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... To take another example that will be discussed later in this paper, medical reports in the 1920s already pointed out the suspected links between tobacco and cancers, and a 1938 article in the journal Science ... See full document

... Similarly, age and sex distributions of the age of partners were derived from the same survey. Mean and standard deviation of partners’ age were fitted for each age and sex pair, from which normal distributions were ... See full document

... formal care facilities. Former research about grandparents and child care shows that, in addition to individual characteristics of grandparents, parents and children, contextual factors such as the availability of formal ... See full document

... Note: Summary statistics are shown for Indian states that had populations larger than 25 million in the 2011 Census of India. In each survey year, these states accounted for 97% of NNM in India. Estimates use ... See full document

... Model 4 analyses the selection effect hypothesis by including an interaction term with a macro-level variable, or the percentage of cohabiting couples across countries; and an individual-level variable, or the ... See full document

... As expected, higher educational attainment reduces the rate of entry into union (Model 3, Table 4). However, when the level of completed secondary education is taken into account, the previously observed effect of ... See full document

... section 4, that the decline in Carnian birth rates might be a consequence of rational investment in family- based care for one’s old age, is not confirmed by the comparative statistical data, since the countries ... See full document

... Individual characteristics. Education is a continuous variable that measures the years of education from 4–22. Following Johnson (2005) and Su (2012), all of the variables that change over time have two measures: ... 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

... In Section 4, we present a historical perspective on population aging using both median ages and prospective median ages. We present calculations for Sweden from 1800 to 1945 and for England and Wales from 1868 to ... See full document

... aid, 4 which worsened the subsistence conditions of small farms and, on the other hand, the petrochemical activity decreased considerably throughout the country, and especially in this region (Prevôt Schapira ... See full document

... Compared to other western countries trends in the levels of birth orders in the United States were more pronounced (Table 1, Figures 1-4 and 7). Total cohort fertility rates of all birth orders were increasing ... See full document

... The proposed framework implies that the dilution and divergence perspectives are com- plementary and reconcilable. They can in fact be seen as two special cases of the same framework. The dilution argument can be viewed ... See full document

... Among ordered status combinations, fast growth occurs among stay-at-home mothers. In 1982 and 1990 about 4% of urban women are in MP status; in 2005 the percentage triples to 12%. This trend is consistent with the ... See full document

... The changes amongst Ethiopian immigrants are surprising, although the fact that the data are of poorer quality and the population smaller than immigrants from the FSU needs to be taken into account. A decrease in ... See full document

... In short, Brasche is the first to propose a plane figure (without vertical axis, as proposed by Zeuner) supplemented by networks of parallels as Becker, Verwey and Lexis will do later[r] ... See full document

... There are huge gender differences regarding first union formation for immigrants from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa: while women delay first union as compared to natives, men form their first union more rapidly. ... See full document

... The accumulation of weight gain during kindergarten, first, and second grade school years contributes to weight disparities between Hispanic children of immigrants and whites, but not di[r] ... See full document

... Anthropological demography needs to be situated against the context of an evolving world of research in which boundaries between academic disciplines have become much more permeable, i[r] ... See full document

... Contrary to prior assumption, not being involved in economic activity is not conducive to higher chances of fertility, since inactivity in Lomé is not significantly associated with hig[r] ... See full document