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The Quantum and Tempo of Life-Cycle Events [PDF]
This study develops and applies a general framework for the analysis of the period quantum and tempo of life-cycle events, extending methods developed previously by the authors.
Griffith Feeney, John Bongaarts
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Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans: New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations. [PDF]
Hist Methods, 2023 Costa DL, Lewis C, Yetter N.
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Spain: Short on children and short on family policies [PDF]
Spain’s total fertility rate has more than halved since 1975, when it was 2.8, to the present 1.3 (the lowest rate on record, 1.2, was reached in 1995).
Francisco Zamora-López +2 more
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Demographic Research, 2004 In the present note, we present the main features of recent trends in vital family-demographic behavior in Sweden. For this purpose, published indices of marriage, divorce, and childbearing risks by calendar year are updated by adding another two or ...
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Ethnic Differences in Demographic Behavior in the United States: Has There Been Convergence? [PDF]
This paper looks at the fertility, mortality, and marriage experience of racial, ethnic, and nativity groups in the United States from the 19th to the late 20th centuries.
Michael R. Haines
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Analyzing the Transformation of China’s First Marriage Pattern Using Nuptiality Tables
Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 2014 Using data from several censuses in China, including the newly released 2010 data, this study constructs net nuptiality tables as an analytical instrument to descriptively analyse the shape of China’s first marriage pattern from 1982 to 2010, including
Yan Wei, Quanbao Jiang, Stuart Basten
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Women’s changing socioeconomic position and union formation in Spain and Portugal [PDF]
Economic and sociological theories of marriage have long emphasized the impact of women’s education and employment on union formation. In this study, we explore the relevance of the female economic independence hypothesis to explain women’s patterns of ...
Marta Domínguez-Folgueras +1 more
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Essays in Economic and Business History, 2017 This study utilizes one of the best sets of surviving historical registration records from a non-rural population in early modern Japan to examine whether and how socioeconomic status (property) and household context (power) influenced the first marriage
Satomi Kurosu +2 more
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Demographic response to economic shock [PDF]
The clear division of the world in the 1950s and 1960s into rich countries with low fertility and mortality and poor countries with higher fertility and mortality was used to support strongly held views that economic development was necessary for ...
Hill, Kenneth
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Slovakia: Fertility between tradition and modernity [PDF]
In the last 60 years, Slovakia has experienced comparatively high and most recently very low fertility, long periods of stable fertility alternating with periods of changes, periods of substantial as well as lesser state interventions.
Boris Vano +3 more
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