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... In this paper, we use Japanese vital statistics and census data to describe trends in the experience of marital dissolution across the life course, and to examine change over time in e[r] ... See full document

... rate. 14 The household theory of fertility shows that an increase in women’s income reduces their fertility, while an increase in men’s income increases the household’s ... See full document

... Health expectancy is increasingly emphasised as an indicator for population health that takes account of both mortality and morbidity or disability. While morbidity and dis- ability data are often only obtainable from ... 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 deaths. These records were collected only for small communities and restricted time periods. However, in recent years historical databases with this kind of information have become available for a number of countries. ... See full document

... For mothers with a high school education (Panel B), the pattern is quite different. Mothers’ overall participation in the labor force increases over time, but unlike mothers with less than high school, full-time ... See full document

... that 11% of Indonesian women have unmet need, with increasing demand for contraception, the percentage of demand met and the percentage of demand met by a modern method all contributing to this fall (Statistics ... See full document

... Decomposition of a difference in life expectancies may identify ages at which the difference originates in mortality differences, or may identify ages at which the difference results i[r] ... See full document

... Actors are the unit of analysis in Modgen. Actors are individuals or organizations. Two types of individuals are distinguished: person and child. An individual is defined by attributes, such as sex, marital status, and ... See full document

... This article has examined the recently proposed PGW method to estimate smoking- attributable mortality in high-income ...This article has presented a modified version of the PGW method, the PGW-R method, ... See full document

... The total time from HIV infection to death in adults has been found to depend on the age at HIV infection (Collaborative Group on AIDS Incubation and HIV Survival 2000). AIDS mortality rates and proportions of ... See full document

... For the present study we have used union histories and childbearing histories for an 11% sample of all Finnish women at childbearing ages, based on population registers maintained by Statistics Finland. ... See full document

... this article, we refer to senescent mortality as the increase over age in the force of mortality occuring after a certain age, representing aging and physiological deteriora- tion (Bongaarts and Feeney 2002; ... 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

... The study finds that, net of her own characteristics, a woman’s interest in limiting fertility and using modern contraception increases with the percent of women with education in her [r] ... 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

... Education may have a positive effect on second birth risks for highly educated West German women who are already mothers but it may also increase second birth risks for highly educated[r] ... See full document

... By one week of age, the spectacled bear (life expectancy of 23.9 years) has replaced the North American bison as the most longevous species. The spectacled bear is, however, characterize[r] ... See full document

... Net to the characteristics of the women, the higher education level of the father has a negative effect on marriage and a positive impact on cohabitation; the effect is stronger in centr[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