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... Another way of looking at postconception first marriages is to ask what proportion of all women experienced one by age 35. Table 3a shows that for white women, if we compare within cohort, the lower a woman’s education, ... See full document

... What is the quantitative impact of age structure on the regional crude disability rate? We can answer this question by looking at the regional effect regressions using group data, presented in Table 5. The coefficients ... See full document

... This study analyzes longitudinal data from the BHPS and UKHLS. These data are unique in providing individual-level information on home ownership within households. The analysis[r] ... See full document

... Using data from all countries and periods, there is a negative cross-sectional relationship between fertility and WPEI (model 1). When introducing controls for period trends (and falling fertility) comparing data points ... See full document

... used. 6 The assumptions underlying the Goldstein-Wachter results are simplifications that are sometimes closer and sometimes farther from observed patterns of mortality ... See full document

... The portion of Figure 6 to the left of the vertical (dotted line) at x = −1 is even more surprising. The idea that events occurring in successive cohorts may be moved to earlier ages so rapidly that the period ... See full document

... We replicate Finer’s single-decrement Kaplan–Meier estimates of premarital sex using Cycles 3–6 of the National Survey of Family Growth, the same data as analyzed by him. We then contrast such single-decrement ... See full document

... 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 provided and having received ... See full document

... The total number of observations that we used to construct the regional variables is 15170, but differs considerably between regions, ranging from 6 to 1162, with a mean of 205 respondents aged 55 and older per ... See full document

... This article proposes a systematic investigation of the role played by traditional social institutions in marriage and fertility decision-making in post-communist ... See full document

... A more sophisticated approach is to overlay specific t-values (e.g., +/- 1.96) as isolines (or contour lines) on top of the parameter estimate surface (see Figure 2). 6 The isolines can be defined for any set of ... See full document

... births; 6 we have consequently used the estimates in Toulemon (2001), which are based on the results of the survey carried out in conjunction with the 1999 ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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