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How Has the Lower Boundary of Human Mortality Evolved, and Has It Already Stopped Decreasing?

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Marcus Ebeling
Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1887–1903.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0698-z
Published: 03 August 2018
... frontiers Whereas the upper boundary of mortality (maximum mortality) is a topic that has previously attracted the attention of scholars (e.g., Gampe 2010 ; Rau et al. 2017 ), the topic of the lower boundary (minimum mortality) has so far largely been neglected. In this study, I aim to analyze...
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The Life Course, Cohort Dynamics, and International Differences in Aging Trajectories

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Steven A. Haas, Katsuya Oi, Zhangjun Zhou
Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2043–2071.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0624-9
Published: 03 November 2017
... of disease and disability and the importance of life course processes. However, the less frequently examined intersection of these approaches remains an important frontier. The present study contributes to the integration of these approaches. We use the Health and Retirement Study family of data sets...
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Quantifying Intrinsic and Extrinsic Contributions to Human Longevity: Application of a Two-Process Vitality Model to the Human Mortality Database

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David J. Sharrow, James J. Anderson
Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2105–2119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0524-4
Published: 11 November 2016
... D. A. , &amp; Martínez D. E. ( 2013 ). The two halves of U-shaped mortality . Frontiers in Genetics , 4 . doi: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00031 Li T. , &amp; Anderson J. J. ( 2013 ). Shaping human mortality patterns through intrinsic and extrinsic vitality processes . Demographic...
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On the Beginning of Mortality Acceleration

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Giambattista Salinari, Gustavo De Santis
Demography (2015) 52 (1): 39–60.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0363-0
Published: 25 December 2014
... . 10.1098/rspb.2010.2190 Levitis , D. A. , &amp; Martinez , D. E. ( 2013 ). The two halves of U-shaped mortality . Frontiers in Genetics , 4 , 1 – 6 . 10.3389/fgene.2013.00031 Li , T. , Yang , Y. C. , &amp; Anderson , J. J. ( 2013 ). Mortality increase in late...
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Religious involvement and U.S. adult mortality

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Robert A. Hummer, Richard G. Rogers, Charles B. Nam, Christopher G. Ellison
Demography (1999) 36 (2): 273–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648114
Published: 01 May 1999
... Foundations and Methodological Frontiers (pp. 125 – 48 ). Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications . Wingard , D.L. ( 1982 ). The Sex Differential in Mortality Rates: Demographic and Behavioral Factors . American Journal of Epidemiology , 115 , 205 – 16 . Zhang , J. , Markides , K...
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New frontiers in demography and social psychology

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Kurt W. Back
Demography (1967) 4 (1): 90–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060353
Published: 01 March 1967
... to maturity. We find that fertility has become dependent on a conscious decision to have children, al- though, as in mortality, uncontrollable biological factors which cannot be con- New Frontiers in Demography and Social Psychology 93 trolled at the present time still play a large role. Migration: Necessity...
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Long-range trends in adult mortality: Models and projection methods

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John Bongaarts
Demography (2005) 42 (1): 23–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2005.0003
Published: 01 February 2005
..., Belgium : Ordina Editions . Keyfitz , N. ( 1991 ). Experiments in the Projection of Mortality . Canadian Studies in Population , 18 ( 2 ), 1 – 17 . Lee, R. 1998. “Probabilistic Approaches to Population Forecasting.” In Frontiers of Population Forecasting , edited by W. Lutz, J.W...
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The Effects of Marital Status, Fertility, and Bereavement on Adult Mortality in Polygamous and Monogamous Households: Evidence From the Utah Population Database

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Kieron J. Barclay, Robyn Donrovich Thorén, Heidi A. Hanson, Ken R. Smith
Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2169–2198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00918-z
Published: 15 September 2020
... effect from a shared environment effect in producing the widowhood mortality effect. The benefits of marriage may have been particularly pronounced in the nineteenth century in the territory that would later become the U.S. state of Utah. 1 This region in western North America beheld a frontier...
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Reply

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W. Whitney Hicks
Demography (1976) 13 (1): 153–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060428
Published: 01 February 1976
...W. Whitney Hicks 26 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1976 1976 Labor Force Indigenous Population Total Fertility Rate Population Census General Fertility References Arriaga E. ( 1967 ). The Effect of a Decline in Mortality on the Gross Reproduction...
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Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation

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Tyson H. Brown, Taylor W. Hargrove, Patricia Homan, Daniel E. Adkins
Demography (2023) 60 (3): 675–705.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10740718
Published: 01 June 2023
.... , Kamis C. , &amp; Homan P. ( 2022 ). Empirical evidence on structural racism as a driver of racial inequalities in COVID-19 mortality . Frontiers in Public Health , 10 , 1007053 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1007053 Brown T. H. , Richardson L. J. , Hargrove T. W...
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Rethinking the “early” decline of marital fertility in the united states

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J. David Hacker
Demography (2003) 40 (4): 605–620.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2003.0035
Published: 01 November 2003
...J. David Hacker Abstract In this article, I rely on new estimates of nineteenth-century mortality and the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series to construct new estimates of white fertility in the nineteenth-century United States. Unlike previous estimates that showed a long-term decline...
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The phoenix population: Demographic crisis and rebound in Cambodia

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Patrick Heuveline, Bunnak Poch
Demography (2007) 44 (2): 405–426.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2007.0012
Published: 01 May 2007
...Patrick Heuveline; Bunnak Poch Abstract The study of mortality crises provides an unusual and valuable perspective on the relationship between mortality and fertility changes, a relationship that has puzzled demographers for decades. In this article, we combine nationally representative survey...
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Population dynamics of humans and other animals

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Ronald D. Lee
Demography (1987) 24 (4): 443–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061385
Published: 01 November 1987
... There are many kinds of evidence for homeostasis in human populations, including the rapid expansion of some frontier or colonial populations and the close association of levels of fertility and mortality among pretransitional populations. Here, after briefly discussing paleolithic population, I will turn...
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Population momentum for gradual demographic transitions: an alternative approach

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Joshua R. Goldstein
Demography (2002) 39 (1): 65–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0004
Published: 01 February 2002
...-specific fertility and mortality rates. I then specify a frontier on the age-time plane of the Lexis diagram. As a cohort crosses this frontier, it undergoes an immediate transition to replacement-level age-specific fertility rates. Tilting the frontier translates the instant tran- sition into a gradual...
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Geographic morbidity differentials in the late nineteenth-century United States

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Cheryl Elman, George C. Myers
Demography (1999) 36 (4): 429–443.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2648082
Published: 01 November 1999
.... Despite higher levels of urban mortality in 1880, morbidity prevalence rates were highest in the rural areas of the country, especially in the western and the southern regions. Equations using microdata show that the estimated risk of chronic disease and impairment was highest for males and females who...
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Agricultural Opportunity and Marriage: The United States at the Turn of the Century

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Nancy S. Landale
Demography (1989) 26 (2): 203–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061520
Published: 01 May 1989
... Decline and Differentials of the United States Frontier, 1800-1860 . Berkeley : University of California . Graham , S. N. ( 1980 ). J900 Public Use Sample User’s Handbook . Seattle : University of Washington, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology . Guest , A. M. ( 1981...
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Fertility and land availability in rural Brazil

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Thomas W. Merrick
Demography (1978) 15 (3): 321–336.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060653
Published: 01 August 1978
... in which differentials in reproductive behavior are explained by the interplay of costs and resources re- quired to realize childbearing aspirations. The limited variation on the American frontier of other important variables in this framework, particularly child mortal- ity and the levelof literacy...
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Mortality From the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919: The Case of India

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Siddharth Chandra, Goran Kuljanin, Jennifer Wray
Demography (2012) 49 (3): 857–865.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0116-x
Published: 03 June 2012
...Siddharth Chandra; Goran Kuljanin; Jennifer Wray Abstract Estimates of worldwide mortality from the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 vary widely, from 15 million to 100 million. In terms of loss of life, India was the focal point of this profound demographic event. In this article, we calculate...
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Offspring Socioeconomic Status and Parent Mortality Within a Historical Population

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Zachary Zimmer, Heidi A. Hanson, Ken R. Smith
Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1583–1603.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0502-x
Published: 23 September 2016
... demographic and vital records across generations, this study tests the hypothesis that higher offspring SES associates with lower parental mortality after controlling for parental SES. The sample includes 29,972 individuals born between 1864 and 1883 whose offspring were born between 1886 and 1920. SES...
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Refueling a Quiet Fire: Old Truthers and New Discontent in the Wake of COVID-19

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Gabriele Beccari, Matilde Giaccherini, Joanna Kopinska, Gabriele Rovigatti
Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1613–1636.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11587755
Published: 01 October 2024
... spreading pandemic in a complex and diverse society. This study draws on a variety of data sources: Twitter data regarding skepticism; sociodemographic features of Italian municipalities; political election data; economic sector information related to essential activities; COVID mortality, mobility...
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