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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 … the timing of fertility. However, the positive impact of development on fertility is conditional on gender equality …

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The Likoma Network Study: Context, data collection and initial results

Helleringer, Stephane; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Chimbiri, Agnes - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 15, pp. 427-468

the prevalence of HIV in the study population. …

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Subjective expectations in the context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi

Delavande, Adeline; Kohler, Hans-Peter - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 31, pp. 817-875

In this paper we present a newly-developed interactive elicitation methodology to collect probabilistic expectations in a developing country context with low levels of literacy and numeracy, and we evaluate the feasibility and success of this method for a wide range of outcomes in rural Malawi....

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Attrition in Longitudinal Household Survey Data

Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Kohler, Hans-Peter; … - In: Demographic Research 5 (2001) 4, pp. 79-124

Longitudinal household data can have considerable advantages over much more widely used cross-sectional data for capturing dynamic demographic relationships. Because the collection of longitudinal data may be difficult and expensive, analysts need to assess the magnitude of the particular...

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A summary of Special Collection 1

Watkins, Susan; Behrman, Jere R.; Kohler, Hans-Peter; … - In: Demographic Research 9 (2003) 12, pp. 285-296

"Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa", held at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania …

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Empirical Assessments of Social Networks, Fertility and Family Planning Programs

Kohler, Hans-Peter; Behrman, Jere R.; Watkins, Susan - In: Demographic Research 3 (2000) 7

ultimate level of use of modern family planning that a population can be expected to reach after the effects of a sustained … change in a family planning program have worked through the population) rather than just one equilibrium as in linear models …

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The Fertility Pattern of Twins and the General Population Compared: Evidence from Danish Cohorts 1945-64

Kohler, Hans-Peter; Knudsen, Lisbeth B.; Skytthe, Axel; … - In: Demographic Research 6 (2002) 14, pp. 383-408

behaviors. A close congruence between the fertility patterns of twins and that of the general population, however, is an … the general population. In this paper we therefore compare the fertility of Danish twins born 1945--64 to the fertility … pattern of the general population born during the same period. Our analyses find a very close correspondence between the …

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Frailty Modelling for Adult and Old Age Mortality

Kohler, Hans-Peter; Kohler, Iliana V. - In: Demographic Research 3 (2000) 8

male population, caused by an overall higher level of mortality, constitutes a primary mechanism leading to the convergence …

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Tempo-adjusted period parity progression ratios: Assessing the implications of delayed childbearing for cohort fertility in Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain

Kohler, Hans-Peter; Ortega, José A. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2001

In this paper we apply tempo-adjusted period parity progression ratios (Kohler and Ortega 2001) to Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain. These countries represent three distinct demographic patterns in contemporary Europe and are of particular interest for demographers. The goal of our analyses is...

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Variance effects in Bongaarts-Feeney formula

Kohler, Hans-Peter; Philipov, Dimiter - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 1999

Bongaarts and Feeney (1998) have recently proposed an adjusted total fertility rate to disentangle tempo effects from changes in the quantum of fertility. We propose an extension to the Bongaarts and Feeney formula that includes variance effects, i.e., changes in the variance of the fertility...

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