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Grandmotherhood across the demographic transition. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Grandmothers provide key care to their grandchildren in both contemporary and historic human populations. The length of the grandmother-grandchild relationship provides a basis for such interactions, but its variation and determinants have rarely been ...
Simon N Chapman +3 more
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Agency in Fertility Decisions in Western Europe During the Demographic Transition: A Comparative Perspective. [PDF]
Demography, 2017 We use a set of linked reproductive histories taken from Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain for the period 1871–1960 to address key issues regarding how reproductive change was linked specifically to mortality and survivorship and more generally to ...
Reher DS +3 more
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A second demographic transition in Indonesia? [PDF]
China Popul Dev Stud, 2022 As a predominantly Muslim and ethnically diverse new democracy in Asia, Indonesia is a timely case to study how the contending forces of development and social change are reflected in changing norms and practices around family formation.
Utomo A +3 more
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Is there a Chinese pattern of the second demographic transition? [PDF]
China Popul Dev Stud, 2022 The Second Demographic Transition (SDT) is a useful theoretical framework for explaining the recent trend in many countries of very low fertility combined with alternative union and family types.
Yu J, Xie Y.
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Educação & Realidade, 2012 Without ignoring the complexity of the Brazilian educational system and the various elements that interact in it, this article aims at analyzing the role that population dynamics may have on the education of the population in coming decades, focusing on ...
José Irineu Rangel Rigotti
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Demographic transition and “demographic security” in post-Soviet countries [PDF]
Население и экономика, 2019 The review-and-analytical article deals with the interrelation between demographic transition and national security. The focus is on the countries of the former Soviet Union. It proves that along with two traditional approaches of population policy, i.e.
Alexandre Sidorenko
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The elderly in Brazil: demographic transition, profile, and socioeconomic condition [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 2020 Resumo This paper presents a revision about the elderly population in Brazil, addressing aspects of the demographic transition as it relates to socio-economic conditions and some consequences and trends associated with policies affecting Brazil’s elderly.
Guilherme Fonseca Travassos +2 more
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Network Effects of Demographic Transition. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Traditional human societies use two of biology’s solutions to reduce free-riding: by collaborating with relatives, they rely on the mechanism of kin-selection, and by forming highly clustered social kin-networks, they can efficiently use reputation ...
David-Barrett T.
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Demographic transition in Sultanate of Oman: emerging demographic dividend and challenges
Middle East Fertility Society Journal, 2020 Background The sharp fall in fertility and mortality in Oman in recent time is quite stunning and more than expected, which is largely remained unexplored.
M. Mazharul Islam
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Demographic transition and the dynamics of measles in six provinces in China: A modeling study. [PDF]
PLoS Med, 2017 Background Industrialization and demographic transition generate nonstationary dynamics in human populations that can affect the transmission and persistence of infectious diseases.
Li S +16 more
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