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... formal care facilities. Former research about grandparents and child care shows that, in addition to individual characteristics of grandparents, parents and children, contextual factors such as the availability of formal ... See full document

... Figure 4 shows the evolution of the median age of the US population and two prospective median ages using the UN assumptions about the course of future mortality ... See full document

... The ERFI survey can be used to test the effect of further variables relating to the couple (such as the age gap between partners or the union order) and socialization during childhood (whether spent with both parents), ... 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

... initiating the first birth fertility decline. Second, our results from the interactions of calendar period with age of mother and with birth order clearly showed that although the decline occurs at all ages and at all ... See full document

... In Figure 2, the same association is shown for a given country; in other words, this figure examines how the relationship between gender equality and fertility has covaried within a society (for readability I show period ... See full document

... To take another example that will be discussed later in this paper, medical reports in the 1920s already pointed out the suspected links between tobacco and cancers, and a 1938 article in the journal Science ... See full document

... Figure 4 shows that over the 1959–1976 birth cohorts, a divergence occurred between the two countries concerning an entry into motherhood during ...Kingdom 4 ) and the liberalisation of access to ... See full document

... Fertility in Colombia, as in many other developing countries, follows a long-term decline that is the product of a combination of increasing education, declining mortality rates, and economic growth (Bongaarts and ... 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 ... See full document

... The situation might have changed by the late 19 th century. While the Church was, for a period at least, stubborn in defending the quamprimum principle, many doctors began to stress the dangers of early baptism (see also ... See full document

... The two leading behavioral risk factors in the United States, smoking and obesity, did not emerge as separate factors in the analysis. The identification of smoking and obesity as separate factors may have been prevented ... See full document

... The data for male and female life expectancy at birth in these 158 countries for the pe- riod 1950-2010 are shown in Figure 1. We note several patterns: both male and female life expectancy at birth have been increasing ... See full document

... The trend in the mean age at first marriage evolved in parallel with the trend in period first marriage rates. Marriage postponement started shortly after the onset of the decline in first marriage rates; countries that ... See full document

... Figures 4–5), but in terms of net flows the help given and received are approximately balanced and results in a relatively insignificant re-allocation of resources between ... See full document

... reduces first birth rates at all ages (except for age 40–44). However, the greatest impact is found at younger ages. The first explanation could be that young people can more easily revise their fertility plans. The ... See full document

... Overall, extra-martial childbearing is much less prevalent in Israel than in other developed countries, although the phenomenon is on the increase. Immigrants from the FSU show an increase in the percentage of unmarried ... 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

... 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

... 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