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Elementary models for population growth and distribution analysis

John C. Hudson
Demography (1970) 7 (3): 361–368.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060155
Published: 01 August 1970
... a momentary condition of zero growth is achieved in both regions, it is possible to maintain finite populations if each population follows a logistic natural growth process and migration flow is proportional to the volume of interaction. It is necessary also that the natural increase limitation is strong...
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Sensitivity analysis of discrete-time interregional population systems

Kao-Lee Liaw
Demography (1976) 13 (4): 521–539.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060508
Published: 01 November 1976
...Kao-Lee Liaw Abstract This paper shows analytically how (a) the long-run growth rate and (b) the long-run proportional distribution of an interregional population system with a time-homogeneous structural matrix are affected by small changes or errors in (a) the natural growth rates of individual...
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The relative importance of the components of urban growth in Latin America

Robert H. Weller, John J. Macisco, Jr., George R. Martine
Demography (1971) 8 (2): 225–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060611
Published: 01 May 1971
... natural increase. Thus to ascribe Latin American urban growth to a single prime causal factor is a misleading oversimplification. 2/ Net in-migration apparently plays a larger role in determining the rate of growth of large metropolitan centers than is the case with smaller urban areas. 3/ A significant...
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Stylized patterns of urban growth and the effects of migration. NI = natural increase; NM = net migration; other capital letters stand for the intersection between lines, which indicate a change in the patterns of urban growth (see the text)

Stylized patterns of urban growth and the effects of migration. NI = natura...

in The Role of Migration in the Urban Transition: A Demonstration From Albania > Demography
Published: 01 July 2014
Fig. 1 Stylized patterns of urban growth and the effects of migration. NI = natural increase; NM = net migration; other capital letters stand for the intersection between lines, which indicate a change in the patterns of urban growth (see the text) More
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The Role of Migration in the Urban Transition: A Demonstration From Albania

Mathias Lerch
Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1527–1550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0315-8
Published: 01 July 2014
...Fig. 1 Stylized patterns of urban growth and the effects of migration. NI = natural increase; NM = net migration; other capital letters stand for the intersection between lines, which indicate a change in the patterns of urban growth (see the text) ...
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Annexation as a factor in the growth of U.S. cities, 1950–1960 and 1960–1970

Vivian Z. Klaff, Glenn V. Fuguitt
Demography (1978) 15 (1): 1–12.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060487
Published: 01 February 1978
..., and decade (1950–1960 or 1960–1970) could not be explained by the incidence and nature of annexation. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1978 1978 Metropolitan Area Central City Population Change Total Growth Initial Area References Beale , Calvin L. ( 1971...
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Empirical analysis of the contribution of age composition to population growth

Samuel H. Preston
Demography (1970) 7 (4): 417–432.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060235
Published: 01 November 1970
...Samuel H. Preston Abstract The method of decomposition is applied to rates of natural increase in order to elucidate the role played by age composition in the growth of populations. A population’s age distribution and fertility schedule are contrasted to those in a "stationary" population having...
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Estimating Interregional Population And Migration Operators From Interregional Population Distributions

Andrei Rogers
Demography (1967) 4 (2): 515–531.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060296
Published: 01 June 1967
... frequently have had to rely on crudely constructed measures of natural increase and net migration. Recent efforts to express interregional population growth in matrix form, however, suggest a method for estimating the regime of growth of a multiregional system solely on the basis of historical data...
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Does race matter? Children’s height in Brazil and South Africa

Sarah Burgard
Demography (2002) 39 (4): 763–790.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0034
Published: 01 November 2002
... are still at greater risk of growth faltering than are white children. The nature of socioeconomic and racial differences in children’s growth is examined, and major determinants are discussed. These findings suggest that although state-sanctioned racism may help to explain the greater racial inequality...
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Interrelations between migration and fertility in Thailand

Sidney Goldstein
Demography (1973) 10 (2): 225–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060815
Published: 01 May 1973
... by the clearcut positive relationship between the percentage of persons classified as either lifetime or 5-year migrants and the urban character of their 1960 place of residence. Yet, the evidence also points to an increasing proportion of urban growth in recent decades attributable to natural increase...
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Fertility and development in Brazil

Murray Gendell
Demography (1967) 4 (1): 143–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060358
Published: 01 March 1967
... or no tendency to decline. Between 1940 and 1960, in fact, the birth rate appears to have remained fairly constant around 43. With the death rate steadily dropping, the rate of natural increase and population growth (given a small net in-migration) has been accelerating. From a theoretical point of view...
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Recent Nonmetropolitan Population Change in Fifty-Year Perspective

Kenneth M. Johnson, Ross L. Purdy
Demography (1980) 17 (1): 57–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060963
Published: 01 February 1980
... . Demography , 1 , 264 – 272 . 10.2307/2060053 Beale Calvin L. ( 1969 ). Natural Decrease of Population: The Current and Prospective Status of an Emergent American Phenomenon . Demography , 6 , 91 – 99 . 10.2307/2060383 Beale Calvin L. ( 1975 ). The Revival of Population Growth...
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Twins Support the Absence of Parity-Dependent Fertility Control in Pretransition Populations

Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins, Matthew Curtis
Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1571–1595.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00898-0
Published: 17 July 2020
... the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Fertility Family planning Natural fertility Economic history Economic growth We propose a new test, based on parents’ response to the accident of a twin birth, of whether pretransitional...
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Demography and the environment

Anne R. Pebley
Demography (1998) 35 (4): 377–389.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3004008
Published: 01 November 1998
...Anne R. Pebley Abstract Demographers' interest in the environment has generally been enmeshed in broader issues of population growth and economic development. Empirical research by demographers on environmental issues other than natural-resource constraints is limited. In this paper, I briefly...
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Can knowledge improve population forecasts at subcounty levels?

Guangqing Chi
Demography (2009) 46 (2): 405–427.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0059
Published: 01 May 2009
... to work. Natural amenities. Environmental and natural resource characteristics are known to in uence population growth. Disamenities (negative in uences on population) include land lls and other noxious sites, resource extractions, and propensity to natural disasters. In recent decades, natural resource...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Length of Forecast Horizon on Population Forecast Errors

Stanley K. Smith, Terry Sincich
Demography (1991) 28 (2): 261–274.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061279
Published: 01 May 1991
... becomes longer? Does the error-horizon relationship differ by forecasting technique, launch year, size of place, or rate of growth? Do alternative measures of error make a difference? In this article we address these questions using two simple forecasting techniques and population data from 1900 to 1980...
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Racial differences in contraceptive choice: Complexity and implications

Elizabeth Hervey Stephen, Ronald R. Rindfuss, Frank D. Bean
Demography (1988) 25 (1): 53–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061477
Published: 01 February 1988
... in sociodemographic factors affecting contraceptive choice. Using data from the 1976 and 1982 National Surveys of Family Growth, we find a complex pattern of black/white differences. Not only does contraceptive choice vary by race, but the effects of such variables as age, marital status, and education also differ...
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Demographic Responses and Population Change

Dov Friedlander
Demography (1969) 6 (4): 359–381.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060083
Published: 01 November 1969
... that patterns in the lag between declining national birth and death rates, differentials in rural/urban natural increase, the speed of urbaniza- tion, and population growth, were all different aspects of the very same demo- graphic transformation, which was asso- ciated with general modernization...
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The multiregional matrix growth operator and the stable interregional age structure

Andrei Rogers
Demography (1966) 3 (2): 537–544.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060178
Published: 01 June 1966
..., dynamic, aspatial models of growth. The temporal element is introduced by a recursive structure which operates over a sequence of unit time intervals. The spatial dimension, when it is included at all, typically is accommodated by replicating the analysis over as many areal units as comprise the study...
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The Intergenerational Impact of Terror: Did the 9/11 Tragedy Impact the Initial Human Capital of the Next Generation?

Ryan Brown
Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1459–1481.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00876-6
Published: 08 June 2020
... provide insights into the health effects of exposure to maternal psychological stress across gestation. Results suggest that children exposed in utero were born significantly smaller and earlier than previous cohorts. The timing of the effect provides evidence that intrauterine growth is specifically...
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