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... Similarly, recent studies in the fertility domain demonstrate that intentions to have a child (in formal terms, intention to attain the behavioral goal of having a child[r] ... See full document

... In all Latin American countries for which we have census microdata, the relative contribution of childbearing within consensual union to total fertility has increased considerably during the past three decades. It has ... 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 out an ... See full document

... Shkolnikov, V., Andreev, E., and Begun, A.Z. (2003). Gini coefficient as a life table function: Computation from discrete data, decomposition of differences and empirical examples. Demographic Research 8(11): ... See full document

... where µ(a) ¯ is the weighted average of the force of mortality above age a. Because µ(a) ¯ is the usual deaths/person-years measure for an open interval, equation (8) has a nice intuitive interpretation: among ... 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

... Transition to marriage among women in Baluch- and Lur-predominated regions: Compared with other ethnic groups, Lur and Baluch women adhere to a more traditional family system. Yet, Lur women have experienced a remarkably ... See full document

... This supports the substitution hypothesis (in people’s adult life the original primary ties with parents and siblings are being substituted by new ties with partner and children) rathe[r] ... See full document

... the posterior distribution in (7) or the predictive distribution in (8). Performing these integrations analytically is often not possible for complex models, such as those described above. Historically, this has ... See full document

... Zeng, Y., Chen, H., Ni, T., Ruan, R., Nie, C., Liu, X., Feng, L., Zhang, F., Lu, J., Li, J., Li, Y., Tao, W., Gregory, S.G., Gottschalk, W., Lutz, M.W., Land, K.C., Yashin, A., Tan, Q., Yang, Z., Bolund, L., Ming, Q., ... See full document

... All projections of fertility, mortality and migration used in producing global population projections are based in some manner on expert opinion informed by current conditions, past tren[r] ... See full document

... Survival data analysis methods – Kaplan-Meier graphs for the descriptive analysis and piecewise exponential models for the multivariate analysis – are used to examine the impact over time of the occurrence of an event, ... See full document

... In contrast to marriage, we see was a modest increase in the instability of first unions. This is as we expected given that an increasing proportion of first unions have begun with cohabitation, and that a decreasing ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... Within the past decade, more highly educated women have begun to postpone first births, while women with less than college education have maintained the previous age patter[r] ... See full document