Fertility Revolution" and questions regarding the applicability of the theory of household choice in modernizing societies. This …

ulation for a given society, combining the simple indica tors of mortality and aging. Life expectancy at birth is in …-dependent of the demographic structure of the population and is, therefore, adequate for measuring overall mortality. However, it … society; and given that it is a weighted average, its changes can be easily decomposed into reductions in mortality (gains in …

to the evolution of completeness of death counts registration and the changes in the mortality age profile. We make use … of the mortality database available at the Brazilian Ministry of Health Database - Datasus and Population Censuses from … 1980 to 2010. We applied traditional demographic methods to evaluate the quality of mortality data for 137 small areas and …

status, formal and informal relation to the labor market and coverage of public pension programs. I also use the data to show …

in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. However, the level of German … fertility has decreased significantly from the 1900s. The paper documents and analyzes the long-termdevelopment trends ….We identify three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility according to which the various articles of the …

Fertility rates are below replacement level in most industrialised countries. There are, however, substantial cross … associated with low fertility: delay in the formation of new families, persistent gender asymmetries in practice but also partly …-) decisions on fertility are a way of dealing with these constraints and tensions. …

human capital accumulation, non-separable preferences of females and child care costs on females life-cycle fertility and …, labor force participation and fertility decisions is estimated. In that model, experience on the job raises future wages … policy simulations which shows that human capital accumulation is the most important determinant of life-cycle fertility …