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... Exogeneity of lagged birth shares with regard to the second stage regression, i.e. its validity as an instrument, is plausible (in an economic interpretation of excluding reverse causality) as long as parents do not ... See full document

... to 15 months, expectations about the duration of unemployment must logically coincide with this period for the substitution effect to be meaningful (Kravdal ... See full document

... Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition point to the rapid change in demographic trends in Russia as evidence that the SDT is occurring. For example, Zakharov and Ivanova (1996) interpret trends such as the ... See full document

... We do not assume legitimacy to be of major importance for our study population. Legally, German citizenship is not accorded by childbirth. Before 2000, it was based on descent (ius sanguinis) 3 . An application for ... See full document

... Cross country analyses have shown a positive and significant association of change in fertility and socioeconomic development (Bongaarts and Watkins 1996). The mean predicted change in TFR due to change in female ... See full document

... As illustrated in Table 2, only 34.4 percent of the women gave an indication that they can reject sexual intercourse from their husbands if and when they so desire, while the remaining majority (65.6 percent) believed it ... See full document

... The Mongolian socialist experience during the 20 th century can be divided into two phases. The first stage, which lasted till the mid-1940s, was characterized by political and economic hesitation, and experiments with ... See full document

... The own-children method was designed to study fertility using census data so that fertility could be related to characteristics collected by the census but not recorded in vital statistics (Cho, Rutherford, and Choe ... See full document

... to 29 percent among the 1910s ...about 15 percent (at age 20) to a peak of nearly 40 percent (at age 50) for married white women born between 1906 and 1915 (Goldin 1983: ... See full document

... As firms privatized and new private firms developed, returns to skill increased. Wage dispersion brought with it widening educational and occupational differentials that imply heterogeneous experiences of the economic ... See full document

... Variables that have a confirmed influence on stillbirth risk, such as weight at birth, duration of gestation, mother’s age, limited schooling, etc., express that in[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

... 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 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

... 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

... According to Catholic precepts, religious marriages are indissoluble, and Italy is characterized by a Catholic religious monopoly, with an anomalously high level of religious attendance [r] ... See full document

... In any case, (9a) indicates that remaining life expectancy will rise, stay constant or fall depending on whether the force of mortality exceeds, equals, or is less than the inverse of re[r] ... See full document

... over 29 for men in the Netherlands, Austria, Slovenia, Finland, and Norway; over 25 among women in most Western European countries, and under 25 among women in most Eastern European countries) (Eurostat ... See full document

... Furthermore, despite their similarity in educational attainment and in the process of development with women in the Mazandarani-predominated region, including these factors in the anal[r] ... See full document

... In model 1, we regress migration against educational attainment classified into four levels – less than primary, primary, secondary, and tertiary education – based on the International S[r] ... See full document