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... Women’s number of siblings is not important for family stability, but men’s sibship size is negatively related to the risk of disruption. Hungarian fathers who do not have any sibling have twice as high risk of family ... See full document

... 1, 2, 3 and 4 and reaches a maximum at age 5 of ...age 4 the central death rate is ...age 4, whereas at age 5, the central death rate is ... See full document

... Figure 4 shows a components-of-change population pyramid for Australia at 31 December 2014. The red bars on the left illustrate the annual number of births, starting with the cohort born in 1909 at the top and ... See full document

... The raw data for Costa Rica (see Supplementary archive, S1. Raw “Input Data” for Costa Rica) comprises official vital statistics, population estimates, and census counts available online (Centro Centroamericano de ... See full document

... model 2, we add control variables identified in the literature as significant in shaping migration decisions, namely age, sex, marital status, labour force status, and urban status of current place of ... See full document

... to 96% in Greece, ...over 29 for men in the Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Finland, and Norway; over 25 among women in most Western European countries, and under 25 among women in most Eastern European ... See full document

... for women in East Germany. Furthermore, these results are robust to other specifications with different sets of controls (see Models 1 to 4). These findings come as a surprise, because in East Germany women do not ... See full document

... Our mathematical analysis of the Gompertz model remains incomplete when both parameters (the modal age at death and the growth rate of mortality with age) change in time. Our computational experiment gave clear results ... See full document

... As noted above in Case 2, if there were an age when k(a) = 0 then the derivative of k at this age would have to be zero or negative. But as shown in (3), the derivative has to be positive at any age when k(a) = 0. ... See full document

... 2) Interrelation of events: Instead of interpreting elevated birth transition rates shortly after immigration as catching-up behavior, they can be seen as a situation in which several events take place at the same ... See full document

... Regardless of the mother’s country of birth, low weight at birth is a causal factor of stillbirth (Table 2), but for each category of weight the rates among the non-Spanish surpass those of the Spanish group. The ... See full document

... Bean, Mineau, and Anderton demonstrate the importance of geographic fertility differentials within Utah, so we also control for the woman‟s birth along the more densely populated Wasatch Front (Utah, Salt Lake, Weber, ... See full document

... sion values (isigma2[t] from OpenBUGS), are plotted in the upper panel of Figure 4 for the independent normal model with stochastic volatility (IN-SV). These were pro- duced in a similar fashion as the forecast ... See full document

... The DEAS provides data on highest educational attainment coded according to the ISCED scheme. Because more differentiated educational categories means fewer cases in each, we dichotomized educational level into higher ... See full document

... Table 2 presents the results of the four piecewise exponential regression ...and 4 examine the probability of entry into school between ages 5 to 10 ... See full document

... reduces first birth rates at all ages (except for age 40–44). However, the greatest impact is found at younger ages. The first explanation could be that young people can more easily revise their fertility plans. The ... See full document

... Ethnic disparity in the contextual factors is indicated in Table 2. Contextual variables are constructed as time-varying variables and their value represent changes in these variables over the period of study. ... See full document

... As illustrated in Table 2, only 34.4 percent of the women gave an indication that they can reject sexual intercourse from their husbands if and when they so desire, while the remaining majority (65.6 percent) ... See full document

... The average height of conscripts increased almost linearly over time among men in the SEDD starting with cohorts born after the 1820s (Öberg 2014b: Figure 1). The secular trend in heights in the SEDD data is similar to ... See full document

... In recent years, researchers and policy makers have become increasingly interested in the effects of migration and remittances on the development of communities of origin in developing countries (de Brauw and Rozelle ... See full document