Age-specific growth, reproductive values, and intrinsic r

Robert Schoen
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Robert Schoen: Pennsylvania State University

Demographic Research, 2011, vol. 24, issue 33, 825-830

Abstract: The age-specific growth function of an observed population and the reproductive value function based on the population´s current vital rates determine the intrinsic rate of growth implied by those vital rates through the simple relationship given in equation (1). That equation establishes the analytical significance of age-specific growth, and leads to relationships that quantify a population´s approach to stability and that specify the extraordinarily close connection between reproductive values and population momentum.

Keywords: stable population; population momentum; reproductive value; stable equivalent; age-specific growth; intrinsic r (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.33

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