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People are born and reared in a social group context—the family. This is not unique among living organisms. However, the initial longer growth-phase of humans (childhood and adolescence) makes human survival dependent on social support for a longer fraction of their life cycle.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    A fuller explanation of the concept and measurement of arc elasticity is provided in Martins et al. (2012), Box 8.2: 115–6.

  2. 2.

    The arc elasticity for alcoholic beverages in Japan is affected by consumption of alcoholic beverages from pocket money, a miscellaneous item of household expenditure.

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    David A. Swanson

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Martins, J.M., Guo, F., Swanson, D.A. (2018). Population and Socio-economic Prospects. In: Global Population in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77362-9_10

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