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The sex differential in mortality: a historical comparison of the adult-age pattern of the ratio and the difference

Wisser, Oliver; Vaupel, James W. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014

The ratio (RMR) is the standard measure of sex differentials in mortality. It is commonly known that the RMR was historically small and increased throughout the 20th century. However, numerical properties might account for the trend in the RMR rather than sex differences in risk factors. In this...

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Kinderlosigkeit, Bildungsrichtung und Bildungsniveau. Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung schwedischer Frauen der Geburtenjahrgänge 1955-59

Neyer, Gerda R.; Hoem, Jan M.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

There has been a lot of demographic research concerning the relationship between education and fertility. Most studies, however, focus on the level of education and do not include the field of education. Our paper shows that the field of education serves as a better indicator of a woman’s...

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Childcare and family ideology in Sweden

Krapf, Sandra - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

behavior in Sweden. We assume that childcare services facilitate the reconciliation of family and paid work. However, this … ideologies are not very pronounced in an egalitarian society like Sweden, we expect that childcare provision encourages young …

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Decomposing change in life expectancy: a bouquet of formulas in honour of Nathan Keyfitz´s 90th birthday

Vaupel, James W.; Romo, Vladimir Canudas - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2002

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Does divorce risk depend on spouses´ relative income? A register-based study of first marriages in Sweden in 1981–1998

Liu, Guiping; Vikat, Andres - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

independence effect applies to Sweden, a country in which egalitarian gender views dominate and female labor-force participation …

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Childlessness and educational attainment among Swedish women born in 1955-59

Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

educational histories of an entire cohort of women born in Sweden (about a quarter-million individuals). This allows us to operate …

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Settlement size and fertility in the Nordic countries

Kulu, Hill; Vikat, Andres; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

Sweden. We base our study on aggregate and individual-level register data. We first examine annual total and parity …

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Social differentials in speed-premium effects in childbearing in Sweden

Andersson, Gunnar; Hoem, Jan M.; Duvander, Ann-Zofie - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

In Sweden, parents receive a parental-leave allowance of a high percentage of their pre-birth salary for about a year …

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Why does Sweden have such high fertility?

Hoem, Jan M. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

By current European standards, Sweden has had a relatively high fertility in recent decades. During the 1980s and 1990s …, the annual Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for Sweden undulated considerably around a level just under 1.8, which is a bit …

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Small effects of selective migration and selective survival in retrospective studies of fertility

Andersson, Gunnar; Sobolev, Boris - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2001

childbearing of all people ever living in Sweden and thus allow us to avoid any problems of selectivity by virtue of survival or of … for each year in 1961-1999: (i) rates that are based on the population that were living in Sweden at the end of 1999 and …

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