Fertility trends by social status

Fertility trends by social status

This article discusses how fertility relates to social status with the use of a new dataset, several times larger than the ones used so far. The status-fertility relation is investigated over several centuries, across world regions and by the type of status-measure. The study reveals that as fertility declines, there is a general shift from a positive to a negative or neutral status-fertility r...

Online Social Networks: Status and Trends

The rapid proliferation of Online Social Network (OSN) sites has made a profound impact on the WWW, which tends to reshape its structure, design, and utility. Industry experts believe that OSNs create a potentially transformational change in consumer behavior and will bring a far-reaching impact on traditional industries of content, media, and communications. This chapter starts out by presenti...

Fertility Trends and Implications

Late Fertility Trends in Europe

European continent has been for-runner in the demographic transition process. Age-specific fertility patterns had changed tremendously during this process in Europe. However, it is still mainly concentrated in the female age group 20 – 34 years. Women and couples tend to limit fertility in marginal age groups of female's reproductive period. In this paper the author addresses late agespecific f...

The Status Gradient of Trends in Social Media

An active line of research has studied the detection and representation of trends in social media content. There is still relatively little understanding, however, of methods to characterize the early adopters of these trends: who picks up on these trends at different points in time, and what is their role in the system? We develop a framework for analyzing the population of users who participa...