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... This article analyses changes in marital status differences in mortality from approximately 1970 to 1995 among men and women aged 65-74 in ten developed countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England and Wales, ... See full document

... up 10 percentage points to the figures published with the 1990 definition, which would make China 50% urban by the year 2030 according to our projection trends (instead of 40% using the 1990 ... See full document

... observations in the 5 counties with a weather station are included. (6): Unclustered robust standard errors. (7): Standard errors are clustered at the county level. (8): Eq. 1 estimated by a Probit regression. Average ... See full document

... example, for education, comparative cross-sectional analyses show that not holding a high school diploma or having some college compared to holding a high school diploma changes the probability of in-work poverty by ... See full document

... about 10% of in-union women of reproductive age were using a modern method in 2013, and contraceptive prevalence has not meaningfully changed since 2003 (National Population Commission and ICF International ... See full document

... Catalano and Bruckner (2006) use a similar de-trending approach to study the association between cohort’s early life and later mortality. They use national level historical mortality data for Sweden, Denmark, and England ... See full document

... The structure of the demographic database at the National Statistical Institute and the availability of the personal identification number (PID) allow for linking various demo- graphic e[r] ... See full document

... To address the possibility of racial incongruities across data systems, we calculate fertility rates within a single data system. Using a single data system for the numerator and the denominator overcomes the potential ... See full document

... We used data from the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program, the National Prisoner Statistics, and the National Corrections Reporting Program (Bureau of Justice Statistics 2014a, 2014b, 2014c) to estimate the crude and ... See full document

... This paper shows that under a constant immigration rate of 0.35%, microsimulation models project a declining labour force population for both Austria and Canada between 2011 and 2061. They project that the active ... See full document

... Birth registration is a fundamental right that affords children the opportunity to be documented and establish their nationality. Unfortunately, this right is denied to many children, especially in less developed ... See full document

... The empirical contribution of this study focuses on the role of chronic conditions in US educational differences in mortality. The most common causes of death in the developed world are associated with chronic diseases. ... See full document

... Senegalese migration to Europe has its roots in colonialism. The first migrations resulted from recruitment efforts by the French army and administration during colonial times. Starting in the 1950s, rapidly expanding ... See full document

... It appears that the observed past trends determine which method and historical period is used. Life expectancy at birth in western Europe has increased by six to 10 years since 1970 (WHO Health Database, Human ... See full document

... 3 in most cases. This is a predictable result because the models have, in essence, the same incidence rate until age T and then differ either in the slope of the “vitality” function or the intensity of stress events in ... See full document

... person.” 10 ) When the person on the first line does not comply with these rules and a new reference person has to be chosen, all the links with the other household members must be ... See full document

... The method standardizes for variations in the duration of residence or age composition of immigrant groups, attainments possessed by different groups when first observed after entry, a[r] ... See full document

... We identify distinct scales of global aggregation, and in particular, we show that for the values of disparate neighbor comfort threshold used by Schelling, the striking global aggrega- [r] ... See full document

... Women who in 1957 planned to work indefinitely or in a career were not significantly more likely than other women to choose part-time employment over being out of the labor force in 19[r] ... See full document

... Encyclopedia, 2004; Lee and Moss, 1995; Haynes, 1991). Bulls (males) are sexually mature at about 11 to 12 years of age, but they typically are not allowed to mate until around age 30 years. Elephant cows ... See full document