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... In this model, the risk probability of a woman to get divorced depends on the following factors: duration of the marriage, current age, calendar year, whether she was born in Sweden, and[r] ... See full document

... preschool (0–4), primary school (5–12), and high school ages (13–17). We also included categories comprising multiple age groups, one comprising couples with all their children between ages 5–12 and 13–17, and another of ... See full document

... In this same early paper, Bongaarts and Feeney (2002, Eq. 12), introduced a differen- tial equation (originally under Gompertzian assumptions) which agrees to first order with equation (7) of Section 3. They ... See full document

... Of interest for health needs profiling is the disease burden at different ages and how this varies between geographic areas. As noted above the area gradients for illness on age η j1a are more highly correlated with area ... See full document

... share child care responsibilities more equally, as has been demonstrated in other studies (Sundström and Duvander 2002, Nyman and Petterson 2002). The results of these studies showed that (i) among low-earning couples, ... See full document

... This article documents the levels and trends of childlessness among young adult women in 16 Latin American countries between 1970 and 2000 with data from four waves of population ...The article focuses ... See full document

... Studies of the data from each individual country have been provided by Hoem et al. (2009a, 2009b), Matysiak (2009), and Gabrielli and Hoem (2009). Those authors furnish analyses of the patterns of union formation ... See full document

... The analysis reported in this paper uses a sub-sample consisting of all original sample members aged at least 34 years-old at 1-December-93 (so as to avoid right- censoring problems for very young individuals; see note ... See full document

... balance; 7) employment 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) ... See full document

... Table 6 and Figure 1 summarizes the information gathered from Tables 2 and 4 in that they report the cumulative percent of all children who ever have the experience of living outside a union of their two parents by the ... 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

... Exogeneity of lagged birth shares with regard to the second stage regression, i.e. its validity as an instrument, is plausible (in an economic interpretation of excluding reverse causality) as long as parents do not ... 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

... This contribution scrutinises contemporary evidence regarding the effects of immigration on childbearing trends in European countries. These effects have a growing relevance for the societies of Western, Northern, ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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