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... There was potential evidence of an effect of the pandemic on late-life mortality when we excluded three Commonwealth countries with apparently spurious data – England and Wales, New Zealand, and Canada – from the ... See full document

... Korea provides a unique setting to enhance our understanding of suicide and its implications for population health, for two reasons. First, Korea has a unique history of rapid economic development along with significant ... See full document

... Italy 1985-2003, Russia and Bulgaria 1985-2004, Romania 1985-2005, and Poland 1985-2006. Except for Poland, all cohorts that can be observed in 1985 and later are observed at all ages between 15 and 35. For the other ... See full document

... A plot of the ASFR for countries from each of the above categories reveals some differences in the age pattern of fertility among African countries. Figure 1 shows the five-year age pattern of fertility for Egypt, ... See full document

... As Kohler, Billari, and Ortega (2002) point out, Italy was, together with Spain, the first country to reach the threshold of so-called lowest-low fertility, i.e., below 1.3 children per woman. It is well established that ... See full document

... In order to test this relationship, we devised logistic competing-risk models with the outcome of marriage to women who were either literate or illiterate. The dependent variable indicates whether a man who underwent a ... See full document

... This study used three data sources to answer the research questions. First, we carried out a survey among Dutch employers. A random sample of companies in the Netherlands was drawn from the trade register of the Chamber ... See full document

... While we did not have the messages’ content or recipient information, we were nonetheless still able to glean a great deal of usage information regarding message and group statistics. The first type of information ... See full document

... The 1880 Census data were used to run the weights imputation and spatial allocation model for Hamilton County, Ohio. This county was chosen based on its stable boundaries over time and the fact that it was coextensive ... See full document

... arguably for much of the later Ottoman period. Serbs displaced from Kosovo during World War II were initially forbidden to return after 1945 in order to placate the Albanian population. The lower Serbian birth rate and ... See full document

... However, since these younger members would have longer durations of membership, their recruitment would lead to an unwanted decrease in the number of elections per year, given the fixed [r] ... See full document

... this article we argue that addressing the effects of aging is best done in a framework that takes both pension age and labor force participation rate policies into ... See full document

... The upper panels of Figure 3 graph this result. The age-specific transition rate of entry into first marriage as predicted probabilities over age is highest for the ages 27 and 28. The t[r] ... See full document

... Newlywed couples in arranged marriages do not seem to have different profile similarity indexes than those in love marriages, save for when the sample is restricted to only those of Kyrg[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 ... See full document

... the 20 th century, Spain had one of the highest fertility levels in Europe and was a laggard country regarding fertility decline, but in the early 1990s it became a forerunner in lowest-low fertility, exhibiting ... 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

... al. article: “…their—and our—results might be best interpreted in the following way: some measures of gender egalitarianism in some countries appear to be positively associated with higher fertility, while other ... See full document

... Arthur Roger Thatcher, CB, died in London on February 13, 2010, at 83 years of age. He was actively engaged in demographic research until his death. One of his last papers, The Compression of Deaths above the Mode, is ... See full document

... The immigrant population in Norway, comprising immigrants and their descendants, has gradually increased from 1% in the early 1970s to 15% today (Statistics Norway 2016). It is expected to continue to increase quite ... See full document