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... only 30% and is matched to a single individual who also has a predicted probability of being married of only 30%, then differences in the outcome (migration) are not due to observable differences between ... See full document

... Mortality models express mathematically the age schedule of mortality (that is, mortality as a function of age) in a given year. Models differ in the number of parameters they use and in the age ranges for which they ... See full document

... To explore possible heterogeneity in the non-Spanish immigrant category, a study was made of those countries of origin with over 20,000 deliveries in the years under study: Morocco (87,201), Romania (53,958), Ecuador ... See full document

... The use of modern methods of contraception, such as oral contraceptives, condoms, and IUDs, is a relatively new phenomenon in Ukraine. Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, couples relied on either traditional ... See full document

... Bean, Mineau, and Anderton demonstrate the importance of geographic fertility differentials within Utah, so we also control for the woman‟s birth along the more densely populated Wasatch Front (Utah, Salt Lake, Weber, ... See full document

... Death Distribution Methods are designed to estimate the completeness of death registration relative to population counts. The two most well-established methods are the General Growth Balance method (GGB, Brass 1975; Hill ... See full document

... mature HIV epidemic in a population without widespread treatment is that the bulk of the at-risk portion of the population is infected soon after becoming sexually active, and as a consequence the effect of HIV on ... See full document

... A more direct test to evaluate whether respondents understand the concept of proba- bilistic expectations is to analyze nested events. Nested events are subsets of each other, and thus imply an ordering of the subjective ... See full document

... observed among women aged 30 to 45. This study also found that, in most countries, childbearing within a consensual union had also become increasingly common for highly educated women. This is a clear indication ... 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

... Women who had expected an egalitarian balance between work and family life but found themselves doing most of the housework delayed (perhaps indefinitely) having a second child more [r] ... See full document

... Register-based estimates of parents‘ separation have been consistently higher for children born to cohabiting than to married couples, as sample survey analyses hav[r] ... See full document

... The subsections introduce the autoregression models, stochastic volatility, random variance shifts, Bayesian inference and model uncertainty used in this paper.. Let p t be the populatio[r] ... See full document

... The lack of significant differences in disruption risks between housewives and employed women who work full time or part time can be related to the limited influence of women’s work stra[r] ... See full document

... Explicit decompositions of chronological age groups into remaining lifespan classes is, to our knowledge, only found in Brouard (1986), who redistributed population pyramids by remaining[r] ... See full document

... The estimated coefficient for the earliest years covered is, unexpectedly, weakly negative (Figure 1). There are several possible explanations for this. The weak ass[r] ... See full document

... Lagos, although clearly the Nigerian melting pot, still remains primarily a Yoruba city. The ethnic composition shows a high representation of the Yoruba people (57.1 percent). The Igbo constitute the second largest ... See full document

... Compared to the respective levels in the countries of origin, the share of extra-marital births at the total number of births of immigrant women to West Germany is higher, [r] ... See full document

... In this form, CWR will underestimate the level of fertility, as children who have died at young ages are missing from the numerator. In high mortality settings a large number of children would be missing and fertility ... See full document

... In particular, the correlation of e † with the other measures is never less than 0.952, according to our calculations based on 5830 period life tables from 1840 to 2007 available from th[r] ... See full document