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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 … fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the mechanisms underlying this reversal by analyzing data from 1975 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322377
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Family, money, and health: regional differences in the determinants of life cycle life satisfaction
Margolis, Rachel; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
We examine how family, money, and health explain variation in life satisfaction (“happiness”) over the life cycle. Globally, these factors explain a substantial fraction of happiness, increasing from 12 percent in young adulthood to 15 percent in mature adulthood. Health is the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646130
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New cohort fertility forecasts for the developed world
Myrskylä, Mikko; Goldstein, Joshua R.; Cheng, Yen-hsin … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012
falling birth rates. Across the developed world, the nearly universally-used fertility indicator, the period total fertility … rate, fell well below two children per woman. However, declines in period fertility have largely been an artifact of later … lifetimes – cohort fertility – for 37 developed countries. Our results suggest that family size has remained high in many "low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646138
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The Generations and Gender Contextual Database: concepts and content
Spielauer, Martin - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004
This paper aims at contributing to a proposal for the concept and content of the Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program. We develop guidelines for data collection by identifying the main focus, the key dimensions as well as the main data types of the GGP Contextual Database....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163243
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The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program
Spielauer, Martin - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006
The increasing recognition that the study of human behaviors has to take into account the multiple contexts in which they occur has opened a promising research avenue in social sciences. It also presents new challenges, e.g., to complement micro-level surveys with the collection of meaningful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163253
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Beyond the Kannisto-Thatcher Database on Old Age Mortality: an assessment of data quality at advanced ages
Jdanov, Dmitri A.; Jasilionis, Domantas; Soroko, Eugeny L. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008
The old age population in developed countries has been increasing remarkably, yet internationally comparable high quality data on oldest-old mortality remain relatively scarce. The Kannisto-Thatcher Old Age Mortality Database (KTD) is a unique source providing uniformly recalculated old-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168350
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The age separating early deaths from late deaths
Zhang, Zhen; Vaupel, James W. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009
There is one unique age separating early deaths from late deaths such that averting an early death decreases life disparity, but averting a late death increases inequality in lifespans.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005227930
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Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children?
Lockwood, Ben; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2022
, including age, education, marital status, mental health, life satisfaction, optimism, and physical health. Because there might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414750
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Select birth cohorts
MacMinn, Richard D.; Weber, Frederik - 2009
Worldwide demographic changes and their implications for governments, corporations, and individuals have been in the focus of public interest for quite some time due to the fiscal risk related to adequate retirement benefits. Through a more detailed analysis of mortality data an additional type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861095
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The demographic transition : causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility … and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530744