Ideational Factors and Life Course Events: Selection and Adaptation: An Application of Propensity Score Matching to the Bulgarian Family Context - Softcover

Sironi, Emiliano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3843377898 ISBN 13: 9783843377898

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This book deals with a problem of crucial importance in the study of demographic choices and sociology, i.e. the mutual relationship between ideational factors (value, attitudes and other measures of individuals' evaluation of the situation, such as anomie dimensions) studied in the recent demographic literature. Thanks to a recent survey led by the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research in Rostock, the book focuses on Bulgaria, a post communist country with very low fertility. The common methodological approach of the book is to unravel causal links by using propensity score matching to control for selection on observed variables combined with strategies to address the impact of unobservable confounders.

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About the Author

Emiliano Sironi received his PhD in Statistics from Bocconi University. He is post-doctoral fellow at Catholic University in Milan and he is also junior researcher at "P.Baffi" Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, Bocconi University.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3843377898
• ISBN 13: 9783843377898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176