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... In conclusion, our article reports generally worse children's health outcomes across generation groups among four major U.S. racial/ethnic groups. Such a pattern is troubling to the extent that it truly measures ... See full document

... Continuous change of causes through time is more problematic. In the removal model, the quotients of the longitudinal « frozen » table are immediately reached, owing to instantaneous adjustment. But with a change in ... See full document

... Findings that in the absence of better data mainly would have formed the basis for speculation and formulation of hypotheses now can stand as they are: The first-birth fert[r] ... See full document

... In this study we build upon this research and the literature on autonomy and child health outcomes to examine the association between women’s decision-making autonomy and children’s e[r] ... See full document

... The second observation is that the introduction of sex-selective abortion as an option in family planning makes it possible for a stopping rule (or combination of rules) to affect the [r] ... See full document

... Marriage formation patterns in Sweden vary across a number of demographic and socioeconomic distinctions. Digit preferences might, in the same way, affect some couples more than others in their choice of union form, ... See full document

... 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

... There is wide variation of family planning services use among ethnic groups in Nepal. Despite three decades of implementation the need for family planning services is substantially unmet (25%), and there have been ... See full document

... While these studies begin to improve epidemiological understanding of how marriage relates to HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, a decidedly sociological approach to this relationship is far less common – clear ... See full document

... Historically, it is not uncommon for social changes to take place faster than expected. One example is the extraordinary fertility decline of recent decades: a few decades ago few demographers thought that fertility ... See full document

... In the present article we will only focus on the two receiving countries: Italy and Spain. In Italy, members of migrant households from Egypt and Ghana participated in the survey; in Spain their peers from Morocco ... See full document

... An outcome is simulated for all these 24278 women, using a model that includes the cluster average of the outcome variable or a similar measure (not directly observable; see below) and a[r] ... See full document

... Table 2 presents the results on the role of labor market status for the three country groups of women in Sweden. In this first step of our analysis, we define the labor market status using three categories: not in the ... See full document

... Educational attainment has tended to rise in both marital status groups of mothers at a similar pace, so the educational structure of married and unmarried mothers should not contribut[r] ... See full document

... This article uses life history calendar (LHC) data from coastal Ghana and event history statistical methods to examine inter-regional migration for men and women, focusing on four specific migration types: ... See full document

... A variety of parametric models pre- senting the fertility rates as a function of age have been proposed in order to describe the age-specific fertility pattern.. Some of them provide nic[r] ... See full document

... Studies of teenage childbearing and its socioeconomic consequences have been concerned about possible omitted variables and selection biases that are critical to estimate the “true” ef[r] ... See full document

... In the stable population, constant vital rates yield (linear) exponential growth in the number of births, while in the metastable model net maternity that increases exponentially over ag[r] ... See full document

... Although they do not propose LCLE as an indicator of tempo-adjusted life expectancy, they interpret this correspondence as a piece of evidence, in the linear shift scenario, that curre[r] ... See full document

... Similar to other European countries, a two-child family constitutes a well- established family model in Slovakia. A preference for two children prevails and 60% of women in reproductive age intend to have two children ... See full document