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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 323–343.
Published: 01 May 2008
... changes in postwar Japan are investigated by analyzing time series of mortality rates and eight economic indicators. To eliminate spurious associations attributable to trends, series are detrended either via Hodrick-Prescott filtering or through differencing. As previously found in other industrial...
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 785–803.
Published: 01 November 2009
...James M. Raymo; Miho Iwasawa; Larry Bumpass Abstract This article documents the prevalence, duration, and marital outcomes of cohabiting unions in Japan. It then examines the correlates of cohabitation experiences and also describes differences in the family-formation trajectories of women who have...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 633–650.
Published: 01 November 1994
.... and the relationships between those two factors. As Japan has reached a level of mortality similar to that in Sweden, the age patterns of mortality in the two populations have become more similar despite distinct differences in causes of death. The United States has a cause-of-death structure similar to that of Sweden...
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Demography (1988) 25 (4): 611–624.
Published: 01 November 1988
...Machiko Yanagishita; Jack M. Guralnik Abstract Between 1972 and 1982, Japan caught up to and then surpassed Sweden as the country with the longest life expectancy. The contributions of different causes of death and age groups to life expectancy changes in males during this time period are examined...
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 693–717.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Wei-Hsin Yu Abstract Research on female labor-force participation has not fully explained why economic development has different effects on married women’s employment continuity across societies. I use life-history data from nationally representative samples of women in Japan and Taiwan to examine...
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Demography (1970) 7 (2): 121–134.
Published: 01 May 1970
...Yoshihiro Tsubouchi Abstract Changes in fertility for the 46 prefectures of Japan are traced from 1920 to 1965, using census and vital statistics. During the period, substantial declines were recorded in both marital-fertility levels and the proportions of women of childbearing age who were married...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 461–483.
Published: 01 April 2022
... This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Marriage Wealth Intrahousehold resource allocation Japan Family structure has been changing significantly in many, if not all, developed countries. Fewer people are marrying today than...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2161–2186.
Published: 01 December 2022
... between high- and low-tier institutions in the context of high participation in tertiary education may clarify the mixed evidence on educational homogamy trends across countries. I apply log-linear and log-multiplicative models to analyze trends in educational assortative mating in Japan, which...
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in Explaining Declining Educational Homogamy: The Role of Institutional Changes in Higher Education in Japan
> Demography
Published: 01 December 2022
Fig. 1 Trends in university enrollment in Japan. The entrance rate is calculated as the total number of high school graduates who are enrolled. Source : School Basic Survey, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1283–1318.
Published: 13 September 2016
... Japan, we investigate whether changes in never-married adults’ residential status lead to alterations in their marital aspirations, courtship behaviors, romantic opportunities, and perceived obstacles to marrying. Our estimation of fixed-effects models helps address potential bias caused by single...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 667–703.
Published: 02 April 2015
...Fabian F. Drixler Abstract This article quantifies the frequency of infanticide and abortion in one region of Japan by comparing observed fertility in a sample of 4.9 million person-years (1660–1872) with a Monte Carlo simulation of how many conceptions and births that population should have...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1559–1579.
Published: 09 August 2011
...Emiko Takagi; Merril Silverstein Abstract We investigated the conditions under which married children live with their older parents in Japan. We focused on how needs and resources in each generation are associated with whether married couples live with their parents in parent-headed and child...
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Published: 23 February 2011
Fig. 3 Plots of ln R 0 against α for the Netherlands, Japan, the United States, and Australia: 1955–2003
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in Losses of Expected Lifetime in the United States and Other Developed Countries: Methods and Empirical Analyses
> Demography
Published: 26 February 2011
Fig. 1 The e † versus e 0 trajectories in England and Wales (E&W), Japan, Sweden, and the United States (US) after the year when life expectancies in these countries reached 60 years for males and 65 years for females. Time periods covered are 1946–2003 for England and Wales, 1951–2004
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Published: 15 March 2013
Fig. 6 Life expectancy projections for Japan. The plots include the UN projections and BHM median projections, with 80 % and 95 % prediction intervals. The life expectancy values used to estimate our model are shown by grey circles. Panel a shows projections for 2005–2010 with a sample
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in Extending the Lee-Carter Method to Model the Rotation of Age Patterns of Mortality Decline for Long-Term Projections
> Demography
Published: 01 August 2013
Fig. 5 Age-specific rates of mortality decline of Japan for both sexes plotted by age x based on 1950–2010 death rates of the Lee-Carter (original b ( x )), Lee-Carter method extended with rotation ( B ( x , t )), the Lee-Carter method with robust rotation (LC_RR)), and the ultimate b ( x )
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Published: 27 September 2011
Fig. 2 Projections of the female populations of Indonesia and Japan, 2005–2105
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1437–1457.
Published: 19 May 2020
... set of separate evacuee and migration destinations, we compare and contrast the pre-, peri-, and post-disaster migration systems of permanent migrants and temporary evacuees of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. We construct and compare prefecture-to-prefecture migration matrices...
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in How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?
> Demography
Published: 03 August 2018
Fig. 5 Absolute male–female minimum mortality differences in Japan, Russia, France, and Norway: Birth cohorts 1900–1994. The gray lines depict all other countries included in the analysis. The sex differences are calculated based on the smoothed minimum mortality estimates. Source: Own
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in Commentary on van Raalte et al.’s “The Dangers of Drawing Cohort Profiles From Period Data: A Research Note”
> Demography
Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 2 HFD cohort values and AP approximations for Japan and France. The left panels show levels of completed cohort fertility by age 40 published by the HFD (circles), AP estimates from Eq. (2) using a single diagonal (blue crosses), and AP2 estimates from Eq. (5) using two diagonals (solid
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