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... Then, motivated by research on the importance of education to young adults in Malawi and the hardship many families across sub-Saharan Africa face to pay children’s schoo[r] ... See full document

... Figures 4a and 4b display the values of life expectancies at age 60 under three different scenarios for the two countries that produce extreme results, Argentina and Guatemala. At the beginning of the period under ... See full document

... Specifically, in regression models testing these association among Egyptians of both genders who married between 2006 and 2012 and were aged 18–39 in 2012, responde[r] ... See full document

... While this relationship is evident for the sample as a whole, once having disaggregated the sample by gender and applying a rigorous set of control variables, the negative relationship between remaining debt and the odds ... See full document

... The hazard regression models for union formation transitions use age groups as the baseline. Women become at risk of union formation at the age of 15, and age is categorized as under 20, 20‒24, 25‒29, 30‒34, ... See full document

... Figures 2a, b, c plot estimates of four of the five period measures of longevity for females in Denmark, England and Wales, and Sweden from 1925-2000. Each measure is calculated with µ(a,t) = 0 for a<30 to ... See full document

... Figures of childbearing intensity have to be read together with the delay in the timing of fertility that we have been observing since the 1955 birth cohort (Figure 7). In the female cohorts born in the late 1960s, the ... See full document

... Table 2 presents the modal age, modal number of deaths, and the standard deviation from the mode for the Gompertz mortality change model of Figure 2 and equation (9), and the Siler morta[r] ... See full document

... While the previous section focused on the occupational attainment in the first year of labor market participation in Europe and at the time of the survey, the [r] ... See full document

... The hourly wage does not exhibit very large variability across different region of Italy, even if there is a clear tendency of lower hourly wage in the South (linked both with the presen[r] ... See full document

... Furthermore, I construct a time-varying covariate of schooling to higher education, i.e., four-year university or two-year junior college. In the absence of retrospective educational histories, I manipulate the calendar ... See full document

... To facilitate meaningful comparison between different species, with this paper we provide a systematic discussion of 1) how the time aspect of aging can be measured, 2) how pace measures[r] ... See full document

... A couple’s fertility intention and the influence of these intentions on their final decision are the result of the individual characteristics and attitudes of both partners.. It [r] ... See full document

... Third or higher-order unions show different patterns of stability and exit routes, but it should be noted that these results are based on a small sample. The proportion of women in third or higher-order unions who ... See full document

... A major breakthrough in non-parametric inference for non-Markov multistate models was achieved by Datta and Satten (2001), who showed asymptotic unbiasedness of the Aalen- Johansen estim[r] ... See full document

... For higher-order births, the income-replacement character of the parental-leave system may also support a positive association of current earnings with the propensity to have another child. However, this effect is likely ... See full document

... (2008), relying on earlier research, mentioned the possible influence of early life factors as well as changes in medical services to elderly population within th[r] ... See full document

... For third births, it is very clear that couples in the high power groups (i.e., in which both spouses are highly educated, and are labelled either high/pr or high/pu ) are considera[r] ... See full document

... Furthermore, even though planned behavior theories generally posit that background and life cycle variables have no direct effects on the occurrence of an action, the empirical literat[r] ... See full document

... Yicheng’s two-child policy includes the following measures: 1) All couples are encouraged to delay marriage, to postpone parenthood, and to have fewer children; 2) The ‘one child per couple’ norm is enthusiastically ... See full document