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... We examine how gender role attitudes relate to childbearing intentions at the onset of family life, intentions to have many (3 or more) children, and high personal fertility ideals amo[r] ... See full document

... The second part of our analysis is aimed at comparing and classifying family trajectories. We first compute optimal matching (OM) distances between all individual sequences using R’s TraMineR package (Gabadinho et al. ... See full document

... In many countries, there are public concerns that low fertility will lead to economic decline. Several arguments are marshaled to underline the economic threat posed by low fertility. Many studies have argued that ... See full document

... The results suggest that education and working status are most strongly associated with self-evaluated health, regardless of sex and the number of covariates entered into the models (Table 4). The risk of reporting poor ... See full document

... A duration profile of marital disruption is necessary to convert the rate of disruption at a particular point in time into a lifetime disruption rate. Given that desertions often leave no paper trail or other record ... See full document

... As firms privatized and new private firms developed, returns to skill increased. Wage dispersion brought with it widening educational and occupational differentials that imply heterogeneous experiences of the economic ... See full document

... Following Blake (1989), a person’s sibsize is defined as his or her number of siblings. Sibsize evolves over time: it increases when new brothers or sisters are born and decreases when some of them die. In all subsequent ... See full document

... The population of Niger experienced significant demographic increase as the result of the changes in the levels and trends in mortality and fertility. Mortality, especially among infants and children, decreased ... See full document

... When fertility increases in a previously stable population, the new stable population will be younger than the old one, and the two age distributions will cross at the mean age of the po[r] ... See full document

... The GGS suffers from missing data. In particular the proportion of missing data for income, positive conflict behaviour, and partner’s employment status is considerably high (20%, 15% and 19%, respectively). There ... 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

... an article which reviewed the historical research to date and combined it with contemporary statistical data, Reher (1998) has reaffirmed the validity of the original macro-regional distinction, and shown that a ... See full document

... Although they do not propose LCLE as an indicator of tempo-adjusted life expectancy, they interpret this correspondence as a piece of evidence, in the linear shift scenario, that curre[r] ... See full document

... Multivariate logit regressions revealed that fecundity and fertility intentions were not significantly associated with dropout, whereas respondents with traditional attitudes towards m[r] ... See full document

... In contrast, the evolutionary synthesis – a collaborative product of research in experimental and population genetics, natural history, and related fields of biology – followed Darwin [r] ... See full document

... We may compare this data with the results of the survey carried out in the framework of the Population Microcensus of 1994, which took place under the evident influence of the social s[r] ... See full document

... Issues of quality of care remain central in debates about family planning and provision of reproductive health services (Adeokun 1991; Blaney 1993; Brown et al. 1995; Bruce 1992; Hardon 1997; Katz et al. 1993; Lane 1994; ... See full document

... Nevertheless, research on neighborhood effects in urban India must confront the same problems as studies conducted in urban America: namely, the self- selection of individuals into neig[r] ... See full document

... Simulated standard errors for life expectancy estimates at different levels of life expectancy at birth, population size, and growth rate are presented in Appendix, Table A1.. In the t[r] ... See full document

... Figure 5: Change in the force of mortality and distribution by ages of years gained by constant period life expectancy at birth increase... Figure 6: Distribution by ages of person-years[r] ... See full document