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Estimating subjective quality of life in urban seniors in Chile

Lobos Andrade, Germán; Schnettler, Berta; Grunert, Klaus G. - In: Lecturas de economía 95 (2021), pp. 199-230

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The socio political demography of happiness

Peltzman, Sam - 2023

Since 1972 the General Social Survey (GSS) has asked a representative sample of US adults "… [are] you…very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?" Overall, the population is reasonably happy even after a mild recent decline. I focus on differences along standard socio demographic...

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Towards a new understanding of cohabitation

Perelli-Harris, Brienna; Mynarska, Monika; Berrington, Ann - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 34, pp. 1043-1078

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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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Household composition across the new Europe: Where do the new Member States fit in?

Iacovou, Maria; Skew, Alexandra J. - In: Demographic Research 25 (2011) 14, pp. 465-490

In this paper we present indicators of household structure for 26 of the 27 countries of the post-enlargement European Union. As well as broad indicators of household type, we present statistics on single-person and extended-family households, and on the households of children and older people....

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Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life cycle life satisfaction

Margolis, Rachel; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle …. Globally, these factors explain a substantial fraction of happiness, increasing from 12 percent in young adulthood to 15 … in the wealthier, and income in the poorer regions of the world. Family explains a substantial fraction of happiness only …

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How policy matters: Germany’s parental leave benefit reform and fathers’ behavior 1999-2009

Geisler, Esther; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

In 2007, Germany enacted a radical new parental leave benefit scheme that grants parents 67 percent of their previous income, and includes two “daddy months.” In this paper, we use data from the German Microcensus for the period 1999 to 2009 to explore how this reform has changed fathers’...

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Population aging and the extended family in Taiwan

Mason, Andrew; Lee, Sang-Hyop - In: Demographic Research 10 (2004) 8, pp. 197-230

Population aging produces changes in the availability of kin with uncertain implications for extended living arrangements. We propose a highly stylized model that can be used to analyze and project age-specific proportions of adults living in extended and nuclear households. The model is applied...

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Estimating time-varying sex-age-specific o/e rates of marital status transitions in family household projection or simulation

Zeng, Yi; Stallard, Eric; Wang, Zhenglian - In: Demographic Research 11 (2004) 10, pp. 263-304

This article presents a procedure for estimating time-varying sex-age-specific occurrence/exposure (o/e) rates of marital status transitions to ensure that the projected life course propensities of marriage/union formation and dissolution are achieved consistently in the one-sex family status...

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Overview Chapter 5: Determinants of family formation and childbearing during the societal transition in Central and Eastern Europe

Frejka, Tomas - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 7, pp. 139-170

Societal conditions for early and high rates of childbearing were replaced by conditions generating late and low levels of fertility common in Western countries. Central among factors shaping the latter behaviour (job insecurity, unstable partnership relationships, expensive housing, and...

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