Special Collection 8

Formal Relationships

Published 20 January 2009

Special Collection 8 is an ongoing project containing short reports on mathematical relationships in formal demography. The collection was initiated by the journal’s founding publisher James W. Vaupel and Joshua R. Goldstein. It is currently being edited by Monica Alexander and Víctor Manuel García Guerrero. Joshua R. Goldstein supports the editors as a senior advisor.

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17 June 2003 | research article

Gini coefficient as a life table function: Computation from discrete data, decomposition of differences and empirical examples

Vladimir Shkolnikov, Evgeny M. Andreev, Alexander Begun

Volume: 8 Article ID: 11
Pages: 305–358
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.11

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22 May 2003 | research article

Is nursing home demand affected by the decline in age difference between spouses?

Darius N. Lakdawalla, Robert Schoeni

Volume: 8 Article ID: 10
Pages: 279–304
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.10

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07 May 2003 | research article

Does biological relatedness affect child survival?

David Bishai, El Daw Suliman, Heena Brahmbhatt, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Godfrey Kigozi, Nelson Sewankambo, David Serwadda, Maria Wawer, Ron Gray

Volume: 8 Article ID: 9
Pages: 261–278
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.9

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23 April 2003 | research article

The topography of the divorce plateau: Levels and trends in union stability in the United States after 1980

R. Kelly Raley, Larry L. Bumpass

Volume: 8 Article ID: 8
Pages: 245–260
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.8

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18 April 2003 | research article

Oldest Old Mortality in China

Yi Zeng, James W. Vaupel

Volume: 8 Article ID: 7
Pages: 215–244
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.7

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04 April 2003 | research article

Tempo-quantum and period-cohort interplay in fertility changes in Europe: Evidence from the Czech Republic, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden

Tomáš Sobotka

Volume: 8 Article ID: 6
Pages: 151–214
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.6

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12 March 2003 | descriptive finding

Pathways to stepfamily formation in Europe: Results from the FFS

Alexia Prskawetz, Andres Vikat, Dimiter Philipov, Henriette Engelhardt

Volume: 8 Article ID: 5
Pages: 107–150
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.5

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14 February 2003 | descriptive finding

Adolescent childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa: Can increased schooling alone raise ages at first birth?

Neeru Gupta, Mary Mahy

Volume: 8 Article ID: 4
Pages: 93–106
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.4

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11 February 2003 | research article

Bayesian spatial analysis of demographic survey data: An application to contraceptive use at first sexual intercourse

Riccardo Borgoni, Francesco Billari

Volume: 8 Article ID: 3
Pages: 61–92
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.3

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22 January 2003 | research article

On Monotonic Convergence To Stability

Dalkhat Ediev

Volume: 8 Article ID: 2
Pages: 31–60
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.2

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09 January 2003 | research article

Who marries whom? Educational homogamy in Norway

Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Johan Heldal

Volume: 8 Article ID: 1
Pages: 1–30
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2003.8.1

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