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... classic volume on old age by Rosow (1967), and his observation that the most significant problems of older adults are intrinsically social, forms the starting point of the present ... See full document

... records. 7 Even if the bias caused by these classification errors is not as visible as in France, Spanish civil records do tend to under-estimate childlessness by several percentage points (approximately 4 points, ... See full document

... Model 7 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 ... See full document

... Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Lindberg, S.I., Skaaning, S.-E., Teorell, J., Altman, D., Bernhard, M., Fish, M.S., Glynn, A., Hicken, A., Knutsen, C.H., Krusell, J., Lührmann, A., Marquardt, K.L., McMann, K., Mechkova, V., ... See full document

... More specifically, we use quantile regression to explore whether the better perinatal health status of children of immigrant mothers that has been consistently documented for a number [r] ... See full document

... According to the latest data available, in 2004 there were 216,149 couples who married in Spain, i.e., 55,200 fewer than the 271,347 recorded at the 20th century peak reached in 1975. In this same period, the total ... 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

... The explanation for this discrepancy is evidently the age variation in increments to life shown Figures 3 and 4. The Bongaarts-Feeney mortality tempo adjustment is derived on the assumption that increments to life are ... See full document

... Most of the other causes of death that are heavily loaded on Factor 1 are also closely associated with smoking: COPD, oral cancers, ischemic heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease. Such a pattern accords with our ... 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

... The dependent variables in Tables 6–7 are the net financial and net non-financial transfers given to living adult children (LAC) aged 15 and over that are calculated as the sum of the gross transfers (having ... See full document

... In most countries, attitudes in favor of gender equality and high fertility intentions may be negatively correlated, but, from one country to the next, the mean ideal family size and e[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

... 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

... 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

... the article, the unexpected positive effect of women‘s high education in Southern Europe boils down to a strong time-squeeze effect, which in the event history models may more than compensate for the lowest ... See full document

... Even when we model a 50% increase in current rates of switching, tilting even more in favor of religious disaffiliation, the unaffiliated share of the world’s population would still be[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

... Our dependent variable is where the focal child lives: with the mother (mother sole custody), with both parents (shared residence), or with the father (father sole custody). The following interview question was used to ... See full document