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... In review, while the two-process theory cannot be expressed in a closed form, by assuming that the intrinsic and extrinsic processes work independently and that vitality i[r] ... See full document

... polygynous societies such as Mali and Niger (Figures 7e and 7f), differences between males and females are much greater. Males start their reproductive life significantly later than women and continue having children ... See full document

... Adopting a cohort approach, our statistical analyses considered each couple‟s date of marriage from either church or municipal sources in the event of single registrations, or the earlier of the two dates in the case of ... See full document

... The principal of time and place suggests that ‘the life-course of individuals is embedded and shaped by the historical times and places they experience over their lifetime’ (Elder et al. 2004: 12). The community ... See full document

... Pregnancy interruption was a crime prior to 1975, but the Abortion Law of 1938 did allow some exceptions: abortions due to medical, humanitarian, and eugenic indications. In 1946, a socio-medical indication was added, ... See full document

... this article enhances our understanding of the relationship between imprisonment and mortality by providing insight into state-level variation in this relationship for black, white, and Hispanic males and ... 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

... This theory of the accumulation at old age of mutations (Medawar 1952) seems to be in accordance with common sense. It may be easily understood that persons loaded with a deleterious mutation at young age have less or no ... See full document

... For matching analysis, we chose coarsened exact matching (CEM) to balance the sent-down and non-sent-down groups (Iacus, King, and Porro 2011). CEM is essentially exact matching plus coarsening, a preprocessing procedure ... See full document

... We identify distinct scales of global aggregation, and in particular, we show that for the values of disparate neighbor comfort threshold used by Schelling, the striking global aggrega- [r] ... See full document

... All in all, the study has established that a woman’s educational attainment, premarital sexual activity, premarital childbearing, type of place of residence, region of residence, relig[r] ... See full document

... remaining 28%, data comes from summary reports and preliminary releases; as such there is not enough information to calculate the sampling errors from the ... See full document

... During the early phases of the health and family planning programmes in India, sterilisation services were introduced only in few Indian states for men especially in large cities such [r] ... See full document

... Odds ratios from the pooled models for women’s HIV infection, a history of marriage to circumcised spouses only (as compared to those ever-married to an uncircumcised spouse), and Bala[r] ... See full document

... While for men Part-Time Employed and Unemployed comprise the unstable state, for women, however, we include only unemployment periods as instability, given the fact that in a large numbe[r] ... See full document

... We present a comprehensive description and initial results from our recently completed Migration & HIV in Ghana (MHG) study of migration, sexual networks, and HIV risk behavior in [r] ... 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

... While some studies directly address the issue of changes in union formation in Eastern Europe, including Russia (Perelli-Harris and Gerber 2011; Hoem et al. 2009; Perelli- Har[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

... Quality of child health care and under-five mortality in Zambia: A case study of two districts in Luapula Province.. Augustus Kasumpa Kapungwe 1.[r] ... See full document