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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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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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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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. 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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This paper focuses on the influence of two classical drivers of population agglomeration: geography and history …. Geography is identified by two co-ordinates: coastal position and altitude. The prominence of history is also captured by two …, geography and history, are relevant for Spain and that they show an increasing explanatory power in accounting for population …
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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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This short paper examines the evolution of the population density in Spain during the 20th century. Using a homogeneous database of the population at a municipal level – elaborated from the eleven censuses carried out between 1900 and 2001– the paper looks at the general characteristics of...
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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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