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... In this article we seek to shed light on why some species senesce and others sustain. We show that if senescence is captured by an increase in mortality over adult ages, then in a simple model evolution favors ... See full document

... The regression analysis (Table 3) provides evidence that every period after 1990 has significantly lower second-birth risks. Compared to the period before 1990, in 1990–1994 the relative risk for a second birth is 31% ... See full document

... protsessov RA 1991-1998 [Study of the processes of external migration in Armenia 1991-1998]. Yerevan: Ministry of Statistics and Eurostat [Armenia].. a) Column (4) gives linear estimat[r] ... See full document

... in union – almost 20% lower than Honduras, the country with the second lowest recorded rate. Across Guatemala’s eight political regions significant variation in contraceptive use complicates a straight-forward ... See full document

... Accounting for overall score differences on the LMUP by parity, primaparous women were least likely to have used contraception at last pregnancy (item one), particularly compared to mu[r] ... See full document

... this article is to describe the statistical association between siblings and human capital, after controlling for other variables (year at birth, social class, ...this article, an instrumental variable ... See full document

... The sensitivity of population growth rate to changes in the vital rates can be written in terms of the stable stage or age distribution and the reproductive value distribution.. If the v[r] ... See full document

... Therefore, the use of prenatal strategies as measured by sex ratios at birth, and/or women’s fertility behavior at low parities as measured by contraceptive use or parity progression, [r] ... See full document

... This paper attempts to isolate the causal link of income on health status and subjective well-being for the rural population in Malawi using three waves of household panel data spannin[r] ... See full document

... This paper has investigated the reproductive behaviour of Italian women who underwent a marital dissolution while at fecund ages, using data updated to 2003. Two main issues were explo[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

... Since parish registers do not provide the accurate information that is required to conduct an analysis of the direct effects of endogenous and exogenous causes, this paper focuses on t[r] ... See full document

... The success of our method in forecasting incomplete cohort fertility might lead us to make a bold suggestion that future research along these lines purely and simply focus on the projection of quantum. In this paper we ... See full document

... A study using data from the United States reported that economic deprivation in the neighborhood did not affect the risk of divorce once couple-level resources were controlled for (Sou[r] ... See full document

... 12 In multivariate analyses, we include a flag variable for cases in which we use a child’s race/ethnicity as a proxy for the father’s race/ethnicity; this flag is associated with grea[r] ... See full document

... In this article, we examine data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) dealing with the prevalence and characteristics of asexual persons. Our research highlights the measurement and interpretation ... See full document

... Finally, as with any panel study, sample attrition is an important consideration. Overall, 17% of individuals who were age-eligible (75 and younger) for the 2000 interview were lost to follow-up between 1991 and 2000. ... See full document

... Understanding the extent and patterns of migration is vital for the success of any intervention programs seeking to improve the wellbeing of slum dwellers. For instance, interventions should take into account the extent ... See full document

... We uncovered some hints that this ambivalence in the discourse about testing may be diminishing. We decomposed all the journals into those written between 1999 and 2005 and those written between 2006 and 2009 after ... See full document

... We hypothesize that among people in a place and period with better access to means of mass transport the positive effect of social status on the distance between the places of birth o[r] ... See full document