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... Both socioeconomic level and time are necessary to capture the inevitable socioeconomically differentiated net effects of modernisation and marriage market pressures in any population [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

... Tables 6 and 7 show estimates obtained from Model 2. The probability of earning university and secondary school qualifications decreases significantly as the family size increases, but the decrease is slower in ... See full document

... An advantage of our data is, however, the ability to include a more complex fertility measure, at least in the more restricted sample. Using this measure, we find that, as hypothesized, couples among whom all the ... See full document

... Table 7 shows the second stage results for HIV status where income has a 0.0055 coefficient; meaning a 10% increase in income results in a 0.052% higher probability of being tested HIV positive. Although not ... 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 53,000 in ... See full document

... In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the delay of childbearing occurred for first but not yet for second births, a continuation of this post- ponement pattern leads to a substantial n[r] ... See full document

... age 7 than Pakistani children; however, this occurs to the same extent in the lower and higher income groups such that the socioeconomic risk ratios are virtually identical across the Pakistani and Bangladeshi ... See full document

... computed from the life table using formula (7) with age a = 10, 30, 50, and 70. The curves are remarkably linear, in particular for the periods 1960–1964 and 2010–2014. For these periods, the slope of the change ... See full document

... The importance of living arrangement to female labor supply has been much less explored in China. Chen, Short, and Entwisle (2000) show that coresidence or nearby residence with grandparents significantly reduces a ... See full document

... from 23 to 28 in Hungary and the Czech Republic (Human Fertility Database ...This article focuses on these correlations on the basis of survey data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living ... See full document

... The sensitivity of population growth rate to changes in the vital rates can be written in terms of the stable stage or age distribution and the reproductive value distribution.. If the v[r] ... See full document

... The article by Schulz and Maas (2010) examines the consequences of marriage for occupational trajectories by applying multilevel growth models to study occupational careers in the Netherlands between 1865 and ... See full document

... With respect to premarital conceptions (taken to term), as far back as birth cohorts born in 1925-29 for whites, and 1930-34 for blacks, more educated women had lower probabilities of [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

... Until recently it was generally thought that the evolutionary theory of aging implied that senescence is inevitable for multicellular iteroparous species (Medawar 1952; Williams 1957; Hamilton 1966). Many gerontologists ... 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

... Since parish registers do not provide the accurate information that is required to conduct an analysis of the direct effects of endogenous and exogenous causes, this paper focuses on t[r] ... See full document

... The success of our method in forecasting incomplete cohort fertility might lead us to make a bold suggestion that future research along these lines purely and simply focus on the projection of quantum. In this paper we ... See full document