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... In most countries, attitudes in favor of gender equality and high fertility intentions may be negatively correlated, but, from one country to the next, the mean ideal family size and e[r] ... See full document

... With an average of 7.4 children per woman in 2010–2015, Niger is the country with the highest level of fertility in the world (UNPD 2017). The level of fertility remained stable over the last decades. Given the ... See full document

... share child care responsibilities more equally, as has been demonstrated in other studies (Sundström and Duvander 2002, Nyman and Petterson 2002). The results of these studies showed that (i) among low-earning couples, ... See full document

... over 200 years; namely, gender equality? To repeat a previous argument, requesting more procreation from women as a means of getting more gender equality is not a road to equality, but another way to deceive ... See full document

... would expect under the linear shift assumption. Nonetheless the additional mortality existing under this scenario is small enough that Equations (6) and (7) can be approximated using r= ρ/β. (See Goldstein and ... See full document

... tion (58)). Later, Coale considered a wide range of life tables and estimated that, when the difference in r between the two stable populations is less than .02, the exact value of the crossing age exceeds the ... See full document

... consider a marriage to be foreign if the reported duration of marriage is strictly greater than the reported years in the United States (variable YRSUSA1) of one of the spouses. Such foreign marriages amounted to about ... See full document

... went on to have a second child before participating in the survey. In order to carefully analyze second birth determinants, all second birth events are predated 8 months before the actual birth of the child. This ... See full document

... problem. 24 However, it is also possible that because April is at the end of a long period of restriction, the weekdays in this month are used to compensate for the Lent ... See full document

... Table A-7 (in the Appendix) describes the distribution of the outcome variables as well as the average dissimilarities. It shows that there are only minor differences between men and women in terms of the average ... See full document

... Kinship and kinship structures appear in diverse applications throughout demog- raphy (and, although it is not the focus here, population biology; see Tanskanen and Danielsbacka 2019). To cite just a few examples, ... See full document

... this article goes beyond previous work by making a cross-national comparison between countries that differ strongly in the extent to which marriage is legally supported and distinct from ... See full document

... More specifically, we use quantile regression to explore whether the better perinatal health status of children of immigrant mothers that has been consistently documented for a number [r] ... See full document

... classic volume on old age by Rosow (1967), and his observation that the most significant problems of older adults are intrinsically social, forms the starting point of the present ... See full document

... We incorporate recent developments in the continuous measurement of birth outcomes as advocated by Solis et al. (2000) and others (e.g., Wilcox and Skjœrven 1992), in which birth outcomes are measured as deviations from ... See full document

... 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

... In all models for men, not exercising is associated with a higher chance of reporting poor health (about two times). Once education is allowed for, the association becomes insignifican[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

... A satisfactory partnership should be favourable for the intention to have a child (Ott 1991; Lillard and Waite 1993; Smolka 2005). Two hypotheses have been developed to better understand the relationship between ... See full document

... As indicated above, if the number of deaths in an age range remains constant among cohorts but the death distribution within the age interval shifts toward older ages, the number of de[r] ... See full document