In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...
This paper uses a perfect foresight life cycle simulation model to examine the dynamic economic effects of baby "booms" and baby "busts" as well as the interaction of such demographic changes with ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information POPULATION, a bimonthly journal (five or six issues a year), published in French since 1946, features original studies in the field ...
On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) announced that benchmark payments to insurers for Medicare Advantage plans would increase by an average of 1.25% in 2016, a departure ...
Risk adjustment models play a critical role in guiding clinical care, adjusting case mix in research and supporting health services planning and financing, including payment adjustments based on ...
In terms of demographics, or the study of “the social characteristics and statistics of a population,” local authorities say the Philippines is undergoing a “demographic transition.” This refers to ...
AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...