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Cohort fertility and increasing breast cancer incidence [PDF]
Cancer, 1958 The question of whether the increase in breast cancer incidence in England and Wales and in Connecticut can be explained by a decrease in the fertility of cohorts of women in whom the breast cancer increase has been recorded is examined. Total reproductive performances were calculated for women born between 1841-1906. Those for whom data are complete
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Completing incomplete cohort fertility schedules [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2010 Abstract This paper develops a simple age-period-cohort framework in completing incomplete cohort fertility schedules, and makes full use of 1917-2005 U.S. data to obtain robust outcomes. Empirically, we indicate that the period effect is the key to transforming a fertility level into a fertility schedule.
Pao-Chih Roger Cheng, Eric S. Lin
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Cohort Fertility Decline in Low Fertility Countries: Decomposition Using Parity Progression Ratios [PDF]
Institut für Demographie - VID, 2018 Background: The long-term decline in cohort fertility in highly developed countries has been widely documented. However, no systematic analysis has investigated which parity contributed most to the fertility decline to low and very low levels. Objective: We examine how the contribution of changing parity progression ratios varied across cohorts ...
Zeman, Krystof +3 more
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A cohort perspective on the fertility postponement transition and low fertility in Central Europe [PDF]
Moravian Geographical Reports, 2018 Abstract Fertility postponement and the concomitant decline in fertility levels are the most prominent trends in the demographic behaviours of the former Eastern Bloc countries in Central Europe. A number of studies have analysed period fertility development but the cohort perspective is often neglected.
Branislav Šprocha +2 more
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A cohort perspective of the effect of unemployment on fertility [PDF]
Journal of Population Economics, 2017 This work offers an explanation for the apparent contradiction between empirical work that finds a negative relationship between unemployment and fertility, and theoretical work that emphasizes the lower opportunity cost of childbearing while unemployed. I reconcile these perspectives by distinguishing between two forms of unemployment.
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Cohort Fertility in the Former Yugoslav Countries [PDF]
Population in Post-Yugoslav Countries: (Dis)Similarities and PerspectivesThis study analyses trends in cohort fertility in the former Yugoslav countries. The goal is to identify and describe differences and similarities in demographic trajectories related to fertility behaviour. We consider a relatively long period, covering the transformation from agrarian to industrial capitalist societies during the late nineteenth and ...
Čipin, Ivan, Međimurec, Petra
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On the impossibility of inferring cohort fertility measures from period fertility measures [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2001 A particularly important struggle faced by demographic analysts is, how to arrive at statements about family formation processes from a cohort perspective from data that are essentially collected on an annual basis. The present paper is concerned with this struggle, mostly restricted to the case of fertility.
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Educational Differences in Cohort Fertility Across Sub-national Regions in Europe. [PDF]
Eur J Popul, 2021 Nisén J +16 more
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Cohort fertility changes and period fertility in 1960-1990 in Finland
Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 1995 In Finland, like in most European countries, the total fertility rate declined from a level of 2.5 births per woman in the middle of the 1960s below the replacement level of 2.1 births during the late sixties. This change has been called Europe’s second demographic transition. This paper aims to describe the changes in cohort fertility during and after
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Educational differentials in cohort fertility during the fertility transition in South Korea [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2014 Background: While there has been a considerable amount of research on the association between women's education and fertility rates, few of these studies have examined the pattern of fertility differentials over the course of the fertility transition.
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