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seem to be different for men and women. The aim of this paper is to investigate how gender-specific differences in family …
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differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with … college and post-graduate education, in particular among recent birth cohorts, have not yet been addressed in the literature … college and post-graduate education for birth cohorts 1931-1980. Our findings show a significant postponement of the first …
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, with Syria having achieved near universal primary education enrolment and a high rate of completed secondary education. Due … important education-related questions for the international community as a whole, like the educational background of Syrians … Syrian education in the broader global context. It aims to provide detailed information that other researchers, policymakers …
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We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to United Nations projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of...
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based on census and largescale survey data from 13 European countries, collected in the Cohort Fertility and Education … education. The results suggest that the changes in the educational composition of the population were only marginally related to … decreased: the differences between women of medium/high education and low educated women diminished. However, the childlessness …
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The relationship between education and fertility among individuals systematically varies by the education of the … education-fertility nexus and on associations between men's involvement with domestic work and fertility, this study …
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We compare employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1979 in Austria. By following synthetic cohorts of mothers and childless women up to retirement age, we are able to study both short-term and long-term consequences of having a...
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"Underachieving" fertility desires is more common among women with higher levels of education and those who delay the … underachieving; by considering variation in the impact of marriage timing by education and by stage of the life course; and by …
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-demographic determinants, disaster experience and education are found to be key predictors of individual disaster preparedness. This paper … explores the pathways through which education enhances disaster preparedness and the interplay between education and experience …: the Philippines and Thailand. While education raises the propensity to prepare against disasters, we further find that the …
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produce global argumentbased population projections by age, sex and level of education. First we give an overview of fertility … present these scenarios and discuss past changes in fertility differences by level of education and their potential future …
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