With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Caucasian countries experienced remarkable migration flows, political conflicts …, and deterioration of civil registration systems. The reassessment of Armenian and Georgian population after censuses … carried out in the early 2000s enables to re-estimate recent mortality levels in both countries. Vital statistics since the …

. We draw upon a population-based sample of ever-married women to explore this unexpected finding. Our data show that in …

life expectancy between Israeli Jews and Western countries, for each sex, and to sex differentials in mortality in both … populations. We quantify the major types of behaviourally induced mortality to show that it is especially low among Israeli Jewish … males. We also investigate mortality in certain subgroups of Israeli Jews to gain a better understanding of female mortality …

fertility, migration, and mortality. Both disciplines share a common research object, namely human populations, and they focus … intersection between demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes, mainly … with the dynamic forces defining population size and structure and their variation across time and space, whereas socio …

the age of 15 depends on migration status. Results: Child mortality within families who moved from urban to rural areas … inheritance. Migration into an environment with lower or higher extrinsic mortality affects child mortality within the families …Objective: Epigenetic inheritance has been suggested to be an important factor influencing mortality. We use historical …

light on questions of local level dissemination of population knowledge(s) and shaping of identities. The findings suggest …

European countries are experiencing population decline and the tacit assumption in most analyses is that the decline … may have detrimental welfare effects. In this paper we use a survey among the population in the Netherlands to discover … whether population decline is always met with fear. A number of results stand out: population size preferences differ by …

In this paper I explore the relationship between population and housing. I argue that this relationship is two …-sided. On the one hand, the size of a population, and particularly the number of households, determines the demand for housing …, home-ownership hampers residential mobility and migration by binding people to a place. …