**Author details**

Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue<sup>1</sup> \*, Sarah Giroux<sup>1</sup> and Michel Tenikue<sup>2</sup>

1 Department of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

2 Luxembourg Institute for Socioeconomic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

\*Address all correspondence to: pme7@cornell.edu

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*Demographic Analysis and the Decomposition of Social Change DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.96350*

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