PRB Discuss Online
PRB Discuss Online: Remittances, and the Recession’s Effects on International Migration
Update: Read transcript here. About 3 percent of the world's people are international migrants, living outside their country of birth for a year or more. Two-thirds of these migrants leave developing countries for developed or other developing countries, and the remittances they send home—around $325 billion in 2010—are larger than total official development aid. The...
PRB Discuss Online: The Increasing Importance of Education for Longevity in the United States
Update: Read transcript here. Many people know that individuals with higher levels of education tend to live longer and healthier lives than individuals with low levels of education. In a recent study, Robert Hummer and colleagues built on this knowledge by demonstrating new important characteristics of the relationship between education and adult mortality in the...
PRB Discuss Online: The Increasing Complexity of Family Life in the United States
Update: Read transcript here. Today, Americans are more likely to marry and to divorce than in almost any other Western nation. How has this pattern changed over the last 10 years? What are the implications for current and future generations? Johns Hopkins University professor Andrew Cherlin's review of the research, "Demographic Trends in the United...
PRB Discuss Online: Chronic Diseases Affect Youth Globally
Update: Read transcript here. In 2008, 36 million people died from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Deaths related to these chronic diseases are increasing, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Over half of deaths are associated with behaviors that begin or are reinforced during adolescence, including tobacco and alcohol use, poor eating habits, and lack of exercise....
PRB Discuss Online: What Does ‘Poverty’ Really Mean in India?
Update: Read full transcript here. The past few years have seen much hype regarding the economic progress in India, much of it extolling the country's "rising incomes" and "exploding" middle class. Entrepreneurs in the country seem to have believed this, resulting in an overbuilding of glitzy malls and the rapid expansion of the number of...
PRB Discuss Online: Africa’s Demographic Challenges
Update: Read the transcript here. Of the 48 least developed countries in the world, 33 are located in sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, this region stands out with the highest birth rates in the world. By the year 2050, the number of people in the region may double, and by the end of the...