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In a paper published in the previous issue of Population Studies , Zhongwei Zhao questions the uniqueness of a mortality pattern first identified by Goldman (1980) and subsequently redefined by the United Nations (1982). As originally formulated by Goldman, the Far Eastern pattern is characterized by ‘excessively high’ death rates among older men relative to death rates among both younger men a...

one of the main puzzles of modern population and social history is why, among all countries confronting rapid population growth in the second half of the twentieth century, China chose to adopt an extreme measure of birth control known as the one-child policy. a related question is why such a policy, acknowledged to have many undesirable consequences, has been retained for so long, even beyond ...

model life tables are a key methodological tool for the study of mortality, especially in countries where statistics are incomplete. the tables published by the united nations in 1982 paved the way for considerable progress in this field. now that more complete and reliable data are available, the use and interpretation of these tables can be critically assessed. zhongwei zhao shows here that m...

The longterm historical decline in infant mortality has been accompanied by increasing concentration of infant deaths at the earliest stages of infancy. The influence of prenatal and neonatal conditions has become increasingly dominant relative to postnatal conditions as external causes of death such as infectious disease have been diminished. In the mid-1960s Coale and Demeny developed formula...

Se parte de las llamadas Cartas del vidente, escritas por Arthur Rimbaud en mayo 1871, y dirigidas a Georges Izambard Paul Demeny, fin indagar cómo construyó su poética, aplicada sus versos facetas fotógrafo explorador. Escritas plena Comuna París, estas misivas, influidas revueltas populares, ideas anarquistas comunistas, los movimientos obreros la invención fotografía, coinciden con ruptura c...