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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 ...
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The U.S. Demographic Transition [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 Between 1800 and 1940 the U.S. went through a dramatic demographic transition. In 1800 the average woman had 7 children, and 94 percent of the population lived in rural areas. By 1940 the average woman birthed just 2 kids, and only 43 percent of populace
Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth Seshadri
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Network Effects of Demographic Transition. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 AbstractTraditional 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 dynamics. Both of these solutions assume the presence of relatives.
David-Barrett T.
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The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences. [PDF]
Cliometrica (Berl), 2012 This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding of the transition from stagnation to growth.
Galor O.
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Becker and the Demographic Transition. [PDF]
J Demogr Economics, 2015 It was a different era when Gary Becker did his groundbreaking work on the economics of fertility, during the years from the late 1950 through the early 1990s. There was great concern then about the “population explosion” due to sustained high fertility in the developing world after mortality declined following World War II.
Lee R.
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The demographic transition in Finland
Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, 1969 Aarno Strömmer
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Beyond the Demographic Transition [PDF]
Demography, 1974 In the past 30 years there has been a decline of death rates in deve loping countries and a rise and subsequent decline in birth rates in some developed countries. The developed countries appear to have gone beyond the demographic transition and to have entered an era in which fertility fluctuates mainly in response to influences other than those that
Arthur A. Campbell
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Asian Development Review, 1997 At the end of the Second World War, it was uncertain whether Asia would follow Western countries in experiencing a demographic transition, due to its low per capita incomes, apart from Japan.
John C. Caldwell, Bruce K. Caldwell
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Grandmother effects over the Finnish demographic transition [PDF]
Evolutionary Human SciencesDemographic transitions are defining events for human societies, marking shifts from natural mortality and fertility rates to the low rates seen in industrialised populations.
Simon N. Chapman, Virpi Lummaa
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Product Variety and the Demographic Transition [PDF]
Economics Letters, 2009 Why does the rate of population growth decline in the face of economic growth? We show that growing product variety may induce a permanent reduction in the demand for children and a continuous rise in income and consumption.demographic transition; demand
Jacob Weisdorf, Ricardo Andrés Guzmán
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