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... Empirical examples reveal meaningful differences between components of temporal changes, or variations, in Gini coefficient, from the components of changes or variations in life expectan[r] ... 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

... The socio-economic composition 7 of the realized GGS sample does not show any peculiarities apart from typical survey bias problems, which can be shown by comparing the characteristic distribution of the German GGS with ... See full document

... The last decade has been an exciting and productive time in the development of probabilistic population forecasting methods and applications. Indeed, the uncertainty of population forecasting has been the focus of a ... See full document

... Concerning our model (3), the period and cohort effects modifying incidence rates over time and age are related to the internal processes in an organism that lead to cancer development. That is, the events that are ... See full document

... Foucault recognized that sexuality is not only self-determined, but is also socially produced. People evaluate their sexuality and accompanying sexual behavior by comparing it to the standards of the societies or smaller ... See full document

... income?” 8 If a male responds that housework should mainly be the wife’s responsibility he is given a score of ...to 8, with 2 representing the most ‘traditional’ set of attitudes and 8 representing ... See full document

... Under an ideal scenario, all pupils who would enter school do so at the official age of school entry, then progress smoothly without grade repetition. If this were the case, then one could easily infer a student’s grade ... See full document

... undersampling. 8 We have no explanation for this variability, but note that at a minimum it complicates the conclusions that can be drawn from individual level analyses of infant ... 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

... 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

... 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

... I show that the alternative measure proposed by Bongaarts and Feeney, called “tempo-adjusted” life expectancy, is exactly equivalent in its generalized form to a measure proposed by bo[r] ... See full document

... Postponement of childbearing was in progress from the cohorts of around 1940 to those of around 1970 in all birth orders, and has apparently come to a halt, at least as far as data are available, among the cohorts of the ... See full document

... While some studies directly address the issue of changes in union formation in Eastern Europe, including Russia (Perelli-Harris and Gerber 2011; Hoem et al. 2009; Perelli- Har[r] ... 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

... Even this imperfect quantification of avoidable mortality indicates quite clearly that a significant part of the survival advantage of Israeli Jewish males over ma[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

... Accounting for overall score differences on the LMUP by parity, primaparous women were least likely to have used contraception at last pregnancy (item one), particularly compared to mu[r] ... See full document