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... Today and in the coming decades, the children born into this climate of strong son preference are reaching adulthood. According to the United Nations population projections for China, there were 106 men aged 15-49 for ... See full document

... weight measurements were collected from children at ages 3, 5, 7, and 11 years using Tanita scales and stadiometers (Hansen and Joshi 2007). Changes in raw BMI provide estimates that are more interpretable over ... See full document

... western Germans, the highly educated, and among those living with both parents until adulthood. Western Germans, the foreign-born, the low-educated, and persons without church membership moved in with their partner more ... See full document

... Because data in Korean censuses on children ever born are collected only for the women who have ever married, we had to assume that all the women who have never married were childless. As the proportion of nonmarital ... See full document

... Third, the contribution of suicide deaths to life expectancy is unbalanced across gender, with men contributing more to the reduction in life expectancy (Appendix Table A-3). Men’s suicide rate increased more than ... See full document

... Lack of contextualization about why Muslim women in France (or other contexts) have high fertility contributes to misconceptions about the exceptionalism of Muslim fertility, including an oversimplified and empirically ... See full document

... Respondents’ relative level of education (similar to what Feliciano and Lanuza (2017) named “contextual attainment”) constitutes the key variable in the analysis. Using a methodology developed for migrants by Ichou ... See full document

... While we did not have the messages’ content or recipient information, we were nonetheless still able to glean a great deal of usage information regarding message and group statistics. The first type of information ... See full document

... Similar relations apply to the probabilities of surviving from a given age x to another given age a. The life expectancy is the sum of such survival probabilities, which explains why it must be biased upwards. The ... See full document

... However, in order to arrive at a more detailed picture of social mobility, we devised a series of log-linear models to study the association between the son’s profession at age 20, and that of his father. One of the ... See full document

... The moves of parents and children were measured according to four categories: 0 = no move, 1 = moves very close, 2 = moves close, and 3 = moves elsewhere. The choice of this measure is based on the assumption that ... See full document

... But with event history analysis, a mixed-methods approach, and sources like the East and Central African libri status animarum , they open the way to the ‘long view’ of population ch[r] ... 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 ... See full document

... Nevertheless, we are most interested in two specific biases, rWpU and rUpW. The former response pair, rWpU, is much more common than the latter, rUpW (see Table 3). The more common bias, rWpU, occurs when a woman ... See full document

... This article is concerned with sensitivity analysis of life disparity with respect to changes in mortality rates. A relationship is derived that describes the effect on life disparity caused by a perturbation of ... See full document

... Figure 3 shows that at any given time the ratio increases with age. For younger ages it is below one, indicating that changes at those ages have more impact on cohort than period life expectancy. With mortality ... See full document

... Hypothesis 2: Double-veto power effect. To test this hypothesis, I compared the fit of a model with a linear specification of both partners’ combined desires in which disagreement had a score midway between agreement on ... See full document

... This is done by using a logistic regression model that is designed to capture (i) the association between years of schooling and women's age at union formation;[r] ... See full document

... One of the contributions of the present study is precisely its use of a large number of countries over a lengthy historical period. We show that aggregated data (from both the national and the provincial sphere) can lead ... See full document

... analytically. Many studies combine qualitative and quantitative approaches, some to inform the design (and presumably the analysis) of the survey (Biddlecom & Fapohunda 1998, Wolff 2000), others as a complement to ... See full document