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... (Zhang and Vaupel 2008: equation (3)), motivated by data for Japanese females in 1950, 1970 and 1990, Zhang and Vaupel discuss implications of the existence of a unique root of k, a so-called “threshold age”, for ... See full document

... We run a series of sensitivity analyses to test the robustness of the results. First, we run linear probability models on child overweight/obesity. The results, presented in Appendix Table A-3, reveal associations ... See full document

... Figure 3 illustrates the relation between log(c) and the life expectancy at birth (center panel), and at age 60 years (right panel), when there is a 30% decrease in the log-linear slope at ages above 85 ...Figure ... See full document

... A major result of our analysis is that the factors that are conducive to in-migration are the same (with some exceptions) that are conducive to out-migration in the slums. How can the same factors be both attractive and ... See full document

... representative the African and Latin American origin groups in the analytic sample are relative to the overall and excluded samples, Table S-1 in the online appendix shows the distributions of the variables of interest ... See full document

... Figure A-1 in the Appendix illustrates how the necessary information is collected. In order to obtain the information needed, individuals have to be observed over a period of at least three years (in the following called ... See full document

... When the control variables were entered, the positive effects of family-centered, disintegrated, and polarized networks, compared to family-remote networks, remain stable. The fact that the positive effect of ... See full document

... In most countries of this region, shares of women with three or more children were slowly and steadily declining throughout almost the whole period of observation (Figure 3, Panel D). There were a few exceptions. ... See full document

... In analysing fertility behaviour we have to distinguish between western and eastern German couples. Following the reunification of Germany, the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) adopted the political system of the ... See full document

... Hypothesis 2: Double-veto power effect. To test this hypothesis, I compared the fit of a model with a linear specification of both partners’ combined desires in which disagreement had a score midway between agreement on ... See full document

... Figure 3 shows that at any given time the ratio increases with age. For younger ages it is below one, indicating that changes at those ages have more impact on cohort than period life expectancy. With mortality ... See full document

... and 3 = three or more ...(= 3) was used for those who did not provide information on this question (no imputation was performed, as there are more missing cases than parental ...and 3 = 1965–1972) ... See full document

... But with event history analysis, a mixed-methods approach, and sources like the East and Central African libri status animarum , they open the way to the ‘long view’ of population ch[r] ... See full document

... Regardless of the forecasting approach adopted, accuracy should be a major criterion for any forecast worthy of the name. To test the predictive power of a model, we calculate ex ante projections based on a proportion of ... See full document

... As indicated in Condition 1, B is high if either b is high or a+c is low. For humans, b, the rate of deterioration with age, is low compared with many other species and the value of a+c is very low. Hence B is high ... See full document

... This is done by using a logistic regression model that is designed to capture (i) the association between years of schooling and women's age at union formation;[r] ... See full document

... Today and in the coming decades, the children born into this climate of strong son preference are reaching adulthood. According to the United Nations population projections for China, there were 106 men aged 15-49 for ... 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

... 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