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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
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 non-household friends. Discrete-time event history analysis is undertaken to measure … the risk of a first birth, controlling for household composition and socio-economic background. We find that having more …
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Old age, health and social inequality
Edvinsson, Sören; Broström, Göran - In: Demographic Research 26 (2012) 23, pp. 633-660
Social position and access to economic resources are major determinants of health and mortality. Their impact varies, however, across countries, historical contexts and throughout the life course. The present article analyses social differences in health among elderly in an historical setting...
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Grandparenting and mothers’ labour force participation: A comparative analysis using the Generations and Gender Survey
Aassve, Arnstein; Arpino, Bruno; Goisis, Alice - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 3, pp. 53-84
Using data from seven countries drawn from the Generations and Gender Survey, we study the relationship between informal childcare provided by grandparents and mothers’ employment. The extent of formal childcare varies substantially across European countries and so does the role of...
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Effects of Parental Union Dissolution on Child Mortality and Child Schooling in Burkina Faso
Thiombiano, Bilampoa Gnoumou; Thomas LeGrand, K.; … - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 29, pp. 797-816
In this paper, we use data from a retrospective biographical survey in Burkina Faso to examine the effect of divorce and widowhood of the mother on children’s risk of mortality under age 5 and on the probability of their entering primary school. The results from piecewise exponential...
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The mystery of Japan's missing centenarians explained
Saito, Yasuhiko; Yong, Vanessa; Robine, Jean-Marie - In: Demographic Research 26 (2012) 11, pp. 239-252
This report elucidates the issue of Japan’s missing centenarians, which was uncovered in 2010. We provide the latest figures from verification efforts, discuss sources of centenarian information in Japan, examine possible causes, and evaluate the effect of the missing centenarians on...
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Shaping human mortality patterns through intrinsic and extrinsic vitality processes
Li, Ting; Anderson, James - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 12, pp. 341-372
Human mortality patterns are modeled as the loss of an individual’s vitality, a measure of survival capacity, by senescence or when random extrinsic challenges exceed the remaining vitality. The model characterizes the stochastic rate of loss of vitality as a Wiener process and random...
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Economic crisis and women’s labor force return after childbirth: Evidence from South Korea
Ma, Li - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 18, pp. 511-552
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Mortality by marital status in a rapidly changing society: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Pechholdová, Markéta; amanová, Gabriela Å - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 12, pp. 307-322
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Discussing the Strehler-Mildvan model of mortality
Finkelstein, Maxim - In: Demographic Research 26 (2012) 9, pp. 191-206
Half a century ago Strehler and Mildvan (1960) have published the seminal paper that, based on some assumptions (postulates), theoretically ‘justified’ the Gompertz law of mortality. It also defined the, so called, Srehler-Mildvan correlation between the parameters of the Gompertz...
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Men’s economic status and marital transitions of fragile families
Sassler, Sharon; Roy, Soma; Stasny, Elizabeth - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 3, pp. 71-110
This paper explores whether new mother’s marital expectations are associated with their baby’s father’s economic characteristics, and how such expectations shaped subsequent entry into marriage. Data are from unmarried couples in the Fragile Families Study, corrected with...
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