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... Thus far, demographic research in Poland has corroborated findings from the rest of Eastern Europe that fertility barriers include the rising cost of having children and the inability [r] ... See full document

... 2—could not be included due to funding and timing constraints limiting the scope and duration of the fieldwork. As a result, this village is included only in analyses of sexual network structures, but is excluded from ... See full document

... Of the 3,243 individual respondents in MDICP-3 who identified a congregation where they participate, all but 31 were successfully matched to one of the MRP congregations. Approximately 20 MDICP respondents on ... See full document

... These characteristics depended in part on the selection that was made before the soldiers were assigned to the war zone, with their assignment to the different corps, which resulted in t[r] ... See full document

... Take for example a surface of the mortality rate sex ratio in England and Wales (see Figure 2). The excess male mortality resulting from military deaths during the World War I and World War II leaves a trail on the Lexis ... See full document

... Demographers’ attention to cohabitation might have increased the salience of the distinction between being a part of a couple and living together, and thus indirectly fostered new data collection on LAT relationships ... See full document

... A duration profile of marital disruption is necessary to convert the rate of disruption at a particular point in time into a lifetime disruption rate. Given that desertions often leave no paper trail or other record ... See full document

... “I assume that I was born with a desire to have children”, said a woman who had her child at age 20 in reaction to our question on how she thought about having children when she was around 18. In contrast, a man ... See full document

... the 20 th century, Spain had one of the highest fertility levels in Europe and was a laggard country regarding fertility decline, but in the early 1990s it became a forerunner in lowest-low fertility, exhibiting ... See full document

... To address these issues, we conduct a series of data quality analyses for the MDICP data, including comparisons of the data with the Malawi Demographic and Health Surveys (MDHS) and a[r] ... See full document

... While rare in most countries at age 20 (when childbearing may not yet have begun), marriages occurring after a first birth (i.e., Post-Birth Legitimizing, Reinforcing and Capstone) constitute a non-negligible ... See full document

... A variety of parametric models pre- senting the fertility rates as a function of age have been proposed in order to describe the age-specific fertility pattern.. Some of them provide nic[r] ... See full document

... The inclusion of the aggregate proportion of women in the labor market in one of the models provided mixed results, since the effect of the indicator for childcare availability lost it[r] ... See full document

... this article is to describe the statistical association between siblings and human capital, after controlling for other variables (year at birth, social class, ...this article, an instrumental variable ... See full document

... In the stable population, constant vital rates yield (linear) exponential growth in the number of births, while in the metastable model net maternity that increases exponentially over ag[r] ... See full document

... In populations thought not to be affected by migration, the optimal strategy appears to be to apply the General Growth Balance method (fitting to the age range 5+ to 65+) to estimate c[r] ... See full document

... The incidence of cohabitation in this social group is still lower, and the consensual unions formed by the better educated are shorter; nonetheless, we found a clear in[r] ... See full document

... By studying mobility trajectories, rather than discrete relocation events, research can improve our understanding of mobility processes in a biographical context (Bail[r] ... See full document

... In contrast, the evolutionary synthesis – a collaborative product of research in experimental and population genetics, natural history, and related fields of biology – followed Darwin [r] ... See full document

... To this purpose, we analyse and compare the geographical patterns of the infant mortality rate and the mortality rates for leading causes of death with those found for the vul[r] ... See full document