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... the article of Davis, Glass (1965) states that the main mechanism of change is the possibility of intra-generational mobility, since decline in infant mortality and parental control over children cannot induce ... See full document

... (0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, and 105) observed and fitted with the LC, LC-coherent, CoDa, and CoDa-coherent ...ages 15 and 30 is however poorer, especially for the CoDa and CoDa-coherent models, with R 2 ... See full document

... out.” 15 Convincing women to keep Norplant ® if they come to a clinic to have it removed violates the rights of clients to control their own fertility and ... See full document

... In order to test the limits of this approach, we also run the optimization solver with no bounds, keeping only the five constraints specified above. The no bounds results were less satisfactory. First, about 5% of the ... See full document

... Facing adverse economic conditions, Spanish youth have turned to their families in search of financial protection. Young people have dealt with temporary contracts, high turnover in the labour market, unemployment, ... See full document

... An important underlying feature of change in educational differentials in Sweden is the fact that the periods we observe are those in which educational enrollment and attainment have increased quite dramatically. In our ... See full document

... There is also evidence that greater rates of age misreporting among older African- Americans, particularly women, contribute to the black/white difference in the rate of mortality incr[r] ... See full document

... ages 15 and 49 – temporary life expectancy (Arriaga 1984) – were calcu- lated with cause-specific contributions to the difference between state-specific temporary life expectancy and a low-mortality benchmark ... See full document

... We do not assume legitimacy to be of major importance for our study population. Legally, German citizenship is not accorded by childbirth. Before 2000, it was based on descent (ius sanguinis) 3 . An application for ... See full document

... (aged 15 −49) was also sampled (if there was another couple living in the ...(aged 15 −45) who were sampled in at least two ...aged 15 −45, remain married to the same individual by the next wave, and ... See full document

... For Sweden in this period, we have data that allow us to derive age-specific fertility (both total and by marital status) at the national and the county levels. However, these kinds of detailed demographic data are not ... See full document

... Finally, the third limitation is technical: longitudinal analyses conducted up to now have used the semi-parametric Cox (1972) model, which specifies that the total population at risk must start from the same point in ... See full document

... of 15 (Model 1c and 2c), we can confirm this interpretation: daughters who lived most of their child- hood without a father have a higher risk of experiencing ... See full document

... When marriage risks are higher two years before a child is born than five years before, can we then assume that childbearing intentions were lower five years before childbirth than two y[r] ... See full document

... Although cause-specific modal ages at death differ greatly in level, our results indicate that modal age values for leading causes among Canadian males and females increased steadily[r] ... See full document

... Our previous study on labor-market attachment and first births (A&S 1) revealed a positive effect of being established in the labor market on the propensity to become a mother [r] ... See full document

... In a study on the effect of educational attainment on first, second and third births in Norway, Kravdal (2001) found significantly higher second and third birth rates for women with the [r] ... See full document

... example, 17% of the women who were born in 1964 and who were recorded with some college education by the time they were 39, had taken this education after age 30 (see further examples ... See full document

... The GGP addresses the individual, partnership, and household levels of analysis through the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS), where individual respondents are in[r] ... See full document

... an article which reviewed the historical research to date and combined it with contemporary statistical data, Reher (1998) has reaffirmed the validity of the original macro-regional distinction, and shown that a ... See full document