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Analyzing Contemporary Fertility by Robert Schoen 9783030485184
Booksplease Price: £100.82This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants,... -
Low and Lower Fertility: Variations across Developed Countries by Ronald R. Rindfuss 9783319360577
Booksplease Price: £46.74This volume examines two distinct low fertility scenarios that have emerged in economically advanced countries since the turn of the 20th century: one in which fertility is at or near replacement-level and the other where fertility is well below... -
Applied Multiregional Demography: Migration and Population Redistribution by Andrei Rogers 9783319223179
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book shows the effectiveness of multiregional demography for studying the spatial dynamics of migration and population redistribution. It examines important questions in demographic analysis and shows how the techniques of multiregional analysis can... -
Should I Stay or Should I Go? by Debora Dragseth 9783836466493
RRP: £48.97Booksplease Price: £44.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836466493Author Debora DragsethFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 186g -
Quantitative Methods in Demography: Methods and Related Applications in the Covid-19 Era by Christos H. Skiadas 9783030930073
Booksplease Price: £112.42This book provides quantitative and applied methodologies in the Covid-19 era exploring important issues in demography, population studies, and health. It provides insight into health and health measures as to the healthy life years lost and the healthy... -
The Economic Lifecycle, Gender and Intergenerational Support: National Transfer Accounts for Italy by Marina Zannella 9783319626673
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective. It addresses key challenges that contemporary societies face in regards to ageing, welfare sustainability, and intergenerational and gender equity. Coverage... -
Family Ties and Psychosocial Processes in an Ageing Society: Comparative Perspectives by Alejandro Klein 9783031590757
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £88.10This book contributes to the discussion on the ageing society by addressing the new psycho-social structures of the ageing society, the problems around family bonds and ties, and the structures of care and protection. The book sheds light on the new... -
The Washington State Census Board and Its Demographic Legacy by David A. Swanson 9783319259475
Booksplease Price: £45.30This book tells the story of how a group of far-sighted, academic researchers came to the aid of an overwhelmed local government. It details the history of the Washington State Census Board, which began in 1943 as part of an emergency measure during a... -
The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction by Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi 9789048131976
Booksplease Price: £90.56Confounding all conventional wisdom, the fertility rate in the Islamic Republic of Iran fell from around 7.0 births per woman in the early 1980s to 1.9 births per woman in 2006. That this, the largest and fastest fall in fertility ever recorded, should... -
The East Asian World-System: Climate and Dynastic Change by Eugene N. Anderson 9783030168698
Booksplease Price: £76.10This book studies the East Asian world-system and its dynastic cycles as they were influenced by climate and demographic change, diseases, the expansion of trade, and the rise of science and technology. By studying the history of East Asia until the... -
Millennial Myopia, From a Biblical Perspective by Jennifer Pateman 9781909132672
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909132672Author Jennifer PatemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint APMI PublicationsPublisher APMI PublicationsWeight(grams) 297g -
Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons: Cross-National Comparisons by Aart C. Liefbroer 9783030673444
Booksplease Price: £46.28This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social... -
Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population by Jean-Marie Robine 9781402048463
Booksplease Price: £92.16Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from diverse... -
Model-Based Demography: Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory by Thomas K. Burch 9783319654324
Booksplease Price: £46.28Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously... -
Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences by Michaela Kreyenfeld 9783319446653
Booksplease Price: £45.60This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes,... -
Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective by Dimiter Philipov 9789401794008
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book provides new insights into the significant gap that currently exists between desired and actual fertility in Europe. It examines how people make decisions about having children and demonstrates how the macro-level environment affects... -
Demographic Analysis of Latin American Immigrants in Spain: From Boom to Bust by Andreu Domingo Valls 9783319123608
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book provides a unique, timely and comprehensive insight into Latin American immigrants in Spain. Each chapter uses a demographic framework to examining important topics related to the experiences of Latin American immigrants in Spain, like their... -
The Impact of Religiosity on Fertility: A Comparative Analysis of France, Hungary, Norway, and Germany by Sandra Hubert 9783658070076
Booksplease Price: £46.74The work investigates the impact of religiosity of women and men on their completed fertility in an international comparison considering a long time period. Sandra Hubert aims at uncovering all mechanisms through which religiosity and religious... -
Japan's Population Implosion: The 50 Million Shock by Yoichi Funabashi 9789811049828
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This cutting edge collection examines Japan's population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan's social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy... -
The Lucky Few: Between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom by Elwood Carlson 9781402088506
Booksplease Price: £91.68Born during the Great Depression and World War Two (1929-1945) an entire generation has slipped between the cracks of history. These Lucky Few became the first American generation smaller than the one before them, and the luckiest generation of... -
Fertility Transition in the Developing World by John Bongaarts 9783031118395
Booksplease Price: £26.60This open access book provides an overview and analysis of the causes and consequences of the massive and highly consequential transition in reproductive behaviour that occurred in Asia, Latin America, and Africa since the mid-20th century. In the 1950s... -
International Handbook of Population Policies by John F. May 9783031019982
Booksplease Price: £107.67This Handbook offers an array of internationally recognized experts' essays that provide a current and comprehensive examination of all dimensions of international population policies. The book examines the theoretical foundations, the historical and... -
Japanese Population Geographies I: Migration, Urban Areas, and a New Concept by Yoshitaka Ishikawa 9789819920341
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £41.36This is the first anthology that conveys in detail the actual situation of population geographies in Japan, a country facing some of the world's most serious demographic trends such as low fertility, population aging, and depopulation. The anthology... -
The Demography of African Americans 1930-1990 by Samuel H. Preston 9781402015502
Booksplease Price: £90.56The authors of this work use a novel strategy that combines record linkage and demographic/statistical analysis to produce an internally consistent and robust set of estimates of the African-American population during the period 1930-1990. They interpret... -
Ageing in Advanced Industrial States: Riding the Age Waves - Volume 3 by Shripad Tuljapurkar 9789402415919
Booksplease Price: £51.20Population growth slowed across the world in the last decades of the 20th century, changing substantially our view of the future. The 21st century is likely to see the end to world population growth and become the century of population aging, marked by... -
Demographic Analysis of Latin American Immigrants in Spain: From Boom to Bust by Andreu Domingo Valls 9783319375502
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book provides a unique, timely and comprehensive insight into Latin American immigrants in Spain. Each chapter uses a demographic framework to examining important topics related to the experiences of Latin American immigrants in Spain, like their... -
Fertility Declines with Urban Experience: An Urban Myth? by Gemma Genco 9783639378368
RRP: £40.67Booksplease Price: £37.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639378368Author Gemma GencoFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 141g -
Elder Abuse in the LGBTQ2SA+ Community: The Impact of Homophobia and Transphobia by Claire Robson 9783031333163
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book describes and analyzes the lived experience of elder abuse from the queer community. It discusses the experiences by transwomen, gay men and lesbians of financial abuse, physical and sexual abuse, homophobic abuse, and neglect within partner... -
Theorising Social Change in Post-Soviet Countries: Critical Approaches by Balihar Sanghera 9783039103294
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £63.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039103294Author Balihar SangheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 550g -
Ageing and Migration in a Global Context: Challenges for Welfare States by Marion Repetti 9783030714413
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £54.15This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the globalisation of the life course to welfare states' old age and family policies. Through a variety of case studies, it covers a large range of migration scenarios:... -
Ageing in Advanced Industrial States: Riding the Age Waves - Volume 3 by Shripad Tuljapurkar 9789048135523
Booksplease Price: £90.86Population growth slowed across the world in the last decades of the 20th century, changing substantially our view of the future. The 21st century is likely to see the end to world population growth and become the century of population aging, marked by... -
Population Dynamics Based on Individual Stochasticity by Ryo Oizumi 9789811935473
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £21.68This book demonstrates that population structure and dynamics can be reconstructed by stochastic analysis. Population projection is usually based on age-structured population models. These models consist of age-dependent fertility and mortality, whereas... -
Inverse Projection Techniques: Old and New Approaches by Elisabetta Barbi 9783642058929
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £91.86Inverse Projection is a method for estimating accurate demographic indicators of a population where vital registration data are available, but population censuses are lacking or unreliable. The book offers an overview of the present state of... -
Breastfeeding in Rural Niger: Lessons from Child Healthcare Promotion by Naoko Horii 9783030223953
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book investigates the most effective behavior change communication (BCC) strategies to reach socio-economically vulnerable mothers to promote early initiation of breastfeeding after birth in rural Niger. It thereby goes beyond conventional research... -
Forecasting International Migration in Europe: A Bayesian View by Jakub Bijak 9789048188963
Booksplease Price: £90.86International migration is becoming an increasingly important element of contemporary demographic dynamics and yet, due to its high volatility, it remains the most unpredictable element of population change. In Europe, population forecasting is... -
A Deep Analysis of the Chinese Hukou System: Facts, Impacts, and Reform Paths by Yang Song 9789819935000
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book explores China's hukou system, by which individuals are registered in a specific geographic region, and the prospects for reform. The history of the hukou system and its instrumental role in Chinese urbanization and labor markets is explained,... -
Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II by Margo Anderson 9783031386183
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £32.14The U.S. government conducts a population census every 10 years, adds up the counts by geographic location, and uses the resulting numbers in formulas to allocate seats in the House of Representative and Electoral College, and to make public funding and... -
Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations: Riding the Age Waves - Volume 2 by Anne H. Gauthier 9781402047909
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book explores how demographic changes affect inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services, all things that play a role in the well-being of individuals and families. It details the nature and measurement of transfers, their... -
Germany's New Security Demographics: Military Recruitment in the Era of Population Aging by Wenke Apt 9789401778701
Booksplease Price: £90.56Military recruitment will become more difficult in times of demographic aging. The question arises whether demographic change will constrain the capacity of aging states like Germany to conduct foreign policy and pursue their national security interests... -
Uprooting Urban America: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race, Class and Gentrification by Amor Kohli 9781433122576
RRP: £130.55Booksplease Price: £116.64Shifts in America's socioeconomic geography have been documented since the 1960s, demonstrating the reversal of white flight and the reshaping of a nation, evidenced by the growing divide between underprivileged citizens and the wealthy. As state and...