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... In addition to the TFRs, age-and parity-specific fertility rates (ASFRS and PSFRS) are calculated and plotted by calendar year in order to find out whether the change in fertility [r] ... See full document

... The fertility profiles of these birth cohorts distinguish themselves from one country to another (Figure 2). In France we see a fertility curve symmetric around the peak of fertility for each group of birth ... See full document

... Only 2% of fathers were employees, only 2% servants (mainly in the urban houses), and 5% land owners (who, mainly in the rural parishes, were usually farmers with a small or very small ... See full document

... In what follows below, we replicate Finer’s Kaplan–Meier estimates of cohort trends in premarital sex for NSFG women born 1939–1948, 1949–1958, 1959–1968, 1969– 1978, and 1979–1988 at exact ages 15, 18, 20, 25, ... See full document

... Fertility in Colombia, as in many other developing countries, follows a long-term decline that is the product of a combination of increasing education, declining mortality rates, and economic growth (Bongaarts and ... See full document

... Figure 2 and 3 depict this decomposition: Figure 2 reports the ‘baseline’ hazard functions, ...Figure 2, the difference between the hazard functions of the three types of union within each ... See full document

... The final two data sources were the products of the United Nations-sponsored Truth Commission for El Salvador (Betancur, Figueredo Planchart, and Buergenthal 1993). These datasets, which we refer to as UNTC and ... See full document

... the OLS regression for Lesotho, Togo, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe confirm this (Table 2). The OLS results for Malawi indicate that seasonal fluctuations are the dominant source of variation in ... See full document

... The results obtained are consistent with the hypothesis, derived from the main existing theoretical perspectives on the issue, that an increase of childcare coverage has a positive effect on fertility. Across different ... See full document

... Table 2 provides the adjusted odds ratios from the logistic regression models on low birthweight. Differentials in infant’s low weight by mother’s marital status attenuate once the compositional variables are ... See full document

... In Western Europe, the decline in childlessness in the 1930-1945 cohorts is followed by a fairly pronounced rise, except in France, where it is much smaller and restricted to the 1960s cohorts. France consequently stands ... See full document

... Figure 1 plots the overall adjusted disability rate against the overall crude disability rate. For ease of comparison, we have scaled both variables to zero mean and unity variance (recall that this transformation ... See full document

... In Spain, the preference has been for children to be born within marital union. As the 1999 Fertility Survey shows, around 90% of first children were born to married parents, a figure that rises to 96% for second and ... See full document

... countries 2 are diversifying their opportunities through both domestic and international migration (McKenzie 2008; Yaqub ...than 18 years old represent approximately one-fourth of all migrants, and the ... See full document

... In the past, mortality changes did not correspond exactly to the simple Gompertz model discussed in Section 3, but nonetheless prospective ages computed using period and cohort life tables were quite similar. In this ... See full document

... WOC respondents, like Edith, often appear to be going along with what the interviewer is saying as a response to a formulation. To say “no” to a formulation, a respondent must do more interactional work, particularly ... See full document

... Secondly, by extending research to Eastern European countries, the programme has not only identified crucial regional differences in co-residential arrangements and intergenerational e[r] ... See full document

... Altogether, local fertility regulation goals (no births outside marriage, spaced pregnancies, and as many births as possible) are achieved by a social control over women’s sexuality and marriage. Pregnancies that happen ... See full document

... later article, McDonald (2013) is explicit in that his theories are predictive for the macro-level association between fertility and gender equality and not for couple-level measures of gender ... See full document

... The rationale is three-fold. First, I wanted a general mathematical representation of Bongaart’s “life extension” pill (Bongaarts and Feeney 2003) allowing for continuous variation in age and time. This is accomplished ... See full document