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... As mentioned above, structural factors evidently contributed to the rapid conversion of consensual unions into marriage in the Baltic countries before the 1990s compared to [r] ... See full document

... The data used in this paper consist of observed death counts by single years of age (10 and above), sex, and underlying cause of death, covering the period 1974‒2011 in Canada. These cause-specific mortality ... See full document

... clinics. 10 However, local women are often assumed to be irresponsible and unable, or unwilling, to give the ongoing acceptance required for “successful” family planning with a user-controlled ... See full document

... We might therefore expect cohabiting women to report higher levels of conflict about housework than cohabiting men, and for the gender difference to be larger than it is within married[r] ... See full document

... In the same 1955–69 period, Italy was characterized by considerable population redistribution. The peak interregional gross mobility level (in plus out) was reached during the period 1960–64. During that time, seven of ... See full document

... approximately 10% of older parents in Sweden live within the same one hundred meter square (‘around the corner’) to at least one of their adult children (see Figure ... See full document

... To show the usefulness of our proposal, we analyze the contribution of homicide, road traffic accidents, and suicide, medically amenable mortality, and causes amenable to health behavior to the gap in temporary life ... See full document

... Several studies conducted using the first two waves of the Mexican Health and Aging Survey (MHAS) documented a modest gap in coverage between older Mexican return migrants and nonmigrants, between 5% and 10% in ... See full document

... Hakim’s (2003) preference theory emphasises, and better specifies the SDT hypothesis of fertility decline. She shows that, if one’s own “pure” preferences drive fertility choices, a relevant proportion (10-20%) of ... See full document

... However, it is better to estimate models for first, second and third births simultaneously, with a common unobserved factor. The idea was briefly explained in the Introduction, but some elaboration may be needed. Note ... See full document

... of 10 censuses and annual deaths during each intercensal period were obtained from United Nations Demographic Yearbook series and the Korean Statistical Information System ... See full document

... Using multilevel methods to nest individual children in their extended families, this paper analyses data from the Survey for Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, and concludes tha[r] ... 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

... 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

... Young Spaniards have been “adapting to circumstances” during the analysed period in order to prevent a decline in their economic well-being as is demonstrated by an increase of people [r] ... See full document

... This is represented in the high shares of childless living arrangements: 26.7% of Western German and 14.4 % of Eastern German women do not live with children.. The largest [r] ... See full document

... Knowledge of these transition probabilities allows the estimation of a full multistate life table and corresponding period health expectancies (both conditional and unconditional), usi[r] ... See full document

... Based on the model, we show that three key measures of old-age mortality (the modal age of adult deaths, the life expectancy at the modal age, and the standard deviation of ages at dea[r] ... See full document

... Finally, as with any panel study, sample attrition is an important consideration. Overall, 17% of individuals who were age-eligible (75 and younger) for the 2000 interview were lost to follow-up between 1991 and ... See full document