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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...
Entropy of the Gompertz-Makeham mortality model
Gompertz-Makeham mortality life table entropy
2014/11/26
Background: Life table entropy is a quantity frequently used in demography; e.g., as a measure of heterogeneity in age at death, or as the elasticity of life expectancy with regards to proportional ch...
Migration and marriage: Modeling the joint process
a multi-process model marriage migration NLSY79
2014/11/26
Background: Previous research on interrelations between migration and marriage has relied on overly simplistic assumptions about the structure of dependency between the two events. However, there is g...
Investigating healthy life expectancy using a multi-state model in the presence of missing data and misclassification
cognitive function microsimulation misclassification panel data
2014/11/26
Background: A continuous-time three-state model can be used to describe change in cognitive function in the older population. State 1 corresponds to normal cognitive function, state 2 to cognitive imp...
Economic support ratios and the demographic dividend in Europe
demographic dividends Europe intergenerational transfer national transfer accounts (NTA) population aging population projection savings support ratio
2014/11/26
Background: Support ratios and dependency ratios are widely used as indicators for measuring the effects of population ageing on economic development. Both of these indicators use fixed age limits to ...
Quantifying paradigm change in demography
demographic paradigms empiricism Google books history of demography N-grams
2014/11/26
Background: Demography is a uniquely empirical research area amongst the social sciences. We posit that the same principle of empiricism should be applied to studies of the population sciences as a di...
Fertility in the context of Mexican migration to the United States: A case for incorporating the pre-migration fertility of immigrants
birth rate immigrant families race/ethnic disparities
2014/11/26
Background: Mexican-American fertility is poorly understood because data limitations prevent researchers from accurately estimating the fertility levels of members of this group and from determining h...
Another 'futile quest'? A simulation study of Yang and Land's Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort model
age period cohort models identification problem MCMC simulation Yang and Land
2014/11/26
Background: Whilst some argue that a solution to the age-period-cohort (APC) 'identification problem' is impossible, numerous methodological solutions have been proposed, including Yang and Land's Hie...