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Trends in gender differences in accidents mortality
Waldron, Ingrid; McCloskey, Christopher; Earle, Inga - In: Demographic Research 13 (2005) 17, pp. 415-454
This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident …-related behavior, using data for the US, UK, France, Italy, and Japan, 1950-98. As predicted by the Convergence Hypothesis, gender …, for many types of accidents mortality, gender differences were stable or increased; these trends often resulted from the …
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The causal effect of the great recession on childlessness of white American women
Comolli, Chiara Ludovica; Bernardi, Fabrizio - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that the observed association is driven by confounders. The aim of the present paper is to...
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White-Hispanic differences in meeting lifetime fertility intentions in the U.S.
Hartnett, Caroline - In: Demographic Research 30 (2014) 43, pp. 1245-1276
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Urban fertility responses to local government programs: evidence from the 1923-1932 U.S.
Fox, Jonathan F.; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011
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 that the local government programs of health education and...
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Losses of expected lifetime in the US and other developed countries: methods and empirical analyses
Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Andreev, Evgueni M.; Zhang, Zhen; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009
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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Educational differences in all-cause mortality by marital status
Kohler, Iliana V.; Martikainen, Pekka; Smith, Kirsten P.; … - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 60, pp. 2011-2042
Using life table measures, we compare educational differentials in all-cause mortality at ages 40 to 70 in Bulgaria to 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...
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Life expectancy is the death-weighted average of the reciprocal of the survival-specific force of mortality
Cohen, Joel E. - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 5, pp. 115-128
The hazard of mortality is usually presented as a function of age, but can be defined as a function of the fraction of survivors. This definition enables us to derive new relationships for life expectancy. Specifically, in a life-table population with a positive age-specific force of mortality...
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The institutionalization and pace of fertility in American stepfamilies
Li, Jui-Chung Allen - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 12, pp. 237-266
This paper compares nonparametric fertility rates for American women in stepfamilies and intact families using data from the June 1995 Current Population Survey. Results show that childbearing behaviors in stepfamilies resemble those in intact families. Regardless of stepfamily status, timings...
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Cause-specific contributions to sex differences in adult mortality among whites and African Americans between 1960 and 1995
Elo, Irma; Drevenstedt, Greg L. - In: Demographic Research 13 (2005) 19, pp. 485-520
The purpose of this paper is to describe trends in sex differences in mortality in young adulthood and in middle age among African Americans and whites in the United States between 1960 and 1995. We examine trends in all-cause mortality and estimate the contribution of leading causes of death to...
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A comparative analysis of leaving home in the United States, the Netherlands and West Germany
Mulder, Clara; Clark, William A.V.; Wagner, Michael - In: Demographic Research 7 (2002) 17, pp. 565-592
We investigate how leaving the parental home differs between three countries with different welfare-state and housing systems: the USA, the Netherlands and West Germany. Using longitudinal survey data, we examine the transitions of leaving home to live with and without a partner. We find that,...
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