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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 August 1989
...Kazuo Yamaguchi Abstract Through mathematical deductions, this article shows certain macro-demographic consequences of individually employed male-preferring stopping rules in childbearing. It is shown that male-preferring stopping rules generate differences between boys and girls in birth order...
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in Bayesian Estimation of Age-Specific Mortality and Life Expectancy for Small Areas With Defective Vital Records
> Demography
Published: 05 July 2018
Fig. 7 Posterior medians of male life expectancy at birth: Brazilian microregions, 2010. Darker colors indicate higher mortality and lower e 0 . The state of Bahia is highlighted with a thick border
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in Bayesian Estimation of Age-Specific Mortality and Life Expectancy for Small Areas With Defective Vital Records
> Demography
Published: 05 July 2018
Fig. 8 Uncertainty of male life expectancy at birth, as measured by the width of the 80 % posterior probability interval: Brazilian microregions, 2010. Darker colors indicate more certain estimates. The state of Bahia is highlighted with a thick border
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in Stochastic Population Forecasting Based on Combinations of Expert Evaluations Within the Bayesian Paradigm
> Demography
Published: 15 August 2014
Fig. 2 Experts’ central scenarios on male and female life expectancies at birth at 2030 and 2065
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Published: 02 October 2015
Fig. 2 Sex ratio (male/female) by birth cohort. Estimates are based on white men and white women born in the contiguous United States. We define the sex ratio as the number of men born in a year-quarter divided by the average number of women born in the previous and subsequent 8 quarters
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Published: 07 September 2013
Fig. 3 Male psychological distress scores (GHQ-12) by years of birth cohort. Higher levels of GHQ-12 = higher levels of psychological distress
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in The Mechanism Underlying Change in the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy at Birth: An Extended Decomposition
> Demography
Published: 20 November 2019
Fig. 1 Sex gap (female – male) in life expectancy at birth by selected countries, 1880–2010. “Others” indicates the remaining countries used in the analysis. Source : Authors’ calculations based on HMD ( 2018 ).
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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. 2 Minimum mortality in France, females and males: Birth cohorts 1900–1993. The graph depicts the observed (squares and crosses) as well as the smoothed (solid line) minimum mortality. The observed rates marked with a square indicate the cohorts who spent at least one year in the omitted
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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. 3 Minimum mortality, females and males: Birth cohorts 1970, 1980, and 1990. The graph depicts the levels of minimum mortality for the 1970, 1980, and 1990 birth cohorts for all countries analyzed. For Bulgaria, the last available cohort was born in 1989. Countries are ordered according
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Published: 17 October 2012
Fig. 3 Birth weight densities by maternal education: European American males, 2001. In panels a–c, the solid lines represent low education, and the dashed lines represent high education. Corresponding fine lines are the bias-adjusted 95 % confidence intervals, which, when they overlap
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 541–566.
Published: 01 March 2016
... are born earlier than their male siblings, and son-biased fertility behavior is persistent in response to decline in fertility over time and across households with parents from different backgrounds. Parents use contraceptive methods to halt fertility following a male birth. The sibling sex composition...
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Published: 20 October 2012
Fig. 4 Current smoking prevalence by age, race, and birth cohort, males. Source: Burns et al. ( 1997 )
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Published: 20 October 2012
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 333–352.
Published: 01 August 1983
... a second child. In increasing their families to moderate size, parents appear to take into consideration the sex distribution of all earlier births. 7 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1983 1983 Family Size Birth Order Male Birth Ideal Family Size World Fertility Survey...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 477–488.
Published: 01 November 2000
... a long period, as well as a sex ratio at birth of 106 males per 100 females, result in a highly masculine population sex ratio. 8 2 2011 © Population Association of America 2000 2000 Female Mortality Model Life Table Male Birth Female Birth Female Advantage References...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1775–1796.
Published: 05 September 2014
... women and their infants. Lumey and Stein ( 1997 ) found that infants who were exposed to the Dutch famine during the first trimester of gestation had lower birth weight, while Roseboom et al. ( 2001a ) found that late-term exposure was associated with increased mortality among male infants. Hart ( 1993...
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Demography (1994) 31 (3): 459–479.
Published: 01 August 1994
..., and in the absence of substantial gains or losses from migration, the numbers of males and females are approximately equal. These approximately equal numbers are the result of the usual slight majority of males at birth, and the usual somewhat higher mortality of males in the absence of differential treatment...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1143–1171.
Published: 01 June 2022
... stress, which can result in lower male:female sex ratios ( Grech 2017 , 2018 , 2019 ). As a result of these environmental exposures, African Americans and American Indians likely have low male:female ratios at birth. Male-biased sex ratios indicate strong gender inequality because sex-selective...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 421–444.
Published: 14 November 2012
... of biology is substantially smaller than the literature suggests. I also estimate the interacting effects of biology with some intrauterine and external environmental factors, including birth order within a twin pair, social status, and climate. I find that a twin is more likely to be male if he...
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Demography (2012) 49 (1): 77–100.
Published: 17 December 2011
..., when the impact of surplus male births before 2020 disappears. In contrast, the no-transition scenario suggests that the weighted adult sex ratio in China would not return to normal levels and would instead oscillate after 2025 around a high level of 119. My results agree with findings already found...
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