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... This second type of within-country inequality is the focus of this article. In the first of three main sections we use DHS data from across SSA in order to highlight the scale of within-country differences in HIV ... 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

... We identify distinct scales of global aggregation, and in particular, we show that for the values of disparate neighbor comfort threshold used by Schelling, the striking global aggrega- [r] ... See full document

... Moreover, the decrease in CTFRs was slower and more regular in the regions of northern and central Italy, where the cohorts born in the early 1930s already had low fertility levels.. I[r] ... See full document

... A Danish study from 2003 compared pregnant women seeking induced abortion with pregnant women attending antenatal care and found similar associations between previous births and the ch[r] ... See full document

... In any case, (9a) indicates that remaining life expectancy will rise, stay constant or fall depending on whether the force of mortality exceeds, equals, or is less than the inverse of re[r] ... See full document

... This paper examines the relationship between men’s temporary international labour migration from Tajikistan and their spouses’ fertility. There is an established literature examining the links between spatial mobility ... See full document

... The Dutch lack of concern about low fertility may partly be explained by the fact that the Dutch public and government were concerned about the prospect of overpopulation in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Coleman and ... See full document

... In the 1994 survey, children born to mothers who had completed secondary education experienced 39 percent lower mortality, in the 1999 survey they experienced 57 percent lower mortalit[r] ... See full document

... The daily total numbers of deaths, as well as the number of deaths in selected age groups and social classes, were related to the daily average temperatures using regression models for[r] ... See full document

... In the stable population, constant vital rates yield (linear) exponential growth in the number of births, while in the metastable model net maternity that increases exponentially over ag[r] ... See full document

... The inclusion of the aggregate proportion of women in the labor market in one of the models provided mixed results, since the effect of the indicator for childcare availability lost it[r] ... See full document

... of their partner's wish for a child early in the relationship than young parents, while young couples agreed implicitly more often on having children.. This probably implies that older[r] ... See full document

... In the Cal-QOL sample, heterosexual women in LAT relationships are much less likely to live with a minor child compared to married or cohabiting women, but in the GSS sample there are [r] ... See full document

... To this purpose, we analyse and compare the geographical patterns of the infant mortality rate and the mortality rates for leading causes of death with those found for the vul[r] ... See full document

... In populations thought not to be affected by migration, the optimal strategy appears to be to apply the General Growth Balance method (fitting to the age range 5+ to 65+) to estimate c[r] ... See full document

... The incidence of cohabitation in this social group is still lower, and the consensual unions formed by the better educated are shorter; nonetheless, we found a clear in[r] ... See full document

... The interviews with national leaders included five main sections: (1) the history of the religious organization in Malawi and an overview of its organizational structure; (2) doctrinal[r] ... See full document

... Our analyses indicate that the LNS was able to trace the large majority of sexual relationships reported by survey respondents: for example, when a survey respondent reported that his/he[r] ... See full document

... In contrast, the evolutionary synthesis – a collaborative product of research in experimental and population genetics, natural history, and related fields of biology – followed Darwin [r] ... See full document