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... Under an ideal scenario, all pupils who would enter school do so at the official age of school entry, then progress smoothly without grade repetition. If this were the case, then one could easily infer a student’s grade ... See full document

... This study uses data collected from 90 never-married young adults in rural Malawi to compare reports on first sexual encounters between a standard survey and an in-depth interview.. A [r] ... See full document

... [Note 11] In sum, the second outmigration wave probably resulted from disin- centives to stay in the East, primarily the worsening job prospects there after 1995 and improving employment conditions in the West ... See full document

... The last decade has been an exciting and productive time in the development of probabilistic population forecasting methods and applications. Indeed, the uncertainty of population forecasting has been the focus of a ... See full document

... Under constant mortality at the 2011 level and zero migration the social values of constant fertility which maximise the social value of the projections are lower than those which do s[r] ... See full document

... While some studies directly address the issue of changes in union formation in Eastern Europe, including Russia (Perelli-Harris and Gerber 2011; Hoem et al. 2009; Perelli- Har[r] ... See full document

... We apply APC models to data on human cancer incidence rates in different countries and time periods. The data are provided by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in seven volumes (IARC 1965 - 1997). ... See full document

... I show that the alternative measure proposed by Bongaarts and Feeney, called “tempo-adjusted” life expectancy, is exactly equivalent in its generalized form to a measure proposed by bo[r] ... See full document

... Two micro-samples of the 1990 Chinese Census have circulated in China and abroad. The first, in order of creation, is a one percent sample of rural administrative villages (xingzheng cun) and urban neighborhoods known as ... See full document

... Postponement of childbearing was in progress from the cohorts of around 1940 to those of around 1970 in all birth orders, and has apparently come to a halt, at least as far as data are available, among the cohorts of the ... See full document

... Ever since the beginning of the 1990s, Poland has been experiencing rapid changes in its demographic patterns. In terms of family formation, these are the postponement or even abandonment of marriage and childbearing, ... See full document

... Previously, we emphasized the role of education in the reduction of fertility in Albania (Falkingham and Gjonça 2001), but we were unable to quantify this effect. Figure 4 shows clearly the difference in fertility ... 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

... Drawing on recent work in this area (Arulampalam & Bhalotra 2006), this study ex- amines the causal process triggered by the death of an older sibling that in turn increases the risk of death of the next child in the ... See full document

... There is also a degree of arbitrariness in several of the sexual behaviour parameters that have been chosen: e.g., the proportion of the population in the high risk group, the average [r] ... See full document

... Women’s employment increases their independence and, as a result, the risk of marital disruption, whether by overthrowing traditional marriage norms, by facilitating divorce[r] ... See full document

... Accounting for overall score differences on the LMUP by parity, primaparous women were least likely to have used contraception at last pregnancy (item one), particularly compared to mu[r] ... See full document

... Such bounds could be useful in estimating life expectancy when the input of eggs or neonates can be estimated but mortality cannot be observed before late juvenile or early adult ages.. [r] ... See full document

... Even this imperfect quantification of avoidable mortality indicates quite clearly that a significant part of the survival advantage of Israeli Jewish males over ma[r] ... See full document

... We use discrete-time event history analysis in a multilevel framework to estimate children’s risk of dying by covariates at the three levels. The event in this study is a child’s death. The length of time represents how ... See full document