Psychology Today

Yes, We’re Still in the Second Demographic Transition

Source: BlacknoseDace/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It seems we are surrounded by a generation of singles. Therapy sessions, workshops, and the psychology literature are fixated on the ultimate ...
JSTOR Daily

Attitudinal and behavioural indices of the second demographic transition: Evidence from the last three decades in Europe

Demographic Research, Vol. 44 (JANUARY - JUNE 2021), pp. 1115-1132 (20 pages) BACKGROUND The second demographic transition (SDT), which links ideational changes with demographic developments, is one ...
Morningstar

Aging Population Affects Economic Growth but Not Stock Returns

The economic impact of changes in population growth rates and age structure can dramatically shift as countries transition from high to low rates of mortality and fertility. Initially, mortality ...
Nature

The effects of resource availability and the demographic transition on the genetic correlation between number of children and grandchildren in humans

Studies of evolutionary change require an estimate of fitness, and lifetime reproductive success is widely used for this purpose. However, many species face a trade-off between the number and quality ...
JSTOR Daily

Mortality decline and reproductive change during the Dutch demographic transition: Revisiting a traditional debate with new data

Demographic Research, Vol. 27 (JULY - DECEMBER 2012), pp. 299-338 (42 pages) BACKGROUND According to classic demographic transition theory, mortality change is the key factor that triggers a decline ...