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In Japan due to the rapid population aging and its large financial pressure on pay-as-you-go retirement systems, the economic impact of bequest wealth has been drawing a tremendous amount of attention. Despite that, there are neither official statistics on bequest for the whole population, nor...
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This study is a first attempt to produce reliable estimates of mortality in Georgia and Armenia in the 1990s. Official … statistics registered a decrease in mortality over the 1990s in spite of local wars, mass flows of refugees, and severe economic … and about 3.8 millions in Armenia. Non-official estimates based on migration surveys are much lower: 4.0-4.1 millions and …
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Ecological comparisons in sub-Saharan Africa show that HIV prevalence is lower where men are generally circumcised than where they are not. Randomized controlled trials have found a 50-60% reduction in HIV acquisition for newly circumcised men. Yet in Malawi, HIV prevalence is highest in several...
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life expectancy between Israeli Jews and Western countries, for each sex, and to sex differentials in mortality in both … populations. We quantify the major types of behaviourally induced mortality to show that it is especially low among Israeli Jewish … males. We also investigate mortality in certain subgroups of Israeli Jews to gain a better understanding of female mortality …
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Demographic surveillance systems (DSS) depend on community acceptance and involvement to produce high quality longitudinal data. Ensuring community support also exposes power relations usually concealed in the research process. We discuss the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System...
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fertility, migration, and mortality. Both disciplines share a common research object, namely human populations, and they focus …
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migration status in first birth behavior. Our study demonstrates that foreign born persons seem to adapt to the behavior of …
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