Double Demography Seminar
Seminar
Please join us as two postgraduate students in demography share their work as part of our Friday seminar series. 'Demographic and economic explanations to the recent fertility rise in Mongolia' presented by Munkhbadar Jadger Several post-communist countries have experienced…
The Nature of Ageing in Rural Indonesian Communities: The Effects of Ethnicity, Gender and Social Class
Seminar
This research aims to examine the current health status of older persons across regions in rural Indonesia and how it varies across social class and socio-demographic groups of ageing population in the different socio-cultural backgrounds. It also aims to investigate the influence of ethnicity and…
The role of socio-economic structure on fertility and mortality of Australia’s capital cities: 1991 to 2016
Seminar
Several studies have been undertaken to demonstrate the relationship between population and economic development since the eighteenth century, but the direction of the relationship is still open for debate today (Avery, 2013, Palumbo et al., 2010). Malthus (1798, 1826) started the debate and since…
An Introduction to Historical Demography
Seminar
Historical demography is a branch of population studies, which can be defined as ‘the application of demographic techniques to historical data’ (Zhao 2008) but there is no clear definition of the age at which such data becomes ‘historical’. Typically, the record sets are more than a century old,…
Indigenous Australia: Changing life chances or changing statistical identification?
Seminar
Changing life chances or changing statistical identification? Estimating the scope of Indigenous identification change and its impact on the demographic and socio-economic composition of the Indigenous population using the Australian Census Longitudinal DatasetThe Australian Bureau of…
The Euler-Lotka equations, biological ageing, 39 million dead Americans and kinship
Seminar
The Euler-Lotka equations form the basis of foundational definitions of biological fitness. However, these equations constitute a one-sex model, which fails under simple biological and mathematical constraints. Here, I discuss the effects of these errors on evolutionary theory. In particular, I…
Determinants of health and well-being among older persons in the Philippines
Seminar
This research aims to examine the factors associated with health and well-being of older Filipinos at the micro and macro-level. At the micro-level, it investigates the role of children’s education on the health status of their elderly parents. It also examines how living arrangements and…