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While attention is focused on efforts to make the world go green, the world is also changing dramatically because it is going gray. People over age 65 are starting to outnumber those under 16 in many countries, write Jonathan Grant and Stijn Hoorens.
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This paper reviews the use of surname analysis for identifying persons of Hispanic or Asian origin, based on surnames distinctive of each group.
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This paper examines technical problems in measuring the concentration of Hispanic voting strength among the eligible voters in an election district.
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Deals with the problems of discrimination when health care priorities are set, by examining parallels in the American health care system and the legal-judicial system. It suggests that, by defining legitimate health care needs, society can eliminate the need to ration necessary care. Such needs can be defined using carefully developed coverage rules, rather than the informal rules currently in place, in conjunction with the already-existing due-process methods for interpreting and implementing those rules.
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This article illustrates how such analysis can inform--and potentially confuse--judicial review in Section 2 voting rights claims.
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How does level of acculturation affect the probability that Mexican Americans use general health, mental health, and human social services? We studied this question using data from a general population sample of Mexican Americans.
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The Pittsburgh region's economy and demography have changed radically over the past several decades, with resulting changes in the demands placed on the work-related educational system. This study describes and analyzes these changes, ...
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Applied demography comprises many applications that draw on demographers' familiarity with census data and ability to adapt their knowledge to business and public sector concerns. This paper offers an overview of the field's current scope, evolution,...
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The authors review earlier tests and purpose several new tests of two rival hypotheses concerning the drawing of lines for congressional districts.
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This paper, reprinted from Demography, v. 24, no. 1, February 1987, analyzes movements among six household types: alone, couple, nuclear, single parent, other family, and other nonfamily.
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Examines the Soviet Union's successful campaign since the early 1960s to revive demography as a science and as a foundation for population policies.
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The sharp decline with age in the percent of young adults who live with their parents is usually attributed to other concurrent life-cycle changes in the "transition to adulthood." In this reprint of an article which originally appeared in Demography...
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A discussion of the shortcomings of Greenwood's August 1975 article in [Demography]. Greenwood purports to examine empirically the importance of simultaneity bias in migration models. However, there is no such thing as an "empirical" examination of...
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The ergodic theorems of demography show that initial differences in population profiles are unimportant in the long run. This paper uses the projective metric to give simpler proofs of these theorems and gives necessary and sufficient conditions for...
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An analysis of the demographic consequences of a nuclear attack on the United States in terms of size of the postattack population; its rate of growth in subsequent decades; its composition by age, sex, and color; and postattack patterns ...
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Behavioral Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in sociology, University of Michigan; M.H.S.A. in health services management and policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health; B.A. in psychology, Willamette University
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Sociologist; Faculty Affiliate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in sociology, Johns Hopkins University; M.A. in sociology, University of Maryland-College Park; B.A. in sociology, Ohio University
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Associate Behavioral and Social Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in anthropology, Emory University; M.A. in anthropology, Emory University; B.A. in anthropology, University of North Carolina
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Associate Social Scientist
Ph.D. in sociology, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate Statistician
PhD in statistics, University of Wisconsin
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