Demographic Research, Vol. 33 (JULY - DECEMBER 2015), pp. 1297-1332 (38 pages) BACKGROUND Several theories compete to explain the main drivers of urbanisation, past and present, in relation to both ...

The Agricultural Revolution accompanied, either as a cause or as an effect, important changes in human demographic systems. The consensus model is that fertility and mortality increased and health ...

Following the launch of the recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on the state of the world’s population, there has been much worry that the size of Bangladesh’s population has now ...

The Industrial Revolution that brought unprecedented economic growth to Western Europe and North America also coincided with a new epoch in population dynamics (Galor, 2005). Countries moved from a ...