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... A cohabiting individual of higher type (a woman) will suffer from a utility loss in comparison to what she could get when matched with a partner of the same class under perfect informati[r] ... 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 ... See full document

... To simply the exposition, it is also helpful to make three other assumptions. The number of births in the population during each time interval is assumed to be constant. The population is assumed to be closed to ... See full document

... As a result, Figure 5 shows that cohort LE is a horizontal line. As evident from equations (6), a constant cohort LE produces ACLE values constant at that level. It follows that tempo distortions, as defined here, ... See full document

... years in life expectancy during each of the last three decades (Table 4, Figure 3) and over the total 30 year period (Table 3, Figure 4). Life expectancy has continuously increased. An important factor for this increase ... See full document

... Trends in sex differences in all-cause mortality for whites at ages 40-64 are quite distinct from those for African Americans. The sex difference in all-cause mortality for whites declined throughout the period, although ... 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 there is ... See full document

... Next we describe the sociodemographic characteristics of divorced women in the SIPP and NSFG as they vary by R-E-N, including age at separation, age at first marriage, education, whether the woman had a premarital birth, ... See full document

... Model II extends model I through the addition of socioeconomic controls including place of residence, maternal education, paternal education and wealth index (see Table 2). Infants of order 6 or higher with short ... See full document

... Special Collection 3: Contemporary Research on European Fertility: Perspectives and Developments was produced as a surprise in honor of Jan M.. Hoem on his 65th birthday.[r] ... 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

... The results of our calculations using the “triangle-based” approximation formula in all years and for all groups are a little bit higher than the exact values calculated from the microdata. There appears to be a ... See full document

... When mortality rates are changing over time, as it was mentioned, the corresponding lifetime random variable cannot be unambiguously defined and other approaches for obtaining life exp[r] ... See full document

... For poverty, we used the consumption expenditure data from the National Sample Survey (NSS) for the years 2004–2005 and 2009–2010 to compute the percentage of households in each district living below the state-specific ... See full document

... Senegalese migration to Europe has its roots in colonialism. The first migrations resulted from recruitment efforts by the French army and administration during colonial times. Starting in the 1950s, rapidly expanding ... 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

... Although researchers often propose a high level of work ‒ family incompatibility for women as an explanation for the postponement of marriage and parenthood in Japan and elsewhere (Bolin[r] ... 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

... In response to a general question on using uncertainty information about future populations in decision-making, respondents wrote, “[It’s] most important that people know [r] ... See full document

... In addition to parish register data, this study utilises other available data sets. These include the Population and Housing Censuses of 1991 and 2001, and the Namibia Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS) of 1992 and ... See full document