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Explaining Current Fertility Dynamics in Tropical Africa From an Anthropological Perspective: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
Cross-Cultural Research. 2016. Vol. 50. No. 3. P. 251–280.
Tropical Africa is known to be lagging far behind the rest of the world in its fertility transition. Many attempts have been made to specify the factors responsible for its resistance to fertility decline; however, no systemic explanation of the mechanisms sustaining its high fertility has been presented in cross-cultural perspective. In this article, we show how a set of anthropological factors provides both social and economic foundations for the preservation of high fertility in tropical Africa. Cross-cultural tests imply that the most important obstacles to tropical Africa’s fertility transition are (a) a high ideal family size, (b) a large potential to absorb increases in the female labor force participation rate without any substantial decreases in fertility due to ample child care readily available through extended family structures, (c) a large potential to increase fertility at the early stages of economic development through the abolition of postpartum sex taboos, and (d) a low potential for increases in birth spacing to contribute to fertility decline. In the last section, we discuss how the results obtained could be useful for policy recommendations aimed at accelerating the fertility decline in tropical Africa, and mitigating the forecasts of explosive population growth.
Emelyanova O., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 No. 1 P. 153–164
Food security in Japan has been under observation of analytics in both Japan and abroad as it is one of the key national security issues. Leading academic researchers of this issue in Japan include Suzuki N., Takeya T.,Yamamoto R. and Oguchi H. However, the main focus of their analysis is the social aspect. The English ...
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Zakharov S. V., AlterEconomics (ранее - Журнал экономической теории) 2026 Т. 23 № 2 С. 429–447
This article examines changes in the quantum and structural characteristics of period and cohort fertility in Russia in the context of pro-natalist demographic policy pursued since 2006. The study assesses the significance of recent decades’ shifts for total fertility, the age profile of mothers, and their distribution by number of children born. The analysis draws ...
Added: July 7, 2026
Соколова Е. Н., Grigoreva M., Знак: проблемное поле медиаобразования 2026 № 1(59) С. 92–101
The article analyzes representations of grandmothers’ and grandfathers’ images in the digital family discourse of the Russian social media segment. Based on a corpus of more than two million public posts from September 2023 to September 2024 collected via Brand Analytics, we extracted a subcorpus of 82 138 posts mentioning the older generation. The study ...
Added: June 30, 2026
Rean A., Шевченко А. О., Ставцев А. А. et al., Социальная психология и общество 2025 Т. 16 № 4 С. 49–70
Context and relevance. Values play a significant role in socialization processes and can serve as a psychological resource in difficult life situations under conditions of limited material wellbeing. Theoretical foundations of the study include the value models of Sh. Schwartz and R. Inglehart, as well as the concept of economic socialization. Objective. To identify the ...
Added: June 9, 2026
Kravtsova M., Musaev A. U., Welzel C., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Elaborating on Welzel et al.'s "Cool Water Theory," our study zooms into the more limited (albeit still varied) framework conditions of Russia's huge territory. Within Russia's confines, we examine how the combination of moderately cool seasons with steady rain (i.e., Cool Water) affects sub-national areas' contemporary societal progress in two modernization indicators: material prosperity in ...
Added: June 3, 2026
Kazenin K., Sergei Zakharov, Billingsley S., Population, space and place 2026 Vol. 32 No. 2 Article e70241
Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention. Varying demographic, socioeconomic and cultural characteristics of ethnic groups in Russia provide a unique opportunity ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Gallyamova A., Grigoryev D., Journal of Environmental Psychology 2026 Vol. 112 Article 103040
Recent theoretical developments in ecological approaches to culture challenge the prevailing East–West framing of cultural variation by emphasizing a north–south axis linked to local habitat stability and climatic demands. Building on Van de Vliert et al.’s (2025) ecological analysis, we replicate their preliminary tests across 83 Russian regions and add focused analyses to clarify the ...
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Ustyuzhanin V., Zinkina J. V., Korotayev A., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2026 Т. 29 № 1 С. 228–258
The high fertility rates that persist in Tropical African countries are a kind of anomaly, since other developing countries had lower fertility rates when having similar socio-economic development indicators — phenomenon dubbed “African pronatalism” in Western demography. Meanwhile, the lag in fertility transition contributed greatly to Africa's economic backwardness since independence, which is why the ...
Added: April 11, 2026
Stadnik N., Демографическое обозрение 2023 Т. 10 № 2 С. 18–40
Regional fertility differentiation is a significant factor of regional inequality in the long term. As previous studies show, the first demographic transition in developed countries, which was accompanied by the development of public institutions and means of communication, resulted in a surge in regional fertility differentiation followed by an unprecedented decrease.
In this study, an attempt ...
Added: April 9, 2026
Liliya А. Rodionova, Elena D. Kopnova, Kamalendinova S. et al., Population and Economics 2026 No. 10(2) P. 92–114
This article proposes an approach to forecasting fertility using Google Trends search query statistics. Unlike existing studies on fertility forecasting, this paper introduces a method for aggregating thematic search queries using machine learning techniques, reducing the dimensionality of search queries through principal component analysis, and incorporating a lag structure of search queries ranging from 1 ...
Added: April 7, 2026
Cherviakova A. A., Makarentseva A. O., Biryukova S., Социологический журнал 2026 Т. 32 № 1 С. 123–141
Novel measures in Russian family and demographic policy include support for women who have given birth while pursuing vocational education. This is driven by the government’s concerns about the postponement of motherhood, and by a desire to reduce the risks of economic vulnerability for this group of women with children. In this paper we examine ...
Added: March 30, 2026
Emelyanova O., Shcherbakov D., Siberian Journal of Life Sciences and Agriculture 2025 Vol. 17 No. 5 P. 562–580
The paper is focused on the agricultural problems in Japan, precisely on the issue of sustainable agriculture. The sector contributes less than 1% to Japan’s GDP (27% comes from the industry and 73% from the service sector), which is a small share like in other developed countries, however the role of agriculture in Japan is ...
Added: March 20, 2026
Gulevich O., Семилетова Л. А., Социальная психология и общество 2026 Т. 17 № 1 С. 41–59
Context and relevance. Previous studies have shown that ideological polarization negatively affects family and romantic relationships. Individuals have a more negative attitude toward family members and romantic partners they perceive as political opponents than toward those they see as political like-minded individuals. However, the psychological mechanisms of this connection are not fully understood.
Objective. To analyze ...
Added: March 19, 2026
Smirnov A., Лыткина У. В., Чупрова Е. А., Экономические и социальные перемены: факты, тенденции, прогноз 2025 Т. 18 № 2 С. 194–211
The North of Russia comprises cities and districts that differ in fertility and reproductive behavior; this fact makes the territory an interesting object for demographic research. The paper considers fertility in the North of Russia at the regional and municipal levels, both in conditional and in real generations. Such an approach helps to identify spatial ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Vakulenko E., Evgrafova R., I. A. Trofimenko, Population Research and Policy Review 2026 Vol. 45 Article 19
This research focuses on analyzing the relationship between credit obligations, including mortgages, housing conditions, and the probability of having a child in the family in Russia. The research novelty lies in a complex approach towards analyzing the association between mortgages and reproductive behavior. A longitudinal household survey covering the period 2007–2022 was used. We estimated ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Artsybasheva K., В кн.: Бразилия: повторение пройденного или рецепт обновления.: ИЛА РАН, 2025. Гл. 2.1 С. 40–54.
Added: March 17, 2026
Gamberov T., Safin R., Tsoy T. et al., , in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production (ADOP 2025), Volume 1. Robotics in Agriculture. (SIST, volume 453).: Springer, 2026. P. 175–187.
The agricultural sector is undergoing a digital transformation due to modern automation, robotics, sensing, and simulation technologies. This research explores a use of digital human models (DHMs) in the Gazebo virtual environment to enhance agricultural workflows, improve human-robot interaction, and ensure safety. We propose a framework that models typical agricultural scenarios, such as field mapping, ...
Added: March 17, 2026
Koreshnikova Y., Afanaseva I., Solominova D., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 1 С. 182–207
The study presented in this article aims to create a socio-demographic profile of the agentic individual. By "agency," the authors define a person's ability to act as an active participant in changing the environment, rather than passively following it. The authors believe that the demand for such qualities is heightened in a highly volatile world. ...
Added: March 2, 2026
Loskutova M., Петербургские славянские и балканские исследования 2025 № 1(37) С. 45–59
В статье анализируются проекты развития земледелия на Камчатке в 1820–1840-е годы — период, когда усилия по внедрению сельского хозяйства достигли пика, но так и не принесли устойчивых результатов. Инициатива исходила преимущественно от местных администраторов — П. И. Рикорда и А. В. Голенищева — а также от столичных учреждений, в первую очередь Императорского ботанического сада и ...
Added: February 15, 2026
Kopnova E., Козлов К. Э., В кн.: Цифровая трансформация экономики: вызовы и проблемы.: Русайнс, 2025. С. 159–167.
The purpose of the work was to study the impact of financial situation on the marital status of Russian citizens. The database of the Russian Monitoring of the Economic Situation and Public Health of the Higher School of Economics was used. A multinomial selection model was used. The degree and direction of the influence of ...
Added: January 23, 2026
Бровкина Н. Е., Soldatova A., Терновская Е. П., Международный сельскохозяйственный журнал 2025 № 4(406) С. 505–511
The article considers the problems of the agricultural lending market associated with the seasonality and high risks of agricultural production, the difficulty of determining the creditworthiness of small agricultural producers and farms, the rapid reduction in the number of the most important market participants - agricultural credit cooperatives, imbalances, high costs and insufficient external financing. ...
Added: January 20, 2026
Ustyuzhanin V., Демографическое обозрение 2025 Т. 12 № 4 С. 100–122
Formal demographic analysis, including the construction of life tables, standardization of indicators, decomposition of changes, and modeling of demographic processes, requires complex calculations and data manipulation. Despite the advances in methods, many of them have not yet been implemented as ready-to-use, convenient tools in modern statistical environments. To address this issue, we present the demor ...
Added: December 30, 2025