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This paper projects the effects of exogenous fertility changes in Turkey on the age structure of population and the … and the fertility rate are endogenous. The calibrated version of the model delivers three important results: First …. Third, even under an increasing rate of technological progress, a permanent upward shift in fertility levels would imply …
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Relation to Production" (Scribner's 1894) and his analysis "On the History and Development of Gilds and the Origins of Trade …
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. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and … die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality … that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …
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lacks fertility control and management framework. This forms the rationale for this study to access the trend of factors … Nigeria) and developed nations (Germany and United States). The trend analysis revealed that fertility rate, crude death rate …, birth rate, mortality rate, and life expectancy are the major determinants of rapid population growth rate, while youth …
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What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the … effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district … reduces the likelihood of subsequent and cumulative fertility of women and increases the birth intervals between first and …
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census is the total process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing, publishing and distribution of demographic …. The population census is a primary source of these basic statistics, covering not only settled population but also …
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Human resources are an essential element in territorial development. When these are characterized by a high level of training, are also enhancers of a number of effects that areas fundamental in the binomial territorial-social cohesion. In this respect, the existence of higher education...
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This paper looks at localization patterns in municipal population in Spain along the XX century. Using a homogeneous data base of population at the municipal level -constructed from the eleven censuses in 1900 and up to 2001- the paper describes the general patterns of population concentration...
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This paper proposes two considerations prior to the study of city size and emphasizes their importance in the testing of one of the empirical regularities most widely used by the literature, Zipf’s law. The first one refers to the importance of using a consistent database for analysis. The...
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This paper focuses on the influence of two classical engines of population agglomeration: geography versus history …. Geography is identified by two co-ordinates: coastal position and altitude. The prominence of history is captured also by two … reference is census population data for Spanish municipalities for period 1900-2001. The eleven censuses have been homogenised …
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