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The paper presents the project of an aggregative reconstruction of the population of Ger-many from the sixteenth … of population size and of annual series of the crude birth, marriage and death rates rests on three types of sources … points in time are used to derive annual growth rates of popula-tion. This information is used to derive approximate …
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population matters in the Roman Republic and early Empire. More than 170 years of discussion have hitherto not led to any … population statistics into its wider historiographic context. It draws attention to contemporary thought on the relationship … between population, nation and economy, and to the influence of this thought on key contributions to the debate on ancient …
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OBJECTIVE<br> I develop and explain a new method for interpolating detailed fertility schedules from age-group data. The method allows estimation of fertility rates over a fine grid of ages, from either standard or non-standard age groups. Users can calculate detailed schedules directly from the...
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low mortality during a later epidemic. Methods: We use data from the Registre de la Population du Québec Ancien, which … covers the historical population living in St. Lawrence Valley, Québec, Canada. Children born in 1705-1724 were grouped …
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The relative income-health hypothesis postulates that income distribution is one of the key determinants of population …
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Mortality decline has historically been a result of reductions in the level of mortality at all ages. The slope of mortality increase with age has been remarkably stable. A number of leading researchers on aging, however, suggest that the next revolution of longevity increase will be the result...
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This paper investigates the interrelationship between states and families. At different levels of organization, both play a large role in shaping the context in which individuals live their lives. Yet when it comes to understanding key demographic events in the ancient Mediterranean world –...
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spouse is population-specific: Mother’s remarriage has no effect in Krummhörn, while children in Quebec tended to benefit … the children born from his former marriage, while such effect was not seen for Quebec. These population-specific effects …
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? By employing a unique set of longitudinal register-based data for the Jewish population in Israel, this study seeks to …
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physiological processes related to aging, such as decreasing oocyte quality. We use a large population-based sample of American … conception, fetal development, or birth. The results for young maternal age add to the evidence suggesting that children born to …
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