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... The first human conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) was born in 1978 in England (Steptoe and Edwards 1978). A few other methods of ART have been developed since then, of which the most prominent is the ... See full document

... We use EU-SILC 2011 data for the measurement of disability. We apply the Global Activity Limitation Index (GALI) as an indicator for measuring ability limitations in Europe (Van Oyen et al. 2006). It uses a single ... See full document

... There are quite important regional differences in the level of polygyny. The percentage of married women with one or more co-wives, and the percentage of married men with more than one spouse are highest in the north and ... See full document

... Informal relations (consensual unions) at the start of living together have the temporary character of a trial marriage for the majority. After some period of time for many couples the relationship becomes fully ... See full document

... Although childcare is widely available and affordable (particularly for those with a below-average income), parents are under continuous stress if there is no other person to collect the child in the afternoon. Namely, ... See full document

... Comparing partially integrated and segregated communities, partially integrated Roma women have a lower total fertility rate; their TFR is at about 3 children per woman, and lower intensity of fertility over the whole ... See full document

... As Figure 4 shows, over time the pattern prevalent in Kidul in 2000 is reinforced: balanced support flows are confirmed as the ideal and the statistical norm which is being achieved more often by 2005. There is a ... See full document

... Fig. 6 shows an example of changes in person-years lived in an age interval between two consecutive periods. Using the data from the Human Mortality Database, we chose Japanese females for demonstration. As life ... See full document

... The high employment rate among people of childbearing age has not been entirely reflected in the volume of public day care offered to parents with young children (Eydal and Ólafsson 2008). Nevertheless, ... See full document

... As discussed earlier, national-level mortality patterns in Kyrgyzstan are affected by the fact that unlike Armenia and Georgia, it has a significant ethnic Russian population, which brings its national-level mortality ... See full document

... dower 5 (or muakhar) is a sum of money promised to the Muslim bride in the event of divorce or the death of the husband, but it is not actually paid unless one of these two events comes to ... See full document

... Table 5, when we examine all immigrant women, regardless of whether they had their children in the society of origin or destination (left panel), the transition to third birth is more common among all ... See full document

... To be fair, Bongaarts and Feeney, except at a few points, are not talking about co- horts. Instead, they intend e ∗ 0 as a period measure that tries to improve upon period life expectancy. What such an improved period ... See full document

... Following the collapse of state socialism around 1990, young people in CEE adjusted to new conditions. This adjustment resulted in rapidly changing forms of family formation and partnership relationships, and in new ... See full document

... However, in the 1970s, there was a brief period when public social services for women and families were being developed. This was the period of rising female employment, of the feminist movement, of some local left wing ... See full document

... We use data from the first wave of surveys organized under the Generations and Gender Programme (United Nations 2005). 4 This data set is unique because of its internationally comparative nature and the indicators ... See full document

... Regression-based measures indicate an increase in relative mortality differentials among males at working ages in the 1980s, and a decrease in absolute mortality differentials[r] ... See full document

... To capture the relationship between son preference, marriage and the value of children, we introduce the notion of perceived present values of married and unmarried sons and daughters (A[r] ... See full document

... Panel 1 shows that while individuals from the higher and middle classes on average attained the highest occupational status at marriage, their prospects in life were the most influence[r] ... See full document

... This article integrates two methods that analyze the implications of various causes of death for life expectancy. One of the methods attributes changes in life expectancy to various causes of death; the other ... See full document