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... This article has three main objectives: 1) to illustrate the growing female advantage in university completion across European countries, 2) to provide evidence on whether gender differences in university ... See full document

... Figure 3) demonstrates a different shape in the forecast fans, caused by a combination of lower φ values and additional terms for a non-constant variance in the SV ... See full document

... As mothers are still the main carer for children, parenting probably has a stronger influence on their work strategies than that of fathers. Furthermore, doing part-time rather than full-time work is likely to have ... See full document

... The fourth regression model for women show that the effect of the salary in the two periods, all other factors held constant, has an inverse U-shape, with a relatively flat distribution in the middle categories (the ... 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

... 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 ... 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

... Hence k becomes positive as age increases from zero. If there were an age above zero when k(z) = 0, then the derivative of k at this age would have to be zero or neg- ative. But as shown in (3), the derivative has ... See full document

... at ages 1, 2, 3 and 4 and reaches a maximum at age 5 of 50.44, with an inverse value of 0.0198. At age 4 the central death rate is 0.0237 > 0.0199, the inverse of remaining life expectancy at age 4, whereas at ... 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

... Table 3, the socio-economic factors have clearly affected the marriage timing of these women as adjusting for all factors in Model 8 results in their comparable relative risk of marriage (around 50% higher than ... See full document

... Table 2 presents the results of the four piecewise exponential regression models. The table shows the estimated relative risks for each group compared to the reference category for each independent variable. The first ... See full document

... The story of the “life extension” pill discussed by Bongaarts and Feeney (2003) illustrates the potential advantages of tempo-adjustment in the case of a sudden shift in survival. (See Figure 1a.) On January 1, everyone ... See full document

... In this paper, we focus on Australia, France, Germany, and Russia. These countries, often grouped in liberal (Australia), conservative (France and Germany), and post socialist country types (Russia), provide divergent ... See full document

... Prior to accounting for marital expectations, we find that women who cohabited with the baby‟s father and have other children with him are significantly less lik[r] ... See full document

... We analyze the role of informal childcare provided by grandparents on mothers’ labour force participation keeping unobserved preferences into account.. METHODS.[r] ... See full document

... The first human conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) was born in 1978 in England (Steptoe and Edwards 1978). A few other methods of ART have been developed since then, of which the most prominent is the ... See full document

... Sweden stands out as having the second (to Iceland) highest proportion of births occurring out of marriage (Thomson 2005). Furthermore, Sweden experienced the earliest steep increase in nonmarital childbearing. In 1960, ... See full document

... Section 3 then presents a number of examples from different countries and regions, and demonstrates how the components-of-change pyramid helps with understanding a population’s demographic history and why its age ... 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