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... In our analysis, the result of significant beta convergence without significant sigma convergence indicates that even though overall regional mortality differences have not declined, [r] ... See full document

... the status of birth registration was not recorded. Given that these records represent less than 5% (3.2%) of the available data, we do not expect their exclusion to affect the results significantly. None of the excluded ... See full document

... ‘small world’ problems, where applying rational calculus works best. By contrast, instead of applying rational calculus when faced with complex decisions, such as moving, households will often use rules of thumb or ... See full document

... Figure 4 displays the hazard functions for the population (on the left) and for the susceptible mothers, i.e., women who will have a third child, (on the right) when all covariates are set at their reference ... See full document

... For analytical purposes, we restricted the sample on several fronts. As most cohorts born after 1994 were only followed up to their sixth anniversary, we limited the observation window to the first six years after birth ... See full document

... Figure 4 also attests to the need to assess literacy among all adults, including those who went to secondary ...Figure 4, however, merely 61% of secondary-educated Ghanaian women can read, meaning that the ... See full document

... and 4) to compare the results based on parish registers with information obtained from the Population and Housing Censuses of 1991 and 2001, and from the Namibia Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS) of 1992 and ... See full document

... For their study, the authors used individual-level data from the Harmonized Histories project (Perelli-Harris, Kreyenfeld, and Kubisch 2010) to investigate whether first births among partners who were sharing the same ... See full document

... Egypt’s labour market shares many features in common with European countries that have experienced a decline in protected employment concurrently with economic recession (Kalmijin 2011). Since Egypt’s adoption of ... See full document

... Tables 4 showed that, without controlling for any confounding factors, the elderly who were more self-approving, calm and sociable had a 14% lower mortality risk (Model ... See full document

... To get further insight into the scale of the declining recuperation of postponed marriages and the rising permanent singlehood by level of education, I developed two projection scenarios of CFMR at age 45 for the women ... See full document

... LE standard errors are increased by proportionately large amounts.. population error results in a slight incremental impact on statistical tests, with a 1.4% increase in false positive [r] ... See full document

... Because this paper relies on techniques from matrix calculus, I begin in Section 2. with a brief review of those techniques. Section 3. analyzes density-dependent models, in- troduces methods for analyzing various ... See full document

... We use instrumental variable models with multiple births as instruments to examine the causal effects of family size on the health outcomes of children, as measured by receiving medici[r] ... See full document

... The gender- and union-specific single-year disability rates were combined with the single-year marital-status life tables derived from the Eurostat data to estimate the person years at[r] ... See full document

... (While this recent movement in the US in the direction of greater inequality has been referred to as evidence for a stall in gender convergence, we would note that several sources over[r] ... See full document

... Although cause-specific modal ages at death differ greatly in level, our results indicate that modal age values for leading causes among Canadian males and females increased steadily[r] ... See full document

... The main driver of declining youth crime in Denmark is that fewer young people are experiencing contact with the criminal justice (extensive margin), and not lower rates of criminal re[r] ... See full document

... Mexico’s cohabitation boom of the 2000s was driven by cohorts born after 1975, whose cohabiting unions are less likely to transition to marriage than those formed by earlier cohorts.. [r] ... See full document

... variable. Second, we re-estimate the main models, using the father’s country of birth instead of the mother’s country of birth. Third, we include additional control variables at the individual level (i.e., religious ... See full document