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  1. In recent years, Australia’s older population (aged 65 and over) has been growing rapidly, accompanied by a shift in its country of birth composition. Although a great deal of research has been undertaken on p...

    Authors: Tom Wilson, Peter McDonald, Jeromey Temple, Bianca Brijnath and Ariane Utomo
    Citation: Genus 2020 76:20
  2. Causation underlies both research and policy interventions. Causal inference in demography is however far from easy, and few causal claims are probably sustainable in this field. This paper targets the assessm...

    Authors: Guillaume Wunsch and Catherine Gourbin
    Citation: Genus 2020 76:18
  3. There is a substantial lack of information in the literature on affective and sexual behaviours in youths with migratory backgrounds, despite immigrants’ immediate descendants growing in recent years in many d...

    Authors: Giuseppe Gabrielli, Anna Paterno and Salvatore Strozza
    Citation: Genus 2020 76:17
  4. While sexuality has radically changed across middle–high-income societies in recent years, only outdated studies are available for Italy. We aim to provide novel insights into the sexual behaviour and opinions...

    Authors: Alessandra Minello, Marcantonio Caltabiano, Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna and Daniele Vignoli
    Citation: Genus 2020 76:16
  5. Social taboos and stigmas around sexuality and non-marital sex in Indonesia have led to substantial underreporting of the prevalence of premarital sex. In this study, we explore underreporting amongst young ad...

    Authors: James O’Donnell, Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo and Peter McDonald
    Citation: Genus 2020 76:13
  6. This study tries to elicit the unexplored nexus between the contraceptive failure and abortions in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh. Condom being the most used modern method contributes to 47% of all ...

    Authors: Anjali Singh, Rakesh Mishra, K. K. Singh and Prashant Verma
    Citation: Genus 2020 76:9
  7. In the last decades, Western societies have been involved in huge demographic changes, amongst which one of the most important has been the increasing postponement of the transition to parenthood. This paper a...

    Authors: Stefano Cantalini, Raffaele Guetto and Nazareno Panichella
    Citation: Genus 2020 76:8
  8. Skip instructions in census and survey questionnaires result in different groups of persons being eligible for different questions—the logical structure of the questionnaire. Logical structure is important for an...

    Authors: Griffith Feeney and Samuel Feeney
    Citation: Genus 2019 75:19
  9. Prior work has highlighted increases in life expectancy in the USA during the Great Depression. This contradicts the tenet that life expectancy is positively correlated with human welfare, but it coheres with ...

    Authors: Tim A. Bruckner, Ashley M. Ima, Trang T. Nguyen and Andrew Noymer
    Citation: Genus 2019 75:16
  10. The concentration of births on working days compared to a relative lack of events at weekends or during public holidays has been interpreted in literature as evidence of an excessive appeal to elective deliver...

    Authors: Marco Breschi, Gabriele Ruiu and Giovanna Gonano
    Citation: Genus 2019 75:15
  11. This study was conducted to estimate the magnitude of infant death clustering as well as the mortality risk associated with death of a preceding child and investigate how these have changed over three decades ...

    Authors: Joshua O. Akinyemi, Clifford O. Odimegwu, Olufunmilayo O. Banjo and Babatunde M. Gbadebo
    Citation: Genus 2019 75:12
  12. Significant reductions in mortality are reflected in strong increases in life expectancy particularly in industrialized countries. Previous analyses relate these improvements primarily to medical innovations a...

    Authors: Marc Luy, Marina Zannella, Christian Wegner-Siegmundt, Yuka Minagawa, Wolfgang Lutz and Graziella Caselli
    Citation: Genus 2019 75:11
  13. Female and male life expectancies have converged in most industrialized societies in recent decades. To achieve coherent forecasts between females and males, this convergence needs to be considered when foreca...

    Authors: Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Marius Pascariu and Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen
    Citation: Genus 2018 74:20

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