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A Probabilistic Cohort-Component Model for Population Forecasting – The Case of Germany
The future development of population size and structure is of importance since planning in many areas of politics and business is conducted based on...
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Real Life Stories to Celebrate or to Study Humans
This chapter will examine how human memory develops with the aim of capturing life stories and what it records of them; we then explore how these...
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31 Small-Area and Business Demography
Demographers address a varied and ever-expanding range of practical concerns that arise in business and public policy arenas. Specialists in...
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Survey Methods
This chapter deals with the three methods used in empirical social researchSocial research, empirical for data collection. In addition to the survey,...
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Population Change and Its Measurement
Population change is a major area of interest in applied demography, and this chapter considers the key techniques used in the production of...
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Do Different Approaches in Population Science Lead to Divergent or Convergent Models?
This paper will first explore some of the tools for studying the dynamics that drives the trajectories: Event-duration models which lead to event...
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Rethinking scientific authority: Behavior genetics and race controversies
The controversy over the genetic explanation for racial differences in intelligence and behavior has been sustained by the platform the field of...
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Education and Lifetime Earnings in the United States
Differences in lifetime earnings by educational attainment have been of great research and policy interest. Although a large literature examines...
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Age-Specific Correlates of Child Growth
Growth faltering describes a widespread phenomenon that height- and weight-for-age of children in develo** countries collapse rapidly in the first...
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The Wider Historical Context
Before moving into substantive analyses, there is a need to look at the wider context for Maori population and development – most importantly, the...
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Part I: After the Turn, 1990–91
This part covers fieldwork done from August 1990 to July 1991. The aim was to capture real-time reactions of East German intellectuals to the end of...
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Closer Links Between Population Sciences and Probability
The notions of population and individual formed the basic framework for population sciences. We show that their object is not the study of births,...
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A Multistate Life Table Analysis of Union Regimes in the United States: Trends and Racial Differentials, 1970–2002
We estimate trends and racial differentials in marriage, cohabitation, union formation and dissolution (union regimes) for the period 1970–2002 in...
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The Short- and Medium-Term Human Development Effects of Climate-Related Shocks: Some Empirical Evidence
Weather-related disasters are usually seen as ‘here today-gone tomorrow’ events. However, the effects they have on the prospects for development can...
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Methods for Microeconometric Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
The increasing recognition that there are considerable flows into and out of poverty (Baulch and Hoddinott, 2000) has focused interest in household...
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Culture, memory, and structural change: explaining support for “socialism” in a post-socialist society
Two decades ago, East European state socialism met with a paradoxical fate. Between 1989 and 1991, communist party hegemony was abolished, leaving...
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A Delicate Balance: Major Sport Events and Development
Major or hallmark sport events — those which are organized on a competitive and international basis, involve a very large number of participants and...
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Race, wages, and assimilation among Cuban immigrants
This study uses data from the 1980 and 1990 Census and the 1994–2000 Current Population Survey to examine the determinants of earnings among male...
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Use of demographic tools in the assessment of the health level of populations
The increase in the length of life, resulting from a drop in mortality, gives rise to questions on its limits and consequences. Life expectancy is at...