Attitudes towards demographic trends and population policy

Palomba, Raffaele; Menniti, Adele; Mussino, A.; Moors, Hein G.

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“…By the turn of the millennium, the dominant narrative had shifted from worries over ''too many people'' to worries over ''too few people,'' highlighting the global divergence between negative European population trends and those of less developed states still experiencing significant growth. In 1983, a majority of 52% of Italians considered the recent dramatic drop in the total fertility rate to 1.4 children per women in their country to be ''a good thing'' (Palomba et al 1998). Only 15% thought the Italian population should increase, while a large majority preferred either a decreasing (29%) or a stationary population (52%) (see ibid.).…”

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The Effect of Population Growth on the Environment: Evidence from European Regions

2018

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There is a long-standing dispute on the extent to which population growth causes environmental degradation. Most studies on this link have so far analyzed crosscountry data, finding contradictory results. However, these country-level analyses suffer from the high level of dissimilarity between world regions and strong collinearity of population growth, income, and other factors. We argue that regional-level analyses can provide more robust evidence, isolating the population effect from national particularities such as policies or culture. We compile a dataset of 1062 regions within 22 European countries and analyze the effect from population growth on carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and urban land use change between 1990 and 2006. Data are analyzed using panel regressions, spatial econometric models, and propensity score matching where regions with high population growth are matched to otherwise highly similar regions exhibiting significantly less growth. We find a considerable effect from regional population growth on carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and urban land use increase in Western Europe.

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Attitudes towards demographic trends and population policy: Italy and the Netherlands in a comparative perspective

Moors

1990

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Abstract.A comparative analysis was carried out using survey data on attitudes regarding population trends and policy in Italy and in the Netherlands. The results show that current trends and the determinants of those trends are perceived similarly in both countries.With regard to policy, the Italians exhibit much more posiuve attitudes toward suggested new family policy measures than the Dutch. In the Netherlands, family policy generally is given a much lower priority than other areas of social policy. It appears that having children reflects different values in the two countries, Those who attach greater value to having children are also more in favour of new family policy measures than others, However, the results suggest that introduction of these measures would not raise the reproduction rate to anywhere near a stationary level.

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H. Moors and R. Palomba (eds.). Population, Family and Welfare. A Comparative Survey of European Attitudes, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995, xvi + 297 pp., £35.00 hard.

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1996

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Attitudes towards demographic trends and population policy

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The Effect of Population Growth on the Environment: Evidence from European Regions

The Effect of Population Growth on the Environment: Evidence from European Regions

Attitudes towards demographic trends and population policy: Italy and the Netherlands in a comparative perspective

H. Moors and R. Palomba (eds.). Population, Family and Welfare. A Comparative Survey of European Attitudes, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995, xvi + 297 pp., £35.00 hard.

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