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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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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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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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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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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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Thinking about post-transitional demographic regimes: A reflection
Demographic Research, 2013 BACKGROUND For the last 70 years the concept of the demographic transition has provided a basis for understanding and predicting population trends in the developing world.
Chris Wilson
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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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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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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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The U.S. Demographic Transition [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 agriculture;manufacturing;technological ...
Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth Seshadri
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