Search Results for Demographic economics

...Steve H. Murdock; F. Larry Leistritz; Rita R. Hamm; Sean-Shong Hwang; Banoo Parpia Abstract A large number of regional economic-demographic projection models have been developed but their accuracy has seldom been evaluated. This article examines the accuracy of one such model in projecting total...

...Anne C. Case; I-Fen Lin; Sara S. Mclanahan Abstract We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine trends in the receipt of child support (and the determinants of trends) between 1968 and 1997. The findings suggest that political, demographic, and economic forces all exerted...

... DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC CORRELATES OF PRIMATE CITIES: A CASE FOR REVALUATION* SURINDER K. MEHTA University of Pennsylvania RESUMEN Ciertas auioridiule« respetables en materia de desarrollo econ6mico han manifestado que todos, 0 por lo menos una mayoria, de los paises en desarrollo estan "superurbanizados...

... on the World Social Situation . ( 1961 ). New York : United Nations . 8 Wallis , W. Allen , & Roberts , Harry V. ( 1956 ). Statistica—a New Approach (pp. 258 – 63 ). New York : The Free Press of Glencoe, Ill. . THE BALANCE OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN PUERTO RICO...

... de funciones exponenciales uno puede determinar valores para la distribucion de estas variables y la tasa cruda de mortalidad para cualquier nivel de consumo de energía que se desee. Summary Per capita consumption of energy in 112 world areas was related to a series of economic and demographic...

... and lagged components of demographic change, convergence-type economic modeling, and several statistical frameworks. The separate impacts of births and deaths are found to be notable but offsetting in the earlier periods. In contrast, the short-run costs (benefits) of births (mortality reduction) increase...

... outcomes at old age are influenced by health attributes of past, concurrent, and future generations of relatives. Finally, we find that the demographic and economic differences that exist among them explain functional health disparities by race and ethnicity, but not by gender. 9 1 2011 ©...

... Market . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . 7. Borrie , W. D. ( 1960 ). Demographic Cycles and Economic Development: Some Observations Based upon Australian Experience . Population Index , XXVI ( No. 1 ), 3 – 15 10.2307/2731489 . 8. Buckley , Kenneth A. H. ( 1958...

...: The First Phase . Social Security Bulletin , 55 ( 2 ), 20 – 35 . Social Security, Age of Retirement, and Economic Well-being 369 Demography, Volume 40-Number 2, May 2003: 369 394 369 T SOCIAL SECURITY, AGE OF RETIREMENT, AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING: INTERTEMPORAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS AMONG RETIRED...

...Julie A. Phillips Abstract Using pooled cross-sectional time-series data for the 50 U.S. states over a 25-year period, this article examines how well four conceptual groups of social correlates—demographic, economic, social, and cultural factors—are associated with the 1976–2000 patterns in overall...

... following the birth of a shared child, using five waves of longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Using discrete-time event history models, we find that demographic, economic, and relationship differences explain more than two-thirds of the increased risk of dissolution...

... of rising income levels. These results are discussed in light of previous research on living arrangements of the elderly, which articulates demographic, economic, and cultural explanations for change. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1995 1995 Elderly Person Living Arrangement...

..., the prevalence of mother-only families in the turn-of-the-century African American population would have been even higher than has been reported. Remarriage in this period countered the various demographic, economic, cultural, and social-institutional forces that disproportionately destabilized African American...

...Julia Andrea Behrman Abstract Social investment in schooling in low-income countries has increased greatly in the 1990s and 2000s because of the robust associations among schooling and demographic, economic, and health outcomes. This analysis investigates whether targeted school-attendance stipend...

... issues by using data from 77 countries and more than 200 waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). First, we account for the probable endogenous relationship between birth spacing and infant mortality by estimating within-family linear probability models. These models can account...

... Perspective . Germany : Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, University of Mannheim . Hank, K. and H.-P. Kohler. 2000. “Gender Preferences for Children in Europe: Empirical Results From 17 FFS Countries.” Demographic Research 2(1). Available online at http://www.demographic...

... differences. Two approaches are assessed: (1) an additive change method that uses logic similar to cause-of-death decomposition, and (2) a contour decomposition method that extends the stepwise replacement algorithm along an age-period demographic contour. The two approaches produce similar results...

... and the Department of Sociology, Duke University; Professor of China Center for Economic Research, Peking University; and Distinguished Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Gu Danan, Research Associate, Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Duke University. Kenneth C. Land, John Franklin...

... ). The child’s food intake and energy expended are directly related to the resources available in the home environment, which are provided mainly by the parents. It is important to distinguish between economic resources and non-economic resources, such as the amount of parental time and attention available...

...Christian Dudel; Mikko Myrskylä Abstract A key concern about population aging is the decline in the size of the economically active population. Working longer is a potential remedy. However, little is known about the length of working life and how it relates to macroeconomic conditions. We use...