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... The rationale is three-fold. First, I wanted a general mathematical representation of Bongaart’s “life extension” pill (Bongaarts and Feeney 2003) allowing for continuous variation in age and time. This is accomplished ... See full document

... This study is the first to provide contemporary documentation of birth seasonality for most of Sub-Saharan Africa. Seasonality of births is quantitatively important; amplitudes are large and are a dominant source of ... See full document

... Between age 10 and the first birth, the mean birth intervals show that the onset of childbearing in the Sahel has remained distinct across countries. In the mid- and late 1970s, the first birth interval was higher in ... See full document

... The spatial regime analysis indicates that the effect of each of the independent variables on the TBR does not differ significantly between the metropolitan and nonmetropolitan countie[r] ... See full document

... The results of the employment entry model are presented in the last three columns of Table A-3. As duration increases the risk of entering employment declines, and becomes stable after five years of continuous ... See full document

... Finally, interaction terms between region and various variables accounting for the mechanisms have been included in the models (Models 10–15). None of these interaction effects explain or change the effect of a mother’s ... See full document

... In respect of Scenario 2a (where only the age distribution of fertility changes), the biggest effect on the P/F ratio is concentrated in the youngest age group (panel I of Figure 2). Panel II of the same figure ... See full document

... As a consequence of the multiple constraints childrearing imposes on parents, combined with a smaller desired family size and a strong trend towards postponement of parenthood, many European countries have experienced a ... See full document

... The analysis uses longitudinal microdata for 14 countries. For Australia, Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, and Russia, partnership and maternity histories were ... 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

... Fertility in Colombia, as in many other developing countries, follows a long-term decline that is the product of a combination of increasing education, declining mortality rates, and economic growth (Bongaarts and ... 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

... Figure 2 presents the map of factor scores for male Factor 3. Montana and Wyoming lead the way in injury mortality, with other states in the Mountain time zone also exhibiting high scores. States with large urban ... See full document

... seminal article ‘European marriage patterns in perspective’ Hajnal distinguished an Eastern European pattern that was completely different from the Western European ... See full document

... 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

... 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

... A large number of studies have also examined how childbearing is related to gender equality within relationships (such as share of household work or preferences toward gender equality) with divergent findings (e.g., ... See full document

... To identify such effects, this study pays much attention to the influence of social and family policies on fertility, to the influence of political and economic changes on fertility a[r] ... See full document