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... There is thus evidence that results from the PGW method for females differ from some other published estimates in terms of smoking-attributable mortality overall and by age. This article presents a modified ... See full document

... rate. 14 The household theory of fertility shows that an increase in women’s income reduces their fertility, while an increase in men’s income increases the household’s ... See full document

... Longitudinal data and a life course approach were used to test the interdependency of the timing between childbearing and migration events (Courgeau 1989; Courgeau and Lelievre 2006; Kulu and Milewski 2007; Milewski ... See full document

... The life table results indicate that educational differences in parental separation first appeared in the 1980s, as a result of increased levels of instability among more disadvantaged families that were matched in the ... See full document

... As mentioned in Section 2, in order to tackle the endogeneity of living arrangement we apply the instrumental variable (IV) method to identify the causal effect of living arrangement on female labor supply. A valid ... See full document

... Two approaches were used to estimate the constant K, a direct life table calculation based on numerical integration of the right side of (9), and an approach relying on the relation K = −h(κ )β −1 for a Gompertz ... See full document

... The hitherto existing literature shows that investment in education leads to postponement of first births (Happel, Hill, and Low 1984; Cigno and Ermisch 1989; Gustafsson 2001; Lappegård and Rønsen 2005). For older ... See full document

... For women whose cohabitational union is, for example, converted into a marriage in the third year of the union, the combined- union TFR is obtained by accumulating the TFRs for the firs[r] ... See full document

... Because the earliest marriage cohort in the data is 1979 and the most recent year of data is 2002, we can observe divorces registered up to twenty-three years after they occurred (Note 4). Our counts become progressively ... See full document

... The packages cover the estimation of multistate models (transition rates and transition probabilities), multistate life tables, multistate population projections, and microsimulation..[r] ... See full document

... Compared with all other education groups, mothers with some college have the highest rates of labor force participation, but also high rates of part-time employment, non-standard work,[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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... an article in The Lancet that called for universal testing in developing countries (Bunnell and Chrutich 2008), James Shelton concludes that the effects of VCT on sexual behavior have been modest (Shelton ... 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

... 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 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