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Demographic transition, family size and child schooling [PDF]

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This paper first presents evidence to show that in recent years there has been a substantial fall in fertility among illiterate women in India. Subsequently, using the data from the Human Development Profile Survey of 1994, it shows that child schooling ...
Mari Bhat, P.N.
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[Demography ; demographic transition ; demographic policies]

open access: yes, 2003
The specter of “population explosion” is often invoked today and even to be convinced that it is possible to find in population growth the cause of poverty in many countries. In fact, abusive appeals to demography are often made to confer a kind of scientific justification on programs of action which have heavily ideological connotations.
openaire   +2 more sources

Family size, adolescents’ schooling and the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes
The goal of this paper is to address whether and how the changing family sizes of cohorts of adolescents born pre- and post-demographic transition are associated with increasing schooling of Brazilian adolescents.
Leticia Marteleto
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The Demographic Transition in Colombia: Theory and Evidence [PDF]

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The demographic transition from high to low mortality and fertility rates was one of the most important structural changes during the twentieth Century in most Latin American economies. This paper uses a simple economic framework based on Galor and Weil (
Daniel Mejía   +2 more
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Transition in Health Status in the Islamic Republic of Iran

open access: yesمجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران, 2006
Background and objectives: Data on transitions in health status are among the most important types of information used for promotion of health and social development.
M Naghavi
doaj  

Growing up and moving out: Migration and the demographic transition in low- and middle-income nations. [PDF]

open access: yesPopul Stud (Camb), 2022
Bollyky TJ   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ASIAN DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION: AN INSTRUMENTAL-VARIABLES PANEL APPROACH [PDF]

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We examine patterns in fertility during the demographic transition using a panel data set across 25 Asian countries for 1975-2003. The adult female literacy rate is used as an instrumental variable for the endogenous female labor force participation rate,
Michael P. Shields   +2 more
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