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... While the number of deaths is not recorded quite precisely in Brazil, the discrepancies shown in this article are large enough to suggest the centenarian population is exaggerated in the census. The consequences ... See full document

... Table 3 reports the responses in terms of number of beans to the questions about going to the market, experiencing a food shortage, having to rely on family members, infant mortality, be[r] ... See full document

... Furthermore, I construct a time-varying covariate of schooling to higher education, i.e., four-year university or two-year junior college. In the absence of retrospective educational histories, I manipulate the calendar ... See full document

... To evaluate accuracy of individual’s subjective perceptions about HIV infection, we use two measures of risk perception from the MDICP-3: worry of AIDS infection (“How worried are you [r] ... See full document

... the national mean. Successive declines in mortality and fertility occurred in Catalonia before most other Spanish regions (i.e. the first DT). In addition, until the 1960s, life expectancy was consistently higher and ... See full document

... Contrary to prior assumption, not being involved in economic activity is not conducive to higher chances of fertility, since inactivity in Lomé is not significantly associated with hig[r] ... See full document

... In Lithuania, the migration flows of the population and the ongoing family transformation are important demographic determinants of decreased fertility. Since the middle of the previous decade, matrimonial and ... See full document

... This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between fertility and poverty for Indonesia, a country which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and sharp fertility decline over recent decades. We ... See full document

... this article we attempt to determine who are the women and men who have only one child, by identifying the most significant criteria: What is the role of the biological or physiological factors related to late ... See full document

... A variety of parametric models pre- senting the fertility rates as a function of age have been proposed in order to describe the age-specific fertility pattern.. Some of them provide nic[r] ... See full document

... (Germany), 20-21 April 2007, at the XXI Conference of the European Society for Population Economics held at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago (USA), 14-16 June 2007, at the BHPS Conference at the ... See full document

... When analysing counts data specific to geographical locations, classical empirical rates or standardised mortality ratios may produce estimates that show a very high level of overdispe[r] ... See full document

... Women’s employment increases their independence and, as a result, the risk of marital disruption, whether by overthrowing traditional marriage norms, by facilitating divorce[r] ... See full document

... MicMac focuses on European countries and populations, which is one reason why studies on ethnicities have been excluded from our literature review. However, since there are not enough studies focusing on our topic, we ... See full document

... this article discusses whether this reduction in rates of motherhood among young adults reflects a novel shift in the starting age of childbearing, an emerging retreat from universal childbearing, or a combination ... 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

... They found that TFR decreased almost entirely by quantum decline, as the tempo effect only accounted for TFR change through a peak in the 3−4 worst years of the economic crisis that hit the country between 1998 and 2004 ... See full document

... In three high fertility populations (the Ache in Paraguay, the Hadza in Tanzania and the Hutterites of North America) mean lifetime reproductive output is, unsurprisingly, higher than in[r] ... See full document

... Our interpretation of this result is that, in light of the continuous and steep increase in cohort childlessness rates in Italy among women around and over 40 years old (Figure 3), any p[r] ... See full document

... Third, because Chow and Chen (1994) found that Chinese women actively seek upward social mobility in the marriage market in contemporary China, the female occupational hypergamy speci[r] ... See full document