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... manifestation of some diseases, including cancer, at old ages. Another consequence of the age-related decline in the rate of the physiological processes may be the decline in resistance to acute stresses (such as the ... 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

... chapter). 8 Foreign-born women also frequently display markedly lower levels of childlessness (see Garssen and Nicolaas 2006 and the Netherlands chapter) and high progression rates to third and higher-order births ... See full document

... In these Swedish data, the entropy measure g (for ages above 30) is close to 9 back to about 1945, a level reached after a gradual long-term drop from Nineteenth Century values around 13. The gradual changes in g ... See full document

... the 8 years of schooling beyond the compulsory that are officially stipulated for this level (assuming that enrolment 1 October is a good indicator of full enrolment that school ... See full document

... The results of the estimation, which are shown in Tables 7 and 8, are generally consistent with the findings of studies not restricted to college-educated women. Holding other characteristics constant, married ... See full document

... The area under study comprises a set of seven culturally and economically homogeneous villages located in southeast Mali, whose inhabitants belong to the Bwa ethnic group. This population is typical of the ... See full document

... Focus group discussions are usually conducted with groups of six to ten people who are invited to discuss a specific topic, in our case that of marriage, cohabitation, and childbearing. In contrast to qualitative ... See full document

... opportunities; 8) financial situation; 9) free time (amount); 10) home; 11) neighbourhood; 12) feeling of belonging to the local community; 13) feeling safe; 14) health; 15) relationship with their partner; ... See full document

... Instead of examining the trend over time, we analyzed in this pilot study the factors sex and age. They usually received little attention in previous studies, despite their paramount influences on mortality (Rogers et ... See full document

... matrix that has only positive elements when raised to a sufficiently high power. Since population projection matrices with more than a single reproductive age class are primitive, the primitivity requirement is quite ... See full document

... After controlling for the endogeneity of child placement decisions in a multivariate model we found that lower biological relatedness of a child was associated with statistically signi[r] ... See full document

... The Contextual Database (CDB) of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP; http://www.ggp-i.org/data/ggp-contextual-database) supports such analyses by providing comparative data o[r] ... See full document

... this article discusses whether this reduction in rates of motherhood among young adults reflects a novel shift in the starting age of childbearing, an emerging retreat from universal childbearing, or a combination ... See full document

... Further, among the possible combinations of factors, the combination of short fitting period, no adjustment of kt and fitted jump-off rates produced the smallest errors in log death rate[r] ... 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

... Applying this model on China can only lead to overestimation in the projection period, whatever the historical trend of this country, simply because its urban definition makes the estima[r] ... See full document

... Unlike deprivation proxies for need that are often used in health care resourcing the outputs from spatial life tables form a direct rather than proxy measure of morbidity (Newbold et al[r] ... See full document

... If moves are associated with life events there are two factors that can explain greater residential mobility in some groups of movers but not others: differences in exposure and differen[r] ... See full document

... finding suggests that a higher level of gender equality in couple relationships may increase fertility, as argued by McDonald. Given the relatively small sample size, it was not possible to draw conclusions based on the ... See full document