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... The models based on the combined sample of observed and imputed data for respondents and imputed data for non-respondents showed a statistically significant increase across cohorts in [r] ... See full document

... Generally, the overall results indicate that hypotheses derived from social and demographic history are substantially better able to explain the marriage behavior of parentally bereaved children born in the Netherlands ... See full document

... to 6 show the proportion of individuals in each labor market/education status at each age for three different cohorts: those entering the labor market between 1942 and 1961 (born between 1926–45), those that ... See full document

... The complexity of the situation increases even more when we consider the few analyses conducted at the sub-regional level. Not only did the mean number of children per woman and the age-specific fertility pattern ... See full document

... Its founder, Siddharta (6 th and 5 th century BC) chose to abstain from earthly desires in order to attain spiritual enlightenment free from want, ignorance or hatred. In achieving this more peaceful and pure ... See full document

... micro-level 6 , given the income-related parental-leave benefits parents of young children receive in Sweden (for details, see the next section) (Andersson ... See full document

... Despite this overall decline in fertility levels, there has been little effect on the pace of Indian population growth 6 . The crude birth rate declined from 36.9 (per 1000) in 1971 to 25.8 in 2000 whereas the ... See full document

... Data are from the Italian National Vital Statistics Death Registry on causes of death managed by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), and from the statistics of the medical causes of death managed by the ... See full document

... Table 3 shows differences in couple resemblance by couple type estimated from Model E1 (results are weighted using household-level probability weights). For ease of discussion, we refer to “differences” in assortative ... See full document

... We reach this conclusion because (i) observed diversity in polygynous experience, both between and within cultures, is inconsistent with the notion that African polygyny can be meaningfu[r] ... See full document

... the article, in that year women in the former Soviet Union became entitled to (unpaid) childcare leave until the child's first birthday, which followed maternity leave (eight weeks in case of delivery without ... See full document

... The results in southern Africa are strikingly similar to the findings for central Africa. Model 1 demonstrates a strong positive association: each percentage increase in orphans is associated with a 6% increase in ... See full document

... in English and had response rates of about 76% in both years (National Opinion Research Center 2007, Table A.6). We combine the two years when possible to increase the number of individuals in cohabiting and LAT ... See full document

... and 6, we know, without the need for any scenario modifications at all, that given changes in the vital rates would have smaller ef- fects on the number of persons with dementia than would changes in the ... See full document

... When implementing CEM, one needs to strike a balance between too much coarsen- ing and not enough coarsening. Not enough coarsening means a lot of cases cannot be matched and will be discarded; too much coarsening means ... See full document

... Given that the long term ‘floor’ figure of 1.85 is significantly higher than the fertility Europe has experienced over the past 30 years and the recent ultra-low fertility experiences [r] ... See full document

... Evolutionary theories of aging have faced the opposition of Sacher (1978). He considered that “the implication that… organisms are mortal only because of the accumulation of adventitious senescence genes, is more easily ... 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

... 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

... This approach is based on the concept of ‘lifesaving’, and applies the stochastic model, suggested in Finkelstein (2005), that is used to explain the possible reasons for departures fr[r] ... See full document