Indonesia against the trend? Ageing and inter-generational wealth flows in two Indonesian communities [0.03%]
逆势而行？印度尼西亚两个社区的老龄化与代际财富流动
Philip Kreager,Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Philip Kreager
Indonesian family systems do not conform to the prevailing image of Asian families, the predominant arrangements being nuclear and bilateral, with an important matrilineal minority. This paper considers the strength of family ties in two co...
Sarah R Hayford,Victor Agadjanian
Sarah R Hayford
Background: Extensive research in both developed and developing countries has shown that preferences and intentions for future childbearing predict behavior. However, very little of this research has examined high-fertili...
Intergenerational transfers in the era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from rural Malawi [0.03%]
艾滋疫情下的代际转移——来自马拉维农村的证据
Iliana V Kohler,Hans-Peter Kohler,Philip Anglewicz et al.
Iliana V Kohler et al.
Background: Intergenerational transfer patterns in sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood, despite the alleged importance of support networks to ameliorate the complex implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic for families....
Spatially varying predictors of teenage birth rates among counties in the United States [0.03%]
美国各县少女生育率的空间可变预测因素
Carla Shoff,Tse-Chuan Yang
Carla Shoff
BACKGROUND: Limited information is available about teenage pregnancy and childbearing in rural areas, even though approximately 20 percent of the nation's youth live in rural areas. Identifying whether there are differences in the teenage b...
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi,Abbas Askari-Nodoushan
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi
BACKGROUND: This paper is motivated by the theory that developmental idealism has been disseminated globally and has become an international force for family and demographic change. Developmental idealism is a set of cultural beliefs and va...
Simona Bignami-Van Assche,Ari Van Assche,Philip Anglewicz et al.
Simona Bignami-Van Assche et al.
AIDS-related morbidity and mortality are expected to have a large economic impact in rural Malawi, because they reduce the time that adults can spend on production for subsistence and on income-generating activities. However, households may...
Michel Guillot,Hyun Sik Kim
Michel Guillot
It has been established that under certain mortality assumptions, the current value of the Cross-sectional Average length of Life (CAL) is equal to the life expectancy for the cohort currently reaching its life expectancy. This corresponden...
More on the cohort-component model of population projection in the context of HIV/AIDS: A Leslie matrix representation and new estimates [0.03%]
关于在HIV/AIDS背景下进行人口预测的世代组件模型：Leslie矩阵表示及新估计值
Jason R Thomas,Samuel J Clark
Jason R Thomas
This article presents an extension of the cohort-component model of population projection (CCMPP) first formulated by Heuveline (2003) that is capable of modeling a population affected by HIV. Heuveline proposes a maximum likelihood approac...
Georges Reniers,Rania Tfaily
Georges Reniers
We review the relationship between polygyny and HIV and identify a positive individual-level correlation, and a negative ecological correlation. We subsequently examine two mechanisms that contribute to the individual-level correlation. Fir...
Forecasting sex differences in mortality in high income nations: The contribution of smoking [0.03%]
预测高收入国家的性别死亡率差异：吸烟的影响
Fred Pampel
Fred Pampel
To address the question of whether sex differences in mortality will in the future rise, fall, or stay the same, this study uses relative smoking prevalence among males and females to forecast future changes in relative smoking-attributed m...