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Cohabitation and marriage in Austria: Assessing the individualization thesis across the life course
Austria cohabitation commitment individualization marriage romantic love
2014/11/27
Background: Although cohabitation has spread rapidly in Austria during the past decades, it is more a prelude than an alternative to marriage. The individualization thesis serves as a conceptual frame...
An empirical analysis of the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when estimating the income-mortality gradient
income mortality proportional hazard model unobserved heterogeneity
2014/11/27
Background: Statistical theory predicts that failing to control for unobserved heterogeneity in a Gompertz mortality risk model attenuates the estimated income-mortality gradient toward zero.Objective...
Migration, sexual networks, and HIV in Agbogbloshie, Ghana
Accra Agbogbloshie partnerships sexual risk behavior short-term mobility
2014/11/27
Background: HIV is spread through structured sexual networks, which are influenced by migration patterns, but network-oriented studies of mobility and HIV risk behavior have been limited.Objective: We...
Why the racial gap in life expectancy is declining in the United States
causes of mortality components of health disparities health disparities life expectancy longevity gap mortality racial health disparities U.S. mortality trends
2014/11/27
Background: Blacks have lower life expectancy than whites in the United States. That disparity could be due to racial differences in the causes of death, with blacks being more likely to die of causes...
Assimilation effects on infant mortality among immigrants in Norway: Does maternal source country matter?
assimilation immigration infant mortality Norway source country effects
2014/11/27
Background: Assimilation models of infant outcomes among immigrants have received considerable attention in the social sciences. However, little effort has been made to investigate how these models ar...
Unobserved population heterogeneity: A review of formal relationships
gamma-distributed frailty Gompertz-Makeham force of mortality relative-risk models unobserved heterogeneity
2014/11/27
Background: Survival models accounting for unobserved heterogeneity (frailty models) play an important role in mortality research, yet there is no article that concisely summarizes useful relationship...
Attrition in the Austrian Generations and Gender Survey: Is there a bias by fertility-relevant aspects?
attrition Austria dropouts Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) longitudinal data response rates
2014/11/27
Background: In longitudinal research the loss of sample members between waves is a possible source of bias. It is therefore crucial to analyse attrition.
Objective: This paper analyses attrition in a...
Factors responsible for mortality variation in the United States: A latent variable analysis
factor analysis health behaviors health inequalities mortality obesity risk factors rural/urban residence smoking substance abuse
2014/11/27
Background: Factors including smoking, drinking, substance abuse, obesity, and health care have all been shown to affect health and longevity. The relative importance of each of these factors is dispu...
Spatial inequalities in infant survival at an early stage of the longevity revolution: A pan-European view across 5000+ regions and localities in 1910
early 20th century Europe human development infant mortality longevity revolution spatial inequalities
2014/11/26
Background: Spatial inequalities in human development are of great concern to international organisations and national governments. Demographic indicators like the infant mortality rate are important ...
Three-generation family households in early childhood: Comparisons between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia
coresidence cross-national early childhood grandparents multi-generational three-generation
2014/11/26
Background: Shifting demographic trends in the United States (US) have resulted in increasing numbers of three-generation family households, where a child lives with a parent(s) and grandparent(s). Al...
Towards a Geography of Unmarried Cohabitation in the Americas
cohabitation Latin America marriage North America population censuses spatial analysis
2014/11/26
Background: As the incidence of cohabitation has been rising in many parts of the world, efforts to determine the forces driving the cohabitation boom have also been intensifying. But most of the anal...
The pace of aging: Intrinsic time scales in demography
comparative aging research intrinsic time scaling mortality senescence
2014/11/26
Background: The pace of aging is a concept that captures the time-related aspect of aging. It formalizes the idea of a characteristic life span or intrinsic population time scale. In the rapidly devel...
Income pooling strategies among cohabiting and married couples: A comparative perspective
cohabitation commitment Generations and Gender Surveys income pooling marriage
2014/11/26
Background: Studies explaining why cohabiters are more likely to keep money separate than spouses have mainly focused on selection processes, without taking into account the heterogeneity within both ...
Children’s union status and contact with mothers: A cross-national study
cohabitation comparative HRS intergenerational relationships marriage share
2014/11/26
Background: In North America and Europe, population aging challenges the institutions responsible for elder care. In these environments, older individuals rely on offspring to provide social, instrume...
Variance in age at death equals average squared remaining life expectancy at death
life disparity life table entropy remaining life expectancy variance in age at death
2014/11/26
Background: Variance in lifespan $\sigma^2$ and life expectancy lost due to death $e^{\dagger}$ are important demographic indicators of life disparity.Objective: I show that variance in age at death e...