[PDF] Top 20 Volume 7 - Article 5 | Pages 271–306

... The rise in lung cancer death rates for Japanese men slowed down around the mid- 1980s. This trend may be explained by at least three factors. First, as shown in Figure 5, tobacco consumption reached a plateau ... See full document

... Korean government announced a program called the Saeromaji Plan as a response to low fertility and population aging, and strengthened the role of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in developing and implementing ... See full document

... Vaupel (2003) considered specific values of quantiles: q = 0 . 5 and q 0 = 0 . 9 . The latter value marks the left end point of the post-reproductive zone for some organisms, where the force of natural selection ... See full document

... schema 5 or its physical implementation 6 , thus maintaining the potential to share compatible subsets of their data with other similar ...normalized 7 meaning that individual facts are stored only once, ... See full document

... the municipality dummies only pick up the constant unobserved factors that may have a bearing on both income inequality and individual mortality, such as for example environ- mental characteristics. The estimates may in ... 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

... Table 1 shows Cameroon’s transition in some detail. It shows, for successive time peri- ods ( < 1980, 1980-84, 1985-89, 1990-94, and 1995-98), the fertility levels within family type as well as the prevalence of each ... See full document

... What is important is the fact that while the United Nations (1982) seemed to be aware of the existence of other decomposition formulas it failed to realize that all these proce- dures would give the same results if ... See full document

... Table 5) confirms that the increase in migration risks during pregnancy is entirely attributable to unmarried women, while married women expecting a child are less likely to migrate than childless ... See full document

... Contrary to prior assumption, not being involved in economic activity is not conducive to higher chances of fertility, since inactivity in Lomé is not significantly associated with higher risk of giving birth over time. ... See full document

... available. 5 Among other issues, each wave contains information on employment status and family events that occurred in the last year, and this information is recorded on a monthly ...formation. 7 After ... See full document

... The declining total cohort fertility rates and cumulated cohort fertility rates of the young generations in the Nordic countries would not be possible without changes in parity distributions and parity progression ... See full document

... mean to say that some other variable is positively or negatively associated with it? This problem can be visualized by looking at the frequency distribution of the preconception desires variable in Miller and Jones ... See full document

... Our outcome of interest is the hazard of dying among children under five at age intervals 0, 1–5, 6–11, 12–23, and 24–59 months. We apply this age interval classification to reflect the hazard of dying in the ... See full document

... The result for Italy is reported in Table 2, while the regional analysis is commented upon in the next section. 21 The columns from 1 to 4 report the regression results for the model, estimated in four time intervals of ... See full document

... As we might expect, we find the highest proportion of children living with a lone mother, or not with a mother at all, in the USA. On average, as much as 22 percent of children here live in a one-parent family (or in any ... See full document

... At the end of the Soviet era the total population size of Georgia was 5.5 million. According to official sources the net out-migration from this country in the decade 1990-99 constituted about 220 thousand people. In ... See full document

... The advent of reliable, modern means of contraception; access to safe and legal induced abortion; changing patterns of partnership relations; substantial changes in[r] ... See full document

... for women who reported only one union and were in that union at the beginning of the calendar period; (3) all unions for women who reported more than one union, who starte[r] ... See full document

... While Family Forming marriage constituted the largest share of marriages among compulsory educated women in both cohorts (roughly a third of marriages), large share[r] ... See full document