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popdevr-research-design
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.
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# Research Design (popdevr-research-design)
PDR accepts a wide range of approaches — empirical demography, formal demography, and conceptual
synthesis — but is demanding about each, and it asks one extra question: **does the design illuminate the
population-and-development linkage**, not just a demographic quantity? The design must credibly connect
the argument (`popdevr-theory-building`) to evidence a broad readership will trust. This skill is
method-aware: pick the section that matches your question and defend it against the strongest rival.
## When to trigger
- Choosing the method that actually answers a population-and-development question
- A reviewer questioned the rate construction, the identification, or the development linkage
- Specifying a decomposition, event-history, age-period-cohort, or projection design
- Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `popdevr-literature-positioning`