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Darwin and Lotka
Kreager, Philip - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 16, pp. 469-502
Population was the subject of two major conceptual developments in the second quarter of the 20th century. Both were inspired by evolutionary biology. Lotka developed a mathematics of evolution in human and other species by analogy to thermodynamic models. His theory followed demographic...
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On the structural value of children and its implication on intended fertility in Bulgaria
Bühler, Christoph - In: Demographic Research 18 (2008) 20, pp. 569-610
Personal networks are receiving increasing recognition as structural determinants of fertility. However, the network …, structural evaluations matter for the reproductive decision-making of Bulgarian citizens. Women’s fertility intentions are …
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Does the kin orientation of a British woman’s social network influence her entry into motherhood?
Mathews, Paul; Sear, Rebecca - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 11, pp. 313-340
fertility behaviour in this population. …
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How do we know we need to control for selectivity?
NNN1Watkins, FFF1Susan; NNN2Warriner, FFF2Ina - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 1 (2003) 4, pp. 109-142
In the previous two decades there has been considerable progress in recognizing biases due to selectivity that are associated with the use of observational data to make causal inferences and in developing models to control for these biases statistically. Often there is a difference between...
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Kinship, family and social network
Micheli, Giuseppe A. - In: Demographic Research 3 (2000) 13
There is considerable overlap between Le Play’s mid-eighteenth-century household model map and the regional TFR map of central-southern Europe in the 1980s. The author examines the overall structure of relationships involved in Le Play’s typology and observes that both the...
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Family policies in the context of low fertility and social structure
Fent, Thomas; Diaz, Belinda Aparicio; Prskawetz, Alexia - In: Demographic Research 29 (2013) 37, pp. 963-998
an agent-based model to analyse the impact of policies on individual fertility decisions and on fertility at the … effect of family policies (the alleviation of resource constraints) from the indirect effect (the diffusion of fertility … and proportional policies have a positive and significant impact on fertility. In addition, the specific characteristics …
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When the group encourages extramarital sex
Coma, Julia Cordero - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 30, pp. 849-880
Understanding the determinants of men’s extramarital sexual relations, which account for a relevant share of concurrent sexual partnerships, is an important research subject. This article focuses on examining how married men’s behavior is influenced by the fidelity norm. Using...
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Providing easy access to cross-country comparative contextual data for demographic research: concept and recent advances of the Generations & Gender Programme Contextual Database
Caporali, Arianna; Klüsener, Sebastian; Neyer, Gerda R.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013
Demographic behaviour is shaped not only by characteristics at the individual level, but also by the context in which individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro-macro links by providing cross-country...
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Social norms, economic conditions and spatial variation of childbearing within cohabitation across Europe
Lappegård, Trude; Klüsener, Sebastian; Vignoli, Daniele - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this development are not coherent. Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition framework interpret it rather as a pattern of progress driven by processes such as emancipation from...
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Normative and allocation role strain: role incompatibility, outsourcing, and the transition to a second birth in Eastern and Western Germany
Raz-Yurovich, Liat - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of … household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing the incompatibility of women’s roles and in increasing fertility …
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