... This article focuses on level-1 vs. level-2 explanations. We present a new method for decomposing change in a population average into two components, one capturing the ef- fect of direct change and the ... See full document

... metropolitan areas were chosen from each of the five quintiles of ordered sales prices. The selected metropolitan areas ranged from Toledo, Ohio, with the lowest median sales price of $92,000, to San Francisco, with a ... See full document

... Time 1 refers to the start-point of each two-year interval in which a dynamics of disability may occur, whereas Time 2 refers to the endpoint of each two-year ...Time 1 in this study could be the interview ... See full document

... (approximately 1% of the total population aged below 16) are in foster care, and the annual number of new placements is approximately 4,000 (National Institute for Health and Welfare ... See full document

... In the LRC cohort, mortality of men with high education is close to the city average for Helsinki and Oslo. Absolute inter-group differences are much greater in the Russian sample than in the two other populations. ... See full document