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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 369–378.
Published: 01 August 1970
... criterion for a rational national natality policy. At best it can be but one factor to be taken into consideration in such a policy decision. 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1970 1970 Labor Force Discount Rate Capita Income Population Growth Rate Indifference Curve...
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Demography (1987) 24 (3): 341–359.
Published: 01 August 1987
... are separable from parental consumption of goods and leisure. Parental preferences regarding child earnings and bequests are reflected in the parental welfare function W(E], , En, B], , Bn), which is assumed to be quasi-concave so that the indifference curves have the usual shape: = V[C, L, W(E], , Em B], , Bn...
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Demography (1979) 16 (2): 329–338.
Published: 01 May 1979
... of death which the curve describes can be ascribed to the interindividual genetic variability or the action of an environmental agent that acts randomly on the individuals of different ages and is indifferent to the ages of the individuals. The distribution that maximizes H sub- ject to a constraint...
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Demography (1999) 36 (4): 475–495.
Published: 01 November 1999
...John R. Wilmoth; Shiro Horiuchi Abstract Rectangularization of human survival curves is associated with decreasing variability in the distribution of ages at death. This variability, as measured by the interquartile range of life table ages at death, has decreased from about 65 years to 15 years...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 61–82.
Published: 14 January 2015
... for additional childbearing. Women in the KAP90 survey were asked whether they wanted additional sons or daughters. They were also asked whether they would be happy, unhappy, or indifferent if they had an additional son; and whether they would be happy, unhappy, or indifferent if they had an additional daughter...
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Demography (1965) 2 (1): 203–232.
Published: 01 March 1965
... of a simple diagram, given by Nelson. In Figure 1 the curves of the rate of popula- tion growth, r (or dPjPdl), and the rate of aggregate income-growth, dYjdYt- both measured on the vertical axis-are represented as a function of per capita income, YjP (or Y). At the average in- come level, VB' the system...
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 47–57.
Published: 01 March 1966
... people to it, and there are others which tend to repel them. These are shown in the diagram as + and - signs. There are others, shown as O's, to which people are essentially indifferent. Some of these fac- tors affect most people in much the same way, while others affect different people in different...
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Demography (1971) 8 (4): 571–580.
Published: 01 November 1971
... for births, deaths, immigration and emi- gration, and to compute the resulting population." In this very beginning of his work 45 years ago he invented the components method, while his contempo- raries were still extrapolating with logis- tic and other curves. Implicit in his work-sheets was the now well...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 145–155.
Published: 01 May 1999
... and costly job search suggest that the wage on the alternative job will be considerably lower than the wage on the current job.' Each woman will have preferences over combinations of leave lengths and wage levels. Thus, in this wage-leave length space we can draw her iso-utility curves. Each iso- utility...
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Demography (1990) 27 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 February 1990
... Reports International , 24 , 963 – 971 . Kihlberg , J. , & Koski , K. ( 1954 ). On the Properties of the Tooth Eruption Curve . Suomen Hammaslaakariseuran Toimituksia , 50 ( Suppl. 2 ), 6 – 10 . Lavelle , C. L. B. ( 1976 ). Study of Tooth Emergence in British Blacks...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 489–496.
Published: 01 November 1998
... , W.R. ( 1986 ). Racial Occupational Inequality, 1940–80: National and Regional Trends . American Sociological Review , 51 , 421 – 29 . 10.2307/2095313 Hutchens , R.M. ( 1991 ). Segregation Curves, Lorenz Curves, and Inequality in the Distribution of People Across Occupations...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 497–509.
Published: 01 November 1996
... earnings and labor-force participation of black male workers. Lower and flatter earnings trajectories raise the question of whether certain groups can ever expect to earn a decent wage. Increasing doubts about labor-market prospects can contribute to early school leaving, workers' indifference, de- cline...
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Demography (1973) 10 (1): 37–51.
Published: 01 February 1973
..., the number of children in the permanent nurseries and kindergartens increased by over 100 percent (U.S.S.R., 1971; translation, Vestnik Statistiki, 1972, p. 81). Economics oj jemale employment It is also plausible to assume the indifference curve as the underlying structure of people's choice. Translated...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 291–316.
Published: 19 February 2011
... of the survival curves shown by Cai (reproduced by the bottom two lines), the author claimed “very similar underreporting rates” of children in 1990 and 2000 (Cai 2008 :277). However, these survival curves overlap (and at levels near 1 for the cohort overall) only because of the author’s large and differential...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 1171–1192.
Published: 09 June 2020
..., the omission of 20 parishes, the discrepancy between baptisms and births, and the discrepancy between burials and deaths. As the partial missingness of parish records decreased in time, we defined the λ coefficients as logistic growth curves with fixed endpoints. First, we assumed that the partial missingness...
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 351–360.
Published: 01 May 1975
... elaborate versions is not to say we feel these versions unworthy of analysis. It simply says we chose to analyze the one presented. And quite clearly we do not wish to restrict the generality of our version by adding such economic prem- ises as "Any continuous curve in the commodity space connecting...
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 481–492.
Published: 01 August 1991
... of displaying complex bivariate relationships that may not conform to smooth curves. Their defect, as we explain to beginning students, is that they do not allow tests of multivariate hypotheses. Even if these authors had shown an interest in testing theories in their discussion of research questions...
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 763–790.
Published: 01 November 2002
... based racial differences in the heights of adults do exist, worldwide evidence indicates that well-nourished children of diverse ethnic backgrounds are compa- rable along age- and sex-standardized growth curves until age 10 (Habicht et al. 1974). Children who are severely height-for-age deficient...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 235–247.
Published: 01 May 1988
... prevailing in 1963, although during the 1970s they had shown a notable decline (see Tables 1 and 2). Note that the offset in the illegitimacy ratio curves between 1963 and 1983 is approximately constant at all ages, in both the black and the white panels of Figure 1. Because the vertical axes have...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 533–549.
Published: 01 November 1993
... a multitude of redundant protections; that as we grow old we lose these one by one; from those simple assumptions they derive the typical curve of rising mortality with age. This is a rich field for research, in which demographers are challenged to analyze data that comes from a variety of sources. Beyond...
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