American Enterprise Institute

The ‘second Demographic Transition’ Is Here

In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...
JSTOR Daily

TESTING FOR A POSSIBLE NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCOME AND FERTILITY IMPLIED IN THE THEORY OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION: THE U.S. CASE, 1909-1957

Human fertility has been a subject of intensive study by scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. In recent years, economists have been studying human fertility within an economic ...
JSTOR Daily

Mortality in Catalonia in the context of the third, fourth and future phases of the epidemiological transition theory

In the period 1960-2000, male and female life expectancy in Spain’s Autonomous Region of Catalonia increased by 8.2 and 10.5 years, respectively, thus raising it to among one of the highest in the ...
Psychology Today

Yes, We’re Still in the Second Demographic Transition

Source: BlacknoseDace/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It seems we are surrounded by a generation of singles. Therapy sessions, workshops, and the psychology literature are fixated on the ultimate ...
World Bank

Africa’s Population Boom: Will It Mean Disaster or Economic and Human Development Gains?

A new World Bank report notes that the slow decline of fertility rates in Africa will likely result in a rapidly growing population of youth, with the region becoming a much larger part of the world ...