Canadian Provincial Population Growth: Fertility, Migration, and Age Structure Effects

Mortality and Morbidity Considered Jointly and in Relation to Fertility, Migration, and Population Age-Sex Structure

Population growth across heterogeneous environments: effects of harvesting and age structure

Population growth is affected by several factors such as climate, species interaction and harvesting pressure. However, additional complexity can arise if fishing increases the sensitivity to environmental variability. To predict the effects of fisheries and climate on marine populations, there is a need for improved understanding of how they affect key ecological processes such as population g...

Adherence to Antipsychotic Medication and Criminal Recidivism in a Canadian Provincial Offender Population

Preliminary evidence suggests that adherence to antipsychotic medication reduces criminal recidivism among patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, existing studies operationalize antipsychotic adherence as a binary variable (usually using a threshold of ≥80%), which does not reflect the prevalence of suboptimal adherence in real-world settings. The purpose of the current analysis was to...

Prevalence of overweight and obesity in a provincial population of Canadian preschool children.

BACKGROUND More and more school-aged children in Canada and elsewhere are becoming overweight or obese. Many countries are now reporting a similar trend among preschool children. However, little information is available on the prevalence of overweight and obesity among preschool children in Canada. In addition, available data are based on reported rather than measured heights and weights. We co...

Fertility , Migration and Altruism

* This paper was inspired by a conversation Berman had with his great uncle Rafuel Grinspun, shortly after the latter migrated from the Soviet Union. We appreciate the helpful comments of Lawrence Katz, Kevin Lang, Shlomo Yitzhaki and seminar participants at Boston University, the Hebrew University, Maryland, Yale, Michigan, MIT and an NBER Labor Studies session. We thank the Maurice Falk Insti...