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... For women whose cohabitational union is, for example, converted into a marriage in the third year of the union, the combined- union TFR is obtained by accumulating the TFRs for the firs[r] ... See full document

... Finally, women who are under 28 years old exhibit a lower fertility than others. In- deed, in 2006, the average age of entry into fertility for French woman was 28. Further- more, women over 45 are expected ... See full document

... For our analysis, we use retrospective life-history data collected by the Mexican Migration Project in 88 Mexican communities and in selected U.S. destination areas. The communities are drawn from 14 of the 32 ... See full document

... (about 14%) who consider religion important in their lives score significantly higher on familism than those who consider religion unimportant (unpublished ... See full document

... There are several reasons to revisit the conclusions of this study. First, its analysis rests on a limited sample of large urban communities (of the 70 communities included, only 14 are located in large urban ... See full document

... consider the historical estimate made at historical prices as more reliable than the new estimate made with a more recent price system and taxonomy, and thus to reject the difference for 1958 (i.e., to take as good the ... See full document

... I assumed all correlation in the random parts of the models was taken into account by allowing the woman-level random effects to correlate across equations. Thus, I assumed that these unmeasured characteristics remained ... See full document

... To ex- amine the present empirical relevance of the heterogeneous stationary population model, Figure 1 shows the crude birth rate, the crude death rate, and the reciprocal of the life e[r] ... See full document

... Urban status at age 12 measures whether a respondent had urban household reg- istration (i.e., “hukou”) status when they were 12 years old. Although send-down was primarily an urban movement, some high school graduates ... See full document

... Education influences fertility also indirectly. Assuming that highly educated women have their first child later in life than their counterparts with lower qualifications (Blossfeld and Huinink, 1989, 1991), one can ... See full document

... In Italy, the foreign presence is a rooted reality, and the number of foreign families has increased rapidly over the last two decades (Blangiardo and Terzera 2008; Bonifazi et al. 2009; Istat 2013a) as documented by the ... See full document

... In this paper, we use Japanese vital statistics and census data to describe trends in the experience of marital dissolution across the life course, and to examine change over time in e[r] ... See full document

... Compared with all other education groups, mothers with some college have the highest rates of labor force participation, but also high rates of part-time employment, non-standard work,[r] ... See full document

... This article has examined the recently proposed PGW method to estimate smoking- attributable mortality in high-income ...This article has presented a modified version of the PGW method, the PGW-R method, ... See full document

... Probabilistic population forecasting uses the cohort component method. Instead of one set of parameters for fertility, mortality, and migration, as in the traditional deterministic method (or three, when a high, a ... See full document

... The packages cover the estimation of multistate models (transition rates and transition probabilities), multistate life tables, multistate population projections, and microsimulation..[r] ... See full document

... Three questionnaires are used in the standard DHS survey: a household questionnaire, a questionnaire for women age 15–49, and (in about two- thirds of the surveys) a questionnaire for a [r] ... See full document

... this article focuses on the transition from the first to second parity, with particular interest in the ways in which educational attainment and enrolment status have influenced progression from first to second ... See full document

... Given the absence of pronatalism and the established influence of religion on demographic behaviors in Buddhism, in this study we examine whether Buddhist follower[r] ... See full document

... limitation faced by most social surveys everywhere but in developing countries in particular.. birth suggest that the disparities between children born to young versus older mothers [r] ... See full document