ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021
Towards a transdisciplinary demographic theory of birth and death trajectories
Fertility and mortality fuel population renewal. Fertility theory struggles with a multitude of underlying, entangled dimensions, whereas mortality theory can build on strong regularities. Intriguingly, strong regularities analogous to death begin to emerge for birth, shown with my novel born once—die once approach. The Gompertz Law of death appears to apply to birth as well. The linear rise in record life expectancy seems to be mirrored by a linear rise in record ‘birth expectancy’ over decades. Thus encouraged, I propose to harness the power of mortality modeling to (1) add an unexplored, innovative dimension to fertility modeling and (2) develop a shared theoretical framework of birth…
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