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Population growth, age structure, and age-specific productivity

Lam, David - 1989

Motivated by empirical evidence that fluctuations in age structure affect relative wages across age groups, this paper asks whether there is a steady-state age distribution that maximizes the lifetime wages of a representative worker. The paper proves the surprising result that in a pure labor...

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Adopting Immunization Recommendations: A New Dissemination Model

Freeman, Victoria A.; Konrad, Thomas R.; Pathman, Donald E. - 1998

Objective: This paper presents a new approach for understanding factors related to physician adoption of clinical guidelines, using children's vaccine recommendations as a case study. Methods: The model traces sequential steps, from awareness to agreement to adoption and, finally, adherence to...

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Ecological Analysis of Teen Birth Rates: Association with Community Income and Income Inequality

Connell, Frederick A.; Gold, Rachel; Kawachi, Ichiro; … - 2001

Objectives : To examine whether per capita income and income inequality are independently associated with teen birth rate in populous U.S. counties. Methods : This study used 1990 U.S. Census data and National Center for Health Statistics birth data. Income inequality was measured with the 90:10...

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The influence of first generation fertility and economic status on second generation fertility

Thornton, Arland - 1980

This paper examines the impact of parental economic status and family size on the actual and expected fertility of adult children using longitudinal data from two generations of families participating in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. There was a modest positive relationship between first...

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Blowin' Down the Road: Investigating Bilateral Causality Between Dust Storms and Population in the Great Plains

Deane, Glenn; Gutmann, Myron P. - 2003

Recently, the National Academy of Sciences concluded “it is clear thatpopulation and the environment are usually interrelated . . . ”. This paper directlytests the expected interrelationship using annual county-level population estimatesprovided by the U.S. Census Bureau and annual counts of...

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Labor market structure and fertility differences among Puerto Rican women: The effects of economic and social policies on opportunity costs

Zsembik, Barbara A. - 1990

The oft-observed inverse relationship between economic activity in the formal or informal sector and levels of fertility is attributed to the opportunity costs of reproduction. The economic and social policies that initiate and maintain the substantial flow of federal transfer payments to the...

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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa

van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...

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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975

Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in … Egypt are assessed in terms of the current fertility level and pattern, the extent of deliberate fertility regulation, the …

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