La fréquence des jumeaux a doublé dans les pays développés depuis une quarantaine d’années, en relation avec les traitements de la stérilité mais aussi le retard des maternités[1]. Ce « jumeau boom » pose un problème de santé publique car il s’agit d’enfants fragiles qui demandent plus de soins et ont une mortalité plus élevée que les autres. Avec plusieurs collègues, je ...
Présenté par François-Charles Wolff (IEMN-IAE, Université de Nantes, Ined) ; discutant : Cris Beauchemin
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Author: Marie Bergström Dating sites arouse curiosity, and the use of dating services is, for the first time, becoming a widespread practice in France. They have not redefined the geography of romantic encounters, however, as most couples, and first couples especially, still meet in other ways. Released on: 10/02/2016
Population and Societies n° 529, January 2016
Authors: Hippolyte d’Albis, Carole Bonnet, Julien Navaux, et al.
(Élise de La Rochebrochard) Elise de la Rochebrochard, a trained epidemiologist and field demographer (20 years of research at INED) is setting up a new research project on late fertility in Europe with Eva Beaujouan, demographer at the Vienna Institute of Demography and principal investigator of project proposal. The project will explore the demographic, social and gender issues involved in postponement ...
(Géraldine Duthé et France Meslé) Since the 1960s, the now post-Soviet countries been undergoing a health crisis that INED researchers have been studying for many years. The statistics collected for these countries when they all belonged to the Soviet Union became available in the late 1980s; they constitute an extremely rich database for studying mortality trends in the region. However, the ...
(Xavier Thierry) The ELFE study is a source of innovative data for use in large-scale analysis of relations between parents’ life trajectories, family life, socio-economic characteristics, types of childcare, and the development of child cognitive and social skills over time. ELFE data enables researchers to analyse the way a child enters into the various learning areas introduced in preschool in connection ...
