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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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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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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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The second demographic transition: A concise overview of its development [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014 Ron Lesthaeghe
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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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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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The Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Central Balkans: population dynamics reconstruction based on new radiocarbon evidence [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Marko Porčić +2 more
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Argentina’s fertility regime (1980-2010): the end of the first demographic transition or an emergent second one? [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 2022 Argentina’s fertility transition has exceptional characteristics. Compared to most Latin American countries, Argentina’s fertility declined relatively early and, unlike fertility transitions in Western Europe, this decline did not lead to a high period ...
Yasmin A. Mertehikian
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Do supplemental perches influence electrocution risk for diurnal raptors?
Avian Research, 2020 Background Power lines are amongst the main causes of mortality for birds globally. Electrocution drives the population dynamics of several threatened species of raptors, at local and global scales.
Roberto Sánchez +3 more
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Second demographic transition de-blocked? [PDF]
Sociologija, 2011 The text is re-examining the previously established dilemma related to whether Serbia (without Kosovo and Metohija) is the country of second demographic transition, i.e.: has the transition been de-blocked, under the assumption that this is a ...
Bobić Mirjana, Vukelić Jelisaveta
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