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... Five objections are discussed: the model does not necessarily lead to a fertility increase; aggressiveness will lead to an imbalance of labor supply and demand, and is likely to confr[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 are ... See full document

... EDSN data follows similar methodological procedures and choices. Women with inconsistent birth histories (i.e., more than 25 years between age 10 and a first birth or birth intervals of less than 8 months or more ... See full document

... The U.S. data come from the 2003-2007 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a nationally representative cross-sectional time-use survey launched in 2003 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The ATUS interviews a ... See full document

... predated 8 months before the actual birth of the ...censored 8 months before the interview to allow for the possibility that they had a second child shortly following 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

... Throughout the 1970s, the level of fertility in Russia remained more or less stable. At the same time, a remarkable process of change in the age pattern of fertility was occurring which, as is well-known, resulted in ... See full document

... in the effects of birth outcomes. However, as Wilcox and Russell (1983) and others have argued, standardization by conventional means, such as using the white birth weight distribution or another single standard, will ... See full document

... In these Swedish data, the entropy measure g (for ages above 30) is close to 9 back to about 1945, a level reached after a gradual long-term drop from Nineteenth Century values around 13. The gradual changes in g imply ... See full document

... This supports the substitution hypothesis (in people’s adult life the original primary ties with parents and siblings are being substituted by new ties with partner and children) rathe[r] ... See full document

... But even if returning Mexican families face barriers to school enrollment, should we expect the same association in Mexico between duration of residence and school enrollment as observ[r] ... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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