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differences in women’s transition to first marriage. The model specification accounts for both spatial and temporal changes in … the socio-economic context of transition to marriage. We found ethnic-specific responses on women’s marriage timing to …
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This paper analyzes the current migration in rural population in the south of Veracruz state (Mexico). We identify … three different spaces of migration, traditional markets, the northern border and the United States. Applying a multinomial …
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Kyrgyzstan, focusing on the link between migration and fertility. We employ event-history techniques to retrospective data from … the ‘Marriage, Fertility, and Migration’ survey conducted in Northern Kyrgyzstan in 2005 to study patterns in first …-time parenthood. We demonstrate the extent to which internal migration is related to family formation and to the patterns of becoming …
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Using the 1998 Migration, Gender and Health Survey in Five Regions of Ethiopia, and multivariate regression techniques …, this paper examines the relationship between internal migration and household living conditions. The analysis finds … linked to migration selectivity by education and non-agricultural income. Once the independent effects of these variables are …
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fertility, marriage, migration, and social mobility. …
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Ecological comparisons in sub-Saharan Africa show that HIV prevalence is lower where men are generally circumcised than where they are not. Randomized controlled trials have found a 50-60% reduction in HIV acquisition for newly circumcised men. Yet in Malawi, HIV prevalence is highest in several...
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The fertility practices of immigrants are a particularly interesting field of study for demographers, providing an insight into the fertility behaviour of individuals when both the society and the individual undergo a period of rapid change. This paper describes and compares the fertility...
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In studies of differences in fertility between migrants and non-migrants, marriage interferes because migration can be … the time around the move because migration temporarily disturbs the life of the migrant. In any case marriage appears as a … the analyst to separate any disruptive effects of migration from any boosting effects of marriage in studies of …
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