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the timing of fertility. However, the positive impact of development on fertility is conditional on gender equality …: countries that rank high in development as measured by health, income, and education, but low in gender equality, continue to …
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This paper investigates whether unemployment and insecure employment periods merely delay fertility or also impact on completed fertility in France. It analyses both the timing of first childbearing and the fertility reached at age 40. Different indicators of declining employment security are...
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Separation is known to have a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, mainly because a decrease in resources causes (temporary) downward moves on the housing ladder. Little is known about the geographies of the residential mobility behaviour of the separated. Applying a...
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Sex, age, education, marital status, obesity, and smoking have been found to affect health transitions between non-disabled, disabled, and death. Our aim is to review the research literature on this topic and provide structured information, first on the availability of results for each risk...
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This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident …-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98. As predicted by the Convergence Hypothesis, gender …, for many types of accidents mortality, gender differences were stable or increased; these trends often resulted from the …
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values and attitudes. Other domains covered by the survey include gender relationships, household composition and housing …The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations and Gender Programme designed to …-generational and gender relationships. The survey applies the life course approach, focussing on the processes of childbearing …
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In the period 1960-2000, male and female life expectancy increased by 8,2 and 10,5 years, respectively, in Catalonia, one of Spain’s Autonomous Regions, to one of the highest in the world. Initially, most gains were due to lower infant mortality, but as cardiovascular diseases declined...
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. The main theoretical concepts in anthropological demography are culture, gender, and political economy; its empirical …
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from classic explanations, such as women’s increased labour market participation, to gender equity as the essential link … test of gender equity theory by examining whether the unequal division of household labour leads to lower fertility … intentions of women in different institutional contexts. Italy constitutes a case of high gender inequity, low female labour …
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This paper addresses the sex differences in cohabiters’ marriage preferences, which have received very little attention in the family literature. According to Norwegian survey data from 1996, cohabiting men are more hesitant to marry than cohabiting women. For example, childless male...
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