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... During the early phases of the health and family planning programmes in India, sterilisation services were introduced only in few Indian states for men especially in large cities such [r] ... See full document

... Of course, life expectancy is a highly synthetic indicator, whose evolution can be better understood by looking at its specific components. A primary issue is sex difference, where the three countries show remarkable ... See full document

... Separate models for males and females are presented, both including individuals from age 20 and older. In the models, we control for the age at which respondents fin- ished/dropped out of school, which is ... See full document

... For our analysis, we use retrospective life-history data collected by the Mexican Migration Project in 88 Mexican communities and in selected U.S. destination areas. The communities are drawn from 14 of the 32 Mexican ... See full document

... Swedish family policy, based on the principle of equality across social classes and gender, is shown to have strengthened both the delay of entry into parenthood and the pattern of pro-cyclical fertility. Eligibility to ... See full document

... Panel A of Figure 1 shows the odds of race/ethnic endogamy by couple type and year. It shows striking evidence of a “gradient” in assortative matching, as was also evident in the descriptive statistics. Different-sex ... See full document

... accords more closely with theory (by explicitly allowing for labor-labor substitution) is a complete system of inverse labor-demand equations. This model allows for substitution paramet[r] ... See full document

... groups 20–29 and 30–45 years, as previous research indicates more pronounced negative association between economic uncertainty and fertility for women below age 30 than for older ages (see ... See full document

... Figure 1 depicts Kaplan–Meier curves representing the fraction of unmarried individuals among illegitimate children, orphans who experienced parental death before age 16 (full, maternal, and paternal), and non-orphans. ... See full document

... the 20–24 age group, and the second line the period she spent in the 25–29 age ...spent 28 months in age group 25–29, and eight months in age group 30–34; she gave birth to one child in the three years ... See full document

... When implementing CEM, one needs to strike a balance between too much coarsen- ing and not enough coarsening. Not enough coarsening means a lot of cases cannot be matched and will be discarded; too much coarsening means ... See full document

... In summary, the own-children rates appear to be the most trustworthy, cover the widest age range, and are available in the largest set of surveys and countries. Date-of- last-birth rates are strongly correlated with ... See full document

... Table 1 shows the descriptive statistics for the sample of children ages 10-16 by a dichotomous indicator of maternal age at first birth (first birth at age 19 or younger vs. first birth at age 20 or older). We ... See full document

... where ℎ is the hazard of abortion within time interval t , in episode i for individual j ; is length of time in years since age 15 or for second and higher order pregnancies since the[r] ... See full document

... Deaths come from the Mortality Information System of the Ministry of Health (SIM/Datasus). The SIM is a database that contains information about persons who died since 1979 in Brazil. Because the data are available only ... See full document

... Whereas Model 1 shows a strong positive association between the concentration of orphans and children’s school enrollment, Model 2 demonstrates that the association is curvilinear: in [r] ... See full document

... Given that the long term ‘floor’ figure of 1.85 is significantly higher than the fertility Europe has experienced over the past 30 years and the recent ultra-low fertility experiences [r] ... See full document

... Evolutionary theories of aging have faced the opposition of Sacher (1978). He considered that “the implication that… organisms are mortal only because of the accumulation of adventitious senescence genes, is more easily ... See full document

... Odds ratios from the pooled models for women’s HIV infection, a history of marriage to circumcised spouses only (as compared to those ever-married to an uncircumcised spouse), and Bala[r] ... See full document

... All in all, the study has established that a woman’s educational attainment, premarital sexual activity, premarital childbearing, type of place of residence, region of residence, relig[r] ... See full document