human population. Using a reconstructed genealogy for nearly half a million individuals in Quebec during the 1608 … level of fecundity that maximized long-run reproductive success was above the population average, indicating that natural … selection had decreased the level of fecundity in the population over this period. This evolutionary process may have …

interconnection between the changes in demographic variables (e.g., the working-age population growth rate and the average life … higher than in emerging markets. We found that the rise in the working-age stratum of the nation’s population radically …

effect of the first large-scale population resettlement in modern history. After the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922, 1 ….2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey to Greece, increasing the Greek population by more than 20% within …

change and indirectly through increasing population growth. Thefertility transition and the child quantity-quality trade …

transition improvements in life expectancy primarily increase population. Improvements in life expectancy do, however, reduce … population growth and foster human capital accumulation after the onset of the demographic transition. This implies that the … effect of life expectancy on population, human capital and income per capita is not the same before and after the demographic …