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Convergences and divergences in mortality

NNN1Vallin, FFF1Jacques; NNN2Meslé, FFF2France - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 2, pp. 11-44

Abdel Omran's 1971 theory of "Epidemiologic Transition" was the first attempt to account for the extraordinary advances in health care made in industrialized countries since the 18th century. In the framework of the Demographic Transition, it implied a general convergence of life expectancies...

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Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe

NNN1Meslé, FFF1France - In: Demographic Research Special Collections 2 (2004) 3, pp. 45-70

While, during several decades, unfavourable trends in mortality were quite similar in Central Europe and in the former USSR, in the most recent years, these two parts of Europe are diverging. In most Central European countries, life expectancy is now increasing mainly thanks to a decline in...

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What can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in Mongolia, 1969-1989?

Spoorenberg, Thomas - In: Demographic Research 18 (2008) 10, pp. 285-310

The closure of Mongolia to international community during the 20th century resulted in a dearth of available data and analytic demographic studies. In the absence of mortality analysis during the socialist period, this paper proposes the use of indirect census-based techniques to estimate...

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Does fertility decrease household consumption?

Kim, Jungho; Engelhardt, Henriette; Prskawetz, Alexia; … - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 26, pp. 623-656

focuses on illustrating the sensitivity of the effect of fertility on household consumption with respect to the equivalence … scale by applying the propensity score matching method. The analysis suggests that a newborn child decreases household … are applied, the effect of a child on household consumption is still negative, but the magnitudes are in the range from 20 …

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Graduating the age-specific fertility pattern using Support Vector Machines

Kostaki, Anastasia; Moguerza, Javier; Olivares, Alberto; … - In: Demographic Research 20 (2009) 25, pp. 599-622

A topic of interest in demographic literature is the graduation of the age-specific fertility pattern. A standard graduation technique extensively used by demographers is to fit parametric models that accurately reproduce it. Non-parametric statistical methodology might be alternatively used for...

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Close kin influences on fertility behavior

White, Robert G.; Bernardi, Laura - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

Family members are uniquely situated to influence the decision-making of their kin in nearly every facet of life. We examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique...

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Sampling and Surveying Hard-to-Reach Populations for Demographic Research

Agadjanian, Victor; Zotova, Natalya - In: Demographic Research 26 (2012) 5, pp. 131-150

Because household-based survey designs are notoriously ineffective in studying hard-to-reach groups such as irregular …

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Mapping the results of local statistics

Matthews, Stephen; Yang, Tse-Chuan - In: Demographic Research 26 (2012) 6, pp. 151-166

The application of geographically weighted regression (GWR) â€“ a local spatial statistical technique used to test for spatial nonstationarity â€“ has grown rapidly in the social, health and demographic sciences. GWR is a useful exploratory analytical tool that generates a set of...

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Perturbation analysis of indices of lifespan variability

Raalte, Alyson A. van; Caswell, Hal - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

A number of indices have been used in recent years to calculate lifespan variation, each with different underlying properties. Although these indices are assumed to be interchangeable, little research has been conducted to show under which conditions this assumption is appropriate, or how to...

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Historical Addendum to "Life lived equals life left in stationary populations"

Goldstein, Joshua - In: Demographic Research 26 (2012) 7, pp. 167-172

This note provides some earlier history of the relationship given in FormalRelationships1, "Life left equals life lived in stationary populations," (Goldstein2009) and shows that while the expectation of life at the mean age of the population is close to the mean age, this is not exactly so.

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