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Russian fertility. However, many households tried to cope with this situation by engaging in multiple income generating … additional income were positively associated with the birth of a second child. This is especially the case if these activities … produce half of a respondent’s or her household’s income. The birth of a second child was also positively associated with the …
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independence effect applies to Sweden, a country in which egalitarian gender views dominate and female labor-force participation … support for the ‘independence effect’: The linear relationship between the share of a wife’s income and the divorce risk is … positive. We also found that the higher the total income of the couple, the lower their divorce risk, but this relationship …
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percent in mature adulthood. Health is the most important factor, and its importance increases with age. Income is important … in the wealthier, and income in the poorer regions of the world. Family explains a substantial fraction of happiness only …
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reproductive age in Finland in 1988–2000. Results show that a woman’s economic activity and income were positively correlated with …
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force participation rates among the older work force, resulting in a rather short surplus period. Germany is a picture book …
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This study proposes a new decomposition method which permits a difference in an aggregate measure at a final time point to be split into additive components corresponding to the initial differences in the event-rates of the measure and differences in trends in these underlying event-rates. The...
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evidence on the nature and aims of censuses, however, reveals how central state needs or desires to generate tax income have …
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In their contributions to the debate on exceptional longevity, several scholars have noted the existence of spatial hot spots, or areas with a high concentration of individuals who have survived to very high ages (e.g. Sardinia in Italy or Okinawa in Japan). However, most of these studies were...
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This paper stands at the confluence of three streams of historical social science analysis: the sociological study of power relations within the family, the regional demography of historical Europe, and the study of spatial patterning of historical family forms in Europe. It is a preliminary...
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Studies that have investigated the role of unemployment in childbearing decisions have often provided conflicting results. We argue that many of the inconsistencies of prior research may be attributed to a neglect of group-specific differences in behavior. In this study, we examine how the...
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