Throughout the industrial world and in much of the Third World, populations are aging. This population aging results in part from lower fertility and in part from longer life. Lower fertility reduces the rate of population growth, so that recent generations are smaller than earlier generations, and therefore the relative number of older people is greater. This kind of aging raises the share of ...

The life history characteristics of the rove beetle Paederus fuscipes Curtis were studied under laboratory conditions using three field strains from Malaysia: Desa Wawasan (DW), Sri Pinang (SP), and Ampang Jajar (AJ). The total development time of immature stages differed significantly among the three strains, especially between DW (17.43 +/- 0.16 d), SP (18.60 +/- 0.19 d), and AJ (18.68 +/- 0....

All us We estimate a dynamic life cycle model of labor supply, fertility, and savings, incorporating occupational choices, with specific wage paths and skill atrophy that vary over the career. This allows us to understand the trade-off between occupational choice and desired fertility, as well as sorting both into the labormarket and across occupations. We quantify the life cycle career costs a...

This book is a course of lectures on the mathematics of actuarial science. The idea behind the lectures is as far as possible to deduce interesting material on contingent present values and life tables directly from calculus and common-sense notions, illustrated through word problems. Both the Interest Theory and Probability related to life tables are treated as wonderful concrete applications ...

Formulas for constructing valid pointwise confidence bands for survival distributions, estimated using unequal probability samples, are derived. In addition, a test statistic for comparing estimated survival distributions from several groups is proposed. The methodology can be applied when survival times are subject to an independent censoring mechanism. The methods are illustrated using data f...

Phenacoccus solenopsis, the cotton mealy bug, has emerged as a serious pest of cotton in india, necessitating basic studies on its development and survival at different temperatures (20, 25, 30 and 35 °C) and relative humidities (rH) (65, 75 and 85 ± 1 %) levels to ascertain optimal population growth. a life table was constructed using temperature and humidity. The nymphal duration was 20.2 d a...

The first study was a retrospective analysis of 5,833 AIDS cases (based on the pre-1987 CDC clinical case definition) reported to the city of New York prior to December 31, 1985. The analysis of survival was done by a cross-linkage of death records. The authors acknowledge that this method "may have resulted in some underascertainment of deaths due to outmigration." If a subject moved his or he...

This paper explores the role of mortality as a determinant of educational attainment and fertility, both during the demographic transition and after its completion. Two main points distinguish our analysis from the previous ones. Together with the investments of parents in the human capital of children, traditional in the fertility literature, we introduce investments of adult individuals (pare...

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy often result in reduced fertility in cancer patients. With increasing survival rates, fertility is an important quality-of-life concern for many young cancer patients. Around 70-75% of young cancer survivors are interested in parenthood but the numbers of patients who access fertility preservation techniques prior to treatment are significantly lower. Moreover, des...