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... of 20-34 the divorce rate for men in the military is over twice what it is for civilian men, however this gap narrows considerably after age 35 (Adler-Baeder, Pittman, and Taylor ... See full document

... Korogocho and Viwandani are located about 5-10 km from the city centre and 3 km from each other. These two settlements are home to nearly 23,000 households. The total population in the two slums grew from about ... See full document

... When men and women are asked about their ideal family size or the number of children they would like to have, the answer is seldom one child. There are many prejudices, based on the work of psychologists, child ... See full document

... In many developing countries we observe that fertility declines often come along with re- ductions in poverty. Indonesia is perhaps the most striking example of this pattern. Over the last four decades, Indonesia has ... See full document

... Rapid societal transformations also brought about anxiety and confusion in the values and norms of the society. Attitudes to, and assessments of, the observed family changes, obtained during the PPAS, reflect rather well ... See full document

... In Dakar neither female employment nor human capital has a significant effect on the likelihood of giving birth. In particular, the risk of giving birth for wage employees is not significantly different from that for ... See full document

... Most international differences, however, are found among age groups 35-64 and 65+. In comparison with the EU15, Catalan middle-aged men observed lower mortality levels throughout the four decades, as have the elderly ... See full document

... only 10% of people at risk of HIV infection have access to voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) (UNAIDS 2004) that provides the possibility for individuals to confirm their HIV ... See full document

... Third, there are significant sex differences in the patterns of leaving home. Men leave home before marriage for a job or schooling much more frequently than women (Figure 4). As a result, Japan stands out to be the only ... See full document

... These periods differ not only in the intensity of events (deaths), but also in the causes of the events. In the case of neo-natal and perinatal mortality, deaths mostly result from fetal malformation, low birth weight, ... See full document

... Preference for sons was documented by Okun (1996) in research on the fertility of Israeli Jewish females born in the countries of the Middle East. This can be treated as evidence of the presence of sex-biased attitudes ... See full document

... The framework’s second proposition (P2) posits an interaction between changes in fer- tility and family structure. The question here is whether the impact of a dual transition (in family size and structure) is the mere ... See full document

... A remaining problem with aggregate data is that the sum of individual behaviour may not necessarily reflect average individual behaviour. Hence, individual level data is a better source for impact analyses. ... See full document

... about 20 years into the forecasts some births are being produced by mothers not born in 2002, so there is increasing uncertainty in both the TFR and the size of the childbearing age population from about this ... 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

... 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

... 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

... We reach this conclusion because (i) observed diversity in polygynous experience, both between and within cultures, is inconsistent with the notion that African polygyny can be meaningfu[r] ... 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