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A Four-Dimensional Decomposition of Relative Poverty in China from the Perspective of Heterogeneity
Ending poverty in all its forms is the first of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Therefore, it is...
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Heterogeneity in Family Life Course Patterns and Intra-Cohort Wealth Disparities in Late Working Age
Considering soaring wealth inequalities in older age, this research addresses the relationship between family life courses and widening wealth...
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Quantifying the sources of heterogeneity of fertility preferences in China
There are no unanimous estimates on fertility preferences in China; they vary considerably across studies. Understanding this cross-study...
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Small Family, Happy Family? Fertility Preferences and the Quantity–Quality Trade-Off in Sub-Saharan Africa
To design family planning policies in Sub-Saharan Africa that are based on reproductive empowerment instead of reproductive control, knowledge on...
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How Relational Conflict Harms Family Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Family Social Capital and the Moderating Role of Family Ownership
While many researchers suggest that relational conflict has adverse performance effects in family firms, the exact mechanisms through which conflict...
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Frailty-based Lee–Carter family of stochastic mortality models
In the actuarial literature, frailty is defined to be the unobserved variable which encompasses all the factors affecting human mortality other than...
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A Study on Family Meanings
The chapter introduces an empirical study on the meaning of family by adolescents and youths in Zimbabwe’s child welfare institution. Gwenzi offers a...
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Family Formation and Dissolution
The question of the unity of the family models in the Mediterranean has been the subject of much debate in the field of generations history. Some...
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Health selection, family division of labour and labour market participation of migrant and Australian born couples
Australia is a multi-cultural society, with the majority of recent migrants arriving from non-English speaking Asian countries. Yet we know little...
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Neighborhood Effects, the Life Course, and Educational Outcomes: Four Theoretical Models of Effect Heterogeneity
In this chapter, I review research analyzing heterogeneity in neighborhood effects on educational attainment. Using a life-course perspective on...
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Family Demography and Personal Life
I address two challenges to the discipline of family demography from scholars, mostly European, who advocate for the broader concept of personal...
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Heterogeneity in Hispanic Fertility: Confronting the Challenges of Estimation and Disaggregation
In recent years, Hispanics in the United States have experienced greater declines in fertility, on the one hand, and sustained higher fertility...
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The Gendered Division of Housework in China: Parenthood Effects and Heterogeneity Across Parenthood Stages
Research documents that the gender gap in housework is substantially larger among parents compared to couples without children. Because most evidence...
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Family care during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: longitudinal evidence on consequences for the well-being of caregivers
We examine changes in the well-being of family caregivers during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, using data from the German...
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Can we make family social capital flourish? The moderating role of generational involvement
The special features displayed by family firms characterize and shape their family social capital and make them unique. The participation of both the...
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Can family determine competition within the college campus? the effect of family background on college students’ human capital accumulation
Using the Panel Survey of Chinese University Students, this paper systematically analyzes the effect of family background on the human capital...
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Family Size and Food Consumption: Exploring Economies of Scale with Panel Data
We analyze the effects of family size on food consumption. Specifically, we explore the economies of scale that emerge in families, taking advantage...
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Spatial Heterogeneity and Subjective Wellbeing: Exploring the Role of Social Capital in Metropolitan Areas Using Multilevel Modelling
The role of social capital, the social networks that influence human wellbeing has been explored by empirical research in the US and Europe, however...
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Work Hour Mismatch on Life Evaluation: Full Heterogeneity and Individual- and Country-Level Characteristics of the Most and Least Affected Workers
Mismatches between workers’ actual and preferred hours of work are ubiquitous and have detrimental effects on well-being. Yet, the full heterogeneity...
