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... depressed due to the prevailing conditions in the FSU. For example, the shortage of housing in the FSU may have had a limiting effect on fertility rates, particularly in the big cities. However, many immigrants ... See full document

... Figure 4 indicate that the decrease in the proportion of direct marriage has resulted mainly from the increase in cohabiting unions which were followed by ... See full document

... assessments and the misidentification of infants in need of intervention services” (Alexander et al. 1999b: 77). To fully address this issue, it would be necessary to determine as precisely as possible the magnitude of ... See full document

... Each congregation leader participated in a structured interview, completing a 12-page questionnaire that covered six key areas. We asked each leader about (1) what they believe the Bible (or Koran) has to say – if ... See full document

... and 4 all reveal that the Hadwiger function overestimated the curves at the peak and towards the end; a problem which has long been noticed with the function by Hoem et ... See full document

... Male and female cancer incidence rates are different. Males have higher incidence rates at older ages than the opposite sex. The stable relationship between the estimations of parameters B and ε D for male and female ... See full document

... Individuals with siblings have earlier births (Barber 2000, 2001; Huinink 1987; Kolk 2014b; Michael and Tuma 1985; Rijken and Liefbroer 2009; Rindfuss and John 1983; Steenhof and Liefbroer 2008) and end up with more ... See full document

... Sweden. 4 (In classical demographic reasoning, this should work toward increasing aggregate ultimate fertility, or, at least, of helping to prevent a further ... See full document

... Figure 4 depicts the relationship between perceived attractiveness and four variables representing advantage and desirability in the sexual ...Panel 4 shows that women with secondary education have higher ... See full document

... or 10-14 age group (in case of 10-year census interval); the first age distribution is not ...of 10-year census interval) uppermost age group to the 0-4 age ... See full document

... aid, 4 which worsened the subsistence conditions of small farms and, on the other hand, the petrochemical activity decreased considerably throughout the country, and especially in this region (Prevôt Schapira ... See full document

... to corroborate. As we have seen, recent analyses of the Nordic countries lend some support in this direction, even though the estimated effects are not very large. However, as demonstrated by the Swedish trend in the ... See full document

... mortality changes in countries with a long series of life tables, α moved steadily with falling death rates while β fluctuated around 1 but had a strong tendency to return to this central value (Brass 1974). An ... See full document

... mortality. 4 For period life expectancy at age 65, our results indicate a lower bound of six years on the difference between the lowest and the highest earnings group considered in our ... See full document

... and 4) to compare the results based on parish registers with information obtained from the Population and Housing Censuses of 1991 and 2001, and from the Namibia Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS) of 1992 and ... See full document

... this article, we contribute to the lifespan variation literature by deriving the thresh- old age a H for the lifetable entropy ...Section 4 we empirically show that it differs from the threshold age of e † ... See full document

... formal care facilities. Former research about grandparents and child care shows that, in addition to individual characteristics of grandparents, parents and children, contextual factors such as the availability of formal ... See full document

... To take another example that will be discussed later in this paper, medical reports in the 1920s already pointed out the suspected links between tobacco and cancers, and a 1938 article in the journal Science ... See full document

... Although active-duty service members earn more than their civilian counterparts, this is not likely the source of the active-duty effect. The model estimated includes controls for income earned. Nor is the effect likely ... See full document

... If we pose these or similar questions and challenge the myths of low fertility and all the other myths based on it, we will never end up proposing fertility-enhancing policies as a mea[r] ... See full document