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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 353–372.
Published: 01 August 1989
... 1989 1989 Environmental Action Demographic Transition Cultural Transmission Weak Selection Demographic Evolution References Bengtsson, T. 1986. Comparisons of Population Cycles and Trends in England, France and Sweden (1751–1860). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1349–1370.
Published: 03 July 2019
.... This study used data on 77 countries and 207 waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) (see Table A1 in the online appendix for list of included countries and their respective numbers of cases). The DHS is a household survey, with a separate survey for women aged 15–49. The household response rates...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 929–955.
Published: 21 May 2018
...- and long-term child outcomes. Open access funding provided by Max Planck Society. Kieron Barclay was supported by a European Research Council Starting Grant awarded to Mikko Myrskylä (COSTPOST: 336475). We are also grateful for support from the Stockholm University SIMSAM Node for Demographic...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1715–1735.
Published: 01 October 2021
... future. These developments have profound implications for demographic theory and highlight the need for policies to support bereaved older parents. Foundational demographic work has already noted the expected effect of demographic change on the lived experience of child death ( Uhlenberg 1980 , 1996...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 459–484.
Published: 13 February 2017
... medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Birth intervals Cognitive ability Socioeconomic attainment Population register data Sweden Demographers analyzing...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 855–865.
Published: 01 June 1968
... to offer birth control services to a sizable propor- tion of the clientele and thus they have 21 Jose L. Vazquez, The Demographic Evolution of Puerto Rico, op. cit., pp. 204-226. Fertility Decline in Puerto Rico 865 little direct effect upon the decline of fer- tility. However their campaigns and publicity...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1295–1317.
Published: 03 June 2014
... modeling: How physiological aging influences mortality . Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences , 55A , B10 – B19 . 16 4 2014 3 6 2014 © Population Association of America 2014 2014 Rate of demographic aging Rate of biological aging Cohort evolution Mortality selection...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1933–1954.
Published: 15 August 2014
... and unconditional scenarios, on summary indicators of the demographic components determining the population evolution: that is, fertility, mortality, and migration. Here, two main purposes are pursued. First, the demographic components are allowed to have some kind of dependence. Second, as a result...
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Demography (1970) 7 (4): 433–448.
Published: 01 November 1970
...Etienne van de Walle; John Knodel Abstract Because many students learn general points best by an empirical demonstration rather than by a purely analytical approach, most of the mysteries of the formation and the evolution of a population under the action of mortality and fertility can...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 967–988.
Published: 08 May 2015
... segregation would be underestimated. In subsequent sections, we explore the distinctive segregation of the groups. As mentioned earlier, overall segregation depends on two factors: the segregation levels of the groups and their demographic weights. In this subsection, we first analyze the evolution...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2253–2277.
Published: 02 December 2019
... patterns. This study adopts a demographic perspective to examine the evolution of earnings trajectories among white and black men across cohorts in the United States. Using more than 40 years of longitudinal earnings records from the U.S. Social Security Administration matched to the Survey of Income...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1343–1361.
Published: 20 June 2018
... of differences in their demographic evolutions can be detected, which again can serve as a basis for research on the causes. If a mortality model is to be calibrated to historical data, our framework can also be used to identify suitable time spans (e.g., without major trend breaks). Further, the framework...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1777–1802.
Published: 27 September 2018
... contributions of this research is the provision of a complete and consistent set of demographic information that can be used to study the evolution of 19 different subpopulations in Australia by birthplace. This information not only provides reliable details on the sources of change but also can be used...
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Demography (1980) 17 (4): 345–364.
Published: 01 November 1980
....), The Demographic Evolution of Human Populations (pp. 25 – 40 ). London : Academic Press . Irelan L. M. ( 1972 ). Retirement History Study: Introduction . Social Security Bulletin , 35 , 3 – 15 . Jackson Jacquelyn J. ( 1980 ). Minorities and Aging . Belmont, California : Wadsworth...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 17–30.
Published: 01 February 1997
... and Howell 1960), and evolutionary concepts in medicine (so-called Dar- winian medicine; Nesse 1995; Williams and Nesse 1991). Many of the key variables of demographic analysis are inherently biological and thus were shaped by evolution. These variables include age patterns of fertility (Bongaarts and Potter...
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Demography (1979) 16 (2): 329–338.
Published: 01 May 1979
... mortality distributions with the same mean life expectation. This class of parameters measures the convexity of the fertility and mortality distributions. This paper analyzes the relations between the entropy parameter and the standard demographic parameters. 8 1 2011 © Population Association...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 39–60.
Published: 25 December 2014
... Evolution of the age at the transition from latent to manifest aging in Swedish birth cohorts, by gender (1828–1929) In short, the more recent cohorts are, the lower their starting mortality level (hardly a surprise) and the earlier the onset of their demographic aging, which was probably...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2109–2134.
Published: 01 December 2022
... mortality followed by temporarily lower mortality). The model also describes the evolution of chimpanzee mortality well. The evolution of mortality over the lifetime is, in fact, remarkably similar across human populations and across most primates. Because of this regularity, demographers have searched...
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 311–332.
Published: 20 September 2012
... 2012 2012 Economic history Demographic economics Malthus Preindustrial economic stagnation is typically explained through the use of a Malthusian-style model. This model demonstrates how living standards are trapped by a self-equilibrating system of population and vital rates. However...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 49–66.
Published: 01 February 1997
...~ Journal 297: 1233-36. Fraker, P.J., M.E. Gershwin, R.A. Good, and A. Prasad. 1986. "In- terrelationships Between Zinc and Immune Function." Federa- tion Proceedings 45: 1474-79. Fridlizius, G. 1984. "The Mortality Decline in the First Phase of A THEORY OF TECHNOPHYSIO EVOLUTION the Demographic Transition...