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... Nevertheless, research on neighborhood effects in urban India must confront the same problems as studies conducted in urban America: namely, the self- selection of individuals into neig[r] ... See full document

... Both cigarette smoking and teen childbearing are considered urgent contemporary health issues in US society and other countries around the world. Despite recent declines, compared to peer countries (Sedgh et al. 2015), ... See full document

... Following Blake (1989), a person’s sibsize is defined as his or her number of siblings. Sibsize evolves over time: it increases when new brothers or sisters are born and decreases when some of them die. In all subsequent ... See full document

... Postponement of childbearing was in progress from the cohorts of around 1940 to those of around 1970 in all birth orders, and has apparently come to a halt, at least as far as data are available, among the cohorts of the ... See full document

... by Goodman, Keyfitz, and Pullum (1974; see also Keyfitz and Caswell 2005: Chap. 15). Their analysis takes as input an age schedule of mortality and fertility, and calculates from these schedules the mean numbers ... See full document

... The compression of morbidity observed in Belarus will have social consequences in the future. With the shift of morbidity toward older ages, the number of elderly people who need support will increase in the coming ... See full document

... EDSN data follows similar methodological procedures and choices. Women with inconsistent birth histories (i.e., more than 25 years between age 10 and a first birth or birth intervals of less than 8 months or more than 10 ... See full document

... In many countries, there are public concerns that low fertility will lead to economic decline. Several arguments are marshaled to underline the economic threat posed by low fertility. Many studies have argued that ... See full document

... As firms privatized and new private firms developed, returns to skill increased. Wage dispersion brought with it widening educational and occupational differentials that imply heterogeneous experiences of the economic ... See full document

... The contribution by Yahirun and Hamplová (2014, SC19‒5) extends existing research by focusing on variations in intergenerational contact between married, cohabiting, and single persons across 15 European ... See full document

... Positive conflict behaviour is measured using the following question: “Couples deal with serious disagreements in various ways. When you have a serious disagreement with your partner/spouse, how often do you discuss your ... See full document

... cases. 15 The truth probably lies somewhere in-between: some but not 15 Eubank (1916:38) notes that desertions may in fact be quite gradual: “Desertion is by no means always ... See full document

... finding suggests that a higher level of gender equality in couple relationships may increase fertility, as argued by McDonald. Given the relatively small sample size, it was not possible to draw conclusions based on the ... See full document

... To estimate the effect of a given parameter on the probability of upward occupational mobility across various labor market sectors, multinomial logit models were estimated in which the[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

... The marginal percentages distributions in Table 1 illustrate the changes in educational attainment for husbands and wives in this study. In general, the educational distribution changed substantially for both women and ... See full document

... at least some of the reason why foreign born Latina women have lower remarriage rates is because they have lower levels of education and education is positively associated with the chance of remarriage. In Model 6, after ... See full document

... Such bounds could be useful in estimating life expectancy when the input of eggs or neonates can be estimated but mortality cannot be observed before late juvenile or early adult ages.. [r] ... See full document

... We may compare this data with the results of the survey carried out in the framework of the Population Microcensus of 1994, which took place under the evident influence of the social s[r] ... See full document

... The method standardizes for variations in the duration of residence or age composition of immigrant groups, attainments possessed by different groups when first observed after entry, a[r] ... See full document