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Close kin influences on fertility behavior

White, Robert G.; Bernardi, Laura - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

Family members are uniquely situated to influence the decision-making of their kin in nearly every facet of life. We examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique...

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Perturbation analysis of indices of lifespan variability

Raalte, Alyson A. van; Caswell, Hal - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

A number of indices have been used in recent years to calculate lifespan variation, each with different underlying properties. Although these indices are assumed to be interchangeable, little research has been conducted to show under which conditions this assumption is appropriate, or how to...

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Vitality heterogeneity in the Strehler-Mildvan theory of mortality

Wagner, Peter - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

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High development and fertility: fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link

Myrskylä, Mikko; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Billari, Francesco C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the...

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The role of demography on per capita output growth and saving rates

Romero, Miguel Sánchez - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

Computable OLG growth models and "convergence models" differ in their assessment of the extent to which demography influences economic growth. In this paper, I show that computable OLG growth models produce results similar to those of convergence models when more detailed demographic information...

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Average age at death in infancy and infant mortality level: reconsidering the Coale-Demeny formulas at current levels of low mortality

Andreev, Evgueni M.; Kingkade, W. Ward - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

The longterm historical decline in infant mortality has been accompanied by increasing concentration of infant deaths at the earliest stages of infancy. The influence of prenatal and neonatal conditions has become increasingly dominant relative to postnatal conditions as external causes of death...

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Diversität von Familienformen in Ost- und Westdeutschland

Bastin, Sonja; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Schnor, Christine - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

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The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in European perspective

Baten, Jörg; Szoltysek, Mikolaj - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

We trace the development of numeracy in Poland and Russia from the early 17th century onwards, and numeracy in Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania from the 18th century onwards. The fact that western Poland was doing relatively well during the 16th and early 17th centuries, but was not able to...

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Lifespan variation by occupational class: compression or stagnation over time?

Raalte, Alyson A. van; Martikainen, Pekka; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

Adult lifespan variation in most western countries has stagnated since the 1960s, despite continued improvements in longevity. Cross-sectional analyses, however, find that in the 1990s higher socio-economic position was associated with lower lifespan variation. Trends in this association over...

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Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life cycle life satisfaction

Margolis, Rachel; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle …. Globally, these factors explain a substantial fraction of happiness, increasing from 12 percent in young adulthood to 15 … in the wealthier, and income in the poorer regions of the world. Family explains a substantial fraction of happiness only …

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