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... significant net predictor of whether the wife has an affair; women who married at older ages are less likely to have affairs. The model predicting whether men have affairs contains more significant predictors: Men are ... See full document

... These immigration figures are large in comparison to other European countries and clearly reflect the size of recent migration inflows to Spain. By contrast, the size of the second generation (Spanish-born descendants of ... See full document

... All countries participating in comparisons possess well developed systems of vital registration and population accounts. The use of mortality records of these countries is widely accepted, and in most cases there are no ... See full document

... This paper overcomes the analytical problems outlined above by investigating whether changes in prior fertility preferences affect changes in fertility, while controlling for changes in demographic life cycle and ... See full document

... from 18% in 2000 to 30% in 2014 and the proportion of fathers with higher secondary educational qualifications but no tertiary degree increased from a quarter to ... See full document

... In this paper, we studied the two-child policy experiment implemented in Yicheng beginning in 1985. We adopted a synthetic control approach, which allowed us to conduct a counterfactual analysis by constructing a ... See full document

... with 18%) and the results found to be consistent with those obtained when observations with missing education values were included in the models (results not ... See full document

... of volume, di- rection and completeness (Kelly 1987; Salt 1993; Willekens 1994; Nowok, Kupiszewska, and Poulain 2006), making cross national comparisons ... See full document

... to 18 months before the survey). As a result there is a mismatch of 18+9 months between the timing of the measurement of the proximate determinants at the time of the survey and the ... See full document

... years in life expectancy during each of the last three decades (Table 4, Figure 3) and over the total 30 year period (Table 3, Figure 4). Life expectancy has continuously increased. An important factor for this ... See full document

... Checking against the correspondence table ICD8/ICD9 (Table 3), the ICD8 items in question both link with ICD9 403 only, completing an association of type 1:N (see Table 4, Association [r] ... See full document

... To operationalize the explanatory variables I have discussed earlier, the following covariates are used in the models: 1) demographic factors, i.e., the number of siblings, heir status[r] ... See full document

... Nevertheless, even though comparing these differences with those in model 2 shows that not controlling for unobserved heterogeneity yields smaller figures (1.28 yea[r] ... 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

... 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

... In the present study, we analyze a nationally representative sample of college graduates to examine the relationship between student loan debt and marriage in young adulthood, whether [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

... 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

... 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