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... Below age five, the life tables that we construct are based upon directly observed death rates for a species in single years of age (with the first week of life distinguished in infancy). Beyond age five, we used one of ... See full document

... Zambia is a landlocked country in southern Africa with an estimated mid-year 2013 population of over 14 million. Life expectancy remains among the lowest in the world (52 years) with maternal mortality and infant ... See full document

... 2005). 14 One normally assumes that employment areas with a high share of female employees provide an environment in which pregnancy and motherhood are quite common and which is therefore conducive to ... See full document

... (USA), 14-16 June 2007, at the BHPS Conference at the University of Essex, Colchester (Great Britain), 5-7 July 2007 and at the Seminar Series on Quantitative Methods of the University of Joensuu (Joensuu, ... See full document

... the 15 to 19 age group improves when it is assumed that social marketing programmes lead to reductions in rates of partner change (Johnson, Dorrington and Matthews ...observed 15 to 24 prevalence might also ... See full document

... Although much is known about the proximate determinants underlying fertility decline in Ghana, little is known about the socio-economic factors that have accounted for the changes in attitudes towards family size and ... See full document

... and 15 had very little impact on the difference in expectation of life, in part because the rates themselves were so low at these ages for both groups, and in part because the difference in death rates by race was ... See full document

... The composition and age structure of the population may also explain asylum application patterns since some segments of the population are more likely to migrate than others. Specifically, we find that the higher the ... See full document

... Maternal employment in the U.S. has increased dramatically over the last 40 years. Among mothers with children under 18, 47% were in the labor force in 1975 and this figure increased to more than 70% in the late 1990s, ... See full document

... Following Blake (1989), a person’s sibsize is defined as his or her number of siblings. Sibsize evolves over time: it increases when new brothers or sisters are born and decreases when some of them die. In all subsequent ... See full document

... aged 15–45 in their first interview, in order to restrict our analysis to those likely to have a birth in the study period; as of 2014, age-specific fertility rates in the Netherlands were at ...for ... See full document

... We focus first on birth weight outcomes “small” and “heavy.” Table 3 shows that being smaller or heavier than the gestational age-specific optimum has the largest effect on infant mortality for all three race/ethnic ... See full document

... of 15 (Model 1c and 2c), we can confirm this interpretation: daughters who lived most of their child- hood without a father have a higher risk of experiencing ... See full document

... a 14-year follow-up period in the CPS-II study increased estimates of relative mortality risk for smokers by 8% to 28%, compared to continuing use of smoking status as reported at ... See full document

... These questions are at the core of a comparative research project entitled "Family policies, fertility trends, and family changes in the Nordic countries: How sustainable is 'the Nordic model of family welfare'?" ... See full document

... In particular, the changing emphasis on child quality, coupled with the decline in extended family support with respect to childrearing, is promoting the adoption of innovative fertili[r] ... See full document

... The GGP addresses the individual, partnership, and household levels of analysis through the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), where individual respondents are in[r] ... See full document

... Unlike deprivation proxies for need that are often used in health care resourcing the outputs from spatial life tables form a direct rather than proxy measure of morbidity (Newbold et al[r] ... See full document

... this article, we study the interrelationships of different aspects of partner selection on the one hand, and SES attainment and intergenerational SES mobility on the ...This article refers to two previous ... See full document

... The daily total numbers of deaths, as well as the number of deaths in selected age groups and social classes, were related to the daily average temperatures using regression models for[r] ... See full document