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... Demography, within the memories of those now living, has been shaped by a few out- standing centers, the Institut National d’Etudes D´emographiques, the Cambridge Group for the History o[r] ... See full document

... to 9 back to about 1945, a level reached after a gradual long-term drop from Nineteenth Century values around ...M 4 , where they agree with each other, are given by a simple exponential weighted average of ... See full document

... Latin America is quickly approaching fertility replacement levels. Although the pace of fertility decline has been uneven across countries 4 (Guzmán et al. 1996), recent data show that more than half of the 20 ... See full document

... Leo Goodman introducing his concept of eventual reproductive value (Goodman 1968) noted on page 398 that population’s “average eventual reproductive value” determines future size of the [r] ... 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

... pay; 4) job security; 5) kind of work; 6) work–family balance; 7) employment opportunities; 8) financial situation; 9) free time (amount); 10) home; 11) neighbourhood; 12) feeling of belonging to the local ... See full document

... Errors in life expectancy are shown in Table 4. In general an underestimate of over- all mortality (when measuring error in log death rates — Table 2) does not necessarily translate into an overestimate of life ... 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 ... See full document

... In almost all European countries, marriage rates have been declining since the 1960s and the share of non-marital births has been rising for several decades (Perelli-Harris et al. 2010, 2012). This coincides with ... See full document

... In the first step, we estimate the odds of being generally stressed most days after controlling for socio-demographic characteristics and work- and family-related confounding factors (Table 3). Model 1 tests whether ... See full document

... Since the GGP is designed specifically to investigate gender and inter-generational relations, it was important that both a gender and a generational dimension were maintained in the two approaches mentioned above. While ... See full document

... Given the simplicity of the method, the contributions of the reverse survival method of fertility estimation to the study of fertility changes are significant. Not only does the reverse survival method of fertility ... See full document

... Most studies find that, within a decade after their arrival, migrants’ fertility rates decline to the level close to fertility rates among native women (Schoorl 1995; Toulemon and Mazuy 2004). Furthermore, over time ... 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

... I find that most of what we can learn from standard fertility models appears to hold once account is taken of unmeasured heterogeneity common to nonmarital fertility and union formatio[r] ... See full document

... The view of cohabitation as a less definite partnership than marriage, may, however, be different in a setting where so many children are born in cohabitation, either because cohabit[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

... However, the low birth rate among the women with low current education who pro- ceed to a higher educational level (and which makes the effects of education at age 39 less positive than [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