Causal Analysis in Population Studies

Henriette Engelhardt (), Hans-Peter Kohler () and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz
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Henriette Engelhardt: University of Bamberg, Department for Population Studies
Hans-Peter Kohler: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology

Chapter Chapter 1 in Causal Analysis in Population Studies, 2009, pp 1-7 from Springer

Abstract: An important hallmark of empirical research in population studies and demography has traditionally been a focus on careful description of population trends and changes using representative micro- or large-scale macro-data. For example, much effort has been devoted to describing the trends and variations in the core demographic processes– fertility, mortality and migration– and how the size and structure of a population are affected by these underlying processes. A core aspect of demographic methods therefore has been on the construction of vital rates, life-course measures of the tempo and quantum of demographic events, life table analysis and its extension to multi-state processes, and the decomposition of population differences in terms of rates and proportions (Vaupel 2001).

Keywords: Causal Effect; Causal Analysis; Development Review; Parental Separation; Duration Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9967-0_1

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