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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. ...
Interaction Diffusion and Fertility Transition in Costa Rica
(1994)
A long-standing concern of sociologists is the contribution of diffusion processes to social change. This article considers the contribution of social interaction diffusion to the fertility transition in Costa Rica, focusing ...
Estudio sobre las repercusiones del desempleo en la autonomía y en la participación social de un grupo de profesionales con discapacidad.
(2011-12)
El presente documento corresponde al Trabajo Final de Graduación, requisito para optar por el grado de Licenciatura en Sociología, bajo la modalidad de Tesis. La investigación buscó responder a la interrogante: ¿Cuáles son ...
Maternidades y fronteras. La fecundidad de las mujeres inmigrantes en España
(2011)
Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar los patrones reproductivos de la población inmigrante y evaluar
en qué medida difieren de los de la población española, utilizando las biografías migratorias y reproductivas
de ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Long-term association of economic inequality and mortality in adult Costa Ricans
(2012-01)
Despite the large number of studies, mostly in developed economies, there is limited consensus on the
health effects of inequality. Recently a related literature has examined the relationship between relative
deprivation ...
Transfer accounts in Costa Rica’s mixed economy under rapidly changing demographic conditions
(2011)
In Costa Rica government transfers to the elderly population are exceptionally
high in per capita terms. In contrast, net transfers from adult children
to elderly parents are negligible until the parents reach very ...
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 ...