Journal of Population Sciences
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Demographic thought and practice is largely conditioned by the Lexis diagram, a two-dimensional graphical representation of the identity between age, period, and birth cohort. This relationship does not accoun...
Genus 2017 73:7
Published on: 22 August 2017
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This article analyses how two co-residing generations contribute to the housework workload in Italy and France during the early 2000s. It studies the intergenerational exchange of time between young adults and...
Genus 2017 73:6
Published on: 25 July 2017
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Studies dealing with trends in inequality in length of life in India are rare. Studies documenting the contribution of age and causes of death to the inequality in length of life are more limited.
Genus 2017 73:5
Published on: 10 July 2017
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Using the unit data from the second round of the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS-II), 2011–2012, which covered 42,152 households, this paper examines the association between multidimensional poverty, hou...
Genus 2017 73:3
Published on: 2 June 2017
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The rapid population growth of many African cities has important implications for population health, yet little is known about factors contributing to increasing population, such as the fertility of internal m...
Genus 2017 73:4
Published on: 30 May 2017
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In the face of rapidly aging population, decreasing regional inequalities in population composition is one of the regional cohesion goals of the European Union. To our knowledge, no explicit quantification of ...
Genus 2017 73:2
Published on: 10 May 2017
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Many mortality forecasting approaches extrapolate past trends. Their predictions of the future development can be quite precise as long as turning points and/or age-shifts of mortality decline are not present....
Genus 2017 73:1
Published on: 12 January 2017
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This paper examines the patterns and trends in attitudes towards wife-beating among women in Nigeria and their determinants. Using the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey datasets, a multivariate logistic re...
Genus 2016 72:11
Published on: 6 December 2016
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Gaining control over refugee flows and undocumented migrants currently dominate the media and political arenas in Europe. Underlying driving and enduring forces, such as employment-related migration pressure, ...
Genus 2016 72:8
Published on: 2 December 2016
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Using exhaustive data on all of the marriages celebrated in Italy 2007–2009, we investigated the influence of superstition and religious beliefs on the choice of wedding dates. We compared our results with tho...
Genus 2016 72:7
Published on: 1 December 2016
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Homeownership is the most important asset among the elderly in Europe, but very little is known about gender and living arrangement differences in this domain. This paper aims at exploring patterns of exclusio...
Genus 2016 72:9
Published on: 10 November 2016
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The Republic of Tanzania has been experiencing one of the highest infant and child mortality rates. There have been few efforts in understanding the bio-demographic factors associated with child loss. The 2011...
Genus 2016 72:10
Published on: 7 November 2016
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Life expectancy, that is the mean age at death in a life table, is the most common measure used to describe and compare mortality distributions. Alternatives to life expectancy that have been proposed so far h...
Genus 2016 72:6
Published on: 12 October 2016
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The decision to emigrate from the country of origin may not be a permanent one: migrants can decide to return home or to emigrate to a third country. This phenomenon, established for some time in certain other...
Genus 2016 72:1
Published on: 14 July 2016
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This study seeks to assess fertility data in Swaziland based on the 1976, 1986, 1997 and 2007 censuses. By utilising single-year age-sex published raw data, demographic evaluation tools—sex ratio, age ratio, W...
Genus 2016 72:4
Published on: 14 July 2016
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This study examines the residual geographical variations in infant and child mortality and how the different categories of the risk factors account for the spatial inequality in West African countries. To this...
Genus 2016 72:5
Published on: 14 July 2016
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We propose an analysis of the persistent at risk of poverty (PARP) rate in Italy at the beginning of the Great Recession (2007–2010). Italy represents an interesting case study because it has one of the highes...
Genus 2016 72:3
Published on: 14 July 2016
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The study analyzes the spatial clustering and risk factors of infant mortality across high-focus states of India, using the Annual Health Survey (2010–2011), Census of India (2011), and District Level Househol...
Genus 2016 72:2
Published on: 14 July 2016
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