I also examined ethnic differences in the likelihood of individuals to meet intentions, that is, what proportion of White and Hispanic women and men met intentions, exceeded intentions, and fell short of intentions, and by how much.
This model treats intentions as the main determinant of achieved fertility and identifies several factors that can cause individuals to either exceed intentions or fall short of them, such as unwanted births or the lack of an acceptable partner.
"The Global Savings Glut:" Like the juvenile delinquent who blames society for his crimes, Greenspan ascribes his low-interest rate policies to "global savings intentions [which] of necessity had chronically exceeded global intentions to invest".
Hispanics have higher fertility than Whites both because they intend more children at the start of their reproductive lives and because they are more likely to exceed these intentions.
Working with a good director is rather like going into analysis – however lucid you might feel to yourself, what emerges in the production of a play exceeds your intention.
Of the 24 studies, 19 were assigned low risk of attrition bias (criteria: attrition rate reported, not exceeding 20% or intention-to-treat analysis).
Conversely, the earlier individuals achieve their desired parity, the longer the period of exposure during which they are at risk of having an additional birth that would cause them to exceed their original intentions.
Hispanics have higher fertility than Whites but prior research had not explored whether this difference reflects the preferences of individuals, nor how differences in fertility levels are related to the process of exceeding or falling short of intentions over the life course.
In fact, I found that Hispanic women and men were very likely to undershoot intentions – 39% of women and 43% of men fell short of intentions expressed around age 22 – and they were more likely to undershoot intentions than to either meet intentions or exceed them.
The mechanism gazetted on Thursday makes clear the government's intention that no business should find itself exceeding the new limits.
