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Average age at death in infancy and infant mortality level: reconsidering the Coale-Demeny formulas at current levels of low mortality

Andreev, Evgueni M.; Kingkade, W. Ward - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

The longterm historical decline in infant mortality has been accompanied by increasing concentration of infant deaths at the earliest stages of infancy. The influence of prenatal and neonatal conditions has become increasingly dominant relative to postnatal conditions as external causes of death...

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Constructing a survey over time: Audio-visual feedback and theatre sketches in rural Mali

Hertrich, Véronique; Lesclingand, Marie; Quaglia, Martine - In: Demographic Research 25 (2011) 22, pp. 695-722

Knowledge dissemination is an emerging issue in population studies, both in terms of ethics and data quality. The challenge is especially important in long term follow-up surveys and it requires methodological imagination when the population is illiterate. The paper presents the dissemination...

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The influence of employment uncertainty on childbearing in France: A tempo or quantum effect?

Pailhé, Ariane; Solaz, Anne - In: Demographic Research 26 (2012) 1, pp. 1-40

This paper investigates whether unemployment and insecure employment periods merely delay fertility or also impact on completed fertility in France. It analyses both the timing of first childbearing and the fertility reached at age 40. Different indicators of declining employment security are...

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Diversität von Familienformen in Ost- und Westdeutschland

Bastin, Sonja; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Schnor, Christine - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

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Ethnic differentials of the impact of Family Planning Program on contraceptive use in Nepal

Sharma, Sharad Kumar; Ghimire, Dhruba Raj; Pratap, Naresh - In: Demographic Research 25 (2011) 27, pp. 837-868

contraceptive use varied significantly across the clusters, and the cluster-level indicators, such as mean age at marriage, mean …

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Whose job instability affects the likelihood of becoming a parent in Italy? A tale of two partners

Vignoli, Daniele; Drefahl, Sven; Santis, Gustavo De - In: Demographic Research 26 (2012) 2, pp. 41-62

We examine the likelihood of becoming a parent in Italy taking into account the employment (in)stability of both partners in a couple. We use data from four waves of the Italian section of the EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Condition), 2004-2007, accounting for its longitudinal nature....

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The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in European perspective

Baten, Jörg; Szoltysek, Mikolaj - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

We trace the development of numeracy in Poland and Russia from the early 17th century onwards, and numeracy in Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania from the 18th century onwards. The fact that western Poland was doing relatively well during the 16th and early 17th centuries, but was not able to...

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On the links between employment, partnership quality, and the desire to have a first child

Berninger, Ina; Weiß, Bernd; Wagner, Michael - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 24, pp. 579-610

We examine the impact of precarious work (low income and job security satisfaction) on the intention to have a first child. We consider a direct and an indirect effect; the latter is mediated by partnersâ€™ conflict behaviour, conflict level, and partnership quality. We assume that a...

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Divorce risk factors and their variation over time in Spain

Bernardi, Fabrizio; Martínez-Pastor, Juan-Ignacio - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 31, pp. 771-800

The aim of this article is to analyse the determinants of marriage dissolution in Spain and their variation over time … article analyses the transition from first marriage to marital dissolution for couples who married in two eras: one prior to … law was introduced, during which barriers to marriage dissolution were far fewer. Analyses are conducted using a …

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Does nativity matter?

Buckley, Cynthia; Hofmann, Erin; Minagawa, Yuka - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 32, pp. 801-824

The Russian Federation has experienced simultaneous declines in health and rises in international migration. Guided by the â€œhealthy migrant effectâ€ found elsewhere, we examine two questions. First, do the foreign-born in the Russian Federation exhibit better overall health than the...

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