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... To be fair, Bongaarts and Feeney, except at a few points, are not talking about co- horts. Instead, they intend e ∗ 0 as a period measure that tries to improve upon period life expectancy. What such an improved period ... See full document

... and 5, the effect of aggregate-level fertility is estimated net of regional effects and also net of effects of individual-level fertility factors (number of living children, age at first ... See full document

... Retaining greater detail and precision in birth outcome measurement would seem to be increasingly important for the study of race/ethnic differentials in infant mortality because of historic changes in the structure of ... See full document

... size of bars corresponding to coefficients larger and smaller than 1. Figure 2 shows that mortality variation is enormous within the group of smaller primates. Mortality rates vary by a factor of nearly eight between ... See full document

... the process of cohabitation diffusion: a) the more the behavior spreads, the more the new generations will be aware of the new behavior as a possible option open to them before or as an alternative to marriage ... See full document

... Low education (primary and lower secondary) ISCED codes 0−2 Medium education (upper secondary) ISCED codes 3−4 High education (tertiary) ISCED codes 5−6 There are clear international definitions that specify the ... See full document

... First, the occupations mentioned in the Antwerp data have been coded into the HISCO classification, using the guidelines involved in that coding scheme (van Leeuwen, Maas and Miles 2002). Next, standardized recoding ... 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

... This article documents gender gaps in university completion across 16 European countries, and considers if the gender gaps vary by parental education among three birth cohorts: 1955-1964, 1965-1974, and ... See full document

... closer to their former homes than childless divorced men, while mothers live 22 kilometres closer than childless divorced women (see Appendix Table A-3). These results are in line with Hypothesis 1, probably in order to ... See full document

... to 5, and remains steady through age 9, but part-time employment, which remains steady from ages 1 to 5, also increases at age 9 (possibly due to the Great Recession, if more mothers would have otherwise ... See full document

... Following the collapse of state socialism around 1990, young people in CEE adjusted to new conditions. This adjustment resulted in rapidly changing forms of family formation and partnership relationships, and in new ... See full document

... In both countries, the education of the partner plays a major role in explaining higher order fertility for women with a university degree. Especially when both partners have a higher education, the probability that both ... See full document

... The first human conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) was born in 1978 in England (Steptoe and Edwards 1978). A few other methods of ART have been developed since then, of which the most prominent is the ... See full document

... part, to tax policies designed to encourage marriage that were expanded as a result of the Welfare Reform Act. In 1999, low-income working families were eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) if they earned ... See full document

... Instead of referring to age and time as continuous variables, let’s consider age and time intervals or categories, all of the same width. For instance, all individuals with ages between 0 and 1 are assigned to the age ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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