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Fatherless Costa Rica: Child Acknowledgment and Support Among Lone Mothers
(2003)
Much debate is going on in Costa Rica about the increase of out-of-wedlock births and unestablished paternity in particular with regard to the elaboration of social policy measures. No systematic empirical data on the issue ...
Capital social, asentamientos urbanos y comportamiento demográfico en América Latina
Social capital, urban settings and demographic behaviour in Latin America
Capital social, établissements urbains et comportements démographiques en Amérique latine
(2006-12)
Sobre la base de muestras probabilísticas de 12.000 adultos de ocho países latinoamericanos, se estudian dos dimensiones del capital social —la participación comunitaria y la confianza en los vecinos— y su relación con la ...
La fecundidad de reemplazo y más allá en áreas metropolitanas de América Latina
(2004)
En este estudio se examinan las tendencias de la fecundidad en 15 áreas metropolitanas, correspondientes a siete países latinoamericanos, con el propósito de determinar si la región está a punto de traspasar el umbral de ...
The declining effect of sibling size on children's education in Costa Rica
(2014-12-12)
Background: Costa Rica experienced a dramatic fertility decline in the 1960s and 1970s. The same period saw substantial improvement in children’s educational attainment in Costa Rica. This correlation is consistent with ...
Valoración del Riesgo de Deforestación Futura en Costa Rica
(2001)
El artículo expone un procedimiento para estimar los riesgos de deforestación futura de Costa Rica. Se utiliza un sistema de información geográfica con capas de datos en formato “ráster”, que divide el territorio nacional ...
Population and deforestation in Costa Rica
(1998-11)
This paper addresses a central debate in research and policy on population and environment, namely the extent to which rapid population growth is associated with the massive deforestation currently underway in the tropics. ...
Estimating the Number of Immigrants in Spain: An Indirect Method Based on Births and Fertility Rates
(2011)
This article proposes an indirect method to validate existing estimates of immigrants’ stock from the Spanish municipal population register, which some believe might be over-counting immigrants who double register in ...
Social Capital, Urban Settings and Demographic Behavior in Latin America
(2006)
Basándose en muestras probabilísticas
de 12.000 adultos de ocho pa
íses latinoamericanos, se estudian
dos dimensiones del capital social
–(1) participación comunitaria y (2) confianza en los vecinos– y su
relación ...
Is Latin America starting to retreat from early and universal childbearing?
(2009-02-20)
The 2000 censuses show that the proportion of women below age 30 who are mothers has dropped substantially in most Latin America countries, suggesting that the social imperative of early motherhood, which has long prevailed ...
Retos de la inmigración nicaragüense a Costa Rica
(2004-11)
Se estima la magnitud de la inmigración nicaragüense a Costa rica y se discuten sus factores causales y sus impactos.