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... However, Spline 4, which corresponds to the first-birth propensities of those women who migrated prior to marriage, looks notably different from the other two splines that pick up the [r] ... See full document

... Information on maternal and paternal nonstandard work was collected at 9 months. Parents who reported being in paid work were asked to state the frequency they worked each type of nonstandard work schedule: evening (6 ... See full document

... We assume that the survey results give a better view of general levels and trends than current vital statistics. However, different biases are linked to such surveys and despite a standardized method, results for a ... See full document

... All French and Western German interviews were encoded on the computer program Nvivo 7, using a thematic classification. This encoding prepared the content of the interview for theme-by-theme analysis, and allowed ... 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

... Studies of the data from each individual country have been provided by Hoem et al. (2009a, 2009b), Matysiak (2009), and Gabrielli and Hoem (2009). Those authors furnish analyses of the patterns of union formation ... See full document

... The multivariate results in Table 6 show that never-married and widowed singles are more likely than those with a partner to move very close to parents, but these moves are not significantly more likely than moves ... See full document

... Increased educational attainment among women should entail postponement effects on parenthood (Gustafsson 2005; Billari, Liefbroer, and Philipov 2006). In line with expectations, statistics show that people have ... See full document

... We also built models that predicted group usage characteristics, the results of which are also found in Table 4. Specifically, we built models to predict which groups will contain file attachments in at least 1% of all ... See full document

... The higher and faster growing childlessness among men than among women suggests that multi-partner fertility must be on the rise, and this is confirmed by our analyses. (Figure 6). The trends across cohorts for different ... See full document

... In Figure 3-7 we plot the age decomposition for female and male changes in the crude labour force from 1985 (1987 in case of Spain) to 2000. The overall picture is a decrease in the crude labour force rate at ... See full document

... As we might expect, we find the highest proportion of children living with a lone mother, or not with a mother at all, in the USA. On average, as much as 22 percent of children here live in a one-parent family (or ... See full document

... For specifications 1–3, we ran models a–d. Model a is the basic model and includes age group and calendar period (as well as sex in joint models of men and women). Model b includes basic controls, but also marital and ... See full document

... A reflexion by Westoff and Higgins (2009) in response to a study by Puur, Oláh, Tazi- Preve and Dorbritz (2008) has recently been published in this journal. Both articles address the relationship between men’s gender ... See full document

... In short, the current results—showing rising levels of educational homogamy in both urban and rural areas—support the first hypothesis, which states that educational expansion, the inc[r] ... See full document

... fact that there may also be externalities associated with letting the remaining population keep the money and with the parents’ lifestyle beyond the additional childbearing, and there [r] ... See full document

... The tables at the opština level for Bosnia in 1991 show only five categories, Croatia 29, Montenegro nine, Macedonia six, Slovenia 29, and all three regions of Serbia 22.. A separate a[r] ... See full document

... However, since these younger members would have longer durations of membership, their recruitment would lead to an unwanted decrease in the number of elections per year, given the fixed [r] ... See full document

... The modeling of fertility patterns is an essential method researchers use to understand world-wide population patterns. Various types of fertility models have been reported in the literature to capture the patterns ... See full document

... Arthur Roger Thatcher, CB, died in London on February 13, 2010, at 83 years of age. He was actively engaged in demographic research until his death. One of his last papers, The Compression of Deaths above the Mode, is ... See full document