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Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …
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fertility. Fixed effects regressions indicate a $4 increase in per capita public health education spending or a $37 increase in …During the 1920s and early 1930s, fertility in American municipalities declined overall and with large variation … between areas and across time. Using data for 1923-1932 on fertility and public spending for over 50 large cities, we show …
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This paper compares nonparametric fertility rates for American women in stepfamilies and intact families using data … intact families. Regardless of stepfamily status, timings and levels of fertility for second and third marital births are … identical for all women at the same lifetime parity. Fertility patterns are also similar for all first marital births, with the …
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systems: the USA, the Netherlands and West Germany. Using longitudinal survey data, we examine the transitions of leaving home … separated from leaving home in the USA. We also find a different impact of level of education and employment status on leaving …
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Patterns of diversity in age at death are examined using e†, a dispersion measure that also equals the average expected lifetime lost at death. We apply two methods for decomposing differences in e†. The first method estimates the contributions of average levels of mortality and mortality...
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those in Finland and the United States. Specifically, we assess whether the relationship between education and mortality is … modified by marital status. Although high education and being married are associated with lower mortality in all three … by education are largest for Bulgarian men, but in relative terms educational differences are smaller among Bulgarian men …
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-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98. As predicted by the Convergence Hypothesis, gender …
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