Birth Rate

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A sensitivity analysis of the Bongaarts-Feeney method for adjusting bias in observed period total fertility rates. 
  • Adjusting period tempo changes with an extension of Ryder's basic translation equation. 
  • Aggregate population and economic growth correlations: the role of the components of demographic change. 
  • Aging and fertility patterns in wild chimpanzees provide insights into the evolution of menopause. 
  • Alternative projections of the U.S. population. 
  • Clomiphene, metformin, or both for infertility in the polycystic ovary syndrome. 
  • Community-wide job loss and teenage fertility: evidence from North Carolina. 
  • Comparison of tamoxifen and clomiphene citrate for ovulation induction: a meta-analysis. 
  • Dramatic increase of Cesarean deliveries in the midst of health reforms in rural China. 
  • Dynamic model predicting overweight, obesity, and extreme obesity prevalence trends. 
  • Effects of changing demographic factors upon women's family status in China: a model of a family status life table and its application. 
  • Effects of demographic and retirement-age policies on future pension deficits, with an application to China. 
  • Estimating live birth rates after ovulation induction in polycystic ovary syndrome: sample size calculations for the pregnancy in polycystic ovary syndrome trial. 
  • Estimating the rate of cesarean section by maternal request: anonymous survey of obstetricians in Australia. 
  • Female and male life tables for seven wild primate species. 
  • Fertility of rural China: effects of local family planning and health programs. 
  • Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Has the Chinese family planning policy been successful in changing fertility preferences? 
  • How big are educational and racial fertility differentials in the U.S.? 
  • Hutterite fecundability by age and parity: strategies for frailty modeling of event histories. 
  • IVF births and pregnancies: an exploration of two methods of assessment using life-table analysis. 
  • Intergenerational fertility among Hispanic women: new evidence of immigrant assimilation. 
  • Is low fertility a twenty-first-century demographic crisis? 
  • Lifetime Fitness in Wild Female Baboons: Trade-Offs and Individual Heterogeneity in Quality. 
  • Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated. 
  • No increased mortality in later life for cohorts born during famine. 
  • Overview of women's health. 
  • Passage to Methuselah: some demographic consequences of continued progress against mortality. 
  • Perinatal outcomes in women with systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. 
  • Redistributing work in aging Europe. 
  • Repeated In Vitro Fertilization Cycles for Infertility. 
  • State Insurance Mandates and Multiple Birth Rates After In Vitro Fertilization. 
  • The Effects of Short-Term Variation in Abortion Funding on Pregnancy Outcomes 
  • The effect of women's status on infant and child mortality in four rural areas of Bangladesh. 
  • The effects of China's universal two-child policy. 
  • The effects of mortality on fertility: population dynamics after a natural disaster. 
  • Toward elimination of perinatal HIV transmission: New Jersey hospital barriers to rapid HIV testing in labor and delivery, 2005. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Merli, M. Giovanna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute