Boom, echo, pulse, flow: 385 years of Swedish births

Timothy Riffe, Kieron J. Barclay, Sebastian Klüsener and Christina Bohk-Ewald
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Timothy Riffe: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Kieron J. Barclay: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Sebastian Klüsener: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Christina Bohk-Ewald: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2019-002, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: Human population renewal starts with births. Since births can happen at any time in the year and over a wide range of ages, demographers typically imagine the birth series as a continuous flow. Taking this construct literally, we visualize the Swedish birth series as a flow. A long birth series allows us to juxtapose the children born in a particular year with the children that they in turn had over the course of their lives, yielding a crude notion of cohort replacement. Macro patterns in generational growth define the meandering path of the flow, while temporal booms and busts echo through the flow with the regularity of a pulse.

Keywords: Sweden; fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2019-002

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