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Investing in Women and Girls for a Gender Dividend

(2016) As countries around the world embark on a drive to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030, the concept of a demographic dividend is attracting increased attention among policymakers seeking more sustainable economies.

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Report. Household Change in The United States

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Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

Webinar: How State Contexts Impact Population Health

In this webinar, two distinguished researchers discussed how U.S. state policies and systems can affect racial and regional inequities in health and longevity.

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Population Bulletin, vol. 71, no. 1. Understanding the Dynamics of Family Change in the United States

(2016) Beginning in the 1960s—and accelerating over the last two decades—changes in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and nonmarital childbearing have transformed family life in the United States.

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Elderly Americans

(2001) The United States is in the midst of a profound demographic change: the rapid aging of its population. The 2000 Census counted nearly 35 million people in the United States 65 years of age or older, about one of every eight Americans.

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PRB Discuss Online: Engaging Men in the Fight to End Violence Against Women

(2009) One in three women will experience an act of violence in their lifetime, whether it is domestic and interpersonal violence; sexual violence; violence in the name of "culture" or tradition; or systemic violence, as in the use of rape as an instrument of war.

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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health

Interactive. Four Dividends: How Age Structure Change Can Benefit Development

This web feature expands the concept of the demographic dividend to project four potential sets of benefits—in addition to economic growth, it outlines benefits in child survival, education, and political stability. A country’s likelihood of making substantial gains in each of these four sectors is tied to its age structure.

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LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults Are Coming Out Into a Polarized Environment—and Finding Valuable School and Community Support

Naming the vulnerability and discrimination LGBTQ youth face can be a starting point for adults and institutions that support youth—and youth themselves—to act for change.

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Despite Challenges, Ending Early Marriage in Ethiopia Is Possible

(2011) Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of early marriage in the world, with one in two girls marrying before her 18th birthday and one in five girls marrying before the age of 15.

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Aging, Family Structure, and Health

(October 2009) Social and intimate connections change with age. These changes affect and are affected by health.

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