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... The packages cover the estimation of multistate models (transition rates and transition probabilities), multistate life tables, multistate population projections, and microsimulation..[r] ... See full document

... In this paper, we use Japanese vital statistics and census data to describe trends in the experience of marital dissolution across the life course, and to examine change over time in e[r] ... See full document

... These remarks have an important effect on how stationarity is defined in empirical populations. Let’s consider the previous example from Section 3.1. If a census is carried out in the middle of a year, let’s say at time ... See full document

... We therefore perform our statistical analysis on an additional dataset derived from a 10% random sample of the 1984 Costa Rica census data. Census data were collected by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses ... See full document

... information on the time to first birth (n = 23) or if the conception of the child occurred before obtaining the degree (n = 3,956); the proportion of cases deleted for the latter reason varied by country. In most of the ... See full document

... For women whose cohabitational union is, for example, converted into a marriage in the third year of the union, the combined- union TFR is obtained by accumulating the TFRs for the firs[r] ... See full document

... rate. 14 The household theory of fertility shows that an increase in women’s income reduces their fertility, while an increase in men’s income increases the household’s ... See full document

... a 14-year follow-up period in the CPS-II study increased estimates of relative mortality risk for smokers by 8% to 28%, compared to continuing use of smoking status as reported at ... See full document

... Compared with all other education groups, mothers with some college have the highest rates of labor force participation, but also high rates of part-time employment, non-standard work,[r] ... See full document

... We do not believe that differential marriage formation is much of an explanation of childbearing differentials for most educational groups in Sweden. During the 1980s, the main childbearing years of our cohorts, about ... See full document

... However, among unmarried high school dropouts, married teenage high school dropouts, and unmarried teenage high school graduates, US-born women are more likely to use Medicaid for birth [r] ... See full document

... Differences between reported social networks and observed social interaction raise questions about how well standard conversational network data capture actual patterns of social [r] ... See full document

... At the post-primary level, firstborn girls from small families appear to be substantially less likely to be enrolled compared with those hailing from large families; in sharp contrast,[r] ... See full document

... This is due to the fact that, as we have shown in the above, in the case when there is a negative effect of age at first birth on the second birth intensity and the only effect of educat[r] ... See full document

... Second, we observed differences in fertility timing across contexts for the most recent period – the mean age at childbearing was higher in the central cities than in suburbs (although[r] ... See full document

... However, once observed characteristics of women and unobserved selection effects were properly controlled for, the risks of marital dissolution for those who cohabited prior to marriag[r] ... See full document

... Table 3 reports the responses in terms of number of beans to the questions about going to the market, experiencing a food shortage, having to rely on family members, infant mortality, be[r] ... See full document

... Note that for those with children aged 1 to 4, moves very close to parents are less likely than for those without children when compared with making no move at all, but more likely whe[r] ... See full document

... Using unit level data from the National Employment Survey in urban areas of India, Klasen and Pieters (2015) have confirmed that rising levels of household income play an important role [r] ... See full document

... between 31 mainland provinces in China from 1985 to 2015, choosing population size, GDP, age structure, real wages at origin and destination, and railway travel time between provincial capitals as explanatory ... See full document