Correlations in fertility across generations: can low fertility persist?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Correlations in fertility across generations: can low fertility persist?
Correlations in family size across generations could have a major influence on human population size in the future. Empirical studies have shown that the associations between the fertility of parents and the fertility of children are substantial and growing over time. Despite their potential long-term consequences, intergenerational fertility correlations have largely been ignored by researcher...
متن کاملCorrelations among fertility components can maintain mixed mating in plants.
Classical models studying the evolution of self-fertilization in plants conclude that only complete selfing and complete outcrossing are evolutionarily stable. In contrast with this prediction, 42% of seed-plant species are reported to have rates of self-fertilization between 0.2 and 0.8. We propose that many previous models fail to predict intermediate selfing rates because they do not allow f...
متن کاملCan Immigration Compensate for Europe’s Low Fertility?
Interim Reports on work of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis receive only limited review. Views or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the Institute, its National Member Organizations, or other organizations supporting the work.
متن کاملI-29: Fertility Preservation in Early, Low Grade Endometrial Cancer
Background Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the United States, with over 40,000 cases diagnosed each year, typically in the postmenopausal women. 25% of cases affect premenopausal women. 14% of endometrial cancers are diagnosed in women younger than 45 years old. 5% of these tumors are diagnosed in women younger than 40 years old. In this talk the learning objecti...
متن کاملCan education policy raise fertility in lowest-low fertility countries? A comparison of East Asia and Southern Europe
There is mixed evidence regarding the effectiveness of pro-natalist policies in developed countries (McDonald 2007), particularly in lowest-low fertility countries (including Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan in East Asia, and Italy, Spain and Portugal in Europe). Since demographic transitions were generally completed much earlier in Europe, East Asian policy responses to the problem of ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2561