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... Comparing the baseline hazards for children whose grandmothers were alive at their birth and children whose grandmothers were dead, two distinct differences can be noticed: First, while [r] ... See full document

... Figure 2(a) and Figure 2(b) show the same Lowess estimates for under-five mortality. Absolute convergence is much stronger for mortality than for fertility, with a nearly linear relationship between initial levels of ... See full document

... The observed and adjusted TFRs 7 have similar values in the period of the socialist regime in Bulgaria. After the start of the transition, the adjusted TFR remains higher than the observed TFR, which shows that ... See full document

... It has been suggested that African marriage and childbearing patterns in South Africa, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal, have come to closely resemble those of the Caribbean in terms of low rates of marriage, high rates of ... See full document

... The higher and faster growing childlessness among men than among women suggests that multi-partner fertility must be on the rise, and this is confirmed by our analyses. (Figure 6). The trends across cohorts for different ... See full document

... consisting of eight discipline categories: (1) general/unspecified field, (2) humanities and arts, (3) social sciences/business/law, (4) science and technology, (5) agriculture, (6) health and welfare, (7) ... See full document

... Women who have more than two children may differ in important ways from women with only two children, and it could be the case that these differences may not be fully accounted for in the main models. In comparison to ... See full document

... Issues of quality of care remain central in debates about family planning and provision of reproductive health services (Adeokun 1991; Blaney 1993; Brown et al. 1995; Bruce 1992; Hardon 1997; Katz et al. 1993; Lane 1994; ... See full document

... this article goes beyond previous work by making a cross-national comparison between countries that differ strongly in the extent to which marriage is legally supported and distinct from ... See full document

... The Coale-Demeny model life tables and the formulas which underlie them have proven to be exceptionally resilient, remaining in use in demographic analysis for three to four decades. Throughout this timespan, the ... See full document

... Figure 1 reveals that the change in life expectancy during the XXth century has been sizable. While the steep trend levels out slightly in recent years, there is no evidence that the process has stabilized or reached a ... See full document

... These differences between origins in the mode of partnership formation remain pronounced after controlling for cohort and conception of a child (Tables 7, Model 1). Immigrants (both men and women) are more prone ... See full document

... In Figure 3-7 we plot the age decomposition for female and male changes in the crude labour force from 1985 (1987 in case of Spain) to 2000. The overall picture is a decrease in the crude labour force rate at ... See full document

... (v. 13), which fits generalized structural equation models to simultaneously estimate the direct and indirect effects of kin availability and kin help on reproductive outcomes (Rabe-Hesketh, Skrondal, and Pickles ... See full document

... Methods for studying interrelations between two life-course processes have roots going back almost a century (DuPasquier 1912/13; see also Simonsen 1936). The ideas have also become common in contemporary ... See full document

... In the 1994 survey, children born to mothers who had completed secondary education experienced 39 percent lower mortality, in the 1999 survey they experienced 57 percent lower mortalit[r] ... See full document

... Homicide, intentional and unintentional injuries, and HIV/AIDS in the most recent period also accounted for most of the fluctuations in sex differences in all-cause mortality between 1[r] ... See full document

... In fact, a high quality of the housing stock in combination with difficult access to housing for young people might offer the worst opportunities for having children?. Access to housi[r] ... See full document

... this article, with planning status of birth the dependent ...this article examines recent births in the United States and compares the contexts of planned and unplanned ... See full document

... Prior research also suggests women tend to more accurately report dates of separation and remarriage than men (Martin 2006). Furthermore focusing on women better enables us to compare o[r] ... See full document