This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper explores, theoretically and empirically, the role of the declining gender gap in education in the demographic transition and the ...
Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 38, No. 4 (August 2019), pp. 537-563 (27 pages) China implemented the two-child policy in 2016, however, potential impacts of this new policy on its ...
AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...
More people are dying than being born in Missouri — what experts refer to as a “demographic winter.” St. Louis University professor Ness Sandoval explains where we are and what it will take to reverse ...
In 1994, widespread concern over population growth brought world leaders together at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Today, however, ...
On November 15, the world population officially surpassed 8 billion people, according to United Nations estimates. The milestone was reached just 12 years after the world marked 7 billion people, and ...