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covering up to 60 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania. This paper presents conceptual considerations and …
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Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this development are not coherent. Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition framework interpret it rather as a pattern of progress driven by processes such as emancipation from...
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Several countries in Northern and Western Europe report cohort fertility rates of close to two children per woman … play an important role for understanding the current fertility differences in Western Europe. …
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The ratio (RMR) is the standard measure of sex differentials in mortality. It is commonly known that the RMR was historically small and increased throughout the 20th century. However, numerical properties might account for the trend in the RMR rather than sex differences in risk factors. In this...
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This note provides an extensive survey of studies estimating steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe … US, there is some evidence that both time effect and modeling choices affect estimates for Europe. …
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substitution in their household production in Europe. …
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fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique KASS genealogical dataset from eight countries in Europe, we study the …
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Au XVIIIe siècle, la Chine semblait bien placée pour occuper la première place dans l'économie mondiale. L'auteur tente d'expliquer comment a-t-elle pu prendre un tel retard.
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This paper investigates the role of states and regions in shaping spatial patterns of non-marital fertility in Europe … half of the 20th century states played a dominant role in drawing the demographic map of Europe. As a result, subnational … variation in nonmarital fertility levels increased as a whole across Europe, and states continued to be important for …
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to show the true diversity of familial organization in Eastern Europe, which had been placed at the other end of the … the rhythms of their development in historical Eastern Europe presented in this literature should finally free us from a …
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