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... 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

... Columns (1)–(4) include the 54 couples that provided identical responses to the personality statements; columns (5)–(8) exclude them. Columns (1) and (5) do not control for demographics. In columns (2) and (6), we ... See full document

... records. 7 Even if the bias caused by these classification errors is not as visible as in France, Spanish civil records do tend to under-estimate childlessness by several percentage points (approximately 4 points, ... 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

... In this paper, we use a unique dataset from rural Malawi that includes respondents’ HIV status as well as their subjective assessment of currently being infected with HIV. These data show that 12% of rural Malawian men ... See full document

... This article documents the levels and trends of childlessness among young adult women in 16 Latin American countries between 1970 and 2000 with data from four waves of population ...The article focuses ... See full document

... The processes of widening and narrowing of sex differentials during the 20 th century varied from place to place. However, since the focus of this paper is on mortality sex differentials in the Jewish population ... See full document

... In the past decades the literature has focused on social and economic determinants of the risk of divorce. Age at marriage is one of the strongest predictors of marital dissolution (Antoine and Dial 2005; Tilson and ... See full document

... tion (58)). Later, Coale considered a wide range of life tables and estimated that, when the difference in r between the two stable populations is less than .02, the exact value of the crossing age exceeds the ... 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 53,000 in ... See full document

... Table 4 tells us what happens with the children who are born in a union, which in all countries is the dominating group of children, when it comes to their experience of any dissolution of their family of origin. The ... See full document

... Why start with this version? Quite simply because it is the version on which, to our knowledge, researchers first worked. In fact, one has to wait until 1874 for Becker to propose the complete diagram “time and moment of ... See full document

... In fact, both TFR and PATFR, and its components by birth order, are affected by annual changes in the mean age at birth. Thus, we introduce another measure, TFRp*, to describe potential tempo distortions in the results ... 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

... 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 take another example that will be discussed later in this paper, medical reports in the 1920s already pointed out the suspected links between tobacco and cancers, and a 1938 article in the journal Science ... 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

... Application of these concepts to the 2004 life tables of the United States population and eight subpopulations shows that usually the younger the age at which survival falls to half (the[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