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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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The purpose of this article is to show recent trends in regional migration from East to West Germany by combining data … increasing popularity of the Berlin region, the distribution of East to West migrants across West Germany is fairly stable over …
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lower than the corresponding level in France and well above the level in West Germany. (In 2004 the Swedish TFR reached 1 …
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systems: the USA, the Netherlands and West Germany. Using longitudinal survey data, we examine the transitions of leaving home …
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This paper compares the non-marital birth pattern in France and West Germany. Since the beginning of the eighties …, France witnessed a steady increase in non-marital birth rates, while in West Germany non-marital birth rates have remained at … family forms in both countries. In West Germany, we find a polarization in a "family sector" and a "non-family sector" while …
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change in variance has been ignored so far. In the case of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, this paper explores how much of …
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We analyzed data from the historic population of the Krummhörn (Ostfriesland, Germany, 1720-1874) to determine the …
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well as between East and West Germany. While West German oldest old mortality decreased since the mid 1970s, comparable … decreases in East Germany did not become evident until the late 1980s. Yet, the East German mortality decline accelerated after … as potential determinants of the decline in old age mortality in Germany. …
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In many surveys, information on respondents’ education histories is restricted to the level and sometimes the date they attained their highest degree. We compare estimates of education effects on first birth transitions using imputed histories based on this rudimentary information with...
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