Trend breaks in life expectancy in the United States over 120 years and potential sources of future gains [0.03%]
美国120年来预期寿命变化及其未来增长的潜在来源
Jiaxin Shi,Jason M Fletcher
Jiaxin Shi
Research indicates a significant slowdown in life expectancy growth in the United States (US) post 2010, marking a departure from the consistent progress in longevity throughout the twentieth century. We extend this understanding, tracing t...
Health in early adulthood and fertility: A study based on the 1958 British cohort [0.03%]
成人早期的健康状况与生育能力——基于1958年英国世代人的研究
Eleonora Trappolini,Alyce Raybould,Giammarco Alderotti
Eleonora Trappolini
Health is rarely used as an explanatory variable in fertility studies in high-income contexts, unlike in low-income settings. Using the 1958 National Child Development Study, we explore how self-rated health (SRH) and body mass index (BMI) ...
Too many men? Subnational population imbalances and men's childlessness in Finland [0.03%]
男人太多？芬兰地方人口失衡与男性不育问题
Henrik-Alexander Schubert,Christian Dudel
Henrik-Alexander Schubert
Men's childlessness is increasing in many high-income countries. In Finland, 29 per cent of all men aged 45 were childless in 2022. The cause of these high levels of childlessness is unclear. In this paper, we use rich Finnish population re...
Changes in numerators and denominators of death rates and their contributions to changes in life expectancy [0.03%]
死亡率分子和分母的变化及其对预期寿命变化的贡献
Wen Su,Mike Hollingshaus,Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Wen Su
Demographers use ratios, proportions, and rates-all calculated as counts in numerators divided by counts in denominators-as key research inputs. For age-specific death rates, the numerator is observed deaths and the denominator is person-ye...
Women's education and fertility in select countries of Africa and Asia: Moderation by quality of education [0.03%]
非洲和亚洲部分国家的女性教育与生育率：以教育质量为调节变量
Shuang Chen
Shuang Chen
Despite a large literature on education and fertility, most studies are narrowly focused on the level of schooling completed. Does the schooling-fertility relationship depend on the quality of education? Is more schooling still associated w...
Evaluating the impact on the sex ratio at birth of a Chinese pilot programme prohibiting prenatal sex selection [0.03%]
评估禁止非医学需要的胎儿性别鉴定和选择试点项目对出生性别比的影响
Yudan Cheng,Jichao Li
Yudan Cheng
This study examines the impact of China's regional pilot programmes, which aimed to reduce the sex ratio at birth (SRB) by prohibiting prenatal sex selection. These programmes, implemented in six provinces between 1996 and 2001, served as a...
Return migration of Dutch pensioners abroad: Intentions and behaviour in a three-year follow-up study [0.03%]
荷兰海外移民老人的回流：一项三年追踪研究的意图与行为差异分析
Juul Spaan,Kène Henkens,Matthijs Kalmijn
Juul Spaan
Insecurities and risks related to ageing in a foreign country could fuel return migration among international retirement migrants. The few studies examining retirement migrants' return have been small in scale and focused mainly on return i...
Ancestral marriage cultures and first partnership choices of the children of immigrants [0.03%]
移民后代的祖先婚姻文化与其初婚选择之间的关系研究
Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik,Janna Bergsvik,Jennifer A Holland et al.
Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik et al.
Using Norwegian register data and data from the World Marriage Database, we investigate how marriage behaviour in countries of origin is associated with the first partnership choices of the children of immigrants (i.e. the second generation...
A new test of an old hypothesis: The link between women's perceptions of mortality conditions and their perceptions of modern healthcare amid demographic transition [0.03%]
旧假设的新检验：女性对死亡率状况的感知与其对现代医疗保健的感知在人口转变中的联系
Emily Smith-Greenaway
Emily Smith-Greenaway
Demographers have long suspected that ordinary people in societies experiencing rapid demographic transition face difficulties in perceiving mortality decline. Recent empirical accounts have supported this supposition, demonstrating the ext...
Long-term fertility trends by birth order in Britain: Comparison between England & Wales and Scotland [0.03%]
英国的长期生育趋势（按孩次划分）：英格兰和威尔士与苏格兰之间的比较
Hill Kulu,Bernice Kuang,Sarah Christison et al.
Hill Kulu et al.
This study uses census-linked administrative data to investigate childbearing trends by birth order in Britain over three decades. This is the first study to investigate longer-term changes in fertility dynamics in Britain by birth order an...