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Data Innovation in Demography, Migration and Human Mobility [PDF]
Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg 2022, 2022 With the consolidation of the culture of evidence-based policymaking, the availability of data has become central to policymakers. Nowadays, innovative data sources offer an opportunity to describe demographic, mobility, and migratory phenomena more accurately by making available large volumes of real-time and spatially detailed data. At the same time,
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Oh half-brother, where art thou? The boundaries of full- and half-sibling interaction
Demographic Research, 2020 Background: Research indicates that both full- and half-siblingships develop enduring social relationships, if the siblings have the opportunity to interact during childhood and adolescence.
Linus Andersson
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Fertility patterns of migrants from low-fertility countries in Norway
Demographic Research, 2020 Background: Most research on migrant fertility focuses on immigrants from high-fertility countries who have moved to countries with lower fertility. Little is known about the fertility of immigrant women from countries where fertility is lower than in ...
Marianne Tønnessen, Eleonora Mussino
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Genus, 2020 In the last decades, Western societies have been involved in huge demographic changes, amongst which one of the most important has been the increasing postponement of the transition to parenthood.
Stefano Cantalini +2 more
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Demographic Research, 2019 Background: A long-standing and still unresolved debate has developed on whether the historical fertility transition was caused by 'spacing' (increasing the time between births) or by stopping (terminating childbearing at younger ages).
Hilde Bras, Reto Schumacher
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Migrant health convergence and the role of material deprivation
Demographic Research, 2019 Background: Cross-national research shows that although immigrants initially have better health than their native-born counterparts, their health deteriorates over time in their destination countries, converging to natives' health (health convergence ...
Silvia Loi, Jo Mhairi Hale
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Aplicação da análise exploratória espacial na identificação de configurações territoriais
Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 2011 A análise exploratória de dados espaciais, empregada para identificação de arranjos urbano-regionais entre os municípios brasileiros, mostrou-se adequada a estudos de conjuntos amplos de unidades observacionais (áreas), possibilitando resultados ...
Rosa Moura, Sachiko Araki Lira
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Urban-rural differentials in Latin American infant mortality
Demographic Research, 2020 Background: Infant mortality in Latin America has declined dramatically over the past six decades. The health transition in the region began in the main cities and has tended to proceed more rapidly in countries with higher levels of urbanization ...
Jenny Garcia
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Genus, 2020 This paper examines astrology, a concept that is considered unscientific by broad segments of the population in the western world. Despite this, astrology remains for some an important source for advice regarding choices in a range of different matters ...
Jonas Helgertz, Kirk Scott
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How Levins' dynamics emerges from a Ricker metapopulation model on the brink of extinction [PDF]
Theoretical Ecology 9 (2016) 173-183, 2013 Understanding the dynamics of metapopulations close to extinction is of vital importance for management. Levins-like models, in which local patches are treated as either occupied or empty, have been used extensively for this purpose, but they ignore the important role of local population dynamics.
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