...Vladimir Canudas-Romo Abstract This article examines the trend over time in the measures of “typical” longevity experienced by members of a population: life expectancy at birth, and the median and modal ages at death. The article also analyzes trends in record values observed for all three measures...

... into the future. We review the past literature on trends in disability and other health indicators and then estimate the most recent trends in biomarkers and limitations for both the population aged 65 and older and those aged 40 to 64, the future elderly. We then investigate the extent to which trends...

...Eileen Crimmins; Jung Ki Kim; Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn Abstract The incorporation of biological information in large population surveys has expanded demographic analysis to clarify the meaning of observed trends and differences in population health and mortality. Levels of measured biological risk...

...Anne C. Case; I-Fen Lin; Sara S. Mclanahan Abstract We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine trends in the receipt of child support (and the determinants of trends) between 1968 and 1997. The findings suggest that political, demographic, and economic forces all exerted...

..., education is most important in accounting for recent trends. The relationship between educational attainment and functioning has not changed measurably, but educational attainment has increased greatly during this period. Our analysis suggests, all else being equal, that future changes in education...

...Nicholas H. Wolfinger Abstract I use data from the 1973-1996 NORC General Social Survey to examine trends in the intergenerational transmission of divorce. the propensity for the children of divorce to end their own marriages. The rate of divorce transmission declined by almost 50% in the study...

... trends and differences for the two periods examined—before 1984 and before 1989. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1997 1997 Treatment Area Birth Interval Antenatal Visit Comparison Area Index Child References Aguirre, A. 1990. “The Preceding Birth Technique...

...Robert A. Moffitt; Michael S. Rendall Abstract We use the PSID Relationship File to estimate cohort trends in the lifetime incidence and duration of female family headship. Hazard (event-history) techniques are used to estimate movements into and out of headship, accounting for duration dependence...

... Trends in the Lifetime Distribution of Female Family Headship in the U.S., 1968-1985" 32(3):416-417. Figures 1 and 2 were reversed and mislabeled. The graph presented second, and labeled as Figure 2, showing female headship rates ranging between 2 and 19 over age for the 1935 and 1970 cohorts, should...

...J. Ties Boerma; George Stroh Abstract Demographic and health surveys are a useful source of information on the levels and trends of neonatal mortality in developing countries. Such surveys provide data on mortality occurring at 4–14 days of life, which is a sensitive indicator of neonatal tetanus...

...Renbao Chen; S. Philip Morgan Abstract We use vital registration data published since 1979 to update trends in the timing of first births. Two important trends are documented. First, the likelihood that childless women over age 30 will have a first birth has increased since the 1970s. This change...

.... (Originally published 1932.) Benjamin, B., and H. W. Haycocks. 1970. The Analysis of Mortality and Other Actuarial Statistics . Cambridge. Boyle , P. P. , & Gráda , C. Ó ( 1983 ). Fertility trends, excess mortality and the Great Irish Famine . Ireland : Centre for Economic Research...

...Gordon A. Carmichael Abstract Since the early 1970s Australia has experienced a pronounced trend to later and less universal marriage. This stands in sharp contrast to a marriage boom that began with the outbreak of World War II and lasted for three decades. The boom was the product of three sets...

.... A. Sullivan. 1982. Labor Force Composition and Underemployment Trends, 1969–1980. Social Indicators Research (in press). Duncan B. ( 1979 ). Change in Worker/Nonworker Ratios for Women . Demography , 16 , 535 – 547 . 10.2307/2060933 O. D. Duncan , & H. H. Winsborough...

...Kenneth G. Manton; Eric Stallard Abstract An analysis is made of the mortality trends over the period 1968 to 1977 indicated by two types of cause-specific mortality data. The first type of data is “underlying cause” of death data—the data heretofore used in national vital statistics reports...