[PDF] Top 20 Volume 6 - Article 9 | Pages 241–262

... To conclude, a woman in 1997 has a second-birth rate different from that of a woman in 1977 for two main reasons: First, she is likely to have a higher age, because she as a young adult [r] ... See full document

... for the modelling of changes on the dependent variables, taking into account both within and between variability among individuals. Second, it does not require a balanced design in the sense that, as far as attrition is ... See full document

... The Panel II results in Tables 2a, 2b, and 2c correspond to Cox models that add the wife’s characteristics at marriage and also the traits of the husband and couple, thus including all the observed risk factors for ... See full document

... Obviously any projection will be sensitive to the estimation in these countries, which are also among the most populous in the world. Because they concentrate a large share of the world population, China (1.28 billion ... See full document

... Therefore we are aiming for three objectives: (1) question the complexity of children’s family environment, taking into account both the morphology of their domestic[r] ... See full document

... day), 6) a compressed work week, 7) on call or casual, 8) an irregular schedule, and 9) ...category 9 (other) were dropped from the analysis as it was not possible to classify ... See full document

... Four interrelated factors are frequently identified in order to explain higher fertility rates of some migrant groups. 5 First, the selection hypothesis emphasizes distinct social characteristics of immigrants (such as ... See full document

... Hewitt’s test (Hewitt et al., 1971) was employed to investigate whether the relative risks of dying follow a seasonal pattern. This test gives ranks to each month. The value “12” is assigned to the month with the highest ... See full document

... this article estimates cross-sectional effects on the probability of being childless, contrasting results across three age or cohort groups (women aged 20-29, 30-39, and 40-49 in ... See full document

... Under the Bongaarts-Feeney scenario, our diminishing population is the product of a sequence of changing age-specific birth rates, and its composition at any point in time differs from t[r] ... See full document

... The Coale-McNeil (CM) nuptiality model is a mathematical expression of regularity in age patterns of first marriage. It is a standard demographic tool for the estimation and projection of age schedules of first marriage ... See full document

... A good sign is that the method does not introduce any constant bias into the estimates, suggesting that the main source of variation in population estimates is variation in the estimated cohort death ratios. For Sweden, ... 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

... 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 these Swedish data, the entropy measure g (for ages above 30) is close to 9 back to about 1945, a level reached after a gradual long-term drop from Nineteenth Century values around 13. The gradual changes in g ... 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

... 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

... makes them eligible for it. However, no important educational differentials were found in the reaction to the speed premium by women and men born in Sweden in a recent study (Andersson, Duvander, and Hoem 2006). Both the ... 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

... We offer a comparison between the age profiles of rates of formation of marital and non-marital unions among women in Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Italy.. We show th[r] ... See full document