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... In the present study the effects of digit preferences on demographic behavior in Sweden are examined. More specifically, I study the propensity to marry for the first time in the year 2000 or when being of an age that ... See full document

... Aside from personal care, the modal (mean time) activity among elderly women is household maintenance (including housework and personal and household shopping), which accounts for over three hours, on average, of their ... See full document

... The preceding results are abstract ones. Let us be more concrete in comparing the two methods using the same example. We assume the law of mortality defined over five years with survivorship function (100, 60, 30, ... See full document

... However we also find that the CAL-LCLE correspondence is not general. In particular the correspondence is somewhat less accurate at age 30, and far from accurate at age 0. This implies that when it comes to ... See full document

... Measures introduced in the 1960s and 1970s were focused on the support of young families with children and the reduction of a double burden of working mothers. We can divide them into three groups – material aid, ... See full document

... Our analysis indicates that the ‘russified’ group of Asians is significantly different from the other two ethno-cultural groups of our study as concerns their first-birth behavior, thus the group does not occupy an ... See full document

... The statistical model controls for women’s sociodemographic characteristics and those of their marriages. In examining the effect of women’s decision-making autonomy on enrollment it is important to include in the ... See full document

... While these studies begin to improve epidemiological understanding of how marriage relates to HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, a decidedly sociological approach to this relationship is far less common – clear ... See full document

... Because of the notable lag between our thinking and the rapid socio-demographic changes, it is not surprising that some population projections and development plans have also fallen behind these changes. For example, The ... See full document

... After WWI ended in 1918 global markets began to recover, and American farmers found themselves with a surplus of goods. Their crops flooded the market and caused a precipitous drop in prices (Kennedy 1999; Watkins 2000). ... See full document

... Given prior evidence on infant health outcomes such as low birth weight (Acevedo- Garcia, Soobader, and Berkman 2005; Janevic, Savitz, and Janevic 2011; Acevedo- Ga[r] ... See full document

... past 30 years (Card 1999; Lemieux 2006), significant difference in education attainment between teen mothers and their matched counterparts may be carried over into the labor market across all racial/ethnic ... See full document

... In this study we used data from the third wave of the European Social Survey (ESS), a repeated cross-sectional survey designed to measure social attitudes and values using face-to-face interviews. The ESS aimed to be ... See full document

... This article uses life history calendar (LHC) data from coastal Ghana and event history statistical methods to examine inter-regional migration for men and women, focusing on four specific migration types: ... See full document

... The second observation is that the introduction of sex-selective abortion as an option in family planning makes it possible for a stopping rule (or combination of rules) to affect the [r] ... See full document

... There is wide variation of family planning services use among ethnic groups in Nepal. Despite three decades of implementation the need for family planning services is substantially unmet (25%), and there have been ... See full document

... In the present article we will only focus on the two receiving countries: Italy and Spain. In Italy, members of migrant households from Egypt and Ghana participated in the survey; in Spain their peers from Morocco ... See full document

... An outcome is simulated for all these 24278 women, using a model that includes the cluster average of the outcome variable or a similar measure (not directly observable; see below) and a[r] ... See full document

... A variety of parametric models pre- senting the fertility rates as a function of age have been proposed in order to describe the age-specific fertility pattern.. Some of them provide nic[r] ... See full document

... In the stable population, constant vital rates yield (linear) exponential growth in the number of births, while in the metastable model net maternity that increases exponentially over ag[r] ... See full document