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Demographic Research, 2019 Objective: This study seeks to determine whether the likelihood of first-marriage divorce among a cohort of women who have been adults during the years of the US 'divorce plateau' matches the level implied by period rates of first-marriage divorce during
Lowell Hargens
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Demographic Research, 2019 Background: The current demographic changes with a shift toward older ages contribute to more cancer cases in the next decades in Western countries. Thus, forecasting the demand for expected healthcare services and expenditures is relevant for planning ...
Johannes Klotz +4 more
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Demographic Research, 2019 Background: Mortality estimates from various sources suggest that Costa Ricans experience record-high life expectancy at birth in Latin America and higher longevity than the populations of many high-income countries, although there is some uncertainty as
Dana Glei +2 more
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Synthpop++: A Hybrid Framework for Generating A Country-scale Synthetic Population [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Population censuses are vital to public policy decision-making. They provide insight into human resources, demography, culture, and economic structure at local, regional, and national levels. However, such surveys are very expensive (especially for low and middle-income countries with high populations, such as India), time-consuming, and may also raise
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Impact of delayed effects on human old-age mortality
Demographic Research, 2019 Background: There is growing empirical evidence supporting theories of developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). However, the implications of DOHaD conjectures for aggregate population patterns of human disease, disability, mortality, and ...
Andrea Verhulst +2 more
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Living separately but living close: Coresidence of adult children and parents in urban China
Demographic Research, 2020 Background: Studies in previous decades have shown that patterns of intergenerational coresidence in China have been diminishing. However, few studies have documented the level of intergenerational coresidence for a wide range of ages.
Yiqing Gan, Eric Fong
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Sociophysics Simulations III: Retirement Demography [PDF]
, 2005 This third part of the lecture series deals with the question: Who will pay for your retirement? For Western Europe the answer may be ``nobody'', but for Algeria the demography looks more promising.
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Genus, 2020 Parental involvement in sex education and the quality of parent-child communication about romantic feelings appear to have a protective effect on adolescent sexual behaviours.
Marta Pasqualini, Alessandra De Rose
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Genus, 2018 Book details Letizia Mencarini e Daniele Vignoli, Genitori cercasi. L’Italia nella trappola demografica [Parents Wanted. Italy in the Demographic Trap], Milano: Egea; 2018.
Massimo Livi-Bacci
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Population dynamics model for aging [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The chronological age used in demography describes the linear evolution of the life of a living being. The chronological age cannot give precise information about the exact developmental stage or aging processes an organism has reached. On the contrary, the biological age (or epigenetic age) represents the true evolution of the tissues and organs of ...
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