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... This supports the substitution hypothesis (in people’s adult life the original primary ties with parents and siblings are being substituted by new ties with partner and children) rathe[r] ... See full document

... The slight upturn in fertility rates since 1999 is due, in strictly demographic terms, to two effects: the small increase in the first-order rate among Spanish women and the contribution of foreign women. The ... See full document

... In Western Europe, the decline in childlessness in the 1930-1945 cohorts is followed by a fairly pronounced rise, except in France, where it is much smaller and restricted to the 1960s cohorts. France consequently stands ... See full document

... Similarly, recent studies in the fertility domain demonstrate that intentions to have a child (in formal terms, intention to attain the behavioral goal of having a child[r] ... See full document

... We then examine sums over mutually exclusive spatiotemporal strata. (In this con- text, ‘mutually exclusive’ means that each unique record is contained in only one stra- tum.) As described above, spatiotemporal strata ... See full document

... The combined effects of a greater quantum and a reduced tempo of childbearing following a first birth for adolescent mothers result in a longer and shifted reproductive career. By observing fertility rates following a ... See full document

... groups. Second, international classifications of occupations (like HISCO) are still not available for the Italian context, and hardly reliable for the data we are studying. Most of the occupations are reported in our ... See full document

... In these Swedish data, the entropy measure g (for ages above 30) is close to 9 back to about 1945, a level reached after a gradual long-term drop from Nineteenth Century values around 13. The gradual changes in g imply ... See full document

... support networks and transfers to better understand the mechanisms through which ex- tended families cope with the epidemic and potentially alleviate some of its consequences, and to comprehend how transfers respond—or ... See full document

... There are a few additional issues related to the OCM that require attention. First, only children surviving at the time of the survey can be matched to their mothers. In developing countries and historical populations ... See full document

... Five objections are discussed: the model does not necessarily lead to a fertility increase; aggressiveness will lead to an imbalance of labor supply and demand, and is likely to confr[r] ... See full document

... But even if returning Mexican families face barriers to school enrollment, should we expect the same association in Mexico between duration of residence and school enrollment as observ[r] ... See full document

... and 8, dummy variables for time period were included (these models replicate Model 1 and 2 for the other variables), to allow for the possibility that the unobservable regional-level variables vary over time 16 ... 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

... In the case of St Petersburg, the high prevalence of disability may be attributed to a large cohort of survivors of the 1941-1944 Siege of Leningrad, many of whom legally qualify for spe[r] ... See full document

... We then discuss our projections for four countries chosen as examples of possible future trends in the gap between female and male life expectancy: continued decline in the gap for a cou[r] ... See full document