Vilquin (Éric).- Cyrano de Bergerac as a (distorting) mirror of knowledge and ideas about population in the seventeenth century Cyrano de Bergerac (the real as opposed to the dramatic character) was a free-thinking author of the mid-seventeenth century, whose Utopian tales ? imaginary journeys...

Using a cohort of 3,021 young migrants from rural Thailand, we examine economic and non-economic determinants of return migration. We ?follow? this cohort prospectively for sixteen years from preadolescence to young adulthood. Data come from the Nang Rong project, a longitudinal study of an...

This short paper offers an original look at the fertility transition in India through the lens of the period parity progression ratios (PPPRs). Taking advantage of nearly 300,000 birth history data collected in three nationally representative surveys (National Family Health Survey, NFHS)...

The aim of this paper is to decompose the increase in the share of out-of-wedlock births in Poland into two components : one attributed to the changing structure of births based on marital status at conception, and one related to the declining propensity for shotgun weddings. Analysis of data...

Vilquin Eric. ? Infant Mortality by Month of Birth in 19th Century Belgium. Belgian demographic statistics between 1841 and 1850 contain detailed information on infant deaths by month of registration of the death and by age (in months) of the deceased infant. This makes it possible to study the...

Aim of this study was to investigate older adult loneliness as linked with living arrangements and intergenerational support, using data from the Generations and Gender Surveys for East and West European countries. Older adults living alone were most lonely, older adults living with a partner...

What determines remittances - altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly pinpoint...

Transnationalism of first-generation migrants, usually considered as the core element of their migratory projects, is taken nowadays to some extent for granted. Several migration scholars have mainly focused their research on demonstrating the complementarity or dualism between integration and...