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A reversal of the socioeconomic gradient of nuptiality during the Swedish mid-20th-century baby boom
Demographic Research, 2017 Background: Research into the causes of the mid-20th-century baby boom has concluded that the main proximate cause of the fertility increase during the 1940s was earlier and more universal marriage in the cohorts born after 1910, and that this ...
Glenn Sandström
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Educational assortative mating in Italy: what can Gini’s homogamy index still say? [PDF]
, 2015 The homogamy index proposed by Gini is applied to describe the changes occurred in marital choice - across time and regions in Italy. The relevant increase in education by women has provoked an increase in the number of homogamous couples and in an ...
DE ROSE, Alessandra, Fraboni, R.
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Marriage and divorce of immigrants and descendants of immigrants in Sweden
Demographic Research, 2015 Background: Immigrants and their second-generation descendants make up more than a quarter of the current Swedish population. Their nuptiality patterns can be viewed as crucial indicators of their integration into Swedish society.
Gunnar Andersson +2 more
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Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Impoverishment Among Elderly Women in Japan
Frontiers in Physics, 2018 The increasing poverty rate for elderly women is a growing concern in Japan and is generally due to their lifestyle changes and the public pension system based on the pre-1980s (old) lifestyle.
Seiichi Inagaki
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Historical reproductive patterns in developed countries: Aggregate-level perspective
Demographic Research, 2018 Background: One of the fundamental arguments sustaining the classical demographic transition theory was that couples wanted to have a given number of surviving children, not a specific number of births. However, this cornerstone of transition theory came
Jesús Sánchez-Barricarte
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GenealogyOne of the most refined tools that have been devised for the analysis of marriage behavior of a population is the nuptiality tables. There are two main categories of such tables: gross and net.
Vasilis S. Gavalas
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Демографическое обозрение, 2020 The paper deals with the relation between traditional family norms and women’s age at first marriage. The study is based on data from Karachay-Cherkessia, a republic of the North Caucasus (Russia), and uses results of a survey among women of ...
Konstantin Kazenin
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Quality of demographic data in GGS Wave 1
Demographic Research, 2015 Background: A key feature of the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP) is that longitudinal micro-data from the Generations and Gender Surveys (GGS) can be combined with indicators from the Contextual Database (CDB) that provide information on the macro ...
Jorik Vergauwen +3 more
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Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2237-2247, April 2025.The predatory effect of the honey‐buzzard affects the reproductive performance of Asian‐hornet colonies, decreasing the density of workers over distance and time. The foraging distances of the honey‐buzzard concentrates within the first 2000 m from nest, which supports the results observed.
Jorge Ángel Martín‐Ávila +3 more
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Fertility transition in Rwanda: what does the trend in nuptiality reveal?
Genus, 2022 Recent literature on fertility trend in Rwanda indicates that the country is undergoing a fertility transition since fertility has declined from 6.1 births to 4.2 between 2005 and 2015.
Dieudonne Ndaruhuye Muhoza
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