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... A third possibility, however, is that male best friends may influence each other’s behaviors with respect to whether or not they have EMSPs. Empirically proving social influence is notoriously difficult, but two of our ... See full document

... Figure 1 shows evident clustering of post- socialist countries, which have both low fertility and low levels of gender equity (which is also likely related to the GDI’s focus on life expectancy and standard of ... See full document

... We used two sets of data extracted from the Eurostat database to estimate period fertility indicators by migration status for selected European countries: (a) births by single age and country of birth or citizenship of ... See full document

... Looking at the psychological indicators, we can see that self-esteem is negatively correlated with leaving the short-term intentions status (p = 0.09). This finding is in line with the argument that men and women with ... See full document

... To estimate the effect of a given parameter on the probability of upward occupational mobility across various labor market sectors, multinomial logit models were estimated in which the[r] ... See full document

... Table 1 presents the distribution of adults aged 18-79 in France according to their couple ...at 1%, while the proportion of people having a second residence where they live alone is estimated at 3% (not ... See full document

... The overview chapters cover the following topics: 1. Contemporary levels and trends of fertility in Europe 2. Changing ultimate-parity distribution and family size 3. Birth regulation (contraception and induced ... See full document

... approximately 1/10 of the PSUs that have the largest within-PSU variance in education - the precise selection criterion being a standard deviation larger than ... See full document

... The individual-level data for the empirical analysis of immigrants’ marital choices is drawn from the 2007 National Immigrant Survey (NIS), released by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics. This partly ... See full document

... Although demographic rates are social facts of the most compelling kind, although “culture” and “population” offer contrasting concepts of social structure, and although the theoretica[r] ... See full document

... factor 1/TMR 30 (t) , while p c (x, t − x) would stay constant at current ...of 1/TMR(t) in Equation (12) to µ(x, t) because of their assumption of cohort-invariant delays of future cohort deaths in the ... See full document

... One alternative structure obtained via a “weak” Skiba point might be summarized, “keep the neighborhood in its current state, even if that initial state is de-populated relative to its n[r] ... See full document

... The binary regressions for the main variables indicated that, after other factors are controlled for, mothers who were older and whose youngest child was older were less likely to report the intention to have another ... See full document

... Other studies have shown that much of the difference in mortality between highly and poorly educated men in Russia is due to the high mortality from cardiovascular diseases in the latter group and, to a lesser extent, ... See full document

... Marital homogamy usually refers to marriage between partners of the same social group. Homogamy based on group affiliation may be – and indeed has been – defined in various ways; either by social background, by ethnic ... See full document

... the specific population policies toward minorities. Ancestor worship might be most prevalent among the people of Han ethnicity due to the influence of Confucianism. The political identity of the respondents and of their ... See full document

... Given the absence of pronatalism and the established influence of religion on demographic behaviors in Buddhism, in this study we examine whether Buddhist follower[r] ... See full document

... This article examines the influence of educational attainment and enrolment on second births in Estonia, comparing the patterns before and after the onset of the societal transformation of the ...the ... See full document

... All in all, the study has established that a woman’s educational attainment, premarital sexual activity, premarital childbearing, type of place of residence, region of residence, relig[r] ... See full document

... Evolutionary theories of aging have faced the opposition of Sacher (1978). He considered that “the implication that… organisms are mortal only because of the accumulation of adventitious senescence genes, is more easily ... See full document