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... 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

... Our research data set was based on 34,135 individuals who identified themselves as Lutherans in the 1897 census. To analyse the mortality differentials, individual death records were linked to corresponding census ... 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

... economic downturn. We first note that shifts between 2009 and 2015 in the overall TFRs of countries differed considerably. The TFRs of the total population declined in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Finland, the United ... 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

... 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

... Overall, the differences between men and women are small, except at ages 25 to 40, when men are more likely to commute than women (the differences found between young boys and girls are unstable with age, and need to be ... See full document

... within 1 km in the same municipality, more than 1 km in the same municipality, within 16 km in another municipality, between 16-50 km in another municipality, more than 50 km or abroad, parents or parents ... 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

... conclusions: 1) Findings from two ethnographic studies of low fertility can be compared and generalised if such concepts as ‘comparison’ and ‘generalisation’ are understood in the anthropological ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... This article focuses on level-1 vs. level-2 explanations. We present a new method for decomposing change in a population average into two components, one capturing the ef- fect of direct change and the ... See full document

... identity: 1) women who identify as AI/AN only, 2) any woman who identifies as AI/AN, whether identifying one or more races, and 3) women who list a specific tribe or American Indian for the ancestry ... See full document

... The official motives for a mass evacuation of children were, as stated by the Ministry of Social Affairs, that children who were particularly exposed to the various adversities of war should be given a better rearing ... See full document

... Our data are from the first wave of the Generation and Gender Surveys (GGS) from France (collected in 2005), Norway (2007–2008), Bulgaria (2004), and Lithuania (2006). The GGS is a large-scale, cross-national, and ... See full document

... Figure 1 we present the spatial distribution of the two practices of ancestor worship that are examined in this article: having a family genealogy and visiting the gravesite of ... See full document