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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 727–746.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Tommy Bengtsson; Martin Dribe Abstract In this article, we analyze fertility control in a rural population characterized by natural fertility, using survival analysis on a longitudinal data set at the individual level combined with food prices. Landless and semilandless families responded strongly...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1231–1262.
Published: 18 October 2011
... of nonrenewable resources, and increased poverty in low-income countries. The actual experience was very different. World food production increased faster than world population in every decade since the 1960s, resource prices fell during most of the period, and poverty declined significantly in much...
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Demography (1973) 10 (1): 85–98.
Published: 01 February 1973
.... The only group that saves is profit recipients; peasants and secondary sector employees consume all their income. A decline in fertility leads to a lower demand for food and a lower price of food. This results in a lower money supply price of labor in the secondary sector, and hence greater profits...
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Demography (1983) 20 (2): 197–212.
Published: 01 May 1983
..., the demographic variables are endogenous. Economic and meteorological conditions are exogenous. Our indicator of economic conditions is the price of wheat, the principal food crop. Biometric models of fertility and empirical research on the biologically-based interrelations of fertility and mortality provide...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 247–261.
Published: 01 May 1999
... their intensity, we graph trends in the annual number of military attacks, real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, and percentage changes in the food and consumer price indexes. Dramatic changes for the worse in these four measures represent the different dimensions of political and economic crisis (i.e...
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Demography (1993) 30 (3): 405–423.
Published: 01 August 1993
... by a lowered resistance associated with winter/spring food shortages (Mielke et al. 1984). The Dynamics of SmaUpox Epidemics in Britain, 1550-1800 419 A considerable literature examines the relationship between grain prices (on one hand) and mortality and susceptibility to disease (on the other). A positive...
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1775–1796.
Published: 05 September 2014
..., particularly among rural farmers and laborers (Sen 1981 ). Although food availability remained unaffected until the harvest period later in the year, food prices began to rise immediately, eventually increasing by 500 % (Dyson 1991 ). Although the precise cause of these increased prices remains unclear...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1207–1218.
Published: 28 June 2016
... of the total effect of the role of government policies and programs in reducing the poverty rate. 4 Official poverty thresholds are updated annually using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and historically were updated first using changes in food prices and then using the Consumer...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 255–279.
Published: 01 February 2023
... and food prices, which usually have occurred during epidemics and subsistence crises related to failed harvests and famines ( Bengtsson et al. 2004 ; Depauw and Oxley 2019 ). Variation across social groups, such as socioeconomic classes, is used to identify groups with a particular vulnerability...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 1127–1154.
Published: 30 May 2012
... that the mechanism through which participants receive their SNAP benefits (i.e., food coupons or “stamps” and, most recently, debit cards) incentivizes overpurchase and thereby overconsumption of food. Relative to cash assistance, SNAP benefits represent an inflexible form of income; the relative price of food...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1091–1118.
Published: 14 May 2018
... in January-February shortly after beans are harvested and just as the primary maize crop comes in, and drops off substantially through the following months as households exhaust crop stores and food prices rise. The lean season starts in April–May and persists for three to six months. In real terms, peak...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 413–436.
Published: 09 March 2017
... a response in spacing to food price variations among the landless and semi-landless, but not among noble tenants and freeholders in southern Sweden. This result is also in line with the findings of Kelly and Gráda ( 2012 ), who concluded that higher wheat prices deterred marriages of less wealthy tenants...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 945–966.
Published: 12 May 2015
... urbanized, and had diets that were less protein-based, with a greater share of calories coming from breads and other carbohydrates. Northern food prices were the lowest in states that produced surpluses in select crops (Atack and Bateman 1987 :228–246). For example, Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas produced...
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Demography (1996) 33 (1): 98–110.
Published: 01 February 1996
... (June-August); time of harvesting aus (rice crop); peak of enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) diarrhea under age 2 (April-September). August-October (hungry months) Low demand for agricultural labor; depletion of food stocks; increase in food prices; retarded growth in children's weight (September-Octo- ber...
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 87–113.
Published: 01 February 2024
...) on later-life and old-age longevity. They exploited the regional and temporal variations in potato and rye prices to proxy for early-life food availability and found that cohorts exposed in early life had their longevity reduced by 2.5–4 years. Roseboom et al. (2006) investigated the later-life health...
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 851–872.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Chung C. , & Myers S.L. ( 1999 ). “Do the Poor Pay More for Food? An Analysis of Grocery Store Availability and Food Price Disparities.” . Journal of Consumer Affairs , 33 , 276 – 276 . 10.1111/j.1745-6606.1999.tb00071.x Corrada M.M. , Kawas C.H. , Mozaffar F...
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
... prices due to transportation costs and the opportunity costs of using children in farm activities and lower food prices. Such differences are likely to make the schooling-child quality association weaker, if anything, across families than within families. Third, the parameters in the underlying parental...
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Demography (1991) 28 (2): 181–199.
Published: 01 May 1991
... facilities, of which approximately half were public and half private. Infant formula was available in local stores and markets at the time of birth for approximately 57% of the mothers. Economic variables. The family's income and the vector of prices that the family faces for food and other goods can...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 953–977.
Published: 05 May 2020
... in food prices in the period up to 1865 but not afterward, which is indicative of a nutritional vulnerability that the higher classes did not experience (Bengtsson 2004 ; Bengtsson and Dribe 2005 ). Given that our findings for the period after 1970 are in line with research for both Sweden...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 499–526.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... ( 2012 ). Country and regional staple food price indices for improved identification of food insecurity . Global Environmental Change , 22 , 784 – 794 . Butt T. A. , McCarl B. A. , Angerer J. , Dyke P. T. , & Stuth J. W. ( 2005 ). The economic and food security...
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