why demography matters continued on page F2 Demography has been in the news a lot lately. The November 2012 presidential election highlighted how changing U.S. demographic patterns—especially growing racial and ethnic diversity—helped re-elect President Barack Obama. Hispanics emerged as a key voting bloc, joining other demographic segments of the U.S. electorate (e.g., women, young people, sin...

the present article studies the quds city and the holy status it has gained in the history. it also reviews its geographical and historical characteristics in time especially the historical demography of this city and its neighbors in the 16th century. this century starts with the occupation of the city by crusaders and thus the decrement of population due to the death of 70 thousand people of ...

BACKGROUND Uninformed generalizations about how many elderly people have ever lived, based on a poor understanding of demography, are found in a surprising number of important publications. OBJECTIVE We extend the methodology applied to the controversial question “how many people have ever been born?” initiated by Fucks, Winkler, and Keyfitz, to the proportion of people who have ever reached a ...

Rise of populist politics in the 21s century calls scholars and politicians alike to reflect upon question how democracy have been understood. Drawing on theory hegemony, this article establishes a distinction between ‘demography’ as key line conceptualization politics. It highlights central misunderstanding at core demonization populism: For radical democratic theory, ‘the people’ is not demog...

The author examines the demographic characteristics of the self-declared black population in Brazil. "A...general conclusion is that there are three demographic profiles: that of Whites, of Blacks, and of mixed blood.... The analysis has shown that [blacks and mixed bloods] are subjected to changes in mortality, marriage, and fertility, though at differing times. Mixed bloods are increasingly c...

Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained arrhythmia. Because of its potentially serious clinical consequences (heart failure, stroke, and cognitive impairment), atrial fibrillation has important socioeconomic and health implications. This article reviews the major studies on the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation in Spain. Recent data suggest that in people older than 40 years, the pre...

The disciplines of political demography and geography examine the interplay between social behaviors, spatial dimensions, politics, policy. Investigations into demographic shifts, driven by evolving norms or domestic international events, can influence numerous critical dependent variables in relations, such as trade, development, inter- intra-state conflict. Similarly, interconnection space wi...

This paper estimates the markup for the Mexican manufacturing sector to detect the impact of trade liberalization on market power. Using Hall’s proposal that states that a procyclical Solow residual is an indication of market power, this research estimates the markup for different periods to detect the change in market power after trade liberalization was implemented. We account for the potenti...

MOST PEOPLE AGREE that stock prices sometimes behave in strange ways. Going beyond this simple observation typically proves more difficult. For at least the past quarter century, economists have been well aware that the variation of stock prices does not nicely match the familiar bell-shaped normal distribution.1 The problem is too many extreme movements. Very large increases or decreases would...