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Family ties and depression across the life course: An Overview
Moor, Nienke; Komter, Aafke - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 8, pp. 201-232
This article examines how ties with parents, siblings, a partner and children affect people’s mental well-being across the life course. For testing our hypotheses we made use of the Generations and Gender Survey Data. Our research findings show that family ties can both diminish and...
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Things change: Women’s and men’s marital disruption dynamics in Italy during a time of social transformations, 1970-2003
Salvini, Silvana; Vignoli, Daniele - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 5, pp. 145-174
We study women’s and men’s marital disruption in Italy between 1970 and 2003. By applying an event-history analysis to the 2003 Italian variant of the Generations and Gender Survey we found that the spread of marital disruption started among middle-highly educated women. Then in...
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Decomposition analysis of Spanish life expectancy at birth
Gómez-Redondo, Rosa; Boe, Carl - In: Demographic Research 13 (2005) 20, pp. 521-546
brief description of the Spanish mortality during the XXth century across several indexes. The study uses a decomposition …
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A comparison of different methods for decomposition of changes in expectation of life at birth and differentials in life expectancy at birth
Ponnapalli, K. Murthy - In: Demographic Research 12 (2005) 7, pp. 141-172
Several methods were proposed to decompose the difference between two life expectancies at birth into the contribution by different age groups. In this study an attempt has been made to compare different methods with that of Chandra Sekar (1949) method. The methodologies suggested by Arriaga,...
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Male fertility in Greece
Tragaki, Alexandra; Bagavos, Christos - In: Demographic Research 31 (2014) 6, pp. 137-160
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Educational differentials in cohort fertility during the fertility transition in South Korea
Yoo, Sam Hyun - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 53, pp. 1463-1494
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Old age mortality in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia
Gu, Danan; Gerland, Patrick; Andreev, Kirill F.; Li, Nan; … - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 38, pp. 999-1038
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Explaining the rural-urban gap in infant mortality in India
Saikia, Nandita; Singh, Abhishek; Jasilionis, Domantas; … - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 18, pp. 473-506
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Decomposing demographic change into direct vs. compositional components
Vaupel, James W.; Canudas-Romo, Vladimir - In: Demographic Research 7 (2002) 1, pp. 1-14
change. The decomposition is applied to time derivatives of averages over age and over subpopulations. Examples include … decomposition of the change over time in the average age at childbearing and in the general fertility rate for China, Denmark and … Mexico. A decomposition of the change over time in the crude death rate in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands is also …
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Demographic transitions and children's resources: growth or divergence?
Eloundou-Enyegue, Parfait M.; Stokes, C. Shannon - In: Demographic Research 16 (2007) 7, pp. 195-218
How do fertility transitions affect children’s resource endowments? Existing perspectives provide two seemingly different answers: Dilution arguments focusing on family size predict an average gain, while divergence arguments focusing on family structure predict increased inequality. We...
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