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... This contribution scrutinises contemporary evidence regarding the effects of immigration on childbearing trends in European countries. These effects have a growing relevance for the societies of Western, Northern, ... See full document

... Apart from geographical region of origin and migrant generation (first or 1.5 generation), we control for a number of factors that have been shown to be relevant to the incidence and timing of birth transitions. We ... See full document

... It is not common for young people in Slovenia to live on their own (in a single-person household) during the time interval between living with parents and living with a partner. The possibility to move into one’s own ... See full document

... As Figure 4 shows, over time the pattern prevalent in Kidul in 2000 is reinforced: balanced support flows are confirmed as the ideal and the statistical norm which is being achieved more often by 2005. There is a ... See full document

... marriage. 9 Rather than a nuisance, however, the over-representation of polygynous marriages in our sample is a convenient statistical feature because it increases the power of statistical ... See full document

... Although anthropologists have long studied kin marriage in the MENA region, the insights they offer are limited by their small sample sizes and limited geographic scope. At the same time, there is a dearth of ... See full document

... populations. 9 It has indeed been previously documented that the share of ethnic Russians in a republic can to a large extent explain why some republics have higher life expectancy than others, as ethnic Russians ... See full document

... The original model assumes that the proximate determinants at a point in time affect fertility at the same time. In reality, there is a nine-month delay between a change in a proximate determinant and its impact on ... See full document

... Figure 9 shows that the cumulative fertility of second generation Turkish women at age 30 is about halfway between that of the first generation and native ... See full document

... Figure 9 depicts the differences in cumulated cohort fertility, separately for first birth and second-order births, between women born in the years 1960–1980 and women of the 1950 reference ... See full document

... Demographic Surveillance Systems (DSSs) have been established in many developing countries to provide data on fertility and mortality and on determinants of trends in health (9, 18). These systems complement ... See full document

... Some studies suggest that employment is an important predictor for mortality risks. Leclerc et al. (2006) report that between 1968/74 and 1990/96 mortality differentials between occupational groups were stable among the ... See full document

... Women who attend religious services weekly are more likely to use modern contraception than those who do not; however, contrary to our expectations, there is no relationship between ex[r] ... See full document

... Integrated Roma behave more similarly to the majority population and according to estimates, the 2002 total fertility rate of integrated Roma women was 1.3 children and the me[r] ... See full document

... and at age 30 for the BCS70. We created ‘episode’ files that included a separate record for each partnership context and age segment that the individual experienced up to either the time of the first birth or their 30 th ... See full document

... To capture the relationship between son preference, marriage and the value of children, we introduce the notion of perceived present values of married and unmarried sons and daughters (A[r] ... See full document

... We may compare this data with the results of the survey carried out in the framework of the Population Microcensus of 1994, which took place under the evident influence of the social s[r] ... See full document

... The sensitivity of population growth rate to changes in the vital rates can be written in terms of the stable stage or age distribution and the reproductive value distribution.. If the v[r] ... See full document

... This article integrates two methods that analyze the implications of various causes of death for life expectancy. One of the methods attributes changes in life expectancy to various causes of death; the other ... See full document

... Examples of promising research topics in the biodemographic aspects of ecology, evolution and behavior include studies concerned with eco-gerontological rules that describe the relations[r] ... See full document