Boom, echo, pulse, flow: 385 years of Swedish births

Riffe, Timothy; Barclay, Kieron J.; Klüsener, Sebastian; Bohk-Ewald, Christina

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Boom, echo, pulse, flow: 385 years of Swedish births

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Riffe, T., Barclay, K. J., Klüsener, S., & Bohk-Ewald, C. (2019). Boom, echo, pulse, flow: 385 years of Swedish births. MPIDR Working Paper, WP-2019-002.

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Human population renewal starts with births. Since births can happen at any time in the year and over a wide range of ages, demographers typically imagine the birth series as a continuous ﬂow. Taking this construct literally, we visualize the Swedish birth series as a ﬂow. A long birth series allows us to juxtapose the children born in a particular year with the children that they in turn had over the course of their lives, yielding a crude notion of cohort replacement. Macro patterns in generational growth deﬁne the meandering path of the ﬂow, while temporal booms and busts echo through the ﬂow with the regularity of a pulse.