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... Applying the benchmark setting for the parameters and postulating that the acceptable range for potential partners is only determined by the social pressure and independent of the age of the agent, we obtain the hazard ... See full document

... The model (A.6) was among those fitted by Thatcher et al. (1998), though in a different notation, to all officially published data on deaths at ages 80 and over for males and females in 13 countries with reliable data ... See full document

... Because this paper relies on techniques from matrix calculus, I begin in Section 2. with a brief review of those techniques. Section 3. analyzes density-dependent models, in- troduces methods for analyzing various ... See full document

... We demonstrate the usefulness of geofaceting by showing the specific case of Mex- ico and mortality patterns over a fairly large period, 1990–2015. The main advantage of our proposal is that the reader can easily ... See full document

... members. 3 Traditionally strong family ties between young adults and parents, far from weakening, have been reinforced in Spain in recent decades as financial dependency on the family has ... See full document

... This article systematically evaluates the quality of periodic fertility measures in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for a large set of ... See full document

... Our definition of health states in the NHIS is not identical to the one we used in the HRS. This is due to the fact that, instead of asking about having any difficulty as in the HRS, the NHIS health questions ask about ... See full document

... The data for Germany as a whole in Table 3 show how living arrangements change over a person’s lifetime. To this end, the 2004 Microcensus listed the living arrangement concepts in five age groups between the ages ... See full document

... In the models of Table 2 and Table 3 below, we elect to include women of all marital statuses, even those not partnered in the year of exposure and those never married. We do so for two reasons. First, this gives ... See full document

... this article, we forecast mortality acknowledging that there is coherence among Western European countries using compositional data analysis of life table ...components, 3) explains a large proportion of ... See full document

... Perceived stress was assessed using Cohen’s perceived stress scale (Cohen, Kamarck, and Mermelstein 1983) with a few modifications to fit the Chinese context (Wen et al. 2010). The scale included eight items with an ... See full document

... In 1999 PPRSR employed four full-time and two part-time counselors at its downtown Rochester clinic. All were white women. They ranged in age from 26 to 70. Counselors were expert in several bodies of “schematized” ... See full document

... In Table 6 (columns 3 and 4) are also shown the results for a ‘combined’ model of the third birth interval with and without unobserved heterogeneity. The results for the third birth interval show that all the ... See full document

... Figure 3 shows that at any given time the ratio increases with age. For younger ages it is below one, indicating that changes at those ages have more impact on cohort than period life expectancy. With mortality ... See full document

... Estimated years of life expected for individuals alive at selected ages are presented for LDS and non-LDS males and females in Table 3. The additional number of years of life experienced by LDS compared with ... See full document

... (Tables 3 and 4) support this finding by showing that the presence of two parents offers a significant benefit for children and is independent of any effects of other ... See full document

... We tested two different types of models. In the first, the parameters were assumed constant for the three census years. In these, the data might have changed but the parameter for the variable was constant over time. For ... See full document

... the article of Davis, Glass (1965) states that the main mechanism of change is the possibility of intra-generational mobility, since decline in infant mortality and parental control over children cannot induce ... See full document

... Since the data used here come from a national sample, as opposed to an urban sample, it is possible to reintegrate into the analysis the migration episodes to Ouagadougou those responders elsewhere in Burkina Faso ... See full document

... people, the predominant group on the island of Bali, who are overwhelmingly Hindu and tend to be virilocal (living with or near the husband’s kin) after marriage (Jensen and Suryani 1992). In 1993, the total fertility ... See full document