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From Malthusian Disequilibrium to the Post-Malthusian Era: The Evolution of the Preventive and Positive Checks in Germany, 1730–1870

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Ulrich Pfister, Georg Fertig
Demography (2020) 57 (3): 1145–1170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00872-w
Published: 04 May 2020
... or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Malthusian population dynamics Population and development Unified growth theory Post-Malthusian regime...
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Malthusian Dynamics in a Diverging Europe: Northern Italy, 1650–1881

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Alan Fernihough
Demography (2013) 50 (1): 311–332.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0141-9
Published: 20 September 2012
... growth suggest the absence of Boserupian feedback effects. Necessity was not the mother of invention in early modern Northern Italy. This article is motivated by recent developments in the theory of very long–run growth. The emergence of unified growth theory presents us with a blueprint explaining...
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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change

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Nicolas Büttner, Michael Grimm, Isabel Günther, Kenneth Harttgen, Stephan Klasen
Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1585–1611.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11587285
Published: 01 October 2024
... for the relevance of unified growth models in the African context, given our focus on key drivers discussed in the literature ( Cervellati and Sunde 2005 ; Doepke 2004 ; Galor 2011 ; Galor and Moav 2002 ; Galor and Weil 1996 , 2000 ; Strulik and Weisdorf 2008 ). Unified growth theory emphasizes the increasing...
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Leaders and Laggards in Life Expectancy Among European Scholars From the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

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Robert Stelter, David de la Croix, Mikko Myrskylä
Demography (2021) 58 (1): 111–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-8938107
Published: 01 February 2021
... in Europe: Universities in the early modern Europe (1500–1800) (Vol. 2 , pp. 43 – 113 ). Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press . Galor O. ( 2011 ). Unified growth theory . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Günther J. ( 1858 ). Lebensskizzen der Professoren der...
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The Ergodic Theorems of Demography: a Simple Proof

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W. Brian Arthur
Demography (1982) 19 (4): 439–445.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061011
Published: 01 November 1982
...W. Brian Arthur Abstract Standard proofs of the ergodic theorems of demography rely on theorems borrowed from positive matrix theory, tauberian theory, and the theory of time-inhomogeneous Markov matrices. These proofs are efficient and expedient, but they give little direct insight...
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Life table techniques for multiple-cause mortality

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Kenneth G. Manton, H. Dennis Tolley, Sharon Sandomirsky Poss
Demography (1976) 13 (4): 541–564.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060509
Published: 01 November 1976
...Kenneth G. Manton; H. Dennis Tolley; Sharon Sandomirsky Poss Abstract A lethal defect-wear model of mortality is presented which rationalizes the assumption of independent risks when death may be due to more than a single condition, Under this model, it is shown how competing risk theory...
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Birth trajectory under changing fertility conditions

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James C. Frauenthal
Demography (1975) 12 (3): 447–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060827
Published: 01 August 1975
... Growth . Demography , 8 , 71 – 80 . 10.2307/2060339 Lotka A. J. ( 1939 ). Theorie Analytique des Associations Biologiques. Part II . Analyse Demographique avec Application Particuliere a l’Espece Humaine . Paris : Hermann and Cie . DEMOGRAPHV@ Volume 12, Number 3 August 1975...
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On Nonstable and Stable Population Momentum

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Thomas J. Espenshade, Analia S. Olgiati, Simon A. Levin
Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1581–1599.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0063-y
Published: 27 September 2011
... and linear transformations . San Francisco, CA : W.H. Freeman and Company . Fisher , R. A. ( 1930 ). The genetical theory of natural selection . Oxford, UK : Clarendon Press . Frejka , T. ( 1973 ). The future of population growth: Alternative paths to equilibrium . New York...
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General theory of population: Alfred Sauvy, translated by Christophe Campos New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1969, x, 551 pp. Hard bound, $12.50.

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Kingsley Davis, George C. Zaidan
Demography (1973) 10 (3): 483–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060854
Published: 01 August 1973
.... ( 1958 ). Population Growth and Economic Development in Low-Income Countries: A Case Study of India’s Prospects . Princeton : Princeton University Press . DEMOGRAPHY© REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Volume 10, Number 3 August 1973 GENERAL THEORY OF POPULATION Alfred Sauvy. translated by Christophe Campos New...
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Trajectories of Subjective Health: Testing Longitudinal Models for Self-rated Health From Adolescence to Midlife

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Kenneth A. Bollen, Iliya Gutin
Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1547–1574.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9368980
Published: 01 August 2021
... of health during this crucial life course transition. Ideally, longitudinal models would be based on existing theories that dictate whether, say, a growth curve or an autoregressive structure best captures the trajectories of SRH. Although we lack such precise guidance, extant research offers a mix...
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Culture and Demography: From Reluctant Bedfellows to Committed Partners

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Christine A. Bachrach
Demography (2014) 51 (1): 3–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0257-6
Published: 12 December 2013
... of separate spheres in which women depended on husbands for financial support and men depended on wives for domestic labor. A third set of schemas, partially linked to both love and separate spheres, focused on sex, childbearing, and child rearing. Security and commitment played a unifying role in linking all...
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Probabilistic Forecasting Using Stochastic Diffusion Models, With Applications to Cohort Processes of Marriage and Fertility

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Mikko Myrskylä, Joshua R. Goldstein
Demography (2013) 50 (1): 237–260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0154-4
Published: 27 October 2012
...Mikko Myrskylä; Joshua R. Goldstein Abstract In this article, we show how stochastic diffusion models can be used to forecast demographic cohort processes using the Hernes, Gompertz, and logistic models. Such models have been used deterministically in the past, but both behavioral theory...
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Models

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Nathan Keyfitz
Demography (1971) 8 (4): 571–580.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060692
Published: 01 November 1971
.... , &amp; Hoover Edgar M. ( 1958 ). Population Growth and Economic Development in Low-income Countries . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press . Davia Kingsley ( 1963 ). The theory of change and response in modern demographic history . Population Index , 29 , 345 – 366 . 10.2307...
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Dynamic flow modeling with interregional dependency effects: an application to structural change in the U.S. migration system

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David A. Plane, Peter A. Rogerson
Demography (1986) 23 (1): 91–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061411
Published: 01 February 1986
... chains . Operations Research , 18 , 1168 – 1181 . 10.1287/opre.18.6.1168 Haynes K. E. , &amp; Phillips F. Y. ( 1982 ). Constrained minimum-discrimination information: a unifying tool for modeling spatial and individual choice behavior . Environment and Planning A , 14 , 1341...
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Height and the normal distribution: evidence from italian military data

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Brian A’hearn, Franco Peracchi, Giovanni Vecchi
Demography (2009) 46 (1): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0049
Published: 01 February 2009
... Italiana dall’Unità alla Grande Guerra . Rome : Laterza . Fogel R. ( 1994 ). Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy . American Economic Review , 84 , 369 – 95 . Hatton T.J. , &amp; Williamson J.G...
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Review Symposia

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T. H. Hollingsworth
Demography (1977) 14 (4): 548–556.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060595
Published: 01 November 1977
... Bechhofer (ed Population Growth and the Brain Drain. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press. Fleury, Michael, and L. Henry. 1965. Des Registres Paroissiaux a I'Histoire de la Population, Manuel de Depouillement et d'Exploitation de l'Etat Civil Ancien. 2d ed. Paris: Institut National d'Etudes...
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Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link?

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Peter Rich, Jennifer Candipan, Ann Owens
Demography (2021) 58 (2): 471–498.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9000820
Published: 01 April 2021
.... However, Tiebout theories of residential sorting suggest that families seek to maximize public goods (e.g., schools) afforded by their neighborhood, within their economic constraints ( Tiebout 1956 ). Many parents, particularly White and middle-class parents, “shop” for schools by renting or buying homes...
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Review symposium

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E. Grebenik, Edward G. Stockwell
Demography (1973) 10 (1): 125–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060756
Published: 01 February 1973
... of the inter- relationships between different demo- graphie variables, such as age distribu- tion, mortality and fertility, and an appreeiation of the formal properties of populations. Most of the methods em- ployed in practieal demographie work are based on these teehniques, and they make possible a unified...
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The Malthus-Godwin debate, then and now

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William Petersen
Demography (1971) 8 (1): 13–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2060335
Published: 01 February 1971
... , Ian ( 1954 ). Population . London : Nisbet . Demeny , Paul ( 1965 ). Investment allocation and population growth . Demography , 2 , 203 – 232 10.2307/2060114 . Eversley , D. E. C. ( 1959 ). Social Theories of Fertility and the Malthusian Debate . Oxford : Clarendon...
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The Leverage of Demographic Dynamics on Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Does Age Structure Matter?

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Emilio Zagheni
Demography (2011) 48 (1): 371–399.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-010-0004-1
Published: 17 February 2011
... ). The impact of population pressure on global carbon dioxide emissions, 1975–1996: Evidence from pooled cross-country data . Ecological Economics , 44 , 29 – 42 . 10.1016/S0921-8009(02)00223-9 Solow R. M. ( 1956 ). A contribution to the theory of economic growth . Quarterly Journal...
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