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... But with event history analysis, a mixed-methods approach, and sources like the East and Central African libri status animarum , they open the way to the ‘long view’ of population ch[r] ... See full document

... present article, we focus on the answers to these specific questions: "Are you currently having a stable, intimate relationship with someone you're not living with?," "Are you ... See full document

... Finally, Hypothesis 4 focuses on the degree to which the migration behavior of former partners is correlated. The argument is that because of joint or shared custody and visitation agreements, the migration decisions of ... See full document

... The demographic transition in China took place at an extraordinarily rapid pace (Coale 1984; Hussain 2002). It has often been attributed to the Chinese government’s effective family planning policy (Greenhalgh and ... See full document

... variables; 3) if there is an instability, computation of the best partition – for categorical variables it tests all possible partitions for a binary split – and split of the data; 4) repetition of the procedure ... See full document

... The current study seeks to make use of the valuable and high-quality vital statistics data in Taiwan to offer a more comprehensive depiction of divorce patterns by education for both sexes. This paper aims to explore ... See full document

... Figures 1–3 show the forecast results for combined sexes, males, and females. Overall, the observed trends in life expectancy remain linear over the period studied. Forecasts us- ing different base years do not ... See full document

... locates estimates over time. This makes it possible to estimate a trend in child mortality for a period of about 15 years prior to data collection 3 . Since age of mother is used as proxy for the children’s ... See full document

... The CRELES panel is a national sample of residents aged 55 or more drawn from 2000 census files linked to the death registry (details in Rosero-Bixby, Brenes, and Collado 2004). After excluding foreigners (3%) and ... See full document

... and 3 = three or more ...(= 3) was used for those who did not provide information on this question (no imputation was performed, as there are more missing cases than parental ...and 3 = 1965–1972) ... See full document

... In terms of variables related to pension payments, the two most important ones are those described in the last section. Note that EP pers is on average about 3.1 points (6.6 percent) higher than EP CP in columns 1 and 5 ... See full document

... In analysing fertility behaviour we have to distinguish between western and eastern German couples. Following the reunification of Germany, the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) adopted the political system of the ... See full document

... Today and in the coming decades, the children born into this climate of strong son preference are reaching adulthood. According to the United Nations population projections for China, there were 106 men aged 15-49 for ... See full document

... This article is concerned with sensitivity analysis of life disparity with respect to changes in mortality rates. A relationship is derived that describes the effect on life disparity caused by a perturbation of ... See full document

... Figure 3 shows that at any given time the ratio increases with age. For younger ages it is below one, indicating that changes at those ages have more impact on cohort than period life expectancy. With mortality ... See full document

... This is done by using a logistic regression model that is designed to capture (i) the association between years of schooling and women's age at union formation;[r] ... See full document

... The right panel of Figure 1 shows the results for the frequency of contact. Among women, birth of a first child is associated with a statistically significant increase in frequency of contact with non-residing relatives. ... See full document

... and 3, boys receive more public and private transfers, and especially more time than girls, similarly to the findings of Donehower and Mejía (2012) and Dukhovnov and Zagheni (2015) for the ... See full document

... Hypothesis 2: Double-veto power effect. To test this hypothesis, I compared the fit of a model with a linear specification of both partners’ combined desires in which disagreement had a score midway between agreement on ... See full document

... Pooling data from the 2006 ‒ 2010 and 2011 ‒ 2013 NSFG, we fill this gap in the literature by focusing on the largest Hispanic national origin group, Mexican Americans, and assessing t[r] ... See full document