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... In Southern European countries and some Eastern European countries, household size is relatively large at older ages, and in Northern and Western Europe, with the inclusion of the Czec[r] ... See full document

... Figure 9 shows the age-specific fertility rate’s elasticity to unemployment measures (Panel (a)) and economic and financial uncertainty (Panel (b)) (complete results are reported in Table A-2 in the Appendix). The ... See full document

... variety of studies of historical demography in Western Europe. Contrary to the fundamental social causes theory, this approach suggests that there has been a long- term change in the association between socioeconomic ... See full document

... Slavs in Kyrgyzstan, however, exhibit mortality patterns that are almost identical to those observed in Russia, with much higher levels of alcohol-related mortality than their Central As[r] ... See full document

... We use data from the first wave of surveys organized under the Generations and Gender Programme (United Nations 2005). 4 This data set is unique because of its internationally comparative nature and the indicators ... See full document

... The situation might have changed by the late 19 th century. While the Church was, for a period at least, stubborn in defending the quamprimum principle, many doctors began to stress the dangers of early baptism ... See full document

... and what neighbourhoods were furnishing domestic servants. Contrary to the instructions given to census takers, 75 young women were reported both in their families of origin and in the households of their employers. As a ... See full document

... Researchers have implemented RDS within migrant populations to study issues such as sexual violence among Sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco; HIV risk behaviours among undocumented immigrant women in Texas, USA; and the ... See full document

... We focused on infectious diseases that caused significant epidemics in the 19 th century United States (Condran and Murphy 2008) and were continually present in Holyoke between 1850 and 1912. The ten causes in our ... See full document

... A related factor is migrant status. The rapid growth of the Southern urban black population was due to rural‒urban migration from within the region. There is little systematic evidence on where migrants lived, though the ... See full document

... Finally, the effect of climate on mortality in preindustrial societies has been studied by combining microlevel and macrolevel data (Bengtsson and Broström 2010; Rocklov et al. 2014; Schumann et al. 2013). For example, ... See full document

... We show how this model could be used to estimate the reporting probabilities of intentional abortions by each individual in addition to the overall average reporting rate.. Individua[r] ... See full document

... They treat their property as an endowment and this is a useful segue into prospect theory, whose point of departure from the rational expectations model lies with the fact that people[r] ... See full document

... 5 Although a wide literature has addressed the challenges that young people face in their transitions from education to work and marriage in MENA (Amer 2014, 2015; Assaad, Binzel, and G[r] ... See full document

... The postponement of first childbirth has been occurring in most European countries for some decades now. In France, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway, for example, the mean age of women at first childbirth ... See full document

... Biological children also possess an educational advantage among maternal/double orphans, and in the same group, children who are relatives of the household head have the lowest probabili[r] ... See full document

... Gender-role attitudes are measured by the two-pronged question: “What kind of family do you prefer with regard to: 1) housework, and 2) income?” 8 If a male responds that housework should mainly be the wife’s ... See full document

... We explore whether women’s paid employment is associated with reductions in women’s stated son preference in India and whether these results vary by employment sector (agriculture, manuf[r] ... See full document

... Villavicencio and David 2000; Miller 2008; Jacob 2013). “Children conceived or born out of a void or annulled marriage are considered illegitimate and an amended birth certificate indicating the new civil status of the ... See full document

... In other ways, however, a demographer’s life has become more complicated. The life course of mid-20 th -century America used to be commonly characterized as an unwavering linearity of courtship, followed by marriage, and ... See full document