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... Under the Bongaarts-Feeney scenario, our diminishing population is the product of a sequence of changing age-specific birth rates, and its composition at any point in time differs from t[r] ... See full document

... day), 6) a compressed work week, 7) on call or casual, 8) an irregular schedule, and 9) ...category 9 (other) were dropped from the analysis as it was not possible to classify ... See full document

... Four interrelated factors are frequently identified in order to explain higher fertility rates of some migrant groups. 5 First, the selection hypothesis emphasizes distinct social characteristics of immigrants (such as ... See full document

... We don’t expect the same definitional problem with India because this country uses a much lower threshold (5,000 inhabitants), together with a functionalist approach (ad- ministrative centers, non-agricultural ... See full document

... this article estimates cross-sectional effects on the probability of being childless, contrasting results across three age or cohort groups (women aged 20-29, 30-39, and 40-49 in ... See full document

... To conclude, a woman in 1997 has a second-birth rate different from that of a woman in 1977 for two main reasons: First, she is likely to have a higher age, because she as a young adult [r] ... See full document

... for the modelling of changes on the dependent variables, taking into account both within and between variability among individuals. Second, it does not require a balanced design in the sense that, as far as attrition is ... See full document

... The Panel II results in Tables 2a, 2b, and 2c correspond to Cox models that add the wife’s characteristics at marriage and also the traits of the husband and couple, thus including all the observed risk factors for ... See full document

... double the number in 2010. The most significant growth will be among the oldest-old (those aged 80+). The share of the American oldest-old among the total population will hit 7.0% in 2050, almost tripling that of 2008 ... See full document

... Hewitt’s test (Hewitt et al., 1971) was employed to investigate whether the relative risks of dying follow a seasonal pattern. This test gives ranks to each month. The value “12” is assigned to the month with the highest ... See full document

... Table 6 shows the results from the empirical strategy proposed by Altonji, Elder, and Taber (2005), which does not rely on identifying ...Table 6 reproduces the standard univariate probit findings from ... See full document

... Table 9 presents relevant findings for four classes of couples specified according to household structure at the time of their first registered birth: those in 1) conjugal families, 2) GF-only stem families, 3) ... See full document

... Our focus is on couples with children because previous research shows that their behavior differs considerably from that of nonparents (Flood and Genadek 2016; Genadek, Flood, and García Román 2016). For comparability ... See full document

... Sections 6-8: the mean remaining lifetime function (life expectancy at age t ...Section 9 formulates the overall conclusion and also discusses other possible measures of the tail of ... See full document

... makes them eligible for it. However, no important educational differentials were found in the reaction to the speed premium by women and men born in Sweden in a recent study (Andersson, Duvander, and Hoem 2006). Both the ... See full document

... Using a quasi-longitudinal approach, we compare the relative country ranking in standardised mathematical test scores of young teenagers in 1964 from the First International Mathem[r] ... 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

... 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

... 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