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... level of completed fertility implied by current childbearing behavior”. But if such ‘completed fertility’ does not refer to actual cohorts of women, then what does it refer to? Smallwood et al. (2000) are, in my mind, ... See full document

... The paper argues that researcher-generated genealogies can be used to reconstruct the demographic consequences of contemporary armed conflict on local populations. No such tool currently exists in the field of ... See full document

... In this study, we propose three main analytical levels to investigate ethnic differentials in educational aspirations: (1) selection, (2) moderation, and 3) variation within minorities. First, by ‘selection’ we ... See full document

... Section 2, in order to tackle the endogeneity of living arrangement we apply the instrumental variable (IV) method to identify the causal effect of living arrangement on female labor ... See full document

... Results of the multivariate analyses are presented in Table 2. For women, no association between the presence or location of a partner and loneliness was found. The small group of women with children both in the ... See full document

... Table 2 compares the exact change in life expectancy at age a = 10, 30, 50, and 70, obtained with numerical integration and the approximate value derived from the linear approximation (8) when the age-specific ... See full document

... For Romanians, the odd ratios (ORs) of having a first child do not seem to be affected by the time since migration, and the risk is persistently lower compared to the newly arrived Albanians, although there is a small ... See full document

... In the United Kingdom over the last two decades, overweight and obesity (hereafter referred to as overweight/obese) have become increasingly common in children. Amongst a cohort of UK children born around the year 2001, ... See full document

... Differences based on ethnicity are observed for both movements, with Kikuyus being significantly less likely to in-migrate or out-migrate than other ethnic groups. It should be noted that Nairobi is situated close to ... See full document

... and 2 more detailed cross-classifications of asexuals and sexuals by mixing and matching simultaneously each person’s responses with regard to each of the three dimensions, the numbers of cases in many of the ... See full document

... Hamilton (1966) obtained the relationship (16) in an analysis of the evolution of senescence. From (16) and (2) it is apparent that (provided r ≥ 0) the magnitudes of the sensitivities of r to mortality and ... See full document

... also 2) cohorts who experienced the advancement of childbearing, and 3) cohorts who experienced the transition from the advancement to the postponement of ... See full document

... These periods differ not only in the intensity of events (deaths), but also in the causes of the events. In the case of neo-natal and perinatal mortality, deaths mostly result from fetal malformation, low birth weight, ... See full document

... quarter 2 in year t, we observe women’s labour market status for April, May, and June in year t-1, and so ...quarters 2, 3, and 4 we could observe the labour market status over a longer time period than ... See full document

... The estimates in Tables 4 showed that, without controlling for any confounding factors, the elderly who were more self-approving, calm and sociable had a 14% lower mortality risk (Model 1). The effect was ameliorated ... See full document

... (Table 2) show that about two thirds of Swedish-born women had been married at least once by age ...Table 2 cover all immigrants regardless of age at migration to ... See full document

... We consider the existence of a large and sometimes confusing number of different approaches to measuring disability as a problem which complicates all attempts to unify research findings, and to make the existing ... See full document

... Data from the Department of Defense (DOD) show 3,853 United States military personnel died between the beginning of the Iraq War on March 20, 2003 and December 31, 2007. Of these deaths, 898 (23%) are personnel ... 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

... In practice, I approximate equation (4) by discrete summations over five-year age categories, centered on the midpoint of the interval (Coale 1984; Preston 1983; Preston and Coale 1982; Preston and Wang 2007). As the ... See full document