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... Figure 3 shows the steady increase over time in the age at which the ratio is 1. In the early years, the ratio is above 1 at most ages. That indicates that most ages make greater age-contributions to the period LE ... See full document

... Figure 2 shows the education-specific period TFR obtained by using the own- children method. As shown in Figure 2, starting in the early 2000s there is a convergence in fertility between women with medium and high ... See full document

... fertility reductions were visible at all levels of initial fertility. During 1991–2011 the majority of the districts experienced a reduction of 1-2 point in TFR. This reduction has also been resulted in 1% – 3% ... See full document

... Conditional on wanting to become parents, women working in more sociable environments were only marginally different from others regarding their expected timing of entering parenthood. It is somewhat surprising, however, ... See full document

... After I normalize the weights I then calculate the average treatment effect of a second birth at each time t on a mother’s labor market outcomes to estimate the motherhood penalty (i.e., ATT). The main model is a simple ... See full document

... consisting of eight discipline categories: (1) general/unspecified field, (2) humanities and arts, (3) social sciences/business/law, (4) science and technology, (5) agriculture, (6) health and welfare, (7) ... See full document

... Model 3 (Table 2) and Model 4, indicating that there is statistically significant variation by parity in the association between age and planning status and statistically significant variation by age in the ... See full document

... (Table 3), individuals employed in routine non-manual occupations have a relative odds nearly 3 times higher than manual employees (no significant differences between skilled and unskilled workers were ... See full document

... The survey also asked respondents if they currently made use of any information to provide guidance about forecast uncertainty: 61% replied yes and 30% no (with 9% responding that they did not know). Of those who said ... See full document

... The higher and faster growing childlessness among men than among women suggests that multi-partner fertility must be on the rise, and this is confirmed by our analyses. (Figure 6). The trends across cohorts for different ... See full document

... Adult mortality among women of childbearing age more than doubled between 1985-1994 and 1996-1999, and increased by 40 percent between 1996-1999 and 2000- 2005. Close to 60 percent of these extra deaths were to women ... See full document

... However, demographic and economic theory suggest that as fertility declines in populations preferring sons, sex ratios will rise (Das Gupta and Bhat 1997; Das Gupta and Li 1999; Jayachandran 2017) – and strikingly, most ... See full document

... to 13 has thus been called “the honeymoon period of infectious diseases,” supposedly linked to the capacity of the adaptive immune system that seems to have reached maximal strength at the age of 10 (Ahmed, ... See full document

... But with event history analysis, a mixed-methods approach, and sources like the East and Central African libri status animarum , they open the way to the ‘long view’ of population ch[r] ... See full document

... Today and in the coming decades, the children born into this climate of strong son preference are reaching adulthood. According to the United Nations population projections for China, there were 106 men aged 15-49 for ... See full document

... This article is concerned with sensitivity analysis of life disparity with respect to changes in mortality rates. A relationship is derived that describes the effect on life disparity caused by a perturbation of ... See full document

... Hypothesis 2: Double-veto power effect. To test this hypothesis, I compared the fit of a model with a linear specification of both partners’ combined desires in which disagreement had a score midway between agreement on ... See full document

... The data show that of the five years-of-school categories, the proportion of women ever in union remains constant only among those with no education and those with at least 13 years of education. In these cases ... See full document

... Applying the benchmark setting for the parameters and postulating that the acceptable range for potential partners is only determined by the social pressure and independent of the age of the agent, we obtain the hazard ... See full document

... Estimated years of life expected for individuals alive at selected ages are presented for LDS and non-LDS males and females in Table 3. The additional number of years of life experienced by LDS compared with ... See full document