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... If we pose these or similar questions and challenge the myths of low fertility and all the other myths based on it, we will never end up proposing fertility-enhancing policies as a mea[r] ... See full document

... Relationships (16) and (17) provide an approximate estimate of how period gains in life expectancy are transformed on a cohort basis. Consider individuals that were born in 2010 in a country with a period life expectancy ... See full document

... Kinship and kinship structures appear in diverse applications throughout demog- raphy (and, although it is not the focus here, population biology; see Tanskanen and Danielsbacka 2019). To cite just a few examples, ... See full document

... Figure 3 gives a synthetic view of the changes that took place in Niger since the late 1970s. It shows the different ages at which each parity is reached at the beginning and the end of the time period considered in the ... See full document

... The estimated proportion of each cohort ending in marital disruption, , is presented in Table 3, in columns (3) and (4), and in Figure 4 (baseline estimate). Given that the estimation inevitably contains some error, a ... See full document

... We use unique longitudinal data from the System of Social Statistical Datasets (SSD), compiled by Statistics Netherlands (see Bakker, van Rooijen, and van Toor 2014). The SSD was constructed by linking several registers ... See full document

... If selection processes do not fully account for the relationship between teen childbearing and subsequent smoking, what potential mediators could explain this association (Figure 1, paths D–F)? Teen motherhood is a ... See full document

... Informal relations (consensual unions) at the start of living together have the temporary character of a trial marriage for the majority. After some period of time for many couples the relationship becomes fully ... See full document

... of 10 respondents (four Poles and six Pakistanis), diverse in demographic characteristics, to scope out the likely network sizes we might expect during the main stage of ... See full document

... As discussed in connection with education, the division of household work is an important aspect of gender equality which has been shown to influence fertility. In my analysis based on data extracted from the Hungarian ... See full document

... compared to that of a native male with a comparable formal education, using sample means. The degree to which between-group differences in the combined effect of formal education, gender and linguistic distance are ... See full document

... In contrast to previous work, we consider indicators of unabridged life tables. We also study the estimates for abridged life table calculations based on the age groups 0, 1, 5, 10, ..., 85+ years. However both ... 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

... In all models for men, not exercising is associated with a higher chance of reporting poor health (about two times). Once education is allowed for, the association becomes insignifican[r] ... 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

... When class is specified only when women are participating in the market, women in the lowest class had the greatest decline in relative risks during the economic crisis (0.32 vs. the n[r] ... See full document

... The marginal percentages distributions in Table 1 illustrate the changes in educational attainment for husbands and wives in this study. In general, the educational distribution changed substantially for both women and ... 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

... Table A-7 (in the Appendix) describes the distribution of the outcome variables as well as the average dissimilarities. It shows that there are only minor differences between men and women in terms of the average values. ... See full document

... this article is to investigate whether the size of the family of orientation was indeed associated with the upward or downward mobility chances of adult children in a historical population undergoing the ... See full document