The metastable birth trajectory

Robert Schoen
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Robert Schoen: Pennsylvania State University

Demographic Research, 2009, vol. 21, issue 25, 759-764

Abstract: The metastable model generalizes the stable population model by allowing net maternity to change exponentially over age and time. As a result, the metastable model generates an exponentially quadratic birth trajectory, which is characterized by a constant proportion of births by age of mother. The metastable model is well suited to analyzing steady fertility declines and transitions between two regimes of fixed vital rates.

Keywords: stable population; dynamic population models; metastable population; quadratic exponential trajectory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.25

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