The dynamics of family structure is undergoing a transformation. Declining fertility and mortality rates are leading to new kinship configurations worldwide. But how quickly are changes taking place?

The Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF) is a multi-region, forward-looking, DSGE model developed at the International Monetary Fund for policy analysis and international economic ...

This article examines large-scale spatial and temporal patterns in the agricultural demographic transition (ADT) of Mesoamerica and southwestern North America ("the Southwest"). An analysis of ...

Addressing the Demographic Time Bomb of Declining Birth Rates. February 4 ... (proposed in 1929 by American demographer Warren Thompson as a component of his four-stage demographic transition model).

The upshot of this rush into the demographic transition is a steady drop in global fertility and population growth. The world’s fertility rate, which stood at 3.5 births per woman in the mid ...