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corroborated in Lomé, where women are likely to consider work as a legitimate alternative to their role as a mother or spouse … Dakar working does not seem to hinder family formation. Greater involvement of women in the labour force is not the main …
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corresponding effects for men are also positive, but not more strongly positive than those for women. These results may suggest that …
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This paper considers forecasting life table, and proposes a model averaging approach to improve point and interval forecast accuracy. Illustrated by data of eleven countries, we compare point and interval forecasts among ten principal component and two random walk methods. Based on averaged...
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This paper studies the evolution of deliberate fertility control in fourteen historic German villages between 1700 and 1900. The fertility response to infant and child mortality and exogenous fluctuations in rye price are used as measures of the existence and extent of deliberate non-parity...
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