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... The old age dependency ratio is now something of a misnomer. Many people at age 65 and above are living quite independent and active lives, with incomes coming from a variety of sources including their labor income (if ... See full document

... the OLS regression for Lesotho, Togo, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe confirm this (Table 2). The OLS results for Malawi indicate that seasonal fluctuations are the dominant source of variation in ... See full document

... Increasingly, youth in developing countries 2 are diversifying their opportunities through both domestic and international migration (McKenzie 2008; Yaqub 2009a). Though data detailing precise estimates by age are ... See full document

... Only 2% of fathers were employees, only 2% servants (mainly in the urban houses), and 5% land owners (who, mainly in the rural parishes, were usually farmers with a small or very small ... See full document

... In constructing the estimates in Table 1, both we and Finer compared the sex and marriage data to determine which occurred first. If marriage occurred first, both we and Finer censored a woman’s sexual intercourse ... See full document

... The analysis also includes main covariates to control for other state-level characteristics. We use the Human Development Index (HDI) from the United Nations Development Program to measure human development. This index ... See full document

... Figure 2 and 3 depict this decomposition: Figure 2 reports the ‘baseline’ hazard functions, ...Figure 2, the difference between the hazard functions of the three types of union within each ... See full document

... As highlighted in Section 3.3, I have defined adolescent mothers as those having had their first child aged 18 years old or younger. A sensitivity analysis was run to ensure that the results presented in this study are ... See full document

... The final two data sources were the products of the United Nations-sponsored Truth Commission for El Salvador (Betancur, Figueredo Planchart, and Buergenthal 1993). These datasets, which we refer to as UNTC and ... See full document

... The results obtained are consistent with the hypothesis, derived from the main existing theoretical perspectives on the issue, that an increase of childcare coverage has a positive effect on fertility. Across different ... See full document

... Table 2 provides the adjusted odds ratios from the logistic regression models on low birthweight. Differentials in infant’s low weight by mother’s marital status attenuate once the compositional variables are ... See full document

... Figure 1 plots the overall adjusted disability rate against the overall crude disability rate. For ease of comparison, we have scaled both variables to zero mean and unity variance (recall that this transformation ... See full document

... In Spain, the preference has been for children to be born within marital union. As the 1999 Fertility Survey shows, around 90% of first children were born to married parents, a figure that rises to 96% for second and ... See full document

... Cross-disciplinary interest has clearly not been a two way street. There have been relatively few(er) anthropologists engaging with advances in demography, both in terms of theory and policy relevance 11 , also noted by ... See full document

... We use three different frailty models: (1) a PH model, a model without frailty (PH); (2) uncorrelated MPH model with a two-point discrete frailty (MPH); and (3) a two-factor loading correlated frailty over the ... See full document

... In addition to the TFRs, age-and parity-specific fertility rates (ASFRS and PSFRS) are calculated and plotted by calendar year in order to find out whether the change in fertility [r] ... See full document

... As fertility declines, the proportion of families with children of only one gender increases, which may facilitate greater gender symmetry between daughters and sons.. Second, I explor[r] ... See full document

... Altogether, local fertility regulation goals (no births outside marriage, spaced pregnancies, and as many births as possible) are achieved by a social control over women’s sexuality and marriage. Pregnancies that happen ... See full document

... later article, McDonald (2013) is explicit in that his theories are predictive for the macro-level association between fertility and gender equality and not for couple-level measures of gender ... See full document

... Let c ( , ) x t denote the proportion of persons surviving to age x in the cohort of persons born at time t . These values define a two-dimensional surface over the age-time plane of the Lexis diagram. This surface may ... See full document