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We introduce a collection of papers that examine interactions between demographic behavior and social mobility via … authors originally presented these papers at The International Seminar on Social Mobility and Demographic Behavior: A Long … of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography. We convened the meeting as a means of promoting the use of …
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originated as part of the "round table discussion" at the Workshop on the Anthropological Demography of Europe, held in September …
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This article integrates two methods that analyze the implications of various causes of death for life expectancy. One of the methods attributes changes in life expectancy to various causes of death; the other method examines the effect of removing deaths from a particular cause on life...
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The study investigates how Hungarian demographic development from the end of World War I to 1990 related to the changes that took place in Western Europe, and in which areas and in what periods can divergence or convergence be observed. The issues examined included fertility, mortality and...
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This study furthers the epistemological development of anthropological demography, and its role in understanding the … demography of Europe. Firstly we situate anthropological demography against the context of an evolving world of research in which … demography, paying particular attention to the different knowledge claims of anthropology and demography. Finally, we flesh out …
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This paper examines two environmental impacts for which population has a substantial demonstrated influence: transport carbon emissions and residential electricity consumption. It takes as its starting point the STIRPAT framework and disaggregates population into four key age groups: 20-34,...
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It seems plausible that a person’s demographic behaviour may be influenced by that among other people in the community, for example because of an inclination to imitate. When estimating multilevel models from clustered individual data, some investigators might perhaps feel tempted to try...
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The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations and Gender Programme designed to … improve understanding of demographic and social development and of the factors that influence these developments. This article … describes how the theoretical perspectives applied in the survey, the survey design and the questionnaire are related to this …
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How does demography as a science function? Is this discipline characterized by consensus in approach and outlook, as so … many commentators claim, or is there widespread dissent? On the basis of an internet survey, carried out from April to …
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