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Demography (1990) 27 (2): 251–265.
Published: 01 May 1990
... Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, New York 10017 Oona M. Campbell Maternal and Child Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WCIE 7HT, United Kingdom Stan D'Souza United Nations Development Programme, Kinshasa, Zaire This study investigates the relationship between birth...
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Published: 04 May 2011
Fig. 1 Distribution of human development index across districts. Source: Nepal South Asia Centre ( 1999 ). Nepal Human Development Report 1998 (Submitted to the United Nations Development Programme, Nepal), Kathmandu, Nepal
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 158–173.
Published: 01 March 1968
... and societies lead to declines in the birthrate. That is to say that general development is the solution for the developing coun- tries rather than birth control programs. The third, and by far the most impor- tant, test of the Soviet policy came at the United Nations General Assembly meet- ing in December...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 574–577.
Published: 01 June 1966
... of the development of the monographs dealing with the disease topics, and accidents, homicide, and suicide, is a tabulation program involving specific and age-adjusted death rates based upon the deaths in the United States for the three year period 1959-61 and the 1960 census of population. The program called...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 419–450.
Published: 01 April 2021
... choices, conditional on other characteristics of the locale—to estimate whether age 1 attendance in high-quality, state-regulated childcare centers, known as crèches , impacts child development at approximately age 2. We examine whether effects differ across developmental domains (language, motor skills...
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Demography (2002) 39 (2): 215–231.
Published: 01 May 2002
... settings. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2002 2002 United Nations Development Programme Fertility Preference Living Child Marital Fertility Proximate Determinant References Agadjanian , V. , & Prata , N. ( 2001 ). War and Reproduction: Angola’s...
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 907–926.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Cognitive Resource United Nations Development Programme Ordinary Little Square Regression Schooling Attainment References Albert M.S. ( 1995 ). How Does Education Affect Cognitive Function?” . Annals of Epidemiology , 5 , 76 – 8 . 10.1016/1047-2797(94)00044-T Alderman H...
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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 585–589.
Published: 01 June 1966
... in demography. Dr. Sudhir Sen, representative of the United Nations Development Program in Yugoslavia, will serve as a visiting profes- sor under a National Science Foundation Senior Foreign Scientist Fellowship. Pro- fessor Basil G. Zimmer has returned from a year's leave of absence devoted partly to fertility...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 651–658.
Published: 01 June 1968
... by the Victor Fund Committee in its summary of the work of the regional commissions of the United Nations, is a tribute to the steps taken by the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East towards developing a program of assistance in family plan- ning to member countries.' ECAFE was urged...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1143–1159.
Published: 01 August 2024
... higher life expectancy and lower lifespan inequality ( Goerlich 2020 ; Muszyńska and Janssen 2016 ; Silber 1983 ; United Nations Development Programme 2024 ), and yet there is little evidence available to guide that choice ( Da Costa et al. 2024 ). These limitations can be addressed by comparing...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 699–724.
Published: 07 November 2012
... and evidence on wealth flows and old-age security: A reply to Fricke . Population and Development Review , 17 , 687 – 702 . 10.2307/1973602 United Nations Development Programme and The Institute of National Planning . ( 2005 ). The Egypt Human Development Report 2005: Choosing our future: Towards...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 935–961.
Published: 01 November 2010
... 2011 © Population Association of America 2010 2010 International Migration United Nations Development Programme Migrant Child Female Migration Male Migration References Andall J. ( 1992 ). Women Migrant Workers in Italy . Women’s Studies International Forum , 15 ( 1...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1641–1662.
Published: 03 August 2018
... is still common. A 2010 report from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP 2010 ) argued that an estimated 3.2 million women are missing in Bangladesh, where the sex ratio at birth is 1.04. In rural areas, daughters are still commonly seen as an economic liability. Parents consider marrying them...
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 139–157.
Published: 01 May 1995
... by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), as is most of West Africa (UNDP 1993). All three, like most other parts of West Africa, have high crude birth rates, low life expectancies, and high rates of population growth (United Nations 1993; World Bank 1993). METHODOLOGY Data The primary sources of data...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1703–1728.
Published: 03 September 2015
... Development Index (United Nations Development Programme 2008 :229–232). a Because of subsampling in the WHO surveys, the sample size for any given domain of health vignettes was approximately 25 % of the total sample size shown. HRS did not subsample vignettes. Because SAGE includes only low...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 993–1012.
Published: 04 December 2012
... lower than 0.698 are classified in the low-/medium-HDI category, and countries with an HDI of 0.698 and higher are classified in the high-/very high–HDI category; these cutoffs are consistent with those used by the United Nations Development Program. Collapsing HDI categories in this manner is necessary...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1069–1099.
Published: 22 March 2014
... on their economic and non-economic activities in a poor setting. Our study site, the governorate of Minya, is located some 250 km south of Cairo and houses about 4.2 million residents (United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Institute for National Planning (INP) 2008 ). Typically, Southern Egyptians...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 447–469.
Published: 17 October 2012
... . Sociological Perspectives , 46 , 257 – 278 . 10.1525/sop.2003.46.2.257 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) . ( 2007 ). Human development report 2007/2008 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) . ( 2007 ) Single-sex...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 543–568.
Published: 01 August 2003
..., has counterbalancing and offsetting effects on the degree of overall segregation. According to 16. The measure used was the female first-, second-, and third-level combined gross enrollment ratio reported by the United Nations Development Programme (1995:51 52). Table 4. Models Predicting Overall...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 677–698.
Published: 09 March 2012
... to medical doctors. We next reverse the causal arrow between development and fertility by focusing on perceptions of the effects of a fertility reduction program on things commonly associated with development (Panel C1). Consistent with the expectations of the developmental idealism model, the vast...
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