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... recent article, Torri and Vaupel (2012) acknowledge that the trend may have changed and they estimate the increase in life expectancy since 1900 rather than ... See full document

... In summary, while recognizing the limitations of this approach due to the lack a de- tailed quantitative measurement of transfers, our analyses in Figure 6 suggest that net non-financial transfers are relatively ... See full document

... were and continue to be very small, so as not to increase public spending. Significantly, they have only been inflation-adjusted once since they were instituted, and therefore their purchasing power and the protection ... See full document

... In brief, unmarried and married mothers are currently more alike in terms of sociodemographic characteristics than in the past and, hence, we expect to find a weakening of the association between maternal marital status ... See full document

... This article employs multiple systems estimation to estimate violent mortality, a category that includes both direct killings and forced disappearances, among Salvadorans from 1980 to ... See full document

... As highlighted in Section 3.3, I have defined adolescent mothers as those having had their first child aged 18 years old or younger. A sensitivity analysis was run to ensure that the results presented in this study are ... See full document

... Union breakdown was still relatively uncommon among the people born between 1931 and 1940: Only 20% of their first union ended in breakdown after 30 years. However, more than half of first unions broke down after ... See full document

... In what follows below, we replicate Finer’s Kaplan–Meier estimates of cohort trends in premarital sex for NSFG women born 1939–1948, 1949–1958, 1959–1968, 1969– 1978, and 1979–1988 at exact ages 15, 18, 20, 25, ... See full document

... the 20 th century, Dalla- Zuanna (2010) came across a case of delayed baptism, discussed by the priests in the course of one of their regular ...the 20 th century in Padua, for the church authorities, ... See full document

... Figures 4a and 4b display the values of life expectancies at age 60 under three different scenarios for the two countries that produce extreme results, Argentina and Guatemala. At the beginning of the period under ... See full document

... The information in Table 4 is also useful for examining the effects of EU expansions in 2004 and 2007. Overall, we find that most countries in the EU/EFTA exhibited lower levels of retention in 2007 compared to 2002, ... See full document

... Newlywed couples in arranged marriages do not seem to have different profile similarity indexes than those in love marriages, save for when the sample is restricted to only those of Kyrg[r] ... See full document

... this article we attempt to determine who are the women and men who have only one child, by identifying the most significant criteria: What is the role of the biological or physiological factors related to late ... See full document

... Migration is more common among female youth (significant in Heckmann probit models predicting provision of support among current migrants, non-significant trend in event- history mod[r] ... See full document

... Deaths come from the Mortality Information System of the Ministry of Health (SIM/Datasus). The SIM is a database that contains information about persons who died since 1979 in Brazil. Because the data are available only ... See full document

... We look, in particular, for causes of death associated with four behavioral risk factors: smoking, obesity, alcohol abuse, and illicit drug use.. Obesity is not technically a behaviora[r] ... See full document

... We thus expect that frequent migrants had higher risks of union disruption in the Soviet period than they had in the transition period and this effect resulted from the differen[r] ... See full document

... What happens if the conditioning on survival to mid-adult ages is dropped and variable increments to life are substituted for the constant increment to life used in the Bongaarts-Feene[r] ... See full document

... In the case of a constant annual increase in life expectancy at birth, the prospective median age derived from period life tables always lies above that created using cohort life table[r] ... See full document

... In addition to the TFRs, age-and parity-specific fertility rates (ASFRS and PSFRS) are calculated and plotted by calendar year in order to find out whether the change in fertility [r] ... See full document