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... Successive generations changed their age patterns of childbearing quite considerably. Despite a decline in completed fertility, the peak of childbearing.. remained stable at the ages 23 [r] ... See full document

... Supporting the first interaction hypothesis, we found that living in regions characterised by lowest unemployment rates meant a clearly higher mortality risk for the long-term unemploy[r] ... See full document

... Tables A-1 to 3 show the annual change in ACLE for each decade of the twentieth century, and its decomposition, for three countries: England and Wales, Norway and Switzerland. The first column shows time t, the midpoint ... See full document

... the article in the following way: I begin by describing how social status related to fertility in historical settings as evidenced by societal/legal descriptions and DNA ... See full document

... Following the collapse of state socialism around 1990, young people in CEE adjusted to new conditions. This adjustment resulted in rapidly changing forms of family formation and partnership relationships, and in new ... See full document

... To be fair, Bongaarts and Feeney, except at a few points, are not talking about co- horts. Instead, they intend e ∗ 0 as a period measure that tries to improve upon period life expectancy. What such an improved period ... See full document

... In sub-Saharan Africa, the main route of HIV transmission for adults is heterosexual contact (Sewankambo et al. 1987) and for children, the mother-to-child transmission (ONUSIDA 2006). Little is known about the ... See full document

... The level of education was measured at the age of 30‒34 and categorized as basic (45%), lower secondary (28%), upper secondary (14%), and tertiary (14%). The basic level refers to nine years or less of general education; ... See full document

... cohabitation. 5 Similar arguments have been made about the once stigmatizing association of cohabitation with premarital sex in the United States (Bumpass ... 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

... A generally negative effect is estimated for enrollment, as expected (Table 5). Moreover, the educational level has a positive effect on second births and no effect on third births. (This is not strongly ... See full document

... Bolivia: 7KH 2 tests indicate that if only one of the outcome variables at a time is included in these probits, the probit is significant at the 5 percent level only for severe stunting, that is, a child who is ... See full document

... Another important consequence of Italian familism – and the low esteem of civic values – is the gap between private wealth and the quality of public services (Saraceno, 1994). In Italy, public services are – generally ... See full document

... being positively and significantly associated with educational level for women but not for men. This result confirms the hypothesis that higher qualifications also allow greater reside[r] ... See full document

... The first human conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) was born in 1978 in England (Steptoe and Edwards 1978). A few other methods of ART have been developed since then, of which the most prominent is the ... See full document

... Cox regression analysis of stopping behavior and negative binomial regression of net family size indicated that during the early phase of the Dutch fertility transition (18[r] ... See full document

... While a correction for this bias has been developed for countries with moderately severe HIV epidemics (Timæus and Nunn 1997), two considerations lead us to refrain from applying the correction in our main analyses. ... See full document

... In this paper we propose the use of the inhomogeneous K -function (Baddeley, Møller, and Waagepetersen 2000) to study spatial attraction in the household locations of some groups of fore[r] ... See full document

... or 5, dividing that sum by the total population aged 23−62 years old, and multiplying by 5 to produce an index which is related to the quality of the age ... See full document

... kilometers) 5 , some of the peripheries may be regarded as middle or outer rings of metropolitan areas; hence, while officially rural, they are located within easy access of urban places and labor ... See full document