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... Leo Goodman introducing his concept of eventual reproductive value (Goodman 1968) noted on page 398 that population’s “average eventual reproductive value” determines future size of the [r] ... See full document

... preschool (0–4), primary school (5–12), and high school ages (13–17). We also included categories comprising multiple age groups, one comprising couples with all their children between ages 5–12 and 13–17, and ... See full document

... M 4 are rates which, given the age structure, would make period deaths equal normalized period ...M 4 employs a proportional adjustment to hazards, whether or not hazards have been changing proportionally ... See full document

... We don’t expect the same definitional problem with India because this country uses a much lower threshold (5,000 inhabitants), together with a functionalist approach (ad- ministrative centers, non-agricultural ... See full document

... Latin America is quickly approaching fertility replacement levels. Although the pace of fertility decline has been uneven across countries 4 (Guzmán et al. 1996), recent data show that more than half of the 20 ... See full document

... pay; 4) job security; 5) kind of work; 6) work–family balance; 7) employment opportunities; 8) financial situation; 9) free time (amount); 10) home; 11) neighbourhood; 12) feeling of belonging to the local ... See full document

... Errors in life expectancy are shown in Table 4. In general an underestimate of over- all mortality (when measuring error in log death rates — Table 2) does not necessarily translate into an overestimate of life ... 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

... In almost all European countries, marriage rates have been declining since the 1960s and the share of non-marital births has been rising for several decades (Perelli-Harris et al. 2010, 2012). This coincides with ... See full document

... Since the GGP is designed specifically to investigate gender and inter-generational relations, it was important that both a gender and a generational dimension were maintained in the two approaches mentioned above. While ... See full document

... Individuals with siblings have earlier births (Barber 2000, 2001; Huinink 1987; Kolk 2014b; Michael and Tuma 1985; Rijken and Liefbroer 2009; Rindfuss and John 1983; Steenhof and Liefbroer 2008) and end up with more ... See full document

... is not available for cohabiting couples in the ECHP 4 . However, since unmarried parenthood is still rare in Italy, we capture the large majority of births. We exclude couples who live with children born from ... See full document

... All the time series of this study are subject to trends: life expectancies are increasing, mortality rates are decreasing, and mortality is being compressed (see Figure 1). When analyzing the associations between ... See full document

... Demography, within the memories of those now living, has been shaped by a few out- standing centers, the Institut National d’Etudes D´emographiques, the Cambridge Group for the History o[r] ... See full document

... and 4); and tertiary (16 and more years of schooling, ISCED 5 and ...for 4 and 5 years, respectively, and 1 to 2 years of post-secondary non-tertiary ... See full document

... and 4 clearly show, policy interventions should first identify those families that experience many infant deaths and then examine the mechanisms that bring about high fertility as well as an unusual number of ... 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

... There is also a degree of arbitrariness in several of the sexual behaviour parameters that have been chosen: e.g., the proportion of the population in the high risk group, the average [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

... 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