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Family Formation and Equilibrium Influences

Beauchamp, Andrew W. - 2009

This dissertation considers incentives arising from equilibrium influences that affect the sequence of decisions that lead to family formation. The first chapter examines how state regulations directly aimed at abortion providers affect the market for abortion in the United States. Estimates...

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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan

Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989

Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...

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Mechanisms affecting the link between nuptiality and fertility: Tanzania, 1973

Sekatawa, Emmanuel K. - 1981

The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...

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ESSAYS IN DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS

Reinhold, Steffen - 2008

In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both … theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the … cohabitation and would only get married if they antic-ipated a successful marriage. One prominent explanation for the antithetic …

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Electricity savings from residential appliance standards in Sweden

Turiel, I.; Lebot, B. (Agence Francaise pour la … - 2008

This paper discusses the energy savings that could be obtained in Sweden by instituting specific standards for five appliances: Refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers. At the present time, Sweden has no minimum energy efficiency standards for residential...

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Quotas for CFE Treaty declared site inspections for baseline validation

Strait, R.S.; Sicherman, A. - 2008

The CFE Treaty will provide for limits on NATO and WTO forces, particularly tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery, and helicopters. In addition to the overall limits on TLEs in the ATTU zone, there are expected to be secondary limits on single country forces, limits on forces based in...

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Putting 'international' back in IPEC.

Veil, J. A. - 2008

working with international oil and gas environmental issues in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Among the …

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Navy mobility fuels forecasting system report: World petroleum trade forecasts for the year 2000

Das, S. - 2008

patterns will emerge as a result of the democratization in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. US petroleum imports will … coming from Japan, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. Several regions, the Far East, Japan, Latin American, and Africa … Europe will import approximately 50% of its crude oil from the Middle East. …

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International petroleum statistics report, June 1995

2009

The report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...

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Effect of market structure on international coal trade

Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...

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