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Does migration benefit the schooling of children left behind?
Hu, Feng - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 2, pp. 33-70
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Measuring remittances through surveys
Brown, Richard; Carling, Jørgen; Fransen, Sonja; … - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 41, pp. 1243-1274
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Trends in East-West German Migration from 1989 to 2002
Heiland, Frank - In: Demographic Research 11 (2004) 7, pp. 173-194
The purpose of this article is to show recent trends in regional migration from East to West Germany by combining data … increasing popularity of the Berlin region, the distribution of East to West migrants across West Germany is fairly stable over …
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Interconnections among changing family structure, childrearing and fertility behaviour among the Ogu, Southwestern Nigeria
Wusu, Onipede; Isiugo-Abanihe, Uche - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 8, pp. 139-156
is still largely dominated by extended structure, the strong traditional kinship ties have begun to undergo serious …
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Does the kin orientation of a British woman’s social network influence her entry into motherhood?
Mathews, Paul; Sear, Rebecca - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 11, pp. 313-340
This study investigates whether a female’s entry into motherhood is influenced by the kin orientation of her social network. We use data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and define kin orientation as the number of relatives who a female reports within her three closest...
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Distortion of regional old-age mortality due to late-life migration in the Netherlands?
Kibele, Eva; Janssen, Fanny - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 5, pp. 105-132
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Labor-market status, migrant status and first childbearing in Sweden
Lundström, Karin E.; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 25, pp. 719-742
migration status in first birth behavior. Our study demonstrates that foreign born persons seem to adapt to the behavior of …
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Do low survey response rates bias results? Evidence from Japan
Rindfuss, Ronald R.; Choe, Minja K.; Tsuya, Noriko O.; … - In: Demographic Research 32 (2015) 26, pp. 797-828
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Sampling and Surveying Hard-to-Reach Populations for Demographic Research
Agadjanian, Victor; Zotova, Natalya - In: Demographic Research 26 (2012) 5, pp. 131-150
Because household-based survey designs are notoriously ineffective in studying hard-to-reach groups such as irregular migrants, these groups, however numerically large they may be, are rarely represented in demographic analyses. In this paper, we report on the application of a workplace-based...
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The dangers of conditioning on the time of occurrence of one demographic process in the analysis of another
Hoem, Jan M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013
Demographers and others often study the interaction between two types of individual-level behaviour, such as migration … and childbearing. Unfortunately, one can get estimation bias if one compares childbearing before and after migration from … data confined to migrants, say, as is sometimes done to see whether international migration disrupts fertility. Similar …
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