[PDF] Top 20 Volume 9 - Article 11 | Pages 263–284

... 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

... Microcensus 9 , an official representative population sample containing not only structural population and labour market data but also (starting in 2008) information on the total number of children a woman has in ... 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

... 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

... Vital Statistics and Census data and age-period-cohort models to examine whether cohort fertility patterns are associated with breast cancer mortality rates among wo[r] ... See full document

... Next, we computed the cross-correlation functions to statistically test and verify our observation of the 9-month lag. Figure 3 shows the cross-correlations between seasonally and trend-adjusted deaths and births ... See full document

... Gender-role attitudes are measured by the two-pronged question: “What kind of family do you prefer with regard to: 1) housework, and 2) income?” 8 If a male responds that housework should mainly be the wife’s ... See full document

... In addition to the Koseki, a population register called the Kiyori seido (literally Residence System) was created in 1914. The system was revised according to a law enacted 25 July 1967, and is now known as the Jyumin ... See full document

... 9. “t" refers to future calendar years here, but it may also refer to calendar years in the past. We may estimate the general rates of marriage/union formation and dissolution in the past by combining the same ... See full document

... An alternate strategy for legitimating an out-of-wedlock pregnancy or birth, which began appearing in the 1990s, was to present the baby as a vehicle for personal or familial salvation. Thus, a full-size picture of ... See full document

... In many countries population estimates are unreliable at higher ages. In this article a method for producing an independent estimate of population aged 90+ from data on deaths and population estimates at lower ... See full document

... As some of the respondents filled in the time-use diary on a day when they were not working, the work schedule is identified from the GSS question “Which of the following best describes your usual work schedule at your ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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