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... A study using data from the United States reported that economic deprivation in the neighborhood did not affect the risk of divorce once couple-level resources were controlled for (Sou[r] ... See full document

... Concerning potential determinants of aspirations within ethnic groups, we anticipated in Hypothesis 2 that minority students who recently arrived in Spain during primary or secondary education have higher educational ... See full document

... The analyses of the longitudinal MDICP/MLSFH data in this paper has permitted an advance in understanding how and to what magnitude income affects the health and well-being of individuals and families adjusting to and ... See full document

... These periods differ not only in the intensity of events (deaths), but also in the causes of the events. In the case of neo-natal and perinatal mortality, deaths mostly result from fetal malformation, low birth weight, ... See full document

... Korogocho and Viwandani are located about 5-10 km from the city centre and 3 km from each other. These two settlements are home to nearly 23,000 households. The total population in the two slums grew from about ... See full document

... The goodness-of-testing themes echo the messages in favor of VCT as articulated at the global level and disseminated in Malawi. These themes appear in radio and newspaper accounts of speeches by health professionals or ... See full document

... During the nineteenth century bicycles, steam trams, and steam trains allowed an increasing number of people to travel (Van der Woud 2007: 188). These new means of mass transport greatly increased the distances people ... See full document

... One plausible explanation is that within some ethnic groups a higher socioeconomic position might be associated with a poorer rather than a healthier diet. For example, research shows that within the Black Caribbean ... See full document

... Mortality was evenly distributed by gender (179 women and 187 men were killed) but not by birth cohort, as Figure 4 shows. More children under 10 were killed in absolute terms, but older males were the most ... 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

... Two approaches were used to estimate the constant K, a direct life table calculation based on numerical integration of the right side of (9), and an approach relying on the relation K = −h(κ )β −1 for a Gompertz ... See full document

... We do not observe women older than 44 because in the EU–SILC, children are only observed if they are still living in the parental household. Consequently, any calculations of fertility at higher ages are likely to be ... See full document

... As indicated in Condition 1, B is high if either b is high or a+c is low. For humans, b, the rate of deterioration with age, is low compared with many other species and the value of a+c is very low. Hence B is high ... See full document

... Fostering, i.e., permanently or temporarily raising children that are not one’s biological children, is common in many societies worldwide (Silk 1980; Scelza and Silk 2014). Across 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, ... See full document

... The rise in period fertility during the 1950s and 1960s mirrors the experiences of many European countries at the end of the Second World War. As one of the countries with the highest per capita losses, it is not ... See full document

... Longitudinal data and a life course approach were used to test the interdependency of the timing between childbearing and migration events (Courgeau 1989; Courgeau and Lelievre 2006; Kulu and Milewski 2007; Milewski ... See full document

... 12 In multivariate analyses, we include a flag variable for cases in which we use a child’s race/ethnicity as a proxy for the father’s race/ethnicity; this flag is associated with grea[r] ... See full document

... Therefore, the use of prenatal strategies as measured by sex ratios at birth, and/or women’s fertility behavior at low parities as measured by contraceptive use or parity progression, [r] ... See full document

... This paper has investigated the reproductive behaviour of Italian women who underwent a marital dissolution while at fecund ages, using data updated to 2003. Two main issues were explo[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