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Lab experiments in demographic fieldwork: Understanding gender dynamics in Africa
Demographic Research, 2014 Background: Anthropological literature has long linked bridewealth payments to decision-making about fertility. Recent research underscores the significance of men's preferences regarding women's reproductive behavior, and suggests that bridewealth ...
F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo +2 more
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Generation time measures the trade-off between survival and reproduction in a life cycle [PDF]
, 2019 Survival and fertility are the two most basic components of fitness, and they drive the evolution of a life cycle. A trade-off between them is usually present: when survival increases, fertility decreases?and vice versa.
Giaimo, S., Traulsen, A.
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Higher acceptance rates of asylum seekers lead to slightly more asylum applications in the future
Demographic Research, 2018 Background: There is much discussion about whether high acceptance rates of asylum applications lead to a greater inflow of asylum seekers to Europe.
Hannes Weber
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Revivorship and life lost to mortality
Demographic Research, 2020 Background: Some formal demographic models describe mortality improvement in terms of averted deaths. In such models individuals who would have died in an earlier regime are instead revived and returned to the population to face the same age-specific ...
Carl Schmertmann
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Impact of conjugal separation on women's income in Canada: Does the type of union matter?
Demographic Research, 2016 Background: After conjugal unions end, women frequently experience sharp declines in their economic status. The severity of this decline may depend on whether they were in a marital or a cohabiting union and may change over time. Objective: We measure
Céline Le Bourdais +3 more
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Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s
, 2011 The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General Household Survey 1979–2007.
Beaujouan, Éva, Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire
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Демографическое развитие постсоветских стран
Демографическое обозрение, 2018 В рецензии анализируется сборник статей и аналитических материалов «Демографическое развитие постсоветского пространства», вышедший в 2018 г. на Экономическом факультета МГУ в Центре по изучению проблем народонаселения.
Сергей Георгиевич Шульгин
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Fifty years of change updated: Cross-national gender convergence in housework
Demographic Research, 2016 Background: Gendered trends in housework provide an important insight into changing gender inequality. In particular, they shed light on the debate over the stalling of the 'gender revolution'.
Evrim Altintas, Oriel Sullivan
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Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As global populations age, cancer is increasingly becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Despite accounting for the majority of new cancer cases and deaths, older individuals remain underrepresented in cancer research, clinical guidelines, and health ...
Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef +2 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Status epilepticus (SE) is associated with significant mortality. Sleep architecture may reflect normal brain function. Impaired sleep architecture is associated with poorer outcomes in numerous conditions. Here we investigate the association of sleep architecture in continuous EEG (cEEG) with survival in SE.
Ran R. Liu +5 more
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