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... the 19 th through the second half of the 20 th century, the prevailing “large family” model of three or more children was gradually replaced by the two-child ... See full document

... Our analysis relies on period counts of births broken down by the mother’s and the father’s demographic and socioeconomic attributes, such as age, educational level, and employment status. These counts were compiled for ... See full document

... and plotting it in Fig. 2, using again the Japanese data, we do not observe any particular age or period dependent pattern. The rate of mortality change appears rather to be a cloud centered around the mean value 0.027. ... See full document

... The employment rate for Icelandic men and women of childbearing age is, and has been, very high in an international comparison. According to a Statistics Iceland Labour Market Survey, around 90% in the age group 25–54 ... See full document

... A second economic consideration related to kin marriage is the reduced matrimonial expenditures involved in such unions (Caldwell, Reddy, and Caldwell 1983; Casterline and El-Zeini 2003; Hoodfar 1997; Reilly 2013; ... See full document

... By equation (5), ϕ is strictly positive on [˜ a, ∞). Equation (7) follows from equation (4), so that the first derivative of ϕ is strictly positive on [0, a) ˜ and strictly negative on (˜ a, ∞). Thus, ϕ is ... See full document

... was divided into four categories: less than high school, high school, 2-year college, and 4-year university-level education or higher. Subjective heath status was measured on a five-point Likert scale based on the ... See full document

... Figure 4 shows the results of robustness tests assessing whether these results are sensitive to the inclusion or exclusion of certain countries or variables. As is evident in the upper panel, the positive effect ... See full document

... Finally, the occurrence of specific events during the entire employment trajectory (from age 15 up to age 45) of individuals belonging to the various clusters can be considered. Contrary to the idea of a rigid labour ... See full document

... census division are shown in Figure 5. While migration has declined in all regions, declines are steeper in the South and West: these particularly pronounced declines are reflected in the relatively large negative rate ... 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 abortion) ... See full document

... As cohabitation continues to transform American families, existing statistics on the prevalence of cohabiting families have become outdated. In the current study, we use the 1995 and 2002 waves (Cycles V and VI) of the ... See full document

... While the CM model is commonly used to parametrise first marriage, there are some opposing opinions to its application. Kaneko (2003) applied the RT parametrisation to Japanese female cohorts (1953–1960) and explained ... See full document

... Table 4 shows that women living in the Centre and North are less likely to experience a second or third birth compared to the ...Table 4 also reveals a clear institutional or cultural effect underlined by ... See full document

... This research note studies the timing and magnitude of possible effects of the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP), which were enforced in the early 1980s by the International Mon[r] ... See full document

... The gender- and union-specific single-year disability rates were combined with the single-year marital-status life tables derived from the Eurostat data to estimate the person years at[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

... For that purpose, we introduced a new statistical approach of a secondary population projection to predict cancer incidence and cancer mortality of all tumor sites accounting f[r] ... See full document

... In addition, sibship status might influence young couples’ possibility of getting parental childcare support: Because all couples have been allowed to have a second child since the sam[r] ... See full document

... Childlessness does not appear to be uniquely a characteristic of highly educated women with a strong professional orientation (Miettinen et al. 2015): the six profiles show that the chil[r] ... See full document