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Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive …
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Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
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The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size … Cameroon; and child mortality in North Sudan and Senegal. Overall mortality levels are high in Western and Central Africa and … low in Eastern and Southern Africa. …
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This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...
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The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...
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