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Publikováno v:
Demography. 50:1387-1395
Using discrete-time survival models of parity progression and illustrative data from the Philippines, this article develops a multivariate multidimensional life table of nuptiality and fertility, the dimensions of which are age, parity, and duration
Publikováno v:
Asian Population Studies. 7:195-218
This paper attempts to explain both the long-term downward trend in coresidence of newly married Japanese couples with parents and the surprisingly large and sustained upturn in coresidence precipitated by the 1998 economic crisis. A multivariate ana
Publikováno v:
Demography. 47:97-124
This article describes a methodology for applying a discrete-time survival model—the complementary log-log model—to estimate effects of socioeconomic variables on (1) the total fertility rate and its components and (2) trends in the total fertili
Autor:
Robert D. Retherford, Minja Kim Choe
Publikováno v:
Asian Population Studies. 5:267-288
This paper examines the rapid fall of South Korea's fertility to lowest-low level, focusing on rising levels of education as a contributing cause. The fall occurred mainly because of major declines in parity progression from woman's own birth to firs
Publikováno v:
Asian Population Studies. 5:309-328
The first part of this paper describes, for China, province-level variation in the year in which below-replacement fertility was achieved. The second part, also based on province-level data, is a multivariate analysis of the effects of (1) fertility
Autor:
Robert D. Retherford, Vinod Mishra
Publikováno v:
Population Research and Policy Review. 27:307-320
Delivering births in a medical institution or at home with professional medical assistance has been shown to promote safe motherhood and child survival. Yet three-quarters of births in rural India continue to take place at home, most of them without
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 15:397-410
Smoke from biomass combustion produces some of the same pollutants found in tobacco smoke and ambient air, yet only one study to date has linked cooking with biomass fuels to increased risk of stillbirth. The mechanisms by which biomass smoke may cau
Publikováno v:
Population and Environment. 26:375-396
Reliance on biomass for cooking and heating exposes many women and young children in developing countries to high levels of air pollution indoors. Environmental tobacco smoke also contributes to this indoor air pollution. This study estimates the eff
Publikováno v:
Population and Development Review. 31:57-84
According to births in the past year as reported in Chinas 2000 census the total fertility rate (TFR) in China was 1.22 children per woman in 2000 (National Bureau of Statistics of China 2002). There is considerable debate about the accuracy of this
Publikováno v:
Population and Development Review. 30:269-295
A recent review of 306 child nutrition surveys from developing countries concluded that evidence on sex differentials in undernutrition does not support the notion that antifemale bias in intrahousehold food allocation and health care is causing exce