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... It clearly appears from the above that mortality differences between the countries were on the decline almost continually. Though this decrease progressed in the first half of the century, the mortality differences ... See full document

... These relationships were first recognized in the mid-1950s when Kingsley Davis and Judith Blake (1956) defined a large set of proximate determinants which they called the “intermediate fertility variables.” This set was ... See full document

... Figure 2 shows the results of the Kaplan–Meier estimation of the survival curves (Allison 2014) for second childbirth. For comparison, the trend of the observed cases is also shown in Figure 3. As these graphs ... See full document

... Figure A2 depicts analogous simulations that take advantage of the distinct childhood, adult, and background mortality components of the Siler model. Under some scenar- ios, the three-component model is better able to ... See full document

... To construct a psychological distress index, we aggregate the answers to questions related to the mental wellbeing of older adults during the one week (Vietnam) and one month (Myanmar and Thailand) prior to the survey. ... See full document

... = 2 for Japan. As the volume of the Japanese data is much larger than that of the Taiwanese data used, the estimation of the common mortality index is largely determined by the former, which would influence ... See full document

... type 2 (taux de deuxi`eme cat´egorie; see Lotka and Spiegelman 1940), which are obtained at each age by dividing births of a given order by the female population irrespective of ... See full document

... models. 6 Keeping matched- continuous marriages in the analysis allows for the full range of covariation among marriage, individual, survey, and interviewer ...Model 2 includes all variables except marriage ... See full document

... An additional descriptive analysis that included data on only the 207 couples who had given birth to a first and a second child since the collection of the prospective panel data started reveals a considerable and even ... See full document

... Since the onset of the economic crisis there has been a notable decline in immigration flows and in the union formation and fertility of both Spaniards and immigrants (Castro-Martín et al. 2015). Emigration has ... See full document

... Figure 2 also shows trends in adult mortality among females. As expected, female mortality levels are much lower than those of males. As in the case of males, Armenia and Georgia consistently have the lowest ... See full document

... A second economic consideration related to kin marriage is the reduced matrimonial expenditures involved in such unions (Caldwell, Reddy, and Caldwell 1983; Casterline and El-Zeini 2003; Hoodfar 1997; Reilly 2013; ... See full document

... Statistics Austria, the Austrian national statistical institute, regularly publishes long-run cohort-component population projections by sex, age, and nine NUTS-2 regions, i.e., Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower ... See full document

... Under the previous parental leave regime, the total leave length was six months, of which two weeks were allotted to the father (from 1998 and onwards). The benefits were usually paid at a low flat rate and thus not ... See full document

... Fig. 2, using again the Japanese data, we do not observe any particular age or period dependent ...Fig. 2 show the interval of one standard deviation distance from the ... See full document

... Before moving to the results section, two notes about statistical analysis are worthy of mention. First, sample attrition is a threat to longitudinal modeling if the attrition is nonrandom. In other words, if individuals ... See full document

... Our approach has limitations that need to be addressed before analysing more recent transitions. First, in our analysis of demographic interplay, urban and rural sub- populations are attributed core and peripheral roles. ... See full document

... level 2 we discovered that the mother’s education – also relative to the father’s degree – has an even stronger positive impact on their daughter’s entry into ... See full document

... later article, McDonald (2013) is explicit in that his theories are predictive for the macro-level association between fertility and gender equality and not for couple-level measures of gender ... See full document

... 2. The second aspect refers to “educational homogamy”, which is relatively common in Germany. (For a detailed discussion, see Wirth 2000.) For example, 60 percent of all women in our sample live with a partner ... See full document