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... The estimates in Panel I show that the fifth-year dissolution probability is .31 for women who entered first marriage before age 20, and declines steadily to .09 for those who did so at age 30–32. The coefficient ... See full document

... the 20 th century international migration was limited in Mongolia and, given the importance of knowing one’s age for cultural and religious purposes and the importance of documents in socialist regimes, age data ... See full document

... For the purpose of the present study, we have selected respondents who have reported one or more marital or non-marital unions and have born at least one child in a union. Individuals who do not have a recorded union are ... See full document

... In Sweden in the early 20 th century there were differences in diet between large and small families that could have contributed to differences in height. The Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs carried ... See full document

... The traditional view of the fertility decline in the US emphasizes its early beginnings, in the first decades of the 1800s or even the final decades of the 1700s, as well as the fact that this decline occurred in the ... See full document

... As pointed out, we do not assume German citizenship and the German residence permit to have a direct impact on the fertility of women in the traditional migrant- worker groups. However, there are other (West) German laws ... See full document

... This research is based on a unique longitudinal database, which links data from a 20% sample of the Israeli 1995 census (Central Bureau of Statistics 1995) and annual data from the National Insurance Institute of ... See full document

... For each of the 56 countries in our sample, we fit a series of binomial logistic regressions to individual-level data and define migration as a binary outcome, that is, individuals have migrated or not during the ... See full document

... The population of Queensland has clearly been augmented by net migration gains (net internal and net international migration combined in this case) to a very large extent (Figure 10). The bulge in age structure between ... See full document

... External evaluation indicates that age exaggeration tends to bias census counts at older ages upward in Costa Rica. One study suggested that the population aged 80 years and older in the 1984 census was overcounted by as ... See full document

... Latin America is known for its dual nuptiality regime. Marriage and consensual union have coexisted side by side in most countries of the region for centuries (Lavrin 1989; Quilodrán 1999; De Vos 2000; Castro-Martín ... See full document

... Even if we consider only the last 30 years of this period, when we examine the age- and sex-specific gains to the average life lived, it is evident that there are present demographic pro[r] ... 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

... When links are made between the child and both parents, we simply compare the property numbers at which the parents are registered at the end of each year. Parents with the same number are assumed to live together, those ... 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

... 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

... We begin by briefly describing the predictors of wanting to stop having children; proceed to assess the association between married rural women’s desires to stop childbearing and their[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

... Figure A-7: Annual estimates for β of the Makeham model, which is fitted to female mortality for the calendar years t, 1960 (light gray) to 2009 (black), along with a linear regression [r] ... See full document

... Our study examines educational differences in the transition to grandparenthood. Comparing East and West Germany, we analyze educational differences in a) the chance of becoming a grandp[r] ... See full document