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popdevr-research-design

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Use when defending the research design of a Population and Development Review (PDR, Wiley / Population Council) manuscript — choosing among demographic methods (life tables, decomposition, event-history, age-period-cohort, projections) and, where the question is causal, defending identification, with the population-and-development linkage made explicit. PDR judges each method on its own terms and asks what it shows about development. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.

When to use

• Choosing demographic methods for population-and-development questions
• Defending rate construction or identification
• Specifying decomposition, event-history, APC, or projection designs
• Justifying design against rival accounts
• Addressing causal identification and selection hazards
• Ensuring cross-country comparability
• Applying the adjudication test for rival explanations

When not to use

• Writing code
• Synthetic essays without new estimates

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