This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

Fertility Revolution" and questions regarding the applicability of the theory of household choice in modernizing societies. This …

ulation for a given society, combining the simple indica tors of mortality and aging. Life expectancy at birth is in …-dependent of the demographic structure of the population and is, therefore, adequate for measuring overall mortality. However, it … society; and given that it is a weighted average, its changes can be easily decomposed into reductions in mortality (gains in …

to the evolution of completeness of death counts registration and the changes in the mortality age profile. We make use … of the mortality database available at the Brazilian Ministry of Health Database - Datasus and Population Censuses from … 1980 to 2010. We applied traditional demographic methods to evaluate the quality of mortality data for 137 small areas and …

status, formal and informal relation to the labor market and coverage of public pension programs. I also use the data to show …

in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. However, the level of German … fertility has decreased significantly from the 1900s. The paper documents and analyzes the long-termdevelopment trends ….We identify three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility according to which the various articles of the …

in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly … from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility and basic trends in Germany are documented and analyzed. We identify … three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility, according to which the various articles of the Journal …