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... This paper introduced the SPACE program, which is a collection of SAS® programs to estimate MSLT functions and their variances from simple as well as complex survey data, and demonstra[r] ... See full document

... (row 6),which messages will on average contain short texts with five or fewer words in at least 75% of all messages (row 7), and which participants will receive responses to at least 25% of all messages within one ... 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

... The higher and faster growing childlessness among men than among women suggests that multi-partner fertility must be on the rise, and this is confirmed by our analyses. (Figure 6). The trends across cohorts for ... See full document

... In Armenia, a decrease in the crude mortality rate is still observed in the years following Independence (Figure 6). This could be related to deterioration in death registration that was not clear from the death ... See full document

... Panels B and C of Figure 6 show that urban couples differed significantly from rural couples in the odds of marrying a partner with less education. Differences lay in the magnitude and timing of the decline, ... See full document

... A caveat on this and later interpretations of the data, is our inability to assess the separate effects of fertility, mortality, migration, and ethnic self-definition on ethnic balances. We have no ethnospecific data on ... See full document

... The following problem has been posed by several European Academies of Sciences, in particular in the ASA, in the context of a clear aging trend: How can we counteract this trend, while making only minor changes to the ... See full document

... These two series of research successfully documented the mortality deceleration at old ages in humans and a number of non-human animal species. Given that the Gompertz and Makeham models do not capture this important ... See full document

... Figure 6 compares the main findings from the cross-sectional and longitudinal regressions. The heavier solid and dashed lines represent the average regression lines from the fixed effects models for sub-Saharan ... See full document

... Table 6 show that never-married and widowed singles are more likely than those with a partner to move very close to parents, but these moves are not significantly more likely than moves elsewhere (see first row of ... See full document

... Despite these alarming suicide patterns and trends, scholarly and policy efforts to systematically investigate the causes and consequences of suicide in Korea have only recently emerged (Ha 2011), resulting in an ... See full document

... A more problematic aspect, however, is that, in spite of improved statistical bulletins and data processing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there were deficiencies in MNP coverage. An INE survey (1987) revealed the ... See full document

... Migration status: Migration status may influence women’s fertility preferences and behaviors through processes of socialization and adaptation, thus we include indicators for first-generation migrant origin, ... See full document

... Information on maternal and paternal nonstandard work was collected at 9 months. Parents who reported being in paid work were asked to state the frequency they worked each type of nonstandard work schedule: evening ... 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

... Our interest here is the relationship between orphans and the head of the household in which they reside, and studies have tended to rely theoretically on Hamilton’s rule. The theory emerges from evolutionary biology and ... See full document

... fact that there may also be externalities associated with letting the remaining population keep the money and with the parents’ lifestyle beyond the additional childbearing, and there [r] ... See full document

... They show that partnership duration prior to household formation is clearly and positively related to union stability: the longer the non-coresidential partnership period, the lower th[r] ... See full document

... A number of scholars have recently argued that policies which help women combine work and family (i.e. state supported parental leave and collective child care), produce better results[r] ... See full document