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Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change
Richard Leete
Hardcover - $491.95
The move from large extended families towards the nuclear family already prevalent in the West is one of the most notable demographic trends of the 20th Century. In exploring this "fertility transition" this volume investigates and explains the impac ...
Monitoring Employment Conditions of Military Spouses : Technical Report
Nelson Lim
Paperback - $37.95
Employment conditions of military spouses affect retention of military members. The Department of Defense asked RAND to help develop reliable employment statistics for military spouses to address inadequacies of traditional labor statistics measures, ...
Asian Population History
Tsui-Jung Liu
Hardcover - $491.95
This volume consists of three major sections on fertility, disease and mortality, and marriage and family, which together with five introductory chapters combine depth of analysis with breadth of source material.
A Concise History of World Population
Massimo Livi Bacci
Paperback - $90.95
The new edition of this standard history of world population has been updated to include projections to the year 2050. It includes the latest data on fertility and infant mortality and a new section on migration has been added. The discussion of Amer ...
Population and Poverty in the Developing World
Massimo Livi Bacci
Hardcover - $443.95
This volume concentrates on all aspects of the population and poverty problem: what poverty is, what effects poverty has, what creates poverty, and what can be done to eradicate it. By collecting together papers from a variety of disciplines, and by ...
Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania : Demography, Economy, and Society in Rufiji District, C. 1870-1986
Matthew Lockwood
Hardcover - $365.95
Combining demography, history, and sociology, this book offers a new methodology for the study of African fertility and a new definition of the role of household demography in agrarian economies. It provides a useful perspective on the ways in which ...
Analytical Theory of Biological Populations
Alfred J. Lotka
Hardcover - $149.95
This English translation of the classic French mathematical demography text (Hermann: Editeurs des sciences et des arts, 1939) is considered the first modern introduction to population mathematics.
Birth Quake : The Baby Boom and Its Aftershocks
Diane J. Macunovich
Hardcover - $91.95
As sociologists and economists have gradually learned, the relative size of a particular generation can significantly affect the behavior of its members. In this book, Diane J. Macunovich demonstrates the varied shapes these effects can take, from ec ...