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Disagreements among cohabiting and married couples in 22 European countries

Lippe, Tanja van der; Voorpostel, Marieke; Hewitt, Belinda - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 10, pp. 247-274

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NNN1Weinreb, FFF1Alexander A. - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 12, pp. 373-396

significantly in relatively short periods - in particular at times of rapid social change - and that multilevel analysis is an …

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Children's stunting in sub-Saharan Africa: Is there an externality effect of high fertility?

Kravdal, Øystein; Kodzi, Ivy - In: Demographic Research 25 (2011) 18, pp. 565-594

A positive relationship between the number of siblings and a childâ€™s chance of being stunted has been seen in several studies. It is possible that individual stunting risks are also raised by high fertility in the community, partly because of the impact of aggregate fertility on the local...

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A simulation-based assessment of the bias produced when using averages from small DHS clusters as contextual variables in multilevel models

Kravdal, Øystein - In: Demographic Research 15 (2006) 1, pp. 1-20

There is much interest these days in the importance of community institutions and resources for individual mortality … and fertility. DHS data may seem to be a valuable source for such multilevel analysis. For example, researchers may …

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The impact of individual and aggregate unemployment on fertility in Norway

Kravdal, Øystein - In: Demographic Research 6 (2002) 10, pp. 263-294

to paternity rate models, the overall conclusion is that unemployment in Norway has had a negligible impact on fertility …

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A search for aggregate-level effects of education on fertility, using data from Zimbabwe

Kravdal, Øystein - In: Demographic Research 3 (2000) 3

The analysis was based on the 1994 ZDHS combined with aggregate data from the 1992 census. Discrete-time hazard models for first and higher-order births were estimated for 1990-94. The average length of education in the district and the proportion who are literate were found to have no impact on...

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The problematic estimation of "imitation effects" in multilevel models

Kravdal, Øystein - In: Demographic Research 9 (2003) 2, pp. 25-40

community, for example because of an inclination to imitate. When estimating multilevel models from clustered individual data …

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To concentration of reproduction in cohorts of US and European women

Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Andreev, Evgueni M.; Houle, René - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

We study inter-individual variability in number of children among women. Concentration ratio (CR) and percentile measures are used. In most countries CR has increasing from cohorts of the 1930s-40s onward due to rise in childlessness. In cohorts of the early 1960s CR varies from 0.24 to 0.46...

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A Fixed-Effects Analysis of How Income Inequality in a Municipality Affects Individual Mortality in Norway

Kravdal, Øystein - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

There is still much uncertainty about the impact of income inequality on health and mortality. Some studies have … inequality in the municipality of residence, measured by the Gini coefficient, affected mortality in men and women aged 30-89 in … about the existence of harmful health effects of income inequality, and especially in a Nordic context. …

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Assimilation effects on infant mortality among immigrants in Norway: Does maternal source country matter?

Kinge, Jonas; Kornstad, Tom - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 26, pp. 779-812

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