Family Policies in OECD Countries: A Comparative AnalysisPopulation and Development Review - Tập 37 Số 1 - Trang 57-87 - 2011
Olivier Thévenon
This article discusses the diversity of family policy models in 28 oecd countries in terms of the balance between their different objectives and the mix of instruments adopted to implement the policies. cross‐country policy differences are investigated by applying a principal component analysis to comprehensive country‐level data from the oecd Family database covering variables such as par...... hiện toàn bộ
Life‐Course Transitions and the Age Profile of Internal MigrationPopulation and Development Review - Tập 40 Số 2 - Trang 213-239 - 2014
Aude Bernard, Martin Bell, Elin Charles‐Edwards
Despite underlying regularities in the age profile of migration, there is mounting evidence of cross‐national variations in the ages at which migration occurs. Explanations for these differences have variously been sought by reference to cultural, social, and economic factors, and through analysis of reasons for moving. There is also a growing body of work linking migration events to parti...... hiện toàn bộ
China's Floating Population: New Evidence from the 2000 CensusPopulation and Development Review - Tập 30 Số 3 - Trang 467-488 - 2004
Zai Liang, Zhongdong Ma
This article uses tabulations from the 2000 Population Census of China along with a micro‐level data sample from the census to provide a picture of China's floating population: migrants without local household registration (hukou), a status resulting in significant social and economic disadvantages. By 2000, the size of China's floating population had grown to ne...... hiện toàn bộ
The Effect on Fertility of the 2003–2011 War in IraqPopulation and Development Review - Tập 40 Số 4 - Trang 581-604 - 2014
Valeria Cetorelli
This article provides the first detailed account of recent fertility trends in Iraq, with a particular focus on the changes resulting from the 2003–2011 war and the factors underlying them. The study is based on retrospective birth history data from the 2006 and 2011 Iraq Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (I‐MICS). Estimates from the two surveys indicate that total fertility remained stab...... hiện toàn bộ
Poverty, Inequality, and Fertility: The Contribution of Demographic Change to Global Poverty ReductionPopulation and Development Review - Tập 46 Số 1 - Trang 65-99 - 2020
Frank‐Borge Wietzke
AbstractGlobal poverty has fallen dramatically over the past decades. In many developing countries, this transformation was accompanied by rapid improvements in demographic outcomes, such as falling child mortality and fertility. Yet, recent theorizing and empirical research into the causes of global poverty reduction has mostly omitted demographic factors. This pa...... hiện toàn bộ
A Turning Point in Gender Bias in Mortality? An Update on the Number of Missing WomenPopulation and Development Review - Tập 28 Số 2 - Trang 285-312 - 2002
Stephan Klasen, Claudia Wink
Amartya Sen started a debate about gender bias in mortality by estimating the number of “missing women,” which refers to the number of females of any age who have presumably died as a result of discriminatory treatment. Depending on the assumptions made, the combined estimates for countries exhibiting the presence of such gender bias varied between 60 and 107 million. As new population dat...... hiện toàn bộ
Fertility, Education, and Development: Evidence from IndiaPopulation and Development Review - Tập 27 Số 1 - Trang 33-63 - 2001
Jean Drèze, Mamta Murthi
Fertility has declined significantly in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This article examines the determinants of fertility levels and fertility decline, using data on Indian districts for 1981 and 1991. The authors find that women's education and child mortality are the most important factors explaining fertility differences across the country and over time. Low levels of son p...... hiện toàn bộ