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... Female population exposures between 1996 and 2011 – denominators for age and birth-order-specific fertility rates – were computed using official mid-year population estimates by age and sex, provided by the National ... See full document

... With the continuing survival gains at all ages and the concentration of deaths at older ages (Fries 1980), the sex ratio at different ages has progressively converged to the level of the sex ratio at birth (Figure 2). ... See full document

... fact, 20% of first children conceived to unmarried non-cohabitating parents were born within marriage, and 39% of them within an unmarried cohabitating ...only 20% of all unmarried cohabitations had been ... See full document

... While complete information is available on all partners and their children prior to union dissolution, there is incomplete information following union dissolution due to the way that non-sample members are tracked ... See full document

... When implementing CEM, one needs to strike a balance between too much coarsen- ing and not enough coarsening. Not enough coarsening means a lot of cases cannot be matched and will be discarded; too much coarsening means ... See full document

... Latin America is known for its dual nuptiality regime. Marriage and consensual union have coexisted side by side in most countries of the region for centuries (Lavrin 1989; Quilodrán 1999; De Vos 2000; Castro-Martín ... See full document

... To investigate the implications of the expanding educational gap in marital instability for recently formed marriages, duration-specific divorce rates by sex and education (i.e., less than high school, high school, and ... See full document

... Tempo distortions in childbearing associated with the migration event for some migrant groups should make for more cautious use of period TFRs as a summary measure of the likely completed family size of migrants. When ... See full document

... We use longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS; N~3000), a representative study of births to mothers in large US cities (with populations over 200,000) between 1998 and 2000. These ... See full document

... residual after the first principal component is accounted for. During the 20 th century, the ks have been roughly linear over time in most developed countries (Tuljapurkar, Li, and Boe 2000). As a and b are ... See full document

... For the Brass-TFB method, the most recent estimate is affected by an upward bias up to 10%. This bias is smaller than for the recent estimate based on age group 20– 24, but still reflects the excess mortality ... See full document

... Understanding the extent and patterns of migration is vital for the success of any intervention programs seeking to improve the wellbeing of slum dwellers. For instance, interventions should take into account the extent ... See full document

... This article provides a structural view of changes in the transition to adulthood in China. Specifically, we trace changes in timing, sequencing, and level of heterogeneity among four synthetic cohorts between ... See full document

... However, if we compare co-resident kin with non-resident kin, we see that mothers-in-law have a significantly positive effect on progression, though only when women do not have living [r] ... See full document

... Specific information on the effect of these incentives in the GGS is lacking, but several studies have shown that the use of this type of incentive can enhance participation (Singer e[r] ... See full document

... The inconsistency score, coded continuously from 0 to 3, measures the number of items (educational attainment, number of children ever born, and number of lifetime sexual partners) for[r] ... See full document

... Baizan, Beauchemin, and González-Ferrer (2014) found that Senegalese migrants with partners in the origin country who have the potential to adapt to labor market circumstances in Eur[r] ... See full document

... Five different specifications were used: overall immigrant status (specification 1 ); first- (foreign-born) versus second-generation immigrants (Norwegian-born with two immigrant [r] ... See full document

... Persons who are embedded in this kind of network perceive more social pressure regarding family formation, anticipate strong network support in case of parenthood, and, because of [r] ... See full document

... Figure 2 shows life cycle deficit (LCD) by gender, both monetary LCD − difference between consumption and production of market activities − and non-market LCD − based on time use e[r] ... See full document