Investments in education, particularly in girls’ education, can play an important role in promoting demographic changes conducive to slower population growth. Increased education raises the mean length of generation, that is, the amount of time a cohort of women takes to reproduce itself. Increased education is also associated with better utilization of public health and family planning service...

This paper quantitatively examines the e¤ects of two exogenous driving forces, investment-speci…c technological change (ISTC) and the demographic change known as “the baby boom and the baby bust,”on the evolution of the skill premium in the postwar U.S. economy. I develop an overlapping generations general equilibrium model with endogenous discrete schooling choice. The production technology fe...

The purpose of this article is to identify the role of population size, population growth and population ageing in models of endogenous economic growth. While in exogenous growth models demographic variables are linked to economic prosperity mainly via the population size, the structure of the workforce, and the capital intensity of workers, endogenous growth models and their successors also al...

We address the issue of causation in demography, focusing. particularly onchange through time in aggregate demographic phenomena. We regard the interventionframework associated with the Neyman-Rubin-Holland model of causal estimation as toorarely applicable to be useful as a general solution to causal inference in demography.Discussion centres on a series of examples of demograp...

BACKGROUND Of global concern is the decline in under five children mortality which has reversed in some countries in sub Saharan Africa (SSA) since the early 1990 s which could be due to disparities in access to preventive services including immunization. This paper is aimed at determining the trend in disparities in completion of immunization using Tanzania Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)...

OBJECTIVES To derive the best possible estimates of trends in age at first sex (AFS) among successive cohorts of Ugandan men and women based on all the data available from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and cohort studies in Masaka and Rakai districts. METHODS The datasets from the DHS, Masaka cohort and Rakai cohort were analysed separately. Survival analysis methods were used to e...