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... There are several reasons for revisiting the issue of historical spatial continuity in Belgium. The first one is that we now possess many more SDT indicators than could be used in the 2002 Lesthaeghe and Neels ... See full document

... Life expectancy is a bounded variable: It has asymptotic limits that result from biological features (which may only be modified, and probably only to a certain extent, much more slowly than the time frame considered ... See full document

... The estimates shown in Models 1 through 2 are consistent with Models 2 through 3 in Table 3. The effect of spousal circumcision remains significant and stable with the addition of socio-economic characteristics. This ... See full document

... Table 4, which show the estimations of a multivariate event-history model controlling for factors including age at first birth, age differences between the spouses, and children ever born, demonstrate that summary ... See full document

... Likewise, these case studies represent Buddhism across very different economic development levels in 2010: Mongolia is a relatively poor country with a GDP per head of 2,227 USD; Thailand has an intermediate economic ... See full document

... The fertility of immigrants has not been studied much in Sweden, but the few important exceptions (Andersson 2004b; Andersson and Scott 2005) show that period fertility trends of Swedish-born and immigrant women have ... See full document

... Unsurprisingly the results were also sensitive to the fertility trajectory assumed. Given that a number of analysts have commented on the possible future of fertility in India, and that official forecasts have often been ... 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

... Table 3 shows the results of the regression analysis with separate models for age groups 20–29 and 30–45 years, as previous research indicates more pronounced negative association between economic uncertainty and ... See full document

... (Hypothesis 4) married earlier than the non-bereaved control ...(Hypothesis 4) even predicted the opposite effect of what was observed for male children in this ... See full document

... By contrast, Central and Eastern Europe has demonstrated prevailingly negative, or in part non-positive, association between women's educational attainment and second birth intensities. This finding appears common in ... 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

... As compared to second-generation women, third-generation women in the earlier period had a higher risk of a recent birth and higher cumulative fertility as compared to non-Hispanic whi[r] ... See full document

... Classifying children and their fathers by single year of age is not straightforward when they do not share the same household or the father is deceased. For these unmatched children the father’s age must be estimated. ... 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

... In contrast to the urban adult mortality disadvantage we identify in our SSA data, the empirical literature has been mostly consistent in showing that child mortality is lower in urban areas across much of SSA (Akoto and ... See full document

... All of these approaches produce linear projections that are simple modifications of the basic models (4)–(8). There is also a tradition of theories that model migration as a function of population size, distance, ... See full document

... The level of education was measured at the age of 30‒34 and categorized as basic (45%), lower secondary (28%), upper secondary (14%), and tertiary (14%). The basic level refers to nine years or less of general ... See full document

... where ℎ is the hazard of abortion within time interval t , in episode i for individual j ; is length of time in years since age 15 or for second and higher order pregnancies since the[r] ... 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