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... 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

... 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

... In our sample, a sibling’s twinning at second birth on average increases their probability of having a third child by about 57% (reflecting that about 43% of parents with two children wo[r] ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... completeness. 9 We feel that the existence of the ENI in Spain should encourage willing countries to consider the possibility of undertaking a transnational survey, like the ENI carried out, at roughly the same ... See full document

... 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

... 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

... 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

... We offer a comparison between the age profiles of rates of formation of marital and non-marital unions among women in Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Italy.. We show th[r] ... See full document

... In populations thought not to be affected by migration, the optimal strategy appears to be to apply the General Growth Balance method (fitting to the age range 5+ to 65+) to estimate c[r] ... See full document