Recently added articles from Journal of Population Research:
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... This issue of the Journal of Population Research marks the first issue published by Springer Science and Business Media. This is a significant move for the journal, having been previously published in house by the Australian Population Association. The Association is pleased for the ...
Which factors explain the decline in infant and child mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh?(Report)(Table)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Abstract Infant and child mortality rates have decreased substantially in Matlab, Bangladesh, as they have in many developing areas. We use data from the Matlab Demographic Surveillance System on nearly 94,000 singleton live births that occurred between 1987 and 2002 to investigate the ...
Ageing of a giant: a stochastic population forecast for China, 2006-2060.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Abstract This paper presents a stochastic population forecast for China with a special emphasis on population ageing. The so-called scaled model for error was used to quantify the uncertainty attached to the population predictions. Data scarcity was a major problem in the specification of ...
Why bother to 'downshift'? The characteristics and satisfaction of downshifters in the Brisbane-South East Queensland region, Australia.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Abstract Using the data collected as part of a Quality of Life (QoL) survey in the Brisbane-South East Queensland region (SEQ) of Australia, this paper examines differences in satisfaction levels between downshifters and non-downshifters, and identifies socio-economic predictors of the ...
The effects of family caps on the subsequent fertility decisions of never-married mothers.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Abstract Family caps seek to reduce fertility among welfare recipients by denying additional cash assistance to recipients who have children while on welfare. A necessary condition for family caps to be an effective policy tool is that welfare recipients respond to financial incentives in ...
Zhongwei Zhao and Fei Guo (eds): Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Zhongwei Zhao and Fei Guo (eds): Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, 350 pp China's population had completed its demographic transition by the end of the twentieth century. While this ...
Susana Lerner and Eric Vilquin (eds): Reproductive Health, Unmet Needs and Poverty: Issues of Access and Quality of Services.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Susana Lerner and Eric Vilquin (eds): Reproductive Health, Unmet Needs and Poverty: Issues of Access and Quality of Services Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED), Paris, 2005, 589 pp This book is a compilation of papers presented at ...
Peter Razzell: Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550-1850.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Peter Razzell: Population and Disease: Transforming English Society, 1550-1850 Caliban Books, London, 2007, 337 pp This book is a collection of four original essays and six previously published journal articles. Although the title would suggest that a major aspect of ...
New approaches to household diversity and change.(GUEST EDITORS' NOTE)(Editorial)
Dec 01, 2008; ... This special issue, 'New Approaches to Household Diversity and Change', seeks to re-emphasize and underscore the primacy of the household unit to the study of human populations. Recently, there has been growing interest across many nations about child well-being and family change and ...
Utilizing relationship matrices to better understand the diversity of household arrangements among romantic couples: a cross-country example.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Changes in families over the past thirty years have created methodological challenges for research on family variation. Some argue that standard survey methods used for collecting data on families have been outpaced by the transformation of families and hence estimates of family variation ...
Changes in household formation and composition in China since the mid-twentieth century.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... China has experienced great changes in household formation and composition since the mid-twentieth century, and its mean size of households has fallen from 5.4 persons in 1947 to 3.1 in 2005. Many of these changes, especially those taking place in the early years of the People's Republic, ...
Diversity and change in Cambodian households, 1998-2006.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Extant ethnographic studies suggest that the nuclear family has been the predominant living arrangement in Cambodia, and the country's rapid socioeconomic transformation since the early 1990s may have accentuated that dominance. To examine these claims, we analyse here household structure ...
Household diversity and dynamics of recent immigrants in Australia.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... The family and friends that immigrants live with are important sources of assistance and support, especially in the period immediately following migration. The paper uses data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to examine the living arrangements of recent immigrants, ...
Negotiated identities: male migration and left-behind wives in India.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... This paper examines the impact of husbands' migration on the lives of women left behind. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2005, we focus on two dimensions of women's lives: women's autonomy and control over their lives; and women's labour force participation. Results ...
Parenting a child with a disability: an examination of resident and non-resident fathers.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Children with disabilities often require more extensive family involvement and greater paternal support than other children. Yet these children are the children least likely to live with their fathers. This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 from the United ...
Family structure and well-being at older ages in Japan.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... The family structure of older Japanese is projected to change dramatically as a result of very low fertility, increasing levels of non-marriage, childlessness, and divorce, and declining intergenerational co-residence. To provide an empirical basis for speculation about the implications of ...
Demographic change in the twenty-first century.(GUEST EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Papers in this Special Issue of the Journal of Population Research were presented at the 14th Biennial Conference of the Australian Population Association held in Alice Springs in late June 2008. The conference was hosted by the School for Social and Policy Research at Charles Darwin ...
Evaluating public policy responses to the economic burden of population ageing with application to Australia.(Report)
Nov 01, 2008; ... This paper reviews the issues in evaluating public policy interventions that are designed to address the economic burden of population ageing. It then briefly reviews the main public policy options with application to Australia. The economic burden of ageing is defined as the burden on ...
A review of the relevance of demography to Australian water planning.(Report)
Nov 01, 2008; ... National, regional and local water plans are crucial components of the water policy framework. Together with other disciplines, demography can make important contributions to the water planning process. Demography is clearly relevant to urban water supply planning. It is also relevant to ...
Is money the main reason mothers return to work after childbearing?(Report)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Women's reasons for returning to work after childbearing are complex, often including a mix of financial and other reasons related to their preferences, choices and constraints regarding employment; various qualitative studies have explored this decision-making process. This paper also ...