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... Zeng, Yang, Wang, and Morgan (2002) recently estimated the U.S. race-sex-age- specific occurrence/exposure (o/e) rates of marriage/union formation and dissolution and the race–age–parity–marital-status–specific rates of ... See full document

... The socio-economic composition 7 of the realized GGS sample does not show any peculiarities apart from typical survey bias problems, which can be shown by comparing the characteristic distribution of the German GGS with ... See full document

... Compared to other western countries trends in the levels of birth orders in the United States were more pronounced (Table 1, Figures 1-4 and 7). Total cohort fertility rates of all birth orders were increasing among the ... See full document

... All of our assumptions are based on a judgmental view. Therefore, the uncertainty surrounding future net migration in Poland is of great importance. The unpredictable pace of future economic development in Poland, ... See full document

... Summing over x as in equation 10, each iteration beginning from x = 0 contains a term for the current age group minus an equivalent term for the next age group. The next step in the summation then includes the ... See full document

... Preference for sons was documented by Okun (1996) in research on the fertility of Israeli Jewish females born in the countries of the Middle East. This can be treated as evidence of the presence of sex-biased attitudes ... See full document

... Empirical assessment of theory, therefore, relates not to whether a theoretical model is empirically true or false – strictly speaking all theories and models are false because they are [r] ... See full document

... Having established a fair concordance between census and sample for total population, births, and deaths, we now consider the concordance of distributions of populations across various categories listed in Table 2. Most ... See full document

... Even if a 2-4% increase in unemployment up to 1993 should reduce birth rates as suggested by the static model, one will not necessarily get a good impression of period total fertility ra[r] ... See full document

... Fostering, i.e., permanently or temporarily raising children that are not one’s biological children, is common in many societies worldwide (Silk 1980; Scelza and Silk 2014). Across 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, ... See full document

... In practice, however, the risk of nursing home entry has remained a fairly stable function of age, marriage, and disability rates, even over periods of substantial change in the utilizat[r] ... See full document

... The majority of these near-poor families are working families still struggling to meet their basic needs but at the same time facing reduced benefits and increased taxes (Note 5). It is [r] ... See full document

... For example, for Norway Lappegård (2001) finds that childlessness is almost as low among nurses and teachers with a university degree as among women with no education beyond secondary sc[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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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