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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 500–512.
Published: 01 June 1966
...-irlandesas en el tiempo más favorable para haberlas terminado. Large City Thirteenth Century Late Ancient Small Place Guild Merchant References 1 For an introductory study, see my “The Metropolitan City Region of the Middle Ages,” Journal of Regional Science , II (1960), 55–70, especially...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 174–184.
Published: 01 March 1968
... in The Cambridge Medieval History (1966), II, 52. 5 P. Charanis, for increase of population, in XII. Congrès International d'Etudes byzantines (Beograd, 1963), I, 286; J. C. Russell, Late Ancient and Medieval Population (Philadelphia, 1958), p. 148 and pp. 71-88. AsG. Ostrogorsky thought in “Die...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 158–173.
Published: 01 March 1968
... a populacni politika za socialismu . Demoqrafie, Revue pro V yzkum populacniho vyvoje , I , 2 – 3 . 8 N. M. Zhavaronkov, “Chemistry and the Vital Resources of Mankind” (paper presented to the World Population Conference [Belgrade, Yugoslovia, August-September, 1965]). 9 Ibid. , J. C. Russell, Late...
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 351–361.
Published: 01 August 1977
..., minor boundary changes were occurring throughout the period. However, they report figures ad- justed for such changes. The figures prior to 1891 relate to areas of the Ancient Counties in 1891, while those after 1891 relate to areas of the Administrative Counties in 1951. The population of the County...
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 449–465.
Published: 01 November 2001
...). For hundreds of years before 1800, late marriage, fre- quent celibacy, and young people s active involvement in courtship had been present in northwest Europe. Extensive individualism and considerable independence among young people also were found to be ancient patterns. In addition, extensive historical...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 941–946.
Published: 01 June 1968
..., the Mid- dle East excluding Israel, Africa exclud- ing South Africa and Rhodesia, South- east Asia, and the Far East excluding Japan. Though the practice of contraception is an ancient one and the methods, for the most part, are not new, until very re- cently there were very few countries where birth...
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 90–108.
Published: 01 March 1966
... or the Chinese cultures of the Western Pacific. The analysis of comparative population dynamics in the Chinese and Chinese-re- lated cultures of the Western Pacific is a complex, intricate, and almost insoluble task. Histories and records are diverse and ancient. Analyses have to involve inter- penetrations...
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 377–389.
Published: 01 November 1998
... of the previous waves were recycled. Thus, the list of potential problems has lengthened over time. The first wave, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, cen- tered on whether natural resources (such as land, water, and energy supplies) could sustain economic growth and food production in the face of population...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 127–142.
Published: 01 May 1993
... by the demographic paradigm of natural fertility. That is, the decline in fertility from high and uncontrolled levels allowed for the fruition of ancient preferences that previously had been precluded by a lack of modem contraception. This explanation fits a tradition of thought which maintains that before sustained...
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 473–487.
Published: 01 November 1986
... about. Since the late 1950s, however, there has been fairly wide agreement among students of population, especially those looking at the developing world, that luck has been an unreliable ally and is likely to remain so, that the disjunction is indeed pervasive and important, both as a description...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 642–650.
Published: 01 June 1968
... administrative machin- ery. The present bureaucracy owes its existence to the British rulers, who were understandably interested in maintaining law and order and collecting revenues. The late Prime Minister Jawahar- lal Nehru said many things about this "creaking," "slow moving," "red-tape- minded" "delaying...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 49–66.
Published: 01 February 1997
... and Disabilities at Young Adult and Late Ages.” Presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Economics of Aging Program, July 26-28. Fogel R.W. , Engennan S.L. , Trussell J. , Floud R. , Pope C.L. , & Wimmer L.T. ( 1978 ). “The Economics of Mortality...
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Demography (1975) 12 (4): 671–678.
Published: 01 November 1975
... a competing bio- logical metaphor, environmental degre- dation, gained currency in the late 1960's did the advisability of efforts at growth restraint become even debatable on a large scale in western countries. (2) Countries with sizable Catholic populations have proceeded more slowly in liberalizing laws...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 299–312.
Published: 01 May 2010
... (Oeppen and Vaupel 2002; White 2002). These facts have contributed to an increased interest in the ancient question on the possible causes of long life. Longevity is the capability to survive beyond the species-speci¿ c average age of death (De Benedictis and Franceschi 2006). This de¿ nition involves...
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Demography (2015) 52 (1): 39–60.
Published: 25 December 2014
... on 72 species of birds and mammals. Why does demographic aging occur so late, if senescence starts at birth or even before? A possible explanation is that molecular damage accumulation need not translate immediately into a marked increase of mortality: its effects may become manifest only beyond...
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Demography (1969) 6 (4): 473–491.
Published: 01 November 1969
...-12). Poona seems, in the beginning, to have been the headquarters town of a region which, however, was neither densely popu- lated nor rich in agricultural resources. The location of the town seems to have been de- termined chiefly by the site of the ford on the river Mutha. . . .Poona under the Mus...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 351–359.
Published: 01 March 1967
... Negro children than white children whose parents live outside the state of Mississippi?" DEMOGRAPHIC ANSWERS REQUIRED Letters to the Bureau of the Census from Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach and Assistant Attorney Gen- eral for Civil Rights John Doar late in September requested data which...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1375–1400.
Published: 31 July 2017
..., although opinions vary as to whether that quota was voluntary or coercively enforced. 1 China’s total fertility rate (TFR) plummeted from almost six births per woman in 1970 to less than three by the late 1970s (Fig. 1 ). Even so, Song and Li ( 1980 ) projected that if China’s TFR remained at three...
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Demography (2015) 52 (2): 667–703.
Published: 02 April 2015
... frequency. The demography of Tokugawa Japan was notably diverse. Late marriage and labor migration, either to other villages or to some of the largest cities in the early modern world, were common in some regions but rare in others (Hayami 2001 ; Hayami and Kurosu 2001 ; Hayami and Ochiai 2001...
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Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1543–1569.
Published: 01 July 2020
... also exhibited late onset of smaller family size, but they started from lower levels of fertility in the pre-transition period. Their slow fertility decline means that by 1911, women married to unskilled workers had joined miners’ and agricultural laborers’ wives in having the highest fertility. One...
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