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... We fit several models to the data, and compare them with likelihood ratio tests. We first fit a model to the data including the terms (1) through (6) described above. In this model, ties depend only on the ... See full document

... (aged 6–15) do not generally show higher educational aspirations than second-generation minority students or those who arrived before starting formal primary school (aged ...as 6–15- year-olds show lower ... See full document

... The body of literature that deals specifically with this topic is not very large, and the results of these studies are far from clear. Early empirical studies that have attempted to analyse the impact of marital ... See full document

... Hamilton’s conclusions about the inevitability of senescence depend on the nature of the perturbations described here by (6) and (18) — that is, additive perturbations to mortality or fertility, respectively. ... See full document

... Persons in marital unions are significantly less likely to in-migrate into the slum communities. With regard to household characteristics, there is no significant difference by access to sanitation for both in-migration ... See full document

... Status of the groom’s/bride’s father is a HIS-CAM score (Lambert et al. 2008). HIS- CAM is an historical occupational stratification scale, developed with techniques analogous to the CAMSIS scales (Stewart, Prandy, and ... See full document

... The results, presented in Appendix Table A-6, show that when looking at the continuous measure of BMI we observe qualitatively similar results – within the White group poorer children have higher average levels of ... See full document

... Finally, in extension of previous research, the transition rate to parenthood until right- censoring in wave 6 was predicted by the four network types and various control variables (see Table 4). Network types as ... See full document

... As a result, Figure 5 shows that cohort LE is a horizontal line. As evident from equations (6), a constant cohort LE produces ACLE values constant at that level. It follows that tempo distortions, as defined here, ... 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

... 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

... Finally, as with any panel study, sample attrition is an important consideration. Overall, 17% of individuals who were age-eligible (75 and younger) for the 2000 interview were lost to follow-up between 1991 and 2000. ... 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 attempts to isolate the causal link of income on health status and subjective well-being for the rural population in Malawi using three waves of household panel data spannin[r] ... See full document

... In this paper we propose the use of the inhomogeneous K -function (Baddeley, Møller, and Waagepetersen 2000) to study spatial attraction in the household locations of some groups of fore[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

... 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