TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cheng, Pao-Chih Roger
A1  - Lin, Eric S.
T1  - Completing incomplete cohort fertility schedules
Y1  - 2010/07/30
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 223
EP  - 256
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.9
VL  - 23
IS  - 9
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/9/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/9/23-9.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/9/23-9.pdf
L3  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/9/files/23-9%20SAS%20dataset.zip
N2  - This paper develops a simple age-period-cohort framework in completing incomplete cohort fertility schedules, and makes full use of 1917--2005 U.S. data to obtain robust outcomes. Empirically, we indicate that the period effect is the key to transforming a fertility level into a fertility schedule. Accompanied by the smoothed version of tempo-variance-adjusted total fertility rates proposed in Kohler and Philipov (2001), we approximate the cohort fertility schedules fairly well and the estimates of all distributional parameters can be thereby obtained. Our approach is easy to implement and the data requirement is relatively light, indicating that the proposed method is readily applicable to countries whose data lengths are insufficiently long, and would be helpful for further empirical investigation of the relationship between cohort fertility behavior and other cohort-specific socioeconomic factors.

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