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... Table 1 reports the respective number of twins and the size of the birth cohorts. In particular, the size of these 5-year birth cohorts varies between 345,000 and 390,000 individuals, and the size of the twin cohorts ... See full document

... Number of Living Children: The reference category is women with the highest lifetime fertility (6+ living children). As contrasted with these women, the odds ratio for 0‒1 living children is enormous, and this is ... See full document

... authoritarian 6 in their parenting style (Rudy forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for ... See full document

... Within each educational group of mothers, we note that a later onset of childbearing is related to a lower number of children finally born. More interesting, however, is that, for all four countries, we observe that ... See full document

... I conclude that the fertility adjustments can help distinguish quantum and tempo effects, but argue that in the case of mortality the Bongaarts-Feeney measure of tempo-adjusted life expe[r] ... See full document

... and 6 (and with opposite signs); this is perhaps because “severe autocracies manage to control their borders more tightly and make emigration more difficult” (Hoeffler ... See full document

... Preliminary statistics on the dependent variables presented in table 1 reveal that many women were interested in regulating their family in 1980s rural Ghana. While 32% of women wanted a child at the time of the survey ... See full document

... However, the fairly small size of sample used in the current study prevented a serious examination of the issue. Sample sizes for single-parent families were considerably small even before being separated by the presence ... See full document

... An even greater impact on the varying country patterns is caused by the fact that countries differ dramatically in the time lag between the growth periods of different education levels. In some countries, secondary ... See full document

... The results are as follows. First, worries about being infected with HIV do not significantly mediate the relationship between the perceived risk of HIV and an individual's mental health (Model 3). However, the fear of ... See full document

... Education may have a positive effect on second birth risks for highly educated West German women who are already mothers but it may also increase second birth risks for highly educated[r] ... See full document

... a 14-year follow-up period in the CPS-II study increased estimates of relative mortality risk for smokers by 8% to 28%, compared to continuing use of smoking status as reported at ... 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

... 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

... In particular, the changing emphasis on child quality, coupled with the decline in extended family support with respect to childrearing, is promoting the adoption of innovative fertili[r] ... See full document

... More specifically, the objectives of the present research are to: (1) apply alternative measurement strategies that preserve the continuous metric of birth weight and gestational age [r] ... See full document

... By one week of age, the spectacled bear (life expectancy of 23.9 years) has replaced the North American bison as the most longevous species. The spectacled bear is, however, characterize[r] ... See full document

... The GGP addresses the individual, partnership, and household levels of analysis through the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), where individual respondents are in[r] ... See full document

... the pages of Demography or Population and Development Review can see that demography is thoroughly intertwined with the societal issues of our day: population aging, migration, a multicultural society, pensions ... See full document

... this article, we study the interrelationships of different aspects of partner selection on the one hand, and SES attainment and intergenerational SES mobility on the ...This article refers to two previous ... See full document