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Handbook of Population

The Handbook of Population is organized for classroom as well as reference use. It is divided into four sections – Population ...

Healthy Longevity in China : Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions

China is aging at an extraordinary speed and has the largest quantity of elderly persons in the world. Scholars utilize this ...

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries

This book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, ...

How Long Do We Live? : Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects

The book reviews the debate on how best to measure period longevity. In the various chapters, leading experts in demography ...

Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population

Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, these fundamental questions ...

Inevitable Aging?

Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely ...

Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Past

This book examines the role of kinship and the family’s influence on the health outcomes of their children, their children’s ...

Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América

This book also addresses important theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of Latinas/os and presents ...

Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science ...

Microsimulation Population Projections with SAS A Reference Guide

This book for a researcher needs to perform microsimulation for population projections, building its own model with a common ...

Model-Based Demography

This book shows how demography can build a strong theoretical edifice on its broad and deep empirical foundation by adoption ...

Multilevel Synthesis

This book presents a historical panorama of the evolution of demographic thought from its eighteenth-century origins up to ...

New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation

This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation. It begins by placing all popular ...

Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting

This book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously ...

People, Population Change and Policies : Lessons from the Population Policy Acceptance Study Vol. 1: Family Change

This two-volume work presents social cohesion and demographic challenges that are associated with low birth rates and population ...

People, Population Change and Policies Lessons from the Population Policy Acceptance Study Vol. 2: Demographic Knowledge – Gender – Ageing

This two-volume work presents social cohesion and demographic challenges that are associated with low birth rates and population ...

Population Change and Rural Society

Dramatic reductions in labor requirements per unit of agricultural output were occurring everywhere and not just in the United ...

Population, Resources and Development

In the 21st century, the populations of the world’s nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure. ...

Recent Advances in Palaeodemography : Data, Techniques, Patterns

The written data used by demographers essentially cover the last five centuries. Since Homo Ergaster moved out of Africa ...

Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World

This book provides new insights into the relationships between religion and demography during the crucial period of the nineteenth ...

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